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Ian is a London-based independent Chief Data Scientist who coaches teams, teaches and creates data products. More about Ian here.
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2nd Brighton Ruby Meet-up
James had organised the 2nd Brighton Ruby meet-up for Tuesday, at The Eagle in the North Laines. I went along and met a bunch of great people, including Dan Glegg, the organiser James, KevTheDev, Jon Markwell and the Geek Dinner organiser Simon (he’s looking for consultancy work, btw).
Dan did a great talk on his experience running a 1-man Ruby/Rails consultancy and told us how he was growing his first commercial Rails app, the no-nonsense Tails bug-tracker. We plan to help Dan publicise Tails via some ShowMeDo videos.
I also had the chance of talking to everyone about our ShowMeDo and there’s clearly a demand for Ruby/Rails tutorial videos. James offered to help us out by asking around in the Ruby IRC channels, it’ll be great to host new Ruby videos and get new Ruby coders up and running more quickly.
I look forward to the next event, and to catching up with everyone again at the 9th Geek Dinner on Feb 28th.
Radio Paradise
It isn’t often that a site comes along that suddenly captures a chunk of my daily attention – but Radio Paradise has quickly reminded me of ‘radio of old’. I say ‘of old’ because I haven’t used my digital radio in over a year, I got quite fed-up with the silly adverts and inane chatter. That changes with Radio Paradise – this is a user-supported Internet radio station, offering excellent-quality (no interruption) streaming radio for free. Yes, really. I’m listening at 128kbps AAC via VLC and it sounds better than my old radio.
John covered this recently, the only income for the station is through merchandise and iTunes referral fees. There are no adverts and very little speech, just lots of good eclectic rock (yay! I just heard salsa from the Buena Vista Social Club!). There’s a little more background over at wikipedia and a (geek-tastic) hourly-updated world-wide listener map. Oh my, now they’re playing Alabama 3 – these guys rock!
K9
I’ve slowly been working my way through Tom Baker’s Dr. Who episodes whilst working from my sofa on ShowMeDo (there’s nothing like some childhood sci-fi running in the background whilst working!). And here I am watching The Invisible Enemy when up pops K9 – I’d always wondered when he appeared. Aww, the little tin doggy brings back lots of happy memories.
8th Sussex Geek Dinner
Last night I attended the 8th Sussex Geek Dinner (organised by Simon Harriyott) where Mikel Maron gave a great talk about his involvement with the OpenStreetMap project (they plan to finish mapping Brighton by Spring, and the entire Isle of Wight was completed last year).
The talk was great, beer was drunk and I had good chats with a bunch of like-minded geeks about our ShowMeDo. All in it was a great evening and I look forward to the next!
Here you can see the completed Isle of Wight map, sadly the current Brighton map isn’t yet online Brighton interactive map here (thanks SteveC):
Sunny Brighton Morning
We had our first sunny and warm morning in Brighton this weekend past so I met John for a late breakfast. We play chess on and off (and John always beats me) and we couldn’t resist a slow game. Fantastically, this game I finally got to beat John…there’s a first time for everything:
Wandering back through The Laines we passed some of the fairly recent graffiti art and I couldn’t help but take a shot:
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