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I’m just back from a weekend long trip to London where I took part in Rewired State’s Parliament Hack. It was a really fun weekend, starting off with a guided trip round the House of Commons and House of Lords (smaller than they look and with amazing streampunk-like brass speakers embedded into the benches) and [...]
Recently I’ve been doing quite a bit of work turning packs of HTML and CSS into Shopify themes. Shopify is an amazing “Shop as a Service” website which makes it really easy to get your online shop up and running quickly letting Shopify handle all the hard bits (scaling, the CMS, payments etc). What makes Shopify [...]
I’ve just got to the weekend on the end of one of the busiest weeks of my life, and one of the most satisfying. A few months ago I ran across Young Rewrited State (I’ve previously been involved with Rewired State), and decided that an event had to happen in Newcastle (the closest one to [...]
For the last couple of months I’ve been spending one evening a week working with Judith O’Reilly (better known as Wife in the North) running a short course through Newcastle University all about blogging. We’ve had a small class with a mix of people ranging from complete newbies to people running some well establish blogs, [...]
I fell in love with timelapse films as a child. There really is something magic about watching plants growing in front of your eyes, or seeing landscapes grow and evolve right in front of you. Creating timelapse films used to be the preserve of the professionals with hugely expensive kit, but no longer. Thinking Digital [...]
(and almost getting an alliterating title too) I’ve just finished a short project with a Newcastle Upon Tyne based estate agent, helping to smooth over some of their accounting and records processes. Previously they had to manually reconcile their bank statements against each room in every property they had, and then reorganise this information by [...]
Hack Days, like BarCamps before them, are a phenomenon that went through the geeky community like a dose of salts, and have then worked their way sideways into other communities. A hack day involves getting a bunch of people (coders, designers, ideas people, subject matter experts) together for a 24hour+ session, where they make things. [...]
For a few years I’ve been interested in reducing my environmental footprint, and the footprint of my business. Working from home this naturally means reducing the amount of energy my home is using. The first step on this road is measuring how much energy you use, and to a certain extent being aware of how [...]
Through a series of short projects I’ve been working with Jason Brownlee of Dollywagon to help them the company use their existing website to present information to clients. Dollywagon’s Influence Engine maps out online content and connection, identifying the most influenced nodes and a wide range of other invaluble informationanalyses social media networks and point-point [...]
