Greycastle
Speed up translation by automating google translate
Today I will show how I went about automating google translate to speed up the translation of a large set of terms I needed for one of my apps, TravelRates. The actual translation is very simple, however, since it is based on the paid version of google translation it...
TravelRates app released! A productive week with cold in Bali
A week with cold turned productive During my travel throughout south east Asia at one point I found myself in Bali. I had hoped to get a diving certificate but having just returned from a mountain hike I instead got stuck in bed for a week. But this wasn't a bad...
Bulk change photo timestamps on mac
I'm currently out travelling and found that I had different time zone settings on my three cameras (phone, GoPro and digital). Easy to fix for next time but all the photos taken this far? Fortunately, *nix comes with command line tools such as touch and in GNU you can...
interface segregation but what about our objects?
The I in SOLID stands for 'Interface Segregation'. This is a fancy way of saying "splitting apart dependencies". Basically, an object should not have to depend on more than it absolutely has too. If it does, it may have to be modified when the dependency changes, even...
Severity is a priority, or was it the other way around
When you get incoming requests and/or emergency tickets it's important to be able to classify these properly to know whether you should stop what you're doing or possibly if you should be doing it at all. This topic came up in my team the other day and at a prior...
Communication in text
These past weeks we have focused on planning at my client. We're figuring out the next steps in the product and this requires a lot of communication. As engineers I find that at times we focus completely at our trade. Often though, good or bad, we spend a huge amount...