Dan Dyer

I am a software developer based in the UK. I'm the founder of Rectangular Software Ltd. Rectangular Software develops mobile and web applications and provides professional software development services. Contact Rectangular Software if you need a custom smartphone app developed or if you require other software development services.

Software Projects

Here is some of the non-commercial software that I have developed. You'll find most of my Open Source projects at Uncommons.org and on GitHub. Please do not contact Rectangular Software about the projects listed on this page. If you need to contact me, e-mail dan at this domain.

Watchmaker Framework for Evolutionary Computation

watchmaker.uncommons.org

Lightweight, unobtrusive, high-performance framework for evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms, etc.) in Java.

Watchmaker powers the distributed evolutionary algorithms of the Apache Mahout project.

Uncommons Maths

maths.uncommons.org

Mathematical utility library for Java. Provides high-performance software random number generators and facilities for working with non-uniform probability distributions. Also includes classes for combinatorial problems, rational arithmetic and statistical analysis.

Football News & Statistics

footballpredictions.net

An autonomous football news aggregator (powered by Zeitgeist) plus auto-generated tables, form guides and other stats for all English and Scottish divisions and archive statistics for all English Premier League seasons (powered by Anorak, the successor to the Football Statistics Applet).

Other Projects/Tools: Zeitgeist RSS News Aggregator · ReportNG · Football Statistics Applet · Uncommons Antlib · ANSI Colour Console Logger · Poker Stars TLB Points Calculator · SHA-256 Password Generator · Last.fm Loved Tracks Feed Builder

Blog

New Adventures in Software is my software development blog. These are the most recent posts.

Accessing Local Name-Based Virtual Hosts From the Android Emulator: To test mobile versions of websites, it is useful to be able to connect to a web server on your local machine from a web browser on an Android emulator without having to expose the web server to the Internet. You can’t use the normal loop-back IP address of 127.0.0.1 because that refers to the [...]
Appillionaires: Appillionaires is a new book by Chris Stevens about the mobile apps gold rush. I received my copy from Amazon yesterday and within a day I’d finished it, which, if nothing else, is testament to its readability. Stevens’ credibility on this topic comes from his first-hand experience as a successful publisher of interactive books for [...]
Fixing Disappearing Big Text on Honeycomb Devices: I haven’t seen this problem described anywhere else, let alone solved, so this post might prove useful to some desperate future Google searcher. A couple of weeks ago I updated Rectangular Video Poker to support Honeycomb devices. In doing so I encountered a bizarre bug. The letter ‘J’ refused to display in one particular TextView. [...]