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By spgennard, February 2, 2010 11:43 pm

The iRiver Story allows the user to install their own fonts, these fonts can truetype fonts (ones with the .ttf extensions).

To install the fonts, connect  your iRiver Story device via your USB cable, then select mount/drive etc..

Then browse via your explorer/finder to the font’s directory and just drag/drop/copy the .ttf to it, then disconnect.

Then goto ‘Settings/Change Fonts’, then when goto your Diary/Memo the font will have take affect.

Unfortunately I can seem to make it work for pdf files!

Sample fonts i played with are:

• Android fonts aka Droid font family
• Marydale fonts

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By spgennard, January 29, 2010 6:37 pm

I recently tried to find our manual for our “British Gas RC Plus Termostat” on the internet as we have lost our original manual.

Anyway, after some research, I found they British Gas just re-badged them from Drayton Digistat and here is the links to the pages that contain the .pdfs’.

http://www.gasapplianceguide.co.uk/DigistatPlus2.pdf
http://www.draytoncontrols.co.uk/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4235

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By spgennard, January 27, 2010 11:55 pm

Microsoft have just updated the “Application Architecture”.  I can’t say I have read it from cover to cover but it is being downloaded to my ebook reader…

Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition

The guide helps you to:

• Understand the underlying architecture and design principles and patterns for developing successful solutions on the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework.
• Identify appropriate strategies and design patterns that will help you design your solution’s layers, components, and services.
• Identify and address the key engineering decision points for your solution.
• Identify and address the key quality attributes and crosscutting concerns for your solution.
• Create a candidate baseline architecture for your solution.
• Choose the right technologies for your solution.
• Identify patterns & practices solution assets and further guidance that will help you to implement your solution

The guide can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ce40e4e1-9838-4c89-a197-a373b2a60df2&DisplayLang=en

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By spgennard, January 21, 2010 1:06 am

My life seems to full of firmware updates, yesterday it was my iRiver Story ebook reader.. today I see my Olympus E-P1 camera which has been updated.

To update you use the “Olympus Master 2″ program, connect the cable from computer to camera.. click storage on the camera.. select camera… update and away you go…

If all goes well your camera should have the largest “OK” message on the LCD screen I seen in years…

Here is what they say has changed:

E-P1 Firmware Ver1.2 has incorporated the following upgrade.

[Modification]

• Reduced time of the MF ASSIST enlarged display to improve operability.
• REC VIEW enabled when the monitor’s backlight is set to off.

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By spgennard, January 19, 2010 11:39 am

The use of scripting languages with other languages has increased over the last couple of years, from a simple case of interoperability, reuse of scripting code to allowing your code to customised via the user of external scripts. All of which are real world examples I have seen customers use.

Interoperability between languages is very important to COBOL environments just as much as other languages. Some platforms such as Microsoft’s .Net with their CLR makes life much easier by allowing all languages to share a common infrastructure ie: the instruction set and the VM (MSIL and CLR) along with a base class library to get you started.

Environments such as Sun’s VM (JVM) provide two different approaches to interoperability with Java, the first is via JNI/JNA and the second is producing bytecode that runs as is on the VM.

Although the Micro Focus COBOL compiler does not support JVM bytecode or Java source generation it does have support for invoking classes/methods via the OO invoke verb.