Glen Scott - Keeping it simple » photography http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog Thoughts on software development and other geeky pursuits. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:23:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Camera and photo improvements in iOS5 http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2011/10/14/camera-and-photo-improvements-in-ios5/ http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2011/10/14/camera-and-photo-improvements-in-ios5/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:49:54 +0000 Glen http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/?p=638 iPhone Camera

The camera functionality in the iPhone has always been one of my most used features. iOS5 brings some enhancements, which are listed below:

Camera improvements

  • Double-click the Home button when device is asleep to bring up a camera shortcut on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation)
  • Volume Up button to take a picture
  • Optional grid lines to line up shots
  • Pinch to zoom in the preview screen
  • Swipe to camera roll from preview screen
  • Tap and hold to lock focus and exposure; iPad 2 and iPod touch (4th generation) only support exposure lock

Photo improvements

  • Crop and rotate
  • Red-eye removal
  • One-tap enhance
  • Organise photos into albums

This list was taken from the official release notes, which were accessible via iTunes pre-installation.

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  • The Complete History of the Perle Mongers of Olde London Towne – Dave Cross
  • DBIx::Class for (advanced) beginners‎ – Leo Lapworth
  • closures for fun and maybe profit‎ – David Cantrell
  • Catalyst, DBIx::Class and PostgreSQL -‎ Matt Trout
  • ‎Introduction to Moose – Mike Whitaker

In particular, DBIx::Class caught my eye as a nice way of abstracting database details behind more friendly object methods. Although, as the list of contributors shows, this is a highly complex problem to solve and achieving a “one size fits all” solution may be unrealistic.

Matt Trout’s talk was a little disappointing. Although I admired his passion and enthusiasm, there was far too much crammed in the 40 minute talk. Just concentrating on one aspect of the development process would been more useful. However, saying that, he did enough to convince me that I need to revisit PostgreSQL at some point in the future.

My colleague Mike Whitaker talked about the “postmodern object system”, Moose. There was lots of questions by the end of the talk, which was a good sign that the introduction had achieved its aim.

Overall, a good experience and a reminder that the Perl community is very much alive and well.

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Bizarre way of checking out the latest interesting uploads on Flickr:

Flickr: Panda

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