New Anime Series: Ars Nova

First Episode(s) Review for: Ars Nova
Summary:

Mankind has had its butt kicked and been driven from the sea by a fleet of ships that look like normal warships with glowing bits stuck to them, humanity has been relegated to the land with all communications cut. but now a traitor from this “fleet of fog” has teamed up with a young captain to help humanity fight back … but why? what are her motives?

Animation:

90 percent computer animation, which has not made friends with me but there are lots of bright lights and big guns which is helping

Plot Potential:

It’s a strange plot that feels like an Anime version of the search for the Graf Spee but conducted by cute girls with a taste for English culture & tea, not sure what I make of it but I do want to know what is at the bottom of it all.

Music:

Both the opening and closing these are totally mp3 player quality (goes to find them)

Reminds me of:

Strike_Witches in the sea, with a bit of Chobits thrown in for fan service

Overall:

Another anime with a good plot, I’m struggling to get involved due to the plastic nature of the animation, but it’s holding me more with each episode, so it may be my gateway drug to giving computer animation another chance.

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

Content Disposition Typo

While doing a quick patch for XLS generation (caused by Microsoft’s security change for Excel 2007+) in which I swapped a clients code from generated HTML to using the POI lib I ran into this fun little browser discrepancy :

If I want to name the file I’m generating and returning to the browser for download, I just set the “Content-Disposition” header thus:

var fileName = workbookName +".xls";
pageResponse.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline; filename=" + fileName);

Works just fine on Chrome/Safari and even the dreaded IE, but is completely ignored by firefox

<scratch scratch> …. <shrug> if in doubt use more quote marks

var fileName = workbookName +".xls";
pageResponse.setHeader("Content-Disposition","Attachment; filename="" + fileName + """);

That’s better works everywhere now 🙂
(Yes I am aware that the quoted version was the one I should have used in the first place as per [w3 Protocols](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec19.html) but, if the number of examples that don’t have them in is any judge then I was not alone and browser consistency would still be a nice thing)

New Anime Series: Strike the Blood

First Episode(s) Review for: Strike the Blood
Summary:

A super vampire comes about every so often capable of shaking the stability of the world, this time its a young lad who really does not want the job and realises fully what damage he could cause, adding to his problems is the young female demon hunter (who is world inexperienced but very violent) that is sent to watch after him.

Animation:

A “by the numbers” competent production , nothing I would be ashamed to show a none Anime fan but then again nothing that rocks the world.

Plot Potential:

It’s a good background Anime (meaning you can glance away from the screen and not miss anything vital to the plot), but with it being very very close to A Certain Scientific Railgun or Stay fate night its going to have some proving to do, thought the male hero not being an Idiot is a good start (I have not face palmed even once)

Music:

American Hard rock (good head banging stuff)

Reminds me of:

A Certain Scientific Railgun ….Hell it’s damn near a copy

Overall:

Good fun and one that I fully expect to be franchised in English for those that need a dubbed version.

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

Using Pending and Learning, week 1

Just a weekly snapshot of the tech I have used for a client, prepared to use for a client or am learning for the future.


Using

The IBM Collaboration stack ( Atom db2 Websphere Connections Domino etc etc )

Spring

Adobe Flex

Jboss

Vaadin

OpenQM


Pending

Jboss Rest Easy

Bootstrap

Ext-JS


Learning

Swagger link1 link2

Enunciate

Sales force

fuse ESB

Zen Coding link1 link2


This is over an above the usual suspects of Java , Jquery , github, SVN, Mavin, Jenkins et al, that you need to have a grip on.

Is It Important?

Sometimes with both large clients and multiple small clients, you are though no fault of your own faced with tons of simultaneous jobs at once, all of which are somehow the most important thing since the big bang, containing clients and managers both trying to see who can scream the loudest with you in the middle having to decide which one of the multiple tasks that all have to be done simultaneously you are actually going to do first.

If you tell anyone that someone else’s item is more important than theirs they tend to have a melt down, so the way I have personally found to deal with at least some of it, is a simple important/not important decision,

Important Problems

  1. Ones that cost or make money for a client.
  2. Ones that affect a client’s reputation with the wider world.
  3. Ones that would mean a state of compliance or none compliance with a legal or government office.

Unimportant Problems

  1. Everything else.

Amazingly I have not found manager at a large client that has ever taken me to task for taking a decision on this basis of this logic, so I can recommend it if you are in a pinch and don’t know which way to turn 🙂