The Rantings of the barely human.
The IBM Collaboration stack ( Atom db2 Websphere Connections Domino etc etc )
This is over an above the usual suspects of Java , Jquery , github, SVN, Mavin, Jenkins et al, that you need to have a grip on.
Sometimes with both large clients and multiple small clients, you are though no fault of your own faced with tons of simultaneous jobs at once, all of which are somehow the most important thing since the big bang, containing clients and managers both trying to see who can scream the loudest with you in the middle having to decide which one of the multiple tasks that all have to be done simultaneously you are actually going to do first.
If you tell anyone that someone else’s item is more important than theirs they tend to have a melt down, so the way I have personally found to deal with at least some of it, is a simple important/not important decision,
Amazingly I have not found manager at a large client that has ever taken me to task for taking a decision on this basis of this logic, so I can recommend it if you are in a pinch and don’t know which way to turn 🙂
Three brilliant sisters of various ages born of brilliant but very dysfunctional parents get caught up in a mystery involving pirates and other exciting space things (don’t look at me I don’t know whats going on at the moment but its something to do with Galileo)
A mixture of muted cell and computer animation, its nothing to write home about and the computer overlay is not of the best, but they have done a good job of the facial expressions of the characters.
Best plot so far of this season, I genuinely don’t know whats going on, hoping it wont turn into the plot of National Treasure
Nothing that stands out
Strangely a mix of Outlaw Star and dragon ball GT
Brill plot, cant wait for each episode
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!!
Part of the work LDC have been doing for Wellesley Information Services on the Socialbizug.org site has been a upgrade of the home page
One of the upgrades was a overhaul of the Content Spotlight (basically a carousel of stories), but it had a niggly bug that was identified, in which the text showing inside a semi transparent area that was its self semi transparent
Just does not quite right does it? the CSS for this is as follows
div.content { background:#000; opacity:0.65; filter:alpha(opacity=90); -ms-filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=90); }
Playing with the CSS Opacity property of the child text properties makes no difference and that is totally expected, Opacity works like that (boooo!!), the traditional work around if you want none transparent text inside a transparent element is to NOT have the text/object as a child, but rather a peer and then move it into the correct place via css, for this situation that sucks as the whole Content Spotlight is generated via Java script, thankfully we have a lovely little alternative for modern browsers and that is the [RGBA Colors](http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_colors_legal.asp) setting for the background property, which allows you to set the Red Green Blue and Opacity values for an element and this does not ruffle down to the child elements, like so:
div.content { background:#000; /* opacity:0.65; filter:alpha(opacity=90); -ms-filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=90); IE */ background: rgba(0, 0 ,0 ,.65); }
Which suddenly fixes our problem and makes everything look nice again.
A boy and his “doll” (a full size and life like robotic girl complete with wedding day dreams) arrives at a Hogwarts style school that specialises in the robotic battle arts, he burns with the desire to become the most powerful ‘puppeteer’ so that he can reek revenge on someone (we don’t know who yet)
This is a standard very well draw anime, of the type they produce when “England” is in some way involved, smokey and full of filtered light
I was surprised to find that the hero is rated as completely naff in the school, no naturally talented, no hidden powers, providing they don’t reveal too much too soon this should be good, also as the advanced dolls are sentient, the possible variety of characters is huge
not bad, not up to the visual side, but not bad
A really watchable series, i really hope its ongoing, its based on a 12 volume series so i hope it goes on for at least 26 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!!