Gareth Jones - Latest Comments

Re: Using JSLint from gedit in Ubuntu 10.10

andrweufrank — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:49:26 -0000

i have troubles to get jslint (or jshint) to work with gedit. i had it working and now it just reports "done", but no information about problems (of which some are present in the code).
i tried the installation method described here and the one in
https://github.com/Kilian/g...
neither works. i use ubuntu 11.04 and gedit 2.30.4.
thank you for help!
andrew

Re: Cloud hosting options

Bill Baugh — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:14:37 -0000

Thanks for the post.

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Gareth Jones — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:45:42 -0000

Thanks Andy, post updated :)

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Andy S-C — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:30:54 -0000

The recipes are in /usr/share/calibre/recipes in the current version of Calibre

Re: Using JSLint from gedit in Ubuntu 10.10

Someone — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:20:33 -0000

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Re: Learning sign language

Hiroflorabrant — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:54:29 -0000

Hi Gareth,

Thank you for the info. I've been looking at this site long time and found really useful and GREAT!

Take care! (please keep signing for us and let us know any suggestion that you might think of.
I think you've got great skills!

Flora @Hiroflorabrant -)

Re: Learning sign language

Gareth Jones — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:46 -0000

Hi Flora. It's actually been quite a long time since I did any BSL so my memory is pretty hazy. I can only remember four of the ones I was taught which (I think!) were the following:

- Up/down the side of the body (e.g. growing up)
- Left/right across the front of the body (e.g. next/previous)
- Toward/away from the front of the body (e.g. next year)
- Back/forth over the shoulder (e.g. until now)

Sorry I couldn't be of more use! Possibly worth asking a BSL teacher if you know any, or maybe looking in a BSL grammar book?

Re: Learning sign language

Hiroflorabrant — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:51:46 -0000

Hi gareth ,
please could you explain about five directional movements of timelines for me as I only know 3 of them.

Flora

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

Gareth Jones — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:17:56 -0000

As pointed out by Spac32, this should actually be:
$service = new RestService();
$service->handleRawRequest($_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST);

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

Gareth Jones — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:16:34 -0000

Hey, thanks for your comments. No idea if the HTTPS thing is a change in PHP or a platform-specific thing or what but glad you found a solution. Yes, you're right about my reply to PepperHill - good spot!

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

Spac32 — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:19:43 -0000

Excellent article!

one note, this line of code didn't work for me
$protocol = $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http';I rewrote it and now it works:

if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
        $protocol = 'https';
    } else {
        $protocol = 'http';
    }

Also, your reply to PepperHill:

$service->handleRequest($_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST);

Shouldn't it be
$service->handleRawRequest($_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST);

Thanks again

Re: Building a RESTful Web application with PHP

Graham — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:32:47 -0000

Absolutely excellent article! Thank you!

I have read at least a dozen others tonight, but this was the first one that made complete sense.

For those who feel that REST isn't useful, try building an application with regular get/post and an action parameter. You'll see how useful REST is within the first few weeks of development.

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Gareth Jones — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:22:48 -0000

Great, glad you got it working. It'd definitely not a speedy process :)

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

James Shoebottom — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:18:17 -0000

hi gareth. sorry for the delay. In the end I decided to use the scheduling option on the Calibre GUI and I set my Mac to wake at 06.30 every morning and the Calibre software takes about 20 mins to download, format and email to the Kindle and then the Mac sleeps at 07.00. So when I leave for work at 07.00, the Guardian is already on my Kindle (unless my Virgin 'Super'HUB decides to be a pain that is.. which is happening more frequently.

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

Gareth Jones — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:18:06 -0000

Hey James. Sorry, I didn't have that problem but was working on Ubuntu Linux. Possibly a missing Python package you need to install? Odd that it works from the GUI but not the command line tools, I wonder what it's doing differently. You could try searching through / raising a bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/...

Let me know how you get on.

Re: Free daily news to a Kindle

James Shoebottom — Sat, 07 May 2011 03:28:45 -0000

hi gareth
great article - thanks. I use Calibre on my Mac and followed your instructions but it is complaining about a plugin. Just wondered if you hit this?Python function terminated unexpectedly: No plugin to handle output format: mobi calibre-smtpTraceback (most recent call last): File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resour...", line 147, in main return run_entry_point() File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resour...", line 116, in run_entry_point return getattr(pmod, func)() File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/cli.py", line 271, in main File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/cli.py", line 258, in create_option_parser File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 626, in __init__ValueError: No plugin to handle output format: mobi calibre-smtpI confirmed I've installed the Calibre command line tools and all my plug-ins seem to be enabled. I'll check out the Calibre forums as well but this is all a bit new to me.I download the Guardian ok within Calibre and I set up my default e-book reader to be the Kindle. It works within Calibre but not from terminal.CheersJames

Re: BSL word ordering

Gareth Jones — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:38:22 -0000

Hi Jenny. I'm afraid I don't know of a site that does that. Hopefully the rules in my post will help but your teacher will be the best person to ask if you're not sure!

Re: Learning sign language

Gareth Jones — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:36:00 -0000

Hi Jo. I did my level 3 at Peter Symonds College in Winchester (http://psc.ac.uk/). No idea if they still run the course or what price it is though. Level 3 was a massive increase in cost from level 2 for me though.

Re: BSL word ordering

Jenny Hopley — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:55:01 -0000

Hi I am currently studying Level 1 & have have been set some homework of translating English grammarsentences to BSL grammar do you know of a site that can help myself in doing this? My email is jenny.hopley@hotmail.co.uk thanks.

Re: Learning sign language

madcatlady99 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:31:07 -0000

Hi Gareth,

I just found your blog while looking for more information on BSL word order (your entry was very helpful) and I was wondering where you went for level 3. I'm going to be finishing level 2 soon and the cost of level 3 where I'm currently studying is worryingly high!

-Jo

Re: Garden Hose – A BSL story (/homework!)

Gareth Jones — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:25:23 -0000

Hey Carmen, glad you've found my videos useful. I finished my BSL Level 3 in 2009 but haven't continued studying because the next qualifications seem to be aimed at people who use it professionally. Good luck with your portfolio!

Re: Garden Hose – A BSL story (/homework!)

Carmendavis_2006 — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:36:07 -0000

Hello Gareth.
I understood your story 100% too.
I see you allot on the net doing your homework but don't know much about you and how far you have got with your signing. I'm just in the middle of level 3 submitting a portfolio soon. Your films have been very useful and helpful.
I just have to add that I think you are incredibly cute too.
Carmen xx

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Gareth Jones — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:02:28 -0000

Sorry, that one I don't know the answer too. I believe it can be done but I've no idea how much can be easily automated.

Re: Using Jena as a SPARQL endpoint

Andrea — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:18:53 -0000

Anyone knows if I can integrate a reasoner such as Pellet to infere new triple?? and how?
I'm using Joseki with sdb triple store.
I suppose that I have to set properly the config file of Joseki but how?

Re: Goodbye IBM, hello Vodafone

Gareth Jones — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:13:40 -0000

Thanks Ashley :)