Jonathan Bullock

Married man!

Jon — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:27:28 +0000

Last month Helen and I got married at Llandudno Registry Office, so I can now officially select “Married” as my marital status on any forms I fill out! We had a low key do afterwards at the Imperial Hotel with family and friends and thankfully everything went to plan, even the weather held off so we could have a few photos outside. It was the perfect day.

You can see some photos of our day on the blog of our wedding photographer and I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the photos this weekend to bring back some happy memories.

Ludum Dare

Jon — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:26:04 +0000

Ludum Dare. Competition to create a game in a weekend. Wouldn’t mind joining in when it’s next on if I have time.

Lakes and Oceans

Jon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:25:55 +0000

Lakes and Oceans. Shows what a feat of engineering drilling for oil really is.

PHP: a fractal of bad design

Jon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:22:58 +0000

PHP: a fractal of bad design. Well worth a read, reminds me why I love Java so much.

roboguice

Jon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:09:20 +0000

roboguice. Brings Google Guice (dependency injection) to Android.

Robolectric: Unit Test your Android app

Jon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:06:53 +0000

Robolectric: Unit Test your Android Application. I shall have to try this out very soon.

Football Manager Handheld for Android

Jon — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:29:06 +0000

Football Manager Handheld for Android. This app was one of the reasons I replaced my iPod Nano with a Touch late last year. Good to see its being released on Android now.

Active Objects

admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:15:18 +0000

Active Objects. Another Java ORM framework, however this one is used by Atlassian in their plugin development platform.

Edimax EW-7811Un on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Jon — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:04:02 +0000

I’ve recently re-purposed my old desktop PC to be a server running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. As it’s an old box it’s not exactly quiet so I placed it under the stairs which posed a problem connection wise. In the end I decided to connect it up via wireless rather than run an Ethernet cable to it, so after doing a bit of research I went for the Edimax EW-7811Un nano USB adaptor from Amazon.

According to the Edimax web site Linux drivers were available for it and there were a few posts on the Ubuntu forums & wiki saying that people had got it working:

The USB adaptor uses the RealTek rtl8192cu chip according to this Debian wiki page and the filename of the Edimax driver package.

I tried the Edimax drivers first but I was getting pretty random results so I switched to RealTek’s own drivers which seemed a lot more stable, and they seem to update them quite often too.

Unity – Game Engine

Jon — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:35:59 +0000

Unity – Game Engine. Noticed this logo on both Android & iOS games recently. Looks like an interesting 3d engine that supports multiple platforms and they also offer a free version of the engine!