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Flocklight: highlighting connections in a crowd
For Culture Hack Scotland this year I worked on an idea I came up with that week. I feel I didn’t really do the hack day properly; I ended up working on my own and not using any of the … Continue reading
I wanna make a GPS Maze game, but with a twist.
I want to make one of those GPS maze games, where a maze appears on your phone and you walk around in real life to navigate the virtual maze – but with a twist.
Dealing with Twitter apps inflexible permissions
Facebook apps, which can ask for any set of permissions from a user at any time, can start by requesting some basic permissions and can request others later when the users trust has been won. In contrast, Twitter apps are … Continue reading
Can someone write a present organising app?
My family has recently been emailing and texting round as we sort getting presents for everyone – making sure they get something they want whilst not getting two of the same thing … shouldn’t there be an app for that?
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Do Job Searching sites clean data?
You would think a basic rule for CV websites is if is a candidate hasn’t logged in for over a year then assume the data is out of date and flag it or remove it.
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What I got up to at this weekends Moving Targets hackday; replay social media with ShowShift
What I got up to at this weekends Moving Targets hackday; we wrote a system that replays social media buzz as it happened on demand, so if your watching your favourite TV show later than everyone else you can still … Continue reading
See photos from the other side of the world
Months ago, I was at a hack day in Edinburgh, and a team were working on a idea they called black and white. I ended up doing a version of it as a simple webpage. It was based on color.com, … Continue reading
Using a custom domain on your service should not mean downtime!
Many web hosting services like DrupalGardens.com and WordPress.com allow you to use your own domain. However, the set up procedure for many of them means that it is impossible to use an existing domain without some kind of downtime.
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Introducing FestaFriend, FakeFringe and FringeWars
This year, Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab is working hard to open up data about the festivals. I’ve just spent a day at their hackday, Culture Hack Scotland and now I want to announce 3 sites.
Introducing CreepyCoder; stalking programmers through commit messages
I’ve always wondered what commit messages say about a coder – so inspired by Creepy, I decided to find out.