Starting to think about Foo camp at the end of the week… Paul Gold and I will be up there, looking forward to geek out and catch up with people from around the country.
We’ll be talking about:

Summer of Code and student internships – How we can make this a national programme
Data Visualisation
Geo-location
Web optimisation and how [...]

The NZ Summer of Code (SoC) programme is about accelerating the development of students to create a smarter graduate pool for NZ. The SoC has been extremely successful within two years, we’ve been able to able to employ 40 students into 19 companys. The programme has gone from strength to strength in Wellington. Now it [...]

I’m giving a free seminar tomorrow (Tuesday 22nd of Jan 12pm) at Rutherford House, Wellington as part of Summer of Code on website optimisation.
I’ll be talking about:

Importance of Web optimisation
Front-end optimisation

Javascript
CSS
HTML

Backend optimsiation
Tools to that can help you tune your site.

If you’re interested RSVP on the forum.

I have been slowly catching up with my blog reading and I was quite distressed to read Zed Shaw’s ferocious ‘rant’ yesterday – Rails is a Ghetto. Zed was the creator of Mongrel and well respect programmer. Unfortunately, he felt spurned and has vented for all to see. Not only has he taken off the [...]

There’s been a lot of talk (posts by Mike and Bevan) about the Google Maps streetview cars wondering around the country. I was thinking about what other data could Google be collecting with their street maps cars. (Packed with GPS and cameras)
Here’s a quick list of what I can think of :

Cell phone stumbling: They [...]