6am outside Tourists Rest House, no sign of our lift. Not surprised as we weren’t interested in his all day tour of Agra for 600 rupees. We just wanted a lift to the Taj Mahal and play it by ear. Found another keen soul who nicely ripped us off as he didn’t have any change. Then found out that he’d dropped us off at East Gate and the booking office was 1km away....
Now in Agra after an epic journey. An hour in a tuk-tuk dodging traffic in Delhi, a manic New Delhi train station which was heaving with people who were sat/sprawled anywhere they could to shade out of the scorcher of a day. We boarded the train at 13:35 – half an hour before it was scheduled to depart. Sat on a bottom bunk sleeper seat for a scheduled 3hr journey and arrived in Agra at 18:40 with 2 bags of a crisps as sustinence!...
Today is the third day since we arrived in Delhi. This place is crazy. The roads are chaotic and you assume that there must be crashes every five minutes but somehow, everyone manages to weave in and out of each other as if controlled by some collective brain. Walking around the main parts of Delhi is pretty tiring. Touts constantly approach offering helpful directions to the official tourist office where you can book trains and trips....
At the end of April I set myself the challenge of gaining a stone in weight and running a 5km race 2.5 minutes faster. I ran the same race on Tuesday in 19:15, painfully close to my speed target of 19 minutes. However, I also weighed myself again but have actually lost a pound. Gah! Must try harder…
Having trouble rotating something you’ve drawn with GWTCanvas? It took me a little while to work out, but GWTCanvas works slightly differently to Graphic2D in Java. It’s important to realise that with GWTCanvas, when you invoke “rotate(r)” you’re actually transforming the coordinate space that will be used for subsequent drawing. canvas.moveTo(50, 50); canvas.lineTo(50, 10); canvas.stroke(); Produces: In order to rotate it, you must invoke rotate before you start any drawing....
Bristol have been trialling a bike rental scheme for about a year and I had high hopes for it. I paid my £20 in support of the scheme even though there were no bike stations in the places I needed them. I feel if there were more bikes and more stations it would have been ideal. (see my comment from back then…). Unfortunately, they’ve decided to end the scheme deeming it unsuccessful:...
Last night I ran a pretty shonky 21:33 (~7m/mile) for the Bridge Inn 5km. I used to be faster but haven’t really been running since last year. I also need to put on some weight because at 6 foot I’m pretty puny weighing in at 10st 9lb. According to the NHS weight calculator I should be over 12 Stone. I’m setting myself the challenge of knocking 2.5 minutes off my 5km time (I’ve never run it under 19 minutes before) and reaching 12st 2lb before the Bridge Inn 5km summer series finishes on July 27th (the website hints there’s one in August but I’m pretty sure it’s wrong…)....
Problem: wmv file looks squashed when played in VLC or when uploaded to youtube but looks fine when played in windows media player Solution: You can change the aspect ratio of a wmv file without re-encoding it with vmarchanger Ok, hopefully you just searched for this and you’re now sorted, but here’s some background on my problem in case it helps. I made a small video (640×480 50fps) on my 7D and wanted to slap it on youtube....
Your continuous integration server should stay green all the time. The odd broken test here and there means you get numb to the failed status on your build server, which in turn means it takes you longer to notice that the build has broken. When the build breaks, you should stop whatever you’re doing and make fixing it your top* priority. After you check in, the faster you fail the better because you haven’t had time to start thinking about your next task, and the thing you did to break the build is still fresh in your mind....
Looking software companies are near you? Looking to switch jobs or perhaps your company is looking for a local consultancy to collaborate on that big contract? I helped Dan make this map as a quick way to find those companies: Larger version. We’d love it if you could contribute updates. Just log in with your Google account and click the “edit” button on the left.