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The Laughing Bird

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:10:32 +0000

Just a few days ago (on the 6th of Nov. to be exact) Webjam 9 occured here in Perth as a part of WA Web Week (and more specifically, after Edge of the Web on the same day). Having missed out last time they came to town, I took this webjam as a chance to prototype an idea and show it off.

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Introducing Marvin

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:20:52 +0000

Like all good spare time projects, my most recent - Marvin - was created to scratch a particular itch. I'm usually a fairly regular visitor in a particular ruby oriented chat room. One of the things that we'd talked about adding as a group was an IRC bot - in particular, something which would let us keep logs (with a searchable web UI) as well as a few other niceties (e.g. a Twitter bot). With that in mind, I spent some time hacking on it. To be brutally honest I wasn't a bit fan of all of the

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The ACM Programming Competition

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:11:30 +0000

If you're one of the people I talk to regularily / hang around online in the same sorts of places then no doubt you've heard me talking about the ACM Collegiate Programming competition. If not, the basic gist of it is simple - Teams of 3 compete in a period of 5 hours to solve a set of programming challenges - most heavily algorithms based. You're given one computer to use between the three of you, your choice of 3-4 languages (Java, C, C++ and Delphi - I say 3-4 because Delphi / Pascal is conditional on where you take part) and you then compete. It starts out in regional contests and then proceeds to an international level with teams from each country.

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Another "What I've been working on" post

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:54:36 +0000

Short and sweet today - just a quick glance at Tickets with a Twist; A new site I've been building (n.b. I didn't design it) for Yut Media. Enjoy!

Mapstraction and Geokit

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:46:31 +0000

Welcome to the first in what is hopefully the first in a series of posts introducing some of the stuff we use behind the scenes for Ticket’s with a Twist. Today we’re going to talk about two open source libraries: One for Ruby and one for Javascript (including my own little wrapper around it).

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And I'm Back...

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:21:15 +0000

I've been quite lazy with the whole blogging thing recently - mainly because University has kept me bloody busy but also because most of the stuff I was working on was either assignment / exam related (which is over now) or because it's been under wraps. First off, you can expect some more posts in the coming weeks - there's a lot of exciting stuff going on and I've finally fixed a bug in Eoraptor that had been there for a few weeks that prevented me from posting posts.

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The Road to Ponder

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:52:56 +0000

For the last month or two, I've been building a new site called "Ponder" for a University project. The site itself is simple a ground up redevelopment of the site I built for RailsRumble - "Insight" - but with the added twist it's been built on jQuery and a bunch of other technologies (You can see a list of all the resources I used etc on the site itself which I will post once marking has been completed).

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Now featuring projects

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:56:08 +0000

Just a quick eoraptor / this blog pimping tonight. One of the features I've been planning to implement for a long time - projects - has now been implemented. It's basically a really easy way to have a structured project page with integrated logos etc. Nothing big but nice to have none the less. Plus, it puts me one step closer to open sourcing the site.

General Update

Mon, 19 May 2008 04:48:40 +0000

Yet another of my general "oh this is whats going on" updates. First up, we've got my latest work for WhyGoSolo - we finally added search, even if it's in the very basics still. See the small screenshot below or log in and check it out in the uppermost nav, near where the link to your own profile is.

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A little taste...

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:39:38 +0000

Of what's to come...

First up, there's Ponder - essentially a rebuilt version of my RailsRumble project for my Uni web-tech (CITS1231) project. The page you see below is a part of the standard user profile (in this case, the currently logged in users profile).

Next up, is a Java (CITS1200) project I'm working on in a group; One of the parts is to write a class to Graph Polynomials and well, this is it. Note: If you have suggestions on improving the smoothness of the graph itself (e.g. some sort of interpolation or something along those lines - It comes in because we're converting double's for the x / y value to pixel coordinates so it's not exact), Feel free to post them.