The Cloudworks team have been developing an API for Cloudworks to allow developers to create their own visualizations, programs and mash ups. The API currently supports calls to get data and I found this is a great opportunity to test different ways of visualizing and organising the resources within cloudworks Read more…
I have recently been reading an excellent book by Andrew Pickering entitled ‘the cybernetic brain’. The first half of the book gives an incredibly rich and fascinating history of early British cybernetics and although I have not yet finished the book I am really enjoying the stories behind early cybernetic Read more…
I have had a few requests for help on deploying the Content Transcoder on a local machine. The process is simple but has one or two gotchas. I have done this on OS X and Ubuntu but it should be pretty similar on Windows. You will need: Java Tomcat 6.x Read more…
Demon’s Souls is currently my favorite game and although I have not progressed very far in the game I have poured many hours in to the first few zones. I have created many different characters setups, explored early dungeons extensively, studied enemy locations and pinpointed their weaknesses. Typically I am Read more…
Here I hope to give a quick start on how to use Schematron with your XCRI-CAP documents to give useful feedback. The instructions here were originally tested on OS X but should also work on Windows or your Linux disto of choice providing you have Java. If there are any Read more…
Digital distribution is everywhere; applications such as iTunes provide the ability for digital products such as MP3s, movies and computer software to be delivered to audiences over the Internet instead of using physical media such as CDs, DVDs or Blu Ray. They provides easy and direct sales to a global Read more…
Every year I pay £40 to microsoft for the privilage to play my Xbox Live games online. I dont mind paying the money too much considering live is far ahead of PSN (although I think sony are closing the gap) . When I spend £40 on a game that says Read more…
Update: Downloading and running Wookie has changed since this was written and some of the links seem broken. please check http://incubator.apache.org/wookie/downloading-and-installing-wookie.html for latest instructions The Wookie server is open source software in development for delivering collaborative widgets that follows the w3c widget specification. Although it is early days for Wookie Read more…
Recently I have been writing a browser extension that keeps track of my activities and the web-based resources I use. I found that the data it collected was actually very valuable to me, it created a mini attention profile and by pushing this into various JavaScript libraries I was able Read more…
