Archive for June, 2009

Updated website

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Dro.me.uk ScreenshotIt’s taken a while, but I have now updated my personal website dro.me.uk. There was a while in which of looked similar to the current appearance, although lacking any useful information, so I have updated the list of projects and made a few fairly minor design changes.

There are still a few bits I think could be improved, and probably more areas that should be improved but I am missing, so any feedback would be appreciated, either by email or as a comment on this post.

Updating the project list also gave me a good reason to get some of those old projects made years ago running again. These include:

  • News map – the one project to have actually made it into a magazine, despite how simple it is. I do want to get the over map working again, as it actually tries to map stories to more precise locations. The database for that appears to have been misplaced though.
  • Traffic map – data from the BBC’s travel feeds shown on a map.
  • TV listings – showing BBC TV listings in a very AJAXy interface, updating as you scroll through them. Probably one of the most technically challenging ones here.

Anyway, comments on any of those are welcome below.

End of university is near

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

It is hard to believe that it was almost 4 years ago that I started university. In that time I have learnt a lot more than I expected to, especially on the placement, so thanks blubolt, making it actually a really good experience.

Next week is graduation. It is one of those events you hear a lot about, especially as one of my housemates for the past few years graduated last summer, but I really don’t know what to expect. Is it true that the chancellor really is boring? Will everyone look really silly in academic dress? Who will actually be graduating and have remembered to ask for seats?

Still, should be fun.

In the mean time, I need to do lots of applying for jobs, some coding for MyFC and a variety of other things. And every time I go online there seems to be another thing I need to sort out.

Shall we see how long I can keep updating this blog for this time?