Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Essays on the State of the Art and Future of Text Mining
The coursework for this Text Mining module has been quite challenging. Each week we had a task to complete, along the lines of evaluating training of a part-of-speech tagger (a piece of software that tries to tag words with the part of speech they serve), or create a named entity recogniser (a piece of software [...]
Why I didn’t write any software for Windows Mobile
A few year ago, around 2006 at a guess, I saved up a bit of my hard-earned dollar and bought a Dell Axim X51v. It was a wonderful little device for the time and I fancied having a go at writing software for it. So I went to the Microsoft website to find out how [...]
In: Development, Mobile
A quick post from my Kindle
The web browser that comes on the new Kindle 3 is pretty neat, supporting everything I’ve thrown at it so far… including this blog’s dashboard. That means I can post from my Kindle. Not sure I’d want to do that much, as the keyboard is functional rather than comfortable. Happy new year! The views expressed [...]
In: Development · Tagged with: Kindle
Oracle Sues Google over Android
News has emerged of legal action being taken by Oracle (which recently acquired Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java) against Google over alleged infringements of patents in the Android operating system which currently enjoys great popularity in the mobile phone market. As I’ve been giving software patents a bit of thought recently, I find this [...]
Hibernate 3 Tip – Log PreparedStatement bindings
I was trying to see what values were being bound to placeholders in the JDBC PreparedStatements generated by Hibernate DAO test classes I’ve created as they go about their persistent business. Dead easy, right? Hibernate supports a configuration parameter ‘show_sql’. Set that to true and see what’s going on under the covers. Well… not so [...]