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Nottingham, England.

Secret mystery project

Wednesday 13th April 2011 – 20:07
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First test from timelapse camera

Monday 28th March 2011 – 23:09

This is the first test. I got 5 hours bat­tery life. I would be happy with 18 so I will con­tinue test­ing. Click the link below to watch it: Timelapse-test1

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Continuing electronics

Sunday 27th March 2011 – 19:14

I’m con­tin­u­ing my learn­ing of elec­tron­ics, and I seem to be much bet­ter at it than the first time around. It is sat­is­fy­ing when a cir­cuit works first time.

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Update

Saturday 26th February 2011 – 13:32

Cur­rently I’m work­ing on: — Get­ting up to date with var­i­ous frame­works, includ­ing Sym­fony, CodeIgniter and CakePHP.  –  Learn­ing some new SEO tech­niques from local SEO expert Stephan Hay­ward  –  Con­tu­in­ing my top secret time­lapse cam­era project

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Circuit board

Thursday 27th January 2011 – 10:00

First acid etched cir­cuit board made at NottingHack:

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Happy New Year

Saturday 1st January 2011 – 00:00

Happy New Year to all.

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Social links

Thursday 16th December 2010 – 21:16

This map shows social links between Face­book users. Rus­sia seems dark.

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Not snowing

Friday 10th December 2010 – 18:08

It is not snowing.

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Snow

Wednesday 1st December 2010 – 22:57

It is snowing.

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Shift registers

Tuesday 5th October 2010 – 21:52

One shift reg­is­ter (video) Two shift reg­is­ters (video)

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Electronics

Monday 4th October 2010 – 13:17
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MySQL caching

Monday 19th April 2010 – 01:37

I guess the caching is work­ing lololol:

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ANPR — Automatic Number Plate Recognition

Wednesday 3rd March 2010 – 22:15

Feel free to try out this Auto­matic Num­ber Plate Recog­ni­tion demo… upload a pho­to­graph with a car’s licence plate in the frame and it’ll try and read it… it takes some time to process so be patient. It isn’t very reli­able: Auto­matic Num­ber Plate Recog­ni­tion demonstration

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Just got a thankyou

Wednesday 3rd February 2010 – 20:23

Just got a nice email in rep­sonse to some code I sub­mit­ted pub­li­cally: “jon — just a quick ‘thank you’ for the code you posted re: pars­ing csv files. i have a gi-normous excel csv file with indi­vid­ual records span­ning mul­ti­ple lines because of multi-paragraph ‘notes’ fields in each record. your solu­tion of count­ing the fields […]

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