The Rantings of the barely human.
Right!! I’m just getting on the plane for Connect 2014, and I am on a mission the meet everyone that I know and make a few new friends, if I keep missing you, please find me 🙂
Contacting me
Mobile US Land line redirecting to Skype or UK mobile: (315) 215-3250
Email: Mark@londc.com
Finding me
Bald, Saturday afternoon
ESPN, Saturday Night (end of the board walk)
Pool party Sunday evening
Sometimes at OpenNTF booth
Find me, tell me your troubles, let me buy you a beer (or even a proper drink)
All the smart Notes/Domino and Connections people I know have multiple arrows to their quiver. All the way from Salesforce though node.js to hard and dark programming and high availability admin on totally none IBM technologies, and while we whisper this knowledge to each other we never really present on it or yell it to the wider world, so when some of these said people introduced the following idea to me, I nearly bit the top off my can of Red Bull in excitement.
Collaboration Stack Community Networking Event
Do you work with collaboration platforms? Meet your peers at an informal, technical get-together. Whilst making valuable new contacts, you can share ideas, debate best practice and explore emerging technologies.
March 21st – London
Somewhere we can talk about all forms of collaboration, from the Biggest project Like IBM’s down to Kickstarter projects based on open source
We are just setting up and searching for more speakers that will present on subjects that leave you stunned and needing a stiff drink.
So if you have something that you have been inching to tell the world about see any member of LDC or The Turtle Partnership
URL: http://cscevent.com
MAIL: event@cscevent.com
TWITTER: csc_event
A group of down on their luck (cash poor) super powered bounty hunters go about their daily business…..well that’s it really…problems with money, comedy shouting, revealing of super powers…
Normal Anime Quality, but they have pushed up the brightness on the primary colours a lot to give it some ‘pop’ makes it look a bit like an American 80’s comic book.
At first sight there is nothing new here not even the super powers (though I was surprised to find sound as the primary characters super power as that is normally a bad guy type of power), I suspect we will have to wait a few episodes to see if it improves.
Nothing leaps out, its suitable for content but that’s it
This is totally a Get Backers knock off
Its fun, and a pleasant background, but it fells like it is not the work of one persons vision, which I always feel is what sets out the great Anime/Manga, a brief net search revels it to be a constructed anime or “mixed-media project” well lets give it a few episodes.
Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!
Something that I’m getting used to again with the freelancing is venturing back onto public transport and although I don’t mind it, its not exactly billable, there is only so much email and such you can sort, also as they are not long train trips (30 mins between connections) its not worth getting out your laptop even if there was space, so what to do??
Well write java docs and do code reviews actually,
I’m not kidding, all that documentation and stuff you are supposed to do but never do because it bores the hell out of you and you never have time for, is actually less boring when the alternative is staring at the sweating armpit in front of you, also you would be amazed how much clients love it when your code has proper java docs for all its functions (not to mention that they are a major deliverable in a big project Matt White and I are doing)
The next question is how?
On android at least that that is easy thanks to a little program called AIDE which is basically sold as a android dev IDE, but it has excellent GIT and Dropbox integration, meaning that we can just do a simple git clone of your app, then potter though it when you are travelling, updating the documentation to be just as you would want to find it***
In addition I have found and fixed a couple of scaling issues in my code thanks to being able to view it at leisure, so worth it just for that.
*It shows a commitment to a clients needs and there is no substitution for some face to face time to keep deliverables in focus
**In fact its not billable at all as I have learnt a important lesson from one of my client’s dealing with their own clients, that NOT charging for travel is excellent for achieving long term client relationships
***Yes I know you are supposed to document as you are coding, but if you tell me you document fully in the middle of a coding frenzy, then I will tell you you are a lying bugger. 🙂
The Schools “nice guy that is nearly super naturally good at everything” is tootling though his life being cool and nice to his friends when a giant mecha suddenly appears driven by a guy with a major hate-on, our hero is saved by a blushing female class mate with her own Mecha (never mind where did she hide it, why is the damn thing pink), it turns out he is something major in the future and that the people with the mecha are time travellers, will he fulfil his destiny? lets us fly to the future to find out!
Excellent quality semi realistic, a mix between full realistic such as Ghost in the Shell and semi flat cell such as A Certain Magical Index
This has the look of a “a good guy amazingly gifted with mecha who turns to evil, and then is saved from this path by people from the future”… errr…wasn’t this the plot for Megas XLR
Update: The plot does have more to offer which shows it self in the second episode when you see the “buddy complex” in action
It would appear the directors raided Michael Bays music cast offs
Well every Gundam series for a start, but more like Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar with less harem and more shooting
I don’t feel that this one is going to be more than a nice background anime, but its been a while since we have have a good mecha battle and the hero is a nice bloke so worth a watch.
Update: episode 2 adds more depth to the the series when the “buddy complex” comes into play.
Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!