• Geo tagging dongle

    Saw a truly awesome piece of kit on the engadget website, the PhotoTrackr mini from GiSTEQ. It's a little USB dongle that you carry around with you and it logs your route as you go. When you're done you plug it in and use the software to add geo data about...


  • Stop asking questions.

    I've had an ongoing conversation with a few people over the course of a few projects about the questions to ask when people sign up on the web or what hoops you make them jump through. Ask most people what they need to know about user's and you'll end up...


  • Some thoughts on unit tests

    First of all, I don't go in for the whole write a test that fails before I write any code. But I do aim for as close to 100% code coverage as I can get, again sometimes I pick and choose what I want to ignore when it comes to...


  • I've made a little JSR303 annotation library

    I've been playing with Hibernate Validator 4.0 lately, it's an implementaion of JSR 303 Bean Validation - basically the ability to annotate validations for your beans. Great in Hibernate as you'll know if you've ever done it because you're object describe the constraints and Hibernate enforces them for you. JSR...


  • Hbase for storing Users?

    We had a meeting last night about the state of the Sproozi project, where we wanted to be and the results of a few tests we'd run. We more or less came to the conclusion that we're going to need to push on with the social aspect of the site...