When you have your application ready and you want to share your awesome product with the rest of the world, it is time to deploy – and the problems to begin. There are many ways to deploy an application but during the… Continue
Having briefly covered the general theory behind Analogue to Digital Conversion (see Signals, Sampling, Aliasing, Resolution, Accuracy), we will now look at an actual implementation. In this particular case we will be using an embedded Microprocessor Unit (MCU), specifically the… Continue
Smart objects are layers that contain raster or vector image data from Photoshop or Illustrator files. They preserve an image’s source content with all its original characteristics. This allows the user to perform non-destructive editing to the layer. This means… Continue
Google has made the headlines many times over the past weeks and even months with speculation (and now confirmation) that they plan to offer cellular network services. At a glance, this seems quite logical. They created the Android mobile OS… Continue
Before you begin go about making changes to your website, you need to analyse your website and understand where it is you’re going wrong and how you can improve. Identifying problem areas Take a look at your design. A badly… Continue
As I mentioned before, QML provides a brand new approach to developing GUI applications for a range of different devices. This makes it really easy to write C++ apps for multiple operating systems. We can develop the same QML and QtQuick application… Continue
I recently faced a new challenge where I had to generate large CSV files from the backend. The whole process can take a while and if done improperly can cause the server to stop responding or even crash in worst-case scenarios. Let’s… Continue
Unfortunately, preparing images for the web can be a bit of a faff. There’s not really a perfect file format that will work for everything and cater for all your needs. There are certain file formats that are more suited… Continue
This is a quick tutorial of how to upgrade your Debian Wheezy distribution to Debian Jessie. Currently “jessie” is still not released. At the time of writing the current version of jessie is only a release candidate but you can… Continue
In this ever-increasing technological era that we live in, where images are of the highest quality possible, it comes at a hefty price – file size. Whatever media-orientated profession you work in, or even if it’s just a hobby, it… Continue