It’s been a hectic few months with work and travel and a whole lot of community activity. It’s been tough to take the time to focus on what matters, but thankfully we were able to take a short break to DisneyLand Paris! I highly recommend the park atmosphere for the escapism. It’s a chance to forget everything and think just about what ride to head … Continue reading Goodbye social media
After just 3 podcast appearances across Go Time and Cup-o-Go I was super excited to be invited by the Cup-o-Go hosts to step in and cover a week off for Shay. What an honour, and what fun! I’ve never co-hosted a podcast before and I enjoyed it very much. I hope you enjoyed that instalment of Go news and events coverage. You can listen to … Continue reading First time as a podcast host!
A talk on the introduction to Maven that I proposed has been accepted for the preliminary agenda for Developer! Developer! Developer!’s Scotland conference this year! If you would like to hear it, or think it would be useful to others then please vote for it 🙂 Sure I’m nervous – but somehow we have to spread the good news around the country. Continue reading Maven talk accepted by Developer Day Scotland
OK, so in my frustration at IRC bots not combining the functionalities I needed I decided to code my own. The bot extends the PircBot framework providing handy tools to make a nice modular framework that enables quick and easy development of command modules. Blah blah I guess – still, check out the Project page that I started on dev.rectang.com/projects/rcbot. If you want to see … Continue reading RCBot is born
OK, so it looked like I might not have such a hectic month coming up – so what was the best plan? take up a new hobby of course! On Sunday we popped down to Alien Rock to get a beginners lesson on how to climb. Bythe end of the lesson (by which point we did not have strength tocontinue) we had scaled a few … Continue reading Rock Climbing
So I finally got it sorted, I am now Andrew Jonathan Elcock Williams. That makes Michelle and I Mr & Mrs Williams – wow, sounds cool! Online you can catch me at handyande.co.uk, which I had my eye on for a while anyway 😉 Continue reading Name change
!!! finally !!! Took the advice of some friends and released 0.1_rc1 as 1.0, hope I did the right thing. 1.0 is stable and is fairly complete for a first release, so please go play and drop me suggestions for the next version 🙂 Continue reading XSM 1.0 Released
Wow, what a lecture! Professer Sir Tim Berners Lee (thecreator of the internet) was talking at the university about thesymantic web, which was very interesting indeed. Afterwards my boss (who was amoungst the attendees) invited me to the reception afterwards to meet the big-wigs 😉 I was introduced to Tim and we chatted for a while about Geo-Data Services (which I work on) and their … Continue reading Meeting Tim Berners Lee
OK, so Michelle was away this weekend seeing her parents so I decided to make the most of it and put my all into some XSM development – look what happened: So now I can really see a 0.1 release coming along… Just 1 small feature to add and 2 bugs to fix and I should be able to release it. Was thinking about releasing a … Continue reading XSM gets a big push
Erm, OK maybe this is a bit belated, but things have been hectic here! We spent our honeymoon on Rhodes (Greek island off the coast of Turkey) near a small town called Kolympia. The sun was beating down, the cocktails were making themselves and the food was delicious. Needless to say we had a fantastic time. The room we had was great – a deluxe junior suite with a balcony … Continue reading Honeymoon
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