All posts of Ian

Science Companies around Brighton?

I’m asking you for some feedback – which science-based companies do you know of around the Brighton/London area?  Can you leave me a comment if you know one that I don’t already know? Why am I asking?  I’m an A.I. researcher by trade, I’ve used Python, C++, Java and Matlab to solve ‘interesting problems’ over […]
17 years ago

TurboGears caching decorator released (thanks John!)

John has just published his TurboGears Caching Decorator.  We’ve been using it on ShowMeDo for the last 6 weeks – our cpu usage dropped from 60%+ on our shared box down to <30%. Currently we cache the main pages for 1 hour, these ought to be extended to ‘forever’ since I have a good cache-expire […]
17 years ago

Python Demos in Brighton @ £5 App Demo Camp

On the evening of Tuesday July 8th (upcoming) we’re having a Demo Camp in Brighton as the new format for our regular £5 App hack/story evenings.  Everyone is welcome, we normally have 20-40 people, London Python folk are especially welcome. The current 6 talks (2 for Python – woot!) are: ‘Google Maps + GPS + […]
17 years ago

Looking for A.I./Python Consultancy Work

I’m now on the look-out for some interesting A.I. or Python related work in the South-East.  An interesting challenge involving Python around Brighton/London could be quite cool.  My skills and experience are listed on my MorConsulting work site. I have some more time on my hands as I’m winding-back my involvement in ShowMeDo (the video-tutorial […]
17 years ago

Inuda’s new HowSociable.com

At likemind beer last night Jon told me about his new HowSociable.com app, a demonstrator for the kind of projects that Inuda like doing. I plugged in ShowMeDo (howsociable.com/showmedo) and discovered that several users have been twittering, some photos of an old presentation are in flickr and that some of our videos are in YouTube. […]
17 years ago

Convertible Mazda MX-5 for sale – super fun!

Emily’s MX-5 is for sale, she describes it as “Good condition. Very reliable. Tons of fun to drive.”.  I’ll agree with the Fun To Driveness of it, I love taking it out for a spin. Since she works in town now the car just sits outside the house which is a bit of a waste, […]
17 years ago

Moving to WebFaction

Yesterday I moved my blog to WebFaction from GoDaddy.  The process was mostly painless, it tooks a few minutes to configure GoDaddy’s DNS system to point at WebFaction and it took over two hours for my domains to work properly at WebFaction (due to global DNS updates), but otherwise was painless. Currently I’m running this […]
17 years ago

£5 App Demo Day on 8th July (1 demo-spot left)

We’re trying a new format for the next £5 App event, it’ll be an evening Demo Camp (barcamp.org) where 6 people get to demo something cool or start-upy. We’re looking for an even split between neat-geek and new-startup (preferably bootstrapped or angeled startups, no shiny-suits for sure). Mark you attendance in Upcoming as usual (and […]
17 years ago

£5 App a la Ribot (Qik live video blogging)

OMG. I remember Ribot sitting there with his Nokia doing some live video stuff at our last £5 App by Madgex co-founder Glenn but I didn’t really pay it much heed…until now when I’ve found the videos. One the one hand – very cool, on the other – my privacy gene is doing somersaults. ‘Glenn […]
17 years ago

Teaching Python at ShowMeDo

Two months ago we started our ShowMeDo Club where paying subscribers get access to specially crafted Python tutorials. These series are generally much longer and more involved than most of the free videos on ShowMeDo, they tend to include exercises with worked solutions too. We’ve had a very good response and everyone who has bought […]
17 years ago