wade womersley – york based software engineer
Engineering notes from the sharp end
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Really short post this one on indexing using Cloudant Query to index arrays in your document, e.g. documents that have a field like this: { “ids”: [ “alpha”, “bravo”, “charlie” ] } I was reading the documentation and just could not get it to index these items using anything but the default _all_docs indexer (don’t use … Read More “Cloudant (IBM) Query – Indexing arrays directly using Erlang” »
In what may be one of the happiest events of my life, The Crystal Maze will be back in a format for everyone to enjoy! At the moment there is a funding event on Indiegogo with a rather easy target of £500,000 – at the moment of writing this, just 8 hours in from the midnight … Read More “The Crystal Maze is Back – and it’s for all of us!” »
Well it looks like one of my biggest wishes is coming true – The Crystal Maze is coming back to the world! However it quite possibly will not be a TV series to enjoy for a few years – boo! What it might be though is a theme park-esque style location to go to – … Read More “The Crystal Maze is back! …. in some format” »
I recently overheard a discussion in the SEO world to do with IPs and the dangerous* world of link acquisition. The discussion was to do with clients who ask for things like “unique class C” as a requirement. Many moons ago, IP was almost certainly a factor in link acquisition, big bad Google did not … Read More “IP Uniqueness – An SEO Perspective” »
There’s not much to say about this other than you have to watch it because, ignoring Beyonce’s lips, it works near perfectly. Thank you internet for bringing two apparently unrelated things together perfectly. So here it is, Single Ladies featuring Duck Tales.
What can only be described as “the 80’s in a movie” is finally here, the epic named Kung Fury. Described as “a homage and a love letter to the 80’s from the director David Sandberg”, this fill was a Kickstarter that was bound to succeed. Paying tribute to everything that was crazy and awesome in the … Read More “Kickstarted 80’s epic short movie Kung Fury Has Arrived!” »
NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card has been officially confirmed to launch on 2nd June at the Computex 2015 event. NVDIA seems to be holding a big event at the show to launch their competitive, high-performance, GM200 based graphics cards to GeForce users which will be shown off at the event and live streamed … Read More “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Officially Launching on 2nd June At Computex – Brings Competitive Graphics Performance To GeForce” »
In 1954, IBM released the IBM 704 – the “supercomputer” of its time. Since then computer power has stuck relatively close to Moore’s Law and we now have a 1-trillion fold increase in the computing power available to us (or at least to people with access to modern day super computers, the rest of … Read More “50 year 1-trillion fold increase in computing – keep on going!” »
It appears that Nvidia might launch the Geforce GTX 980 Ti even earlier as expected as we are now hearing plenty of new rumors regarding it, including most of the specifications.According to a fresh report coming from the Korean HWBattle website, spotted by Techpowerup.com, and despite earlier report, Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Ti will … Read More “Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Ti – possible details and performance leaked” »
Have you ever been playing a game and gone away from your PC only to come back and find your monitor switched off? No problem right? Just move your mouse and it’s all back to norm….oh what on earth is this the game is now running at a weird smaller than desktop resolution! If you’ve had … Read More “Does Windows screw up your monitor resolution when your monitor sleeps (notably when a game is open?)” »
