This year at State of the Map Scotland 2012 I spoke about the ITO Map tool to highlight the more detailed OpenStreetMap data available, which generally isn’t shown on maps. I’ve mentioned a few other services that I find interesting that maybe aren’t so well known. This blog post is a summary of that talk.… Continue reading My Talk at State of the Map Scotland 2012
Category: work
WordPress London Meetup – 17 November 2011
On Thursday 17th there was the November WordPress London meetup in the Headshift | Dachis Group offices. I recorded the 3 presentations and have uploaded them to YouTube: WordPress News by Chris Adams Chris gave a roundup of the latest changes and releases in the WordPress community. [Updated video with typo in title fixed.] WordPress Site Structure for… Continue reading WordPress London Meetup – 17 November 2011
OpenStreetMap Job Search Alert
As part of my recent job search I setup a few job alerts. One of which was with the keyword OpenStreetMap on CWJobs. I wasn’t expecting there to be anything coming up. Out of the blue a job alert did appear, and it sounds rather interesting, though I have just started a new job at… Continue reading OpenStreetMap Job Search Alert
Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (64-bit)
This blog post is only relevant if you are on Snow Leopard, have a 64-bit Intel Mac, and need to install ImageMagick. There are many Ruby on Rails projects out there that have some form image manipulation, thus use ImageMagick for that. Up until recently it was a real pain to install, with some huge… Continue reading Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (64-bit)
The past 2 months
It has been a couple of months now since I’ve properly written a blog post. So here is a longish catchup post. I have been busy doing agency work mostly in staff restaurants as a Kitchen Porter. I’ve even bumped into the Lead of the Marketing Project in our home town, rather than having to… Continue reading The past 2 months
Dissertation Finally Complete
I’ve now completed my dissertation and handed it in. I completed the presentation this morning. So now that it’s over, I can get on with some real work and hopefully earn some money. I found the presentation quite tough to write (though no where near as tough as the dissertation), as I didn’t think I… Continue reading Dissertation Finally Complete
Scottish Graduate Fair
Yesterday I was away through in Glasgow for the Scottish Graduate Fair at the SECC. The event is aimed at final year student at university who are looking at what to be doing next. This generally come in anything from postgraduate education to graduate training, or volunteering to a plain ordinary job that utilises their… Continue reading Scottish Graduate Fair
What I’ve been up to over the Summer
Take a look at: http://www.genecombio.com/news.asp?id=23, to see the company and project I’ve been doing. Edit:Due to a change, to make Google index the news articles properly, the above URL no longer takes you to the correct place try http://www.genecombio.com/news.asp?pageref=23 instead.
Glad I didn’t renew my bus pass
I’m Glad I didn’t bother renewing my Lothian Buses bus pass at the end of last week. Why? Quite simple. Had I taken the bus today I would have missed the two connections because the 37A was running on time. The shortest route by bus to Roslin for me, is to take the 18 to Kaimes… Continue reading Glad I didn’t renew my bus pass