I’ve started making apps with Cordova / PhoneGap. My set up is somewhat unconventional as I am just creating the projects at the command line, writing the applications using web technologies and signing them myself. I am not using the Read more…
Sometimes I am asked to do quick social network analysis for friends or family, I am quite often surprised how often people offer me their Facebook password to do the analysis! One thing you should never do give out is Read more…
Writing about an on going conversation that you are having with someone when you haven’t quite got your head around yet is a difficult task, it does help you to think the problems through but it leaves you with a Read more…
You know those people who establish dynasties so powerful that their names echo through the centuries? I am one of them. – El Vice Chancellor Sim University (U.S name: Theme University) is a series of hit real-time strategy simulation Read more…
A while ago I used a combination of Facepager and R to find reoccurring phrases in the comments section of the BNP’s Facebook page. The idea was based around a conversation with a friend where I explained that I found Read more…
The Learning Locker requirements page recommends a LAMP style stack to install on, I use Mac OS X, which is close enough and because I want to keep my Apache, MySQL and PHP stuff self contained I use the free Read more…
I wanted to find out what people were saying on the facebook pages of extreme political parties. At this stage I wasn’t bothered so much about what the party was saying, but what the comments on the posts where saying. Read more…
If you want to grab comments from one post, the Graph API Explorer might be easier. I’ve been trying to find ways to poke the Facebook graph that will be easy for people who find working with the API directly Read more…
Sex education at my high school school was limited to a single day. The boys would go in to a classroom with their P.E teacher equipped with a condom and a banana, the girls would get a visit from a Read more…
Welsh writer Dylan Thomas, who was very fond of a drink, once quipped that ‘an alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.’ When I first came across the quote by Dylan Thomas I liked Read more…
