Comments for Colin Wren

Comment on NHS Apps, Clinical Governance and Mobile Phone Service Providers by Colin

Colin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:19:23 +0000

Hey Will,

This is could be a way to tackle it although I’m not sure how o2′s caching will work with JSON callbacks. There would be a few extra lines to generate a timestamp for this though and that would be for ever platform the app is made for. The HTTP Header I see as being a universal approach. Also this only applies for data transmitted over mobile data networks.

A combination of both is probably best practise.

Comment on NHS Apps, Clinical Governance and Mobile Phone Service Providers by William Searle

William Searle — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:00:13 +0000

Hi Colin,
Would you not be able to add a parameter to the JSON file you are downloading over HTTP?
e.g. Instead of http://mydomain.nhs.uk/somedir/myfile.json
do http://mydomain.nhs.uk/somedir/myfile.json?1234567890 – Where the 1234567890 would be the current timestamp?

Would this be easier than changing the HTTP headers?

Will

Comment on Using your HTC Sensation to debug Android apps on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) using udev and adb by Nick

Nick — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:34:22 +0000

Running adb start-server as root was what did it for me (on Fedora 16), thank you!

Comment on NHS App branding: a thought by Rob Dyke

Rob Dyke — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:38:45 +0000

Great blog piece Colin; a timely contribution to the identity of NHS apps on mobile devices.

Comment on NHS App branding: a thought by NHS branding for healthcare apps «

NHS branding for healthcare apps « — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:37:07 +0000

[...] a blog post Colin Wren makes a start at specifying identity guidelines for NHS Apps. He asks whether “some research could be put into seeing how NHS service users [...]

Comment on Using your HTC Sensation to debug Android apps on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) using udev and adb by Daren Scot Wilson

Daren Scot Wilson — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:11:58 +0000

Samsung, not HTC here, but your explanation carries over just fine. Several hours of hacking around with this, getting only question marks. Been to several sites. This one was the simplest, most straightforward. Turns out that I must have the tablet powered off to see ‘adb devices’ report something better than question marks. Is that normal? ‘adb devices’ not only reports a serial number, but (sometimes) caused the tablet to turn on. Thereafter, I get question marks again. Odd.

Funny how ‘Off’ does not mean to us what it did to our grandparents

Comment on Pidgin – a Twitter client? by PrplTwtr [Mike]

PrplTwtr [Mike] — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:53:14 +0000

Hi Colin,

Thanks for the positive feedback; sorry I’m just seeing this now. Note that while the default is not to tag tweets (in case you’re using search to monitor tweets), you can also either append or prepend the search term automatically (in case you use hashtags to simulate a chat). Open the “Conversation” menu, and under “More”, you have the option to add the tag to all tweets.

Comment on Using your HTC Sensation to debug Android apps on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) using udev and adb by Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:35:36 +0000

sudo adb usb

solved

Comment on Using your HTC Sensation to debug Android apps on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) using udev and adb by Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:08:21 +0000

99-android.rules was worked, charms

Comment on Using your HTC Sensation to debug Android apps on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) using udev and adb by ishly

ishly — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:03:51 +0000

it still comes up with question marks