Whenever we try to represent The Earth we tend to use globes. The planet we live on is spherical, right? A flat stretch of sidewalk is… flat, isn’t it? Well, no, actually, it’s very far from flat. If you get down to the nitty gritty (literally, gritty) ground level it is, in fact, a rolling landscape of microscopic hills and mountains with sweeping gullies. The Walking Profiler…
Hockey is an immensely popular sport in North America, both in the USA and with Canada their Northern neighbors. Just to be clear for our British and European readers, in this article we are referring to the form of hockey played on ice-rinks, not the version played on…
I remember being taught Prime Numbers at school. I’m sure you, like me, were told “a prime number can only be divided by itself and one“. It was a lot to take in at that early age when we were all still learning how to tie shoelaces so they stayed tied and…
We’ve written before about some of the wonderful ways Delphi developers are helping pilots with the difficult job of defying gravity in their aircraft. The reliability of Delphi applications and the cross-platform power of FireMonkey FMX framework, combined with the skillful craftwork of the software engineer seems to lend itself very neatly to solving problems. Aviation is one of those…
When your users are trying to access things like their health-plan information, the responsiveness of your apps can often be key. There is nothing more frustrating than clicking on a button in a mobile app and then waiting for what seems like a lifetime to get some sort of…
There is something quite wonderful about gazing up at the night sky. I recommend doing it often, although not while driving or operating heavy machinery (or light machinery, or sword juggling).
When I was very young we were lucky enough to visit the London Planetarium.
Quickly draw and share basketball plays and drills with Basketball Chalk.
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Choose from full, half, college and international basketball courts.Draw straight and curved moving, pass, dribble, screening lines.Change player appearance.Store a play or drill for future reference.Share a sketch on social media or cloud.
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BQGolf Viewer presents results of club golf competitions in real time (currently match plays only). If during the competition electronic scorecards are used (BQGolf MScorecard) then the players on their mobile devices enter hole results which are automatically transmitted to…
I’m old enough to remember the days when movies used to have have copyright messages where the years were listed out in a series of letters. I like to think it added to the magic of the big screen movie experience to see things like MCMLXXVI underneath that roaring…
The workflow behind the selling and buying of vehicle parts is convoluted and tricky to navigate. It typically involves lots of photos of metallic objects so that the buyer – or seller – can more easily identify whether or not the part is the right one. Photomate works in conjunction with the Car-Part.com website and their Checkmate inventory management system to ease the process of…
