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Big displays and tabletops – the wrong approach?

February 19, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

The current model Current research trends are in favour of large public displays, hidden projectors, and table top displays –…

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Posted in: Academia, Article Filed under: billboards, conjecture, digital signage, public displays, research, vision

Code Golf

February 9, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

CSLU did code golf today. I did 1 and a half tasks, which were: Output the first 100 prime numbers…

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Posted in: CSLU Filed under: code golf, haskell, ruby

Ruby gem – json_serialisable

February 7, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

I was working on a ruby project and stumbed upon my first valid application of metaprogramming. I was creating json…

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Posted in: ruby, Tech Filed under: gems, json, metaprogramming, ruby

Arduino Gas Sensor – Part 2

January 23, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

Previously So I left the last article with the following: Well apart from the hardware I need, so issues need…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Tech Filed under: arduino, gas meter, phd

Having trouble updating WordPress if your server is running vsftp?

January 21, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

The latest update to vsftp has, in their own words: – Add stronger checks for the configuration error of running…

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Posted in: Tech Filed under: fix, vsftpd, wordpress

Fountain code challenge

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For the second term of the 2011/2012 academic year I’ve made a small challenge for members of CSLU. Details are…

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Posted in: CSLU Filed under: cslu, fountain, ruby

Arduino Gas Meter Sensor – Part 1

December 13, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

Motivation My newly ordered Arduino Uno came in the post today so I got to start building with it! An…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Tech, Tutorial Filed under: arduino, ldr, light, sensor

JSXGraph

December 8, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

I found this cool graphing JS library which has a wordpress plugin! It’s called JSXGraph and is rather nifty!. Here…

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Posted in: Tech, Tutorial Filed under: javascript, jsxgraph

Programming languages course

December 5, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

So I ran a talk on learning programming languages last week. It was the second time I had done that…

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Posted in: CSLU, ruby Filed under: cslu, presentation, ruby, talk, tryruby

Rain – Agent-based water

August 15, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

Well I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, and on Sunday with a freshly installed (and therefore…

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Posted in: ruby, Tech Filed under: agent, gosu, prototype, ruby, texplay

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