http://jonathanwatmough.com Jonathan Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:29:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I finally got round to posting up some of my photography from our vacation in Rome in 2007. We had a fantastic time in Rome, and saw lots of wonderful sights. I hope you enjoy some of the pictures! Included in Day 1 is pictures of our rented apartment, and the ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/07/rome-vacation/ For our wedding anniversary this year, we visited San Antonio. Some pictures from the trip are online at Shutterfly. I also made a nice picture of The Alamo at night, which can be seen here. Buy a Print of The Alamo. http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/07/san-antonio/ I ran across some old scans of some butterfly pictures I'd done as a test of my Nikon F3, PK-13 macro attachment and Nikon SB-13 flash unit. Here is my very favorite image from this batch. I've posted the full resolution scans up on Shutterfly who can fulfil print orders up ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/07/butterfly-scans-on-shutterfly/ Outline It's pretty hackneyed, but I could actually use a decent application for tracking my times and expenses on my iPhone. I work 9 - 10 hours a day, on various projects, and sometimes have to resort to looking at my sent and received emails to find out what I was ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/07/designing-an-iphone-time-tracking-app/ I've been catching up on some dental treatment recently. Today I got the first part of an implant procedure and now have two large titanium posts embedded in my lower jaw. Once these get sufficiently attached to my jaw bone, essentially grafted in, they will get two crowns built up on top ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/05/my-new-dental-implants/ The following is a little SparkLine generator written in the Clojure language. There's an example in the code that covers the usage. Please post a comment if you find it useful, or have suggestions. I have since updated this program. It should be pixel-perfect, and much more resistant to bad data. Thanks Rich, ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/02/simple-sparkline-generator-in-clojure/ Clojure is a new Lisp, created by Rich Hickey. The primary portal to all things Clojure is here on Source Forge. I just got through prototyping a little app that takes in sound samples, and displays a stacked series of frequency spectra, and a 2d 'sonogram' type display. The running app ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/02/prototyping-code-in-clojure/ Regular Backups! If you value your peace of mind, you will have already bought a few external hard drives, and backed up your computer on a regular(ish) basis. If you haven't, and you own a mac, go to Shirt Pocket Software and download Super Duper, I can wait. Setting Up an SVN ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/02/if-you-hown-a-mac-with-leopard-and-havent-setup-a-svn-repository-you-are-crazy/ I wrote up a very simple example of calling Google Charts api from Clojure. Note: Rich Hickey actually emailed with some suggestions, and these have been added. I added a comment on the one I found most interesting, which is a function literal. Thanks Rich! (in-ns 'google-chart) (clojure/refer 'clojure) (def *amp* "&") ; ---- ... http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/02/google-charts-from-clojure/ Click here to play with a simple reg exp helper for JavaScript. Paste some text in, then experiment with typing in regular expressions, and watching the matches listed as you type. http://jonathanwatmough.com/2008/02/regular-expression-helper/