Author Archives: diziet

A coding dilemma.

Posted on July 15, 2010 by diziet

This happens quite a lot in programming I find. There’s the ideal way of doing something and the way you actually end up doing it, be it due to buggy libraries, quirks of code, time or inexperience. I found one … Continue reading →

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Cooking Lasagne

Posted on July 14, 2010 by diziet

This is another dish made without any formal recipe, and what was to hand, so here goes. All quantities mentioned are what I ended up using. The dish was about 8×11 so almost the size of a sheet of A4 … Continue reading →

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Progress Report

Posted on July 14, 2010 by diziet

Integrated the rather excellent IASKAppSettings which solves my problem of trying to design a settings tab that looks like the auto generated ones that appear in the Settings diovan generic.app.  I keep the data from that in a singleton which … Continue reading →

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3 days learning and we have an iPhone App!

Posted on July 10, 2010 by diziet

It didn’t take anywhere near as long as I thought.  I have two versions at the moment.  One which doesn’t work and crashes a lot but has pretty graphics/labels and one which implements OpenCV stuff but is still using place … Continue reading →

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Walking over the Gravel Pits at Sunset

Posted on July 10, 2010 by diziet

A few photos from a little stretch of Casey’s legs. Once the temperature had dropped enough not to kill the fluffy beast that is. <a rel="sf-lbox-manual" href="http://farm5.staticflickr website here.com/4120/4780516506_fb27e57029_b.jpg” title=”Cardinal Beetles Mating”>

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Setting up OpenCV for Xcode + iPhone

Posted on July 8, 2010 by diziet

** This post will be updated as I progress ** *** This will be updated when I’ve actually got an application to the point where OpenCV is necessary. It currently links and builds fine but I haven’t tested it so … Continue reading →

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Quick Meringues!

Posted on July 8, 2010 by diziet

Ingredients 2 x Spare Egg Whites 2oz. Caster Sugar 2oz. Icing Sugar Pre-heat the oven to 100ºc. A few pointers first of all. You must use a glass or metal bowl, it needs to be completely grease free. You should … Continue reading →

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Seafood Linguine

Posted on July 8, 2010 by diziet

On Tuesday I found myself wanting dinner and after a weekend of a rather meat heavy diet fancied fish. This is roughly what I ended up cooking. I don’t have measurements for most of the ingredients. Also, as you’ll see … Continue reading →

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New Mac!

Posted on July 7, 2010 by diziet

Well it seems I can’t reliably fix my poor old MacBook Pro and I discovered that my credit card was significantly in credit! There’s a turn up for the books. Give or take £200 it was in credit to the … Continue reading →

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A musical blast from the past.

Posted on June 15, 2010 by diziet

So before I get to laying a concrete path outside the dance floor needs polishing so it’s off out to the hire shop for some pads. This came on the radio: Have to love 80’s. No it’s not a rick … Continue reading →

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