Skin of Stars

Trying to disseminate information from the news about what’s going on at the Fukushima plant in Japan in the aftermath of their recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami is a tricky business. BBC is all about pictures of explosions and worried looking people in paper masks. Sometimes it’s interesting to have a little more detail about what trouble they may be … Read the remaining 1279 words

Virtualbox is an awesome application, allowing you to run multiple instances of operating systems concurrently. But getting full screen guest working on the second monitor doesn’t work by default, it always fullscreens on the primary. This drove me mad for a couple of hours till I figured it out. The answer is through the following steps: Fullscreen (Host+F) Hidden Menu … Read the remaining 14 words

I had a bit of a moment earlier in getting PyDev up and running in Eclipse. Installing is easy enough through Marketplace in Helios, but when I went to open a project I was denied! Anyway, figured it out, just needed to select my interpreter. When you go to open a new python project hit the ‘Please configure an interpreter..’ … Read the remaining 45 words

Another dConstruct2010 post, this time: Brendan Dawes – Boil, Simmer, Reduce Brendan didn’t really have as structured a talk, and one wonders if perhaps he relied more on gimmicks in his slides than the message he was trying to convey. The method he calls ‘Boil, Simmer, Reduce’ is basically his three part plan in creating a product. Frankly it seems … Read the remaining 588 words

On Saturday 20th Nov I spent the best part of the day at Barcamp Non-Profits (NFP) at the Oxford University Club. This was my first Barcamp, so I was interested to see how the event and it’s organisation was to unfold. For the uninitiated a Barcamp, often called an unconference, is as the name would suggest an ad hoc organised … Read the remaining 590 words

The theme of dConstruct 2010 was Design & Creativity. Marty Neumeier – The Designful Company As I’m sure you can imagine, I only made some quick notes as I was listening to the talk, so what you will find here is an amalgamation of the talk and my own thoughts. Please do not consider this as their words or even … Read the remaining 1204 words