Posted Thu, 21/01/2010 - 15:18 by chris
Some news I would have posted earlier if my site worked is that we are having a wee drink to get the hackitude peeps back together in the same room again. It's to reignite the enthusiasm that we had before Christmas on the project.
A chance for us to figure out where the next step for the project will take us. The foundation that has been laid is a simple yet highly flexible framework for any data that needs to store collections of location data. Hopefully we will be rolling it out to include time data to enable event capturing too.
Posted Thu, 21/01/2010 - 14:39 by chris
Not sure what happened over Christmas but the site should now be up and running as it was before. Without it, I'm afraid that the folks on twitter have had to put up with my rants.
On a work-wise note, I'm just having a look at Kohana the php framework as an alternative to building in wordpress or drupal when all I need to do is serve some data. I could code something in python (django) or java etc but the server it's needed for is mostly geared up for php.
Posted Sat, 12/12/2009 - 08:45 by chris
For info on what we got up to and where things are going, please see the hackitude site. We had a great time and Mark Steadman was a proper trooper setting it up and getting us all together.
I think what we have at the end of it is quite an interesting foundation for future work. It's a way of storing things at places and displaying them on a map. Been done before? probably but the concept here is to aggregate data from various sources and provide easy access to it.
Posted Tue, 01/12/2009 - 09:18 by chris
This morning has been a bit of a trial. While I'm normally one for grumbling out loud and those of you that know me will attest to this, this morning has ben particularly useless and needs to be vented.
Apart from my car deciding it would like to collect moisture and allow it to freeze to the inside of the windscreen, it started fine as it always has and I got to the station in plenty of time, or so I thought.
Posted Thu, 29/10/2009 - 09:26 by chris
It seems that many of my recent posts have been very optimistic in terms of making something I am working on open source and releasing back to the community. For some reason or other this hasn't been possible. Quite often because the project becomes very bespoke.
Things are looking up though. There's a small item I will be working on the the next few days which should be coded with release in mind. Both from the client's perspective and my own. I think version 1 may have wording that will be tailored to the client's wishes but the functionality will be generic.
Posted Mon, 26/10/2009 - 14:57 by chris
Hoping to catalogue a bunch of app requests from people as we come across them in conversation etc. There is a good chance that some apps will already exist. They just need to be found. I'll start the ball rolling and add to it as things go along. If you know of an app that fulfils the brief, please add it to the comments.
Here goes:
RSS to speech app
Twitter to speech and voice recognition for commands and replies etc.
Meet up with me app. (press a button and all friends get told where you are and can come and meet you.. just a thought)
Posted Sun, 20/09/2009 - 11:08 by chris
I've been trying to find a reporting module that does what I need but it seems I'm going to have to write one myself. I shall be trying out the charts module for the first time too. It's in alpha still but it's worth a shot for now. I'll be displaying tables anyway so it's a bonus to have the graphs.
Wondering if there are any other modules I could use. Also I have been thinking about how to make the processing faster. Ideally I'd run the reports on cron and display the results from the cache. Not settled on a method yet though.
Posted Wed, 02/09/2009 - 07:30 by chris
Session now over. Please click read more to get to the live blog.
Posted Tue, 01/09/2009 - 17:29 by chris
Official day one was more a warm-up day but the venue was plenty busy enough. The code sprint room was rammed and overflowed into the break-out room where the sponsor expo is.
I was hoping to blog from the barcamp but I ended up hosting one of the sessions and then looking for my phone for the other 2. That was annoying as I found it in a pocket of my bag I’d already checked about 5+ times. Bah.
Anyway, fun was had by all despite the internet being a bit temperamental. Apparently that has been fixed for tomorrow.
Posted Mon, 31/08/2009 - 07:29 by chris
I took the Eurostar over and arrived at about 17:30 local time which gave me a few moments in my room to change but I soon headed out to the venue to see who was there. I met up with a couple of hitherto unknowns and we ended up going to grab some food at Chez Papa’s.
I really have go to recommend the Magret de canard (with the poivre vert) it was cooked just right. Tomorrow is the proper first day of the con so I shall be up with the birds to do some work, listening, learning and networking.
