New Year, same old blog. A new style, some broken links and some fixed-broken links. Here’s to yet another WordPress-based blog! Now for some background. This website has been through a small number of hosts. It started off being hosted on a wordpress.com subdomain. I then migrated it over to a cheapo shared hosting solution, […]
Author Archives: LucasPardue
SpotifyStatusApplet v1.3 Beta 1
FYI: SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018. This page is provided for archive purposes and the download has been removed. More information is available on the Project Page. A small update to SpotifyStatusApplet has been released as a beta. This version fixes a critical issue with newer versions of […]
SpotifyStatusApplet v1.2 Beta
FYI: SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018. This page is provided for archive purposes and the download has been removed. More information is available on the Project Page. A small update to SpotifyStatusApplet has been released as a beta. This version adds the ability to toggle on/off the Field […]
Beer Catalog
Since I moved to London I drank a lot of beer. It is easy to lose track of: What I’ve tried When I’ve tried it and would I drink it again In order to keep a better track of these beers I have created a beer catalog page capturing what I deem to be the […]
Ode to IBM Rational Rhapsody
Ode to Rhapsody to the tune of “Comme d’habitude” / “My Way” And now, the end is here And so I face, the final codegenMy friend, I’ll say it clearI state my Use Case, I’ll draw a LifelineI’ve declared a class that’s pureI created each and every dependencyAnd more, much more than this, I did […]
Antimatter Poster
During university I produced a poster on the topic of Antimatter as part of a Communicating Science module. I put this up on the web in 2007 and years on, I am seeing traffic to the site driven by a link contained in a Rutgers assignment concerning Information Design. Unfortunately, across the years the poster […]
Software Metrics and Craftsmanship
Software Development Metrics are a notoriously difficult area, there exists a large allure of quantitative measurements that can be condensed into a top-level dashboard showing progress, plan alignment, effort , costs and so on. However, the unfortunate reality is that the collection and analysis of Software Development Metrics is difficult for a number of factors […]
UI Navigation – Android
Up vs. Back or in other terms hierarchy vs. chronology is one of the User Experience aspects touched upon in my post UML: Modelling User Interfaces Part 1 – Hierarchy and Navigation. The Android methodology for UI navigation has received some attention over the years and the largest change to date was brought in with […]
UML: Aside – Completeness vs Clarity and other CvCs
One of the recurring issues I have experienced with UML, or more generally Model Driven Design is the continual struggle between definition and interpretation. One of the tenants of UML is to abstract upwards towards a level that avoids implementation specifics. However, this introduces the potential for a need of a “Leap of Faith”, something […]
Android Resource and the Eclipse switch Quick Fix
In the process of updating and refactoring an old Android project I unwittingly changed a Project configuration option (the “Is Library” option) that lead to my resource file being generated differently. E.g Before After A subtle change indeed but one that caused the following compiler error for each line case expressions must be constant expressions