Over the past year, more and more ShawOpen Wi-Fi hotspots have been popping up everywhere around Metro Vancouver. This is incredibly useful for Shaw customers (like me) because it’s so easy to find reliable Wi-Fi access anywhere we go. If you’re a Shaw internet customer, you get to save several devices so that they can automatically connect to the network without having to login through the portal. Telus is starting to form their own network as well, under the names #TELUS and #TELUSDirect. The one advantage they have is that for Telus customers, #TELUSDirect is a secured Wi-Fi network, whereas Continue Reading
Dennis
I am currently a software developer at A Thinking Ape Entertainment Ltd. I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science with the Software Engineering Option. I primarily speak Python and C# these days, but in the past I've also done Objective-C, Java and PHP.
Outside of work, I'm a volunteer on the youth ministry team at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, and also on the Canadian Ski Patrol team at Mount Seymour. I'm also an avid transit enthusiast/photographer.
“Error: Boot loader didn’t return any data” when booting up Xen guest
Error: Boot loader didn’t return any data I have come across this error two or three times before, and each time I spend hours trying to figure out how to get my virtual machine to boot. This blog post is just to document a fix so that I can refer back to it, and hopefully it will help people out if they’re experiencing the issue as well.
iOS Screen Resolutions
iOS screen resolutions from an app developer’s point of view. 2007: In the beginning Back in 2007 when the first iPhone and iPod Touch were launched, iOS developers only had to worry about one resolution: 480×320. Its aspect ratio is 3:2. Life was great. 2010: The retina displays Fast forward three years and three generations later. In 2010, the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4th generation were launched with the first Retina Displays, which doubled the resolution of the screens. The new resolution thus was 960×640. This was great for developers as the new resolution had the same aspect ratio of Continue Reading
On Creative Commons licensing and SeaBus photos
One of the nice things about releasing photos on Flickr with a Creative Commons license is that once in a while there’s a nice surprise when you see your photo used on another website. Last week, Vancity Buzz posted an article summarizing a bit of Seabus history with photographs which included some of my SeaBus photos. Many of the photos that were used from my collection were taken during the APTA conference here in Vancouver in 2010. I was able to take a tour of the SeaBus operations and maintenance centre and get a unique glimpse to the areas of the Burrard Pacific Breeze Continue Reading
A week with the Google Glass
I had the opportunity to borrow the Google Glass from my workplace last week. Google Glass is a wearable miniature computer mounted on a frame you wear like glasses. It has a small display that you can see through on the right eye. Glass is still in the development process and these units aren’t the final product, so some of the issues may be solved by the time the final product ships. First impressions The Google Glass I had borrowed was one without prescription lenses. Since I need to wear my own glasses, it was hard for me to get the Google Glass Continue Reading