Image credit: El Waka; Licensed under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike This is a post to announce the initial draft of a mission statement and implementation plans [PDF] for my Digital Humanities project, Rockaby.
Image credit: rodolphoreis; Licensed under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike To my great excitement, my initial proposal for the forthcoming book, Zombies in the Academy has been accepted! While it still has to undergo peer review and as such isn't guaranteed to be published, I'll certainly be doing my best to overcome that hurdle. If you are interested, you can read my full proposal.
Surprisingly, I managed to make an appearance in the business section of the BBC News website, of all places. When I returned from lunch at the British Library last week, a camera crew were asking people to define various jargon terms used in the pension industry.
As mentioned previously, the two part tutorial on c99.org is a great starting place for people wanting to write their own synchronization service for Android. The only problem is that, because it syncs to Contacts, it omits to tell you what to do to get your new service appearing under Settings -> Accounts -> "Data and Synchronization". The answer is surprisingly simple, but also elusive.
My review of Alan Liu's latest offering, Local Transcendence: Postmodern Historiography and the Database is now available to read in Textual Practice vol. 24 issue 6. I'm in the process of clearing up pre-print Open Access permissions and hope to post that when clarified.
Just a quick promotional post to get the word out about the research hive seminars at Sussex. This series presents an exciting opportunity to hear about, and fore-arm yourself against, the challenges posed to 21st-century research. There are sessions on research communication, public engagement, copyright, careers and the REF. If you are interested in attending, official information is available on the library website.
Here's a screenshot of today's milestone on Mendeley for Android; collection display running in the emulator: Mendeley for Android: screenshot of collection display was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on January 11, 2011.
As my hobby-geek phase draws to a close and I return well and truly to my PhD, I thought it worth sharing this python script I wrote a while back which will extract the update.zip file from an Android RUU.exe file on Linux. There are other items out there that do the same thing, but this is my effort. Usage: modify the options, start the script and then run the RUU under Wine.
Originally from V-Nessa's site, I thought I would share the PHP script that I have now modified to include Secure Copy (SCP) support. {% highlight php %} {% endhighlight %} If you need help with usage, it's exactly the same as in V_Nessa's original post, so read there, but now supports copying to a remote host over SSH. Automated CPanel Backups with SCP was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on January 08, 2011.
As I made rapid initial progress on the prototype of the Mendeley Client for Android, I started to think about the design. In order to minimize hits on the API, as well as for speedy browsing, it doesn't make sense for the UI to be initiating API calls at every turn. Instead, it would be better, I decided, to implement this via a synchronization service.
Before anybody non-techie gets excited by the heading there, I'm not claiming this is anywhere near production-ready. In fact, it's not even functional. However, from a technical perspective, my Android Mendeley client has reached a milestone of succesful OAuth login.