Digital learnings and other such nonsense…
About
I’m a Java Developer by day, working on SOA projects for a well established UK Mobile provider. I love what I do and am generally interested in learning new skills, hence setting up this blog to document my discoveries
Previously worked as a business analyst providing document management and CRM solutions to UK councils & housing partnerships
Done
- Bsc. (Hons) Computing and Information Systems (2.1)
- 3 years Java development experience
- Solo backpacked USA/Canada for 6 months @ 18 years old
- 1st Dan black belt Wado-Ryu Karate
- Bronze Medallist (2003 & 2004) UK BCCMA competition.
Doing
- Continuing Android enthusiasm
- Working on SCJP certifications
- Learning Spanish
- Training hard as a Martial Artist (traditional and freestyle)
To Do
- More IT experience
- Linux Certifications
- Work in Australia
- Learn Japanese
When I’m not busy geeking, I can be found getting my ass kicked in Karate, I’ve been training in Wado Ryu for almost 10 years now. I love all things martial arts, films, history etc. I try to spend time running / cycling to compensate training also, but I’ve got a whole other blog for all that
Other than that I’m a big video game fanatic (mostly World of Warcraft), and I like reading also (anything I can get on my kindle)
Nice blog you have here . :)
Hi James,
Thanx and keep up the good work. This is a really useful blog you have.
Keep Up and as we say in Kiswahili Hongera (well done)
Hi James, I am an Android hobbyist as well and recently have run into an issue with Android involving Voice Recognition. Suppose you have a menu of four items (Option 1, Option 2, etc.) I have tried to implement some sort of service which will continuously check for a users voice. When the user says “Option 1″ it will open up that activity or perform and action. Have you done anything like this? I have looked at the APIs and all that Ive been able to implement it if the user presses a button but not if its constantly checking.
Hi John,
That should be possible, you’d have to do some sort of looping over voice checking and wait until the interpreter hears “option 1″. Getting the app to constantly listen will be the harder part, but as soon as it grabs hold of “option 1″ that will be easy to fire off an activity.
Thanks
J
Hi James, I like your blog and find you are good at writing. I want to invite you to write a review for us. Are you interested in it?
best regards,
Alex
Sure, got any more details? Thanks