Tony is a Geek

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A few months back I started a little experimental project with a Bluemix Watson Dialog service . Whilst this was great, it lacked a UI method of manipulating the XML file that runs the service. I got my propellor hat out and set about rectifying that.  Here's what I came up with. If you want to know more about it, you know what to do...... : CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

My Oculus Rift arrived today: Pretty awesome, but I don't have a Windows PC powerful enough (or with a good enough graphics card) to use it.  shame.  Guess I'll stick to the Samsung GearVR for a while longer :-D

A really cool 6 minute video showing a potential future with Augmented Reality: CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

A short while back I was surfing good old eBay, when I stumbled over a Minitel machine. After doing a bit of checking on wikipedia , I found out that it was an old 1980s machine that was the Internet before the Internet....but they only switched off the service in July 2012! It involved you dialing up a phone number, connecting your phone to the device and then using the keyboard and special orange function keys to navigate around. It looks to be like a Prestel / Teletext / Ceefax / CompuServe type of "internet".  Remember those days :-)  If you're from the US, then think early days AOL (before the free CDs). Anyway, I happen to have won a bid and the nice snug little device arrived at my humble abode waiting for me to do something useful with it.  First of all, I was surprised that it actually worked!  It powered on and everything!  I say, "everything"...as it just sat there with a blinking cursor and didn't really do anything at all.  Oh and ther...

Build end-to-end apps using Swift with Kitura.  Kitura is a new, modular, package-based web framework written in the Swift language. Put simply, if you write iOS apps using Swift for iPhone/iPad, then you can now write Swift code Server-side.  Personally, I think I'll stick with writing JavaScript server-side as I've been doing that since 2001 and I'm not a hipster... >CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT HOW TO SET THIS UP ON YOUR MAC< >AND RUN THROUGH A HELLO WORLD PROJECT<

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