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• Agile Web Development

  1 January 06 • 0 comment

  Recently I have been trying to teach myself eXtreme programming. Without repeating all the ideas and concepts, one of their key arguments is “Do the most important stuff first, the rest can wait till later”. That’s all well and good, and I like the idea, I would even go so far as to say I [...]

• Refactoring and Correcting

  13 December 05 • 2 comments

  Spending a lot of time at the computer has one big benefit: I get a lot done, or at least can do :-) Last night I spent a few hours while watching TV and chatting to friends refactoring the forum software I have written, which eventually will be used to power the universitydancesport website. Its [...]

• Dr Laurie

  8 December 05 • 3 comments

  A week ago I sat the viva for my PhD. I passed! I’m now a Doctor. I’m only just starting to find it sinking in. I spent a day or so convinced I was going to get an e-mail from the examiners saying they had changed their mind, then a few days thinking I wouldn’t be [...]

• Continous Integration with Rails

  16 November 05 • 1 comment

  You would think that a nice new extreme and agile framework like ruby on rails would have a good continuous integration tool, but apparently not. I have spent the last two days tinkering with both Damage Control and CIA and can get neither of them to work. Damage control on Linux barfs when trying to [...]

• Valuehost – the ongoing saga of nothing happening

  16 November 05 • 2 comments

  Two days have passed since I paid valuehost the money they want to get UDS back up online. The valuehost control panel still says we haven’t paid, and all my messages to them have been ignored. They certainly are not doing anything to counteract the rumours that they are just crooks. I could set up [...]

• Valuehost – or not

  15 November 05 • 9 comments

  Sometime on Friday night http://www.universitydancesport.com stopped working. After a day or so it became clear that it was not due to a temorary technical hitch. On Monday both Jess and I independently managed to discover the problem was that our hosts, valuehost (link diliberatly not included so no-one makes the mistake of following it!), had pulled [...]

• Python and Rome

  3 November 05 • 1 comment

  Well it’s a while since I have written anything here. I have been having some down time, relaxing after my PhD submission. I now have a date for my Viva, the 1st Dec. I have also been promoted to webmaster for IVDA, so I’m now in charge of www.universitydancesport.com. It has to change, quite drastically! [...]

• PhD Update

  13 June 05 • 0 comment

  Today I finished another chapter to first draft. This leaves me with just four more chapters to write to first draft standard, and then I will have an entire first draft thesis! Of course its going to be harder than that makes it sound, some of the results aren’t quire complete, and some of them [...]

• PhD Update

  11 May 05 • 0 comment

  Well the final stage of my PhD are now well and truly underway. I have written a small thesisometer to monitor the progress of my writing. I have also created a currently empty thesis page which will get updates when I can be bothered to put them up :-) I have spent this week sorting [...]

• I have been published in the Computer Journal

  3 May 05 • 0 comment

  A while ago I wrote about having the deadline for a submission to The Computer Journal extended. Now I have just received word that the paper has been published. You can read the paper on The Computer Jounral’s Pages. Though I am not the sole author of the paper, I feel very proud of it, [...]

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