Category Archives: Fun

Keep Calm and Carry on Coding

I’ve had a change of name, well the blog has. It is based on the poster which displays the text “Keep calm and Carry On”, this was originally created back in 1939 by the British Government and was intended to … Continue reading

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What Star Trek species are we?

Star Trek, a TV show that began in the 1960′s, is one of the most popular TV shows ever. Last years big box office movie release showed that it is still a show that many people want to watch and … Continue reading

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CanvasZoom – HTML5 Canvas and code

The CanvasZoom program – similar to Zoomify – drawn with the HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. Continue reading

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HTML 5 canvas – "Earth Clock"

So that I could test some of the new HTML5 features I put together a new clock design, called the world clock. HTML 5 is an upcoming standard for the internet, and it has some rather nice features such as … Continue reading

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Teaching programming to the masses.

Most people believe it’s easiest to learn new things when you are young, however, I believe if you are still able to think then you are still able to learn, but there is one good reason for learning earlier and … Continue reading

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Human computing power

The idea There are still quite a few tasks that computers struggle to do, image recognition is a good example. Currently there’s only one way to complete these tasks and that’s manually. This can obviously take a long time to … Continue reading

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Project Euler. Problem Solving, Maths and programming

Here’s a fun little website to stretch those little grey cells.http://projecteuler.net/ Named after the great Mathematician “Leonhard Euler”, it’s a website to test your programming and Maths prowess. Of course I’d only recommend it if you do actually enjoy solving … Continue reading

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Flickr Video

Vienna Palace Originally uploaded by akademy Following on from an earlier post, and true to their word, Flickr have now added video to their sites. They’ve added a few restrictions to the video, the strictest being that video can not … Continue reading

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