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I'm trying to use pylucene in Python 2.6. Since there's no windows build for 2.6, I try to build the source code.
First of all, I build JCC (windows, using cygwin)
python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
building 'jcc' extension
error: None
python setup.py install
running install
copying jcc\config.py -> build\lib.win32-2.6\jcc
copying jcc\classes\org\osafoundation\jcc\PythonException.class -> build\lib.win32-2.6\jcc\classes\org\osafoundation\jcc
running build_ext
building 'jcc' extension
error: None
Notice that it won't copy anything on my "F:\Python26\Lib\site-packages" directory. I don't know why. So that, I don't know if it's really installed or not.
Now, I'll make pylucene
/cygdrive/f/Python26//python.exe -m jcc --shared --jar lucene-java-2.4.0/build/lucene-core-2.4.0.jar
'doc:(I)Lorg/apache/lucene/document/Document;' --version 2.4.0 --files 2 --build
f:\Python26\python.exe: No module named jcc
make: *** [compile] Error 1
So, it seems JCC wasn't installed at all.
Then, I try to copy the "jcc build" under F:\Python26\Lib\site-packages, and I try to make pylucene again:
f:\Python26\python.exe: jcc is a package and cannot be directly executed
make: *** [compile] Error 1
Has anyone else seen this and found a workaround?

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Greetings. This post can probably go in any of 3 forums (this one, since it's a PM recipe, the extract one, since I'm an extract brewer, or the Beginner's forum, since I'm a noob...). So my apologies if this is misplaced.
I'm very interested in doing the PM version of Edwort's Haus Pale Ale. American Pale Ale's are pretty much my favorite (though I love beer so much that it pains me to pick just one style...). But this recipe seems so well received and I love its simplicity and would like to "join the club" of those who've brewed it.
My questions are as follows:
First, is there any good feedback on the PM version of this recipe? The all grain version is beyond my current skill set and equipment level. But I love the way the author has described a PM version. I have 2 5 gallon pots, a gas stove, and an oven. And I think I can swing how he describes a PM version of the recipe can go. I also priced the ingredients on a few websites, and I think I can do it on morebeer.com for $26 (I have a vial of WhiteLabs California Ale yeast I'd use for one batch, and I think I'd buy enough for 2 batches and use the Nottingham on one of them).
Second, should I be intimidated by the PM nature of this brew? I've made a few extract/steeping grain batches over the years, though I've been mostly inactive for the last 5 years or so. I get a little askeered when reading general PM and all grain techniques, but Edwort's descriptions of just heating grains at ~170 then putting a pot in the oven for an hour then straining and doing it again for like 10 minutes sounds very doable, even for me.
Thanks for any feedback, and I look forward to making this beer. And I look even more forward to drinking several gallons of it I guess I'm looking to see if any of you suggest that I stick with my noob status a little longer and stick with extracts or if you think I should dive in with this recipe.
Don't be intimidated about a partial mash. We all (or almost all) started out doing extract and were intimidated as all get-out before moving to grains. Just read up (which it looks like you have) and go for it. You will find it wasn't as hard, complex or scary as you thought.
It is just homebrew.
RDWHAHB and do it!
Thanks for the encouragement. I love the simplicity of this recipe, and also love reading about how so many folks here have tried it and rave about it.
Unless I'm misreading, I can do this with just my 2 5 gallon pots and a strainer (maybe one other small pot I already have to heat more water). As long as I can do that without rigging up something more complex for sparging the grains (I think I'm using the correct terms here, but I could be wrong), I think I'll go for it.
I brewed my first PM of Eds Pale Ale a week ago. I was brewing outdoors and I could not go with the pot in the oven method. I steeped the grains for 30 minutes on a gas burner, sparged the grains then did a traditional boil with LME for 60 minutes. Remember to time your hops correctly.One thing I did forget was to add a whirlfloc tablet during the last 10 minutes, but the beer is clearing pretty well in the secondary with out it.
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Thanks. A couple of stupid questions:
Can I put the grains in a grain bag to eliminate the need for straining? I saw something about this in an article from BYO posted elsewhere on this forum earlier today, and the author talked about submerging the bag and poking around on it with a spoon or spatula or whatever to ensure that there wouldn't be pockets of dry grains. If I could do this without ill effect, it would make this even simpler for me.
Second, if I can't use a grain bag, can I just (carefully, and perhaps with an assistant) pour the contents from one pot through a strainer into the second pot? I guess this is my equipment question on if I'd need to fashion a cooler or something with a strainer on the bottom like more advanced brewers seem to do. I'm thinking just pouring through a strainer is doable, but may be a tough proposition with a big pot and just one person, but I could probably do it carefully.
I'm psyched to try this...
If you really like good beer then you must try making some pale ale in buckets. You can rig up a bucket with a stainless hose braid (strainer) and make excellent all grain beer. You get the grains already crushed and mash at 152F for 1 hour and then rinse them by pouring 185F water over them while slowly draining the bucket. You are now at the point that you are if you were using a liquid or dry malt and boil 1 hour with your hop additions just like partial mash. There is nothing intimidating about it. The difference is that the grains are fresh and canned malt has lost a lot of it's flavors. This is why we brew all grain in the first place. Go for it.
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OK, it's possible that I can be talked into actually trying all grain here. I just read up a little about this batch sparging process, and it does look like it would simplify things tremendously from what I've previously read.
Can you correct me if I'm wrong on any of this? Or point me in the right direction?
It looks like, from an equipment perspective, all I'd need is some type of mash tun. Some googling and looking at the Wiki suggests this might just be a converted cooler with a false bottom (basically a big strainer on which the grains sit?). I see morebeer sells one already created for like $85. And I see austinhomebrew.com has false bottoms for like $25, which I'd think I could add to a cooler which costs less than ($85-25) to save some money.
Are there even cheaper/easier methods? You mention a bucket. Could I just get, say, a bottling bucket for <$10 and add a false bottom? I guess the challenge is then insulation?
Am I missing anything here? I realize that trying to dumb down the process completely may not be the best way to get into all grain, and I do want to understand all of this, but if I tried this, I'd be looking to keep things as simple as possible initially.
Lastly, I still have no ability to do full boils in my apartment, but I assume I could do my two simultaneous half boil method like I've used for extract brews without ill effect (two 5 gallon pots going at the same time on my stove, each starting with about 3 gallons to contain my full target volume)? I live in an apartment now, so I can't use a burner outdoors.
Thanks for the help and encouragement....
Thanks! I also have zero building skills, so if the price difference isn't huge, I'd rather buy something premade.
That said, here's a video on the topic from youtube. The only part which looks at all complicated is making that tube in the bottom (I'm exposing my zero building skill set with this language
Well, I'll tell you the truth- I bought mine from morebeer.com and I'm very happy. However, the 5 gallon one is too small. You can only make 5 gallon batches of up to maybe 1.060 with it. So, I bought the 10 gallon one. Take a look at the price- about $100 or $110 if I remember correctly.
You can watch that video you posted, and make a bigger MLT for under $50. (Probably less if you find a good cooler on sale). I have no mechanical skills, and have seeing my MLT and using it, I realize that I could have made one myself. I'm not sorry I bought the one I did, but it sure isn't complicated at all. Take a look at the DIY threads in the "equipment" area, and there are lots of MLTs you could make. The false bottom is fine, but I'm batch sparging and a braid would have been just as good.


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- Set up Pi with DHCP server to assign 10.x addresses (school laptops are on 192.168.x) and to have its own address set to 10.0.0.1
- Set up Pi to run a script on startup that waits for Scratch remote sensor connections on 10.0.0.2 — then run ScratchGPIO with 10.0.0.2 as its host
- Connect Pi to laptop with ethernet cable and USB (for power) — no other cables required!
- Laptop should have wired IP of 10.0.0.2
- Open Scratch on laptop and enable remote sensor connections
- ScratchGPIO should start on Pi and be available to the laptop
- Plug some hardware into the Pi and start controlling it!
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Friday, 31 October 2014
The Web Is... Day Two
Took me a little while to prepare my notes for the second day of The Web Is… conference, mainly due to an 'orrible cold that developed over the last week. I hope I haven't given it to the lovely people I spoke to over the last few days!
Thank you once again to Craig and Amie Lockwood and all their helpers for a fantastic conference. I know they had a lot of trouble getting the conference organised, but the end result was very definitely worth it.
Craig — please keep organising more conferences! You have a rare skill in finding and curating talks that connect at many different levels —- and that challenge us to do better and improve the world.
Here are my notes for day two, complete with the additional Creative Morning session.
Creative Mornings: Crossover
- creative mornings: 99 cities around the world
- meeting once a month with a common theme across all
- this month, the theme is Crossover
David Hieatt, Hiut Denim @davidhieatt
- co-founded Howies
- runs the Do Lectures
- entrepreneurs fall in love with things so they don't quit
- have to choose something that you're interested in
- it will get tough and test you
- vision: what have I seen that others haven't
- intersection of skill, interest & vision
- where you're most alive
- fight a battle you can win
- denim factory in wales used to be biggest jeans factory in UK
- employed 400 people, made 35K pairs of jeans a week for decades
- tried to be cheapest — not the right battle
- in UK have to use our creativity
- dreams should not be logical or sensible
- should scare you!
- currently employing 14 people — quite a way to go
- but everyone in the town has decades of experience making jeans
- there are people in the factory who have 50,000 hours of experience
- the elite makers club
- but quality isn't enough
- need to find ideas to act as multipliers
- hiut denim: an ideas company that makes jeans
- Richard Seymour: the more you operate in the future, the less competition you will have
- lots of small experiments
- small company — move fast
- jeans have history tags on them
- 6 photos of them being made
- plus you can upload new photos for their history
- when the jeans get handed down, you can see their history
- 80% of environmental impact is the washing, not the making
- hence no wash club
- people doing crazy things to not wash for 6 months or more
- people want to wear used jeans
- so sent out jeans to people to break in
- they would get their deposit back when returned
- then receive 20% of resulting sale
- facetime store
- will create a custom fit for you from a facetime call
- instagram is going to change stores
- your best project is the one that's in front of you now
The Web Is… Like Water
Scott Jenson @scottjenson http://google.github.io/physical-web/
- standardising pull to refresh, just like the steering wheel…?
- but steering wheels started as tillers with rear wheel steering
- User Unfriendly, Joseph J Corn
- people preferred the tiller at the time
- needed irreversible steering to prevent too much feedback from potholes
- browsers have a DOS prompt on the top…
- the browser needs a browser
- the web = Loki — proud, vs iPhone = the Hulk
- "I am a God, you dull creature. I will not be bullied"
- …body slam…
- the web is currently following native, not driving the future
- we have app myopia
- "thin crust of effort" around apps
- people will only install them if they're important
- apps are our technology tiller…
- Apple iBeacons are per-app at the moment
- go into a mall — install one app for each store…
- then delete them all afterwards as they're all crap
- the web is good at the long tail
- break down the internet of things into several layers
- coordination
- devices talking to each other
- toast automatically ready when you come down for breakfast
- cool but will take a while
- control
- where we are right now
- discovery
- commonly ignored — usually "download our app"
- coordination
- think small — just a bit of information for each thing
- Bluetooth Low Energy beacons just broadcasting a URL
- like QR codes but without having to get so close
- URL with information
- bus stop
- URL that sends info back to the device
- vending machine
- GSM modems are really cheap
- Sigfox offers $1/year plans
- URL with javascript talking BLE direct to object
- object can make use of all the capabilities of the phone
- so much cheaper per device
- Chrome already has Bluetooth library but behind Chrome apps
- but creating a proposal with Mozilla to put into web sandbox
- two kinds of ideas:
- truck ideas — products
- road ideas — infrastructure
- Malcolm McLean — invented container shipping
- created lots of patents then gave them away
- realised he would make more by having a smaller percentage of larger market
- physical web beacon
- currently no security etc — just for testing
- configure it by pressing the button
- the Google Chrome team is staffed by boy scouts
- just want more URLs in the world
The Web Is… Still Young
Benjamin Hollway @benjaminhollway
Slides available at http://nothingrandom.com/says/thewebis/young
- how can we support young coders under 18?
- cheap/free tickets for conferences
- opportunities to speak
- unique perspective
- alternative after party venues
- accessible to people who can't drink or are too young
- help introduce kids to computing
- join or set up a Code Club
- mentoring
- work experience
- paid internships — 2-3 weeks during summer holiday
- deeper insight into how the industry works
- future
- inclusivity
- < 5% use IE, but at least that or more have disabilities
The Web Is… Turning Difficulties Into Opportunities
Robin Christopherson, @USA2DAY
- AbilityNet: leading experts in technology & disability
- also do assessments: one of first was Prof. Stephen Hawking
- technology can really help people with disabilities
- light detector
- helps to see if lights/indicators are on or off
- especially for enabling oven light (they don't make speaking ovens)
- talking goggles
- reads any text from camera
- also recognises some images
- word lens
- translates and can then read out using voiceover
- TABs — temporarily able bodied
- it's likely everyone will have some kind of some kind of disability eventually in their lives
- also mobile use cases are often very similar to accessibility cases
- a blind date with an iPhone
- woman prepares all her responses before the date…
- google glass captioned audio
- speak into Android phone, see captioned audio on glass screen
- FaceXpress
- identifies emotions from faces
- live facial recognition
- identify people coming to your door if you're bed-bound
- directions in maps apps
- audio directions are very powerful
- Moto Hint
- Google Now as an earbud
- IBM Watson now has a developer kit
- self-driving cars
- 30% of city driving is looking for a space
- eliminating human error accidents
- need to have speech output
- otherwise can't tell if arrived or just stopped at a traffic light!
- direct brain interface
- completely paralysed woman able to move a robot arm
- technology4good lifetime award given to Prof. Hawking
- acceptance speech worth listening to
- 73% of people with a vision impairment are out of work
- there's no longer any reason why they can't work
The Web Is… Too Slow
Andy Davies @AndyDavies
- shopdirect (run littlewoods brand):
- on average, each purchase is across 2.4 devices
- Tammy Everts: only 12% of top 100 US retail sites render feature content under 3 seconds
- we perceive delays around the 1s mark
- 100ms appears instantaneous
- 200-300ms fast enough
- 1s start to feel it
- > 1s we start to task switch
- the web is for everybody …but only if we make it that way
- Chris Zachariah: made youtube pages faster
- but time to view video went down
- turns out they were reaching new audiences
- that hadn't been able to use the site at all before
- Guardian's new design:
- speed was a feature in the press release
- Walmart have released conversion rate vs load time
- all conversions concentrated in first 4 secs of load time
- Staples increased conversions by 10%
- cut 1s from median home page
- 6s from 98th percentile
- we're more tolerant of slow experiences in some cases
- when we're more committed, e.g. further into conversion funnel
- when we're used to it
- kayak study: we don't trust comparison sites that are too quick…
- Matias Duarte: "design is finding solutions within constraints .. if no constraints, it's not design but art"
- need to set a performance design constraint
- e.g. an event that matters to the user happens within a certain time under certain network conditions
- doesn't mean anything to measure page sizes or number of objects
- Etsy: have lots of feature flags
- all staff see a performance bar at the top of the page
- indicates if the page has met requirements
- PerfBar
- plugins for different browsers and sites
- WebPageTest
- can run tests & set a budget based on competitor sites
- speedcurve
- used by the guardian
- have a performance chart outside the financial director's office
- performance budget lines coming in November
- headline network speed doesn't include latency
- often matters more than bandwidth
- network connection closer to a bucket brigade than a pipe
- TCP has a slow start algorithm that directly affects initial page latency
- more modern operating systems increase the initial congestion window
- this increases the number of segments that can be sent without an acknowledgement
- rendering:
- CSS Object Model blocks Javascript execution
- Javascript blocks DOM construction
- complex CSS can really slow the initial rendering
- dealing with fonts
- Ilya Gregorik suggested new font-timeout & font-desirability properties
- would allow us to choose to render the page without the font
- HTTP/2 has server push
- server can push additional files that it knows the browser will want
- if the browser has a cached version, it can reject the push
Slides will be available at http://www.slideshare.net/andydavies (eventually)
The Web Is… Our Responsibility
Sally Jenkinson @sjenkinson http://recordssoundthesame.com
- concept keyboards provided touch-based input to BBC Micros back in 1984
- symbiotic relationship between technology and experiences
- remember it's as much about people as it is about development
- all the roles need to work together
- e.g. performance cuts through all layers
- responsive design mostly seen to be to do with screen widths
- but there's much more (especially in CSS level 4 draft)
- whether the device supports hover affordances
- the current ambient light level
- invisible requirements
- the technical choices that we make underpinning everthing
- e.g http://offlinefirst.org/
- Open Data Institute guest book
- iPad with keyboard
- can sign in with touch or typing
- or can add an existing RFID card (e.g. Oyster or bank card) to check-in in future
- GE Healthcare adventure series
- MRI scanner dressed up as spaceship
- children can imagine the spaceship rumbling through space
- much less scary
- be aware of the choices we make
- try to think beyond ourselves
- you are responsible for things you build
- if someone presents you with something that you don't agree with, then question it
- even if it's not officially your responsibility
- try and educate people as to why things should be done differently
- if you are in a big project that you disagree with, try and make little changes
The Web Is… Read/Write
Owen Gregory, editor @FullCreamMilk
- acts as a conduit between writer and reader
- the web has a closer relationship between writers and readers
- publishers & editors need to be advocates in their community
- jason santamaria: where is the cultural and aesthetic discourse on web design
- writing is mostly about the new techniques and looking forward
- where does a common language for web design discourse start?
- jakob nielsen: we should accept that the web is too fast moving for big picture description
- book: nicely said: writing for the web with style and purpose
- nicole fenton & kate kiefer lee
- Sir Thomas Browne: The Garden of Cyrus
- drawing parallels between lots of different fields
- W G Sebald: The Rings of Saturn
- new style of writing, referring to the author
- tracking Thomas Browne's work
- deploying a text can be a continuous process — Mandy Brown
- comments, talks, reframing, etc.
The Web Is… Progress
Mr Bingo, @mr_bingo
instagram: mr_bingstagram
- apparently the web is blue…
- D&AD brief: put the fun back in to the web
- hand-drawn aesthetic — much easier in flash…
- 2010 selling prints of drawings for £5 each for Haiti earthquake
- internet commenting is like toilet graffiti
- worried that if I die, when my life flashes before my eyes, all I will see is square pictures of food
- weird stock photography… (just watch the talk!)
- opened a service for sending people insults on postcards
- HATE Mail — and now a book
The Web Is… Progress
Brad Frost @brad_frost
- web enabled linking to anything we want (was a radical change…)
- open by default
- the most sharing community in the world
- e.g. css-tricks license
- "I want the web to get better and being all Johnny Protective over everything doesn't get us there"
- pittsburgh food bank
- designed and built a new web site for them
- did the entire process in the open
- http://foodbank.bradfrostweb.com/timeline/
- why share?
- because we can — it's cheap
- but it can be really uncomfortable
- other people can contribute
- trying to solve everyone's problem is in some cases easier to solve just your own
- an idea can snowball into a plugin just a few hours later
- our first drafts can have their own value
- in some cases they can have more value than the finished work
- the web is for everyone — but that means all the violence, hate and anger as well…
- guardian, bbc and gov.uk designing in the open
- other companies and even other countries can use this as a blueprint for their own work
- each of us is individual and has unique different experiences
- knowledge is an iterative and cumulative process
- depending on sharing and combining our different perspectives
- designopen.org
- even if lots of people contribute similar things, they still contribute
- e.g. 162,000 youtube videos on how to re-wire a plug
- your post might not be the most original, but it might be the one that tips over the scales
- it has never been easier in the history of the world to contribute to the knowledge of the world
Thursday, 30 October 2014
The Web Is... Day One
Another excellent conference from Craig Lockwood — and this is only the first day.
I'm always impressed by the groundedness and open-hearted feeling I get when I attend Craig's conferences. He curates the speakers not just for their intellectual knowledge and not just for inspiration, but also for their ability to connect to and understand the world and the people in it.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow!
The Web is… Knowledge
Christopher Murphy @fehler, Teaches MFA at Belfast School of Art
- recommended reading
- The Element: Ken Robinson
- Mastery: Robert Greene
- rediscovering the mentor/protege model
- Managing Oneself: Peter Drucker
- how you relate to other people in the workplace
- interaction design course (part of Master in Fine Arts)
- get started with a github profile
- teaching to see:
- bauhaus model & visual grammar
- point > line > plane
- charlie munger
- warren buffet's business partner at Berkshire Hathaway
- latticework of mental models
- learning new models in related fields
- all useful fields to understand interaction design…
- lollapalooza effect
- power of ideas together is greater than each by themselves
- e.g. put a designer & developer together and get more than you would get by themselves
- nuance and human interaction easier to learn from humans
- master and apprentice
- not just a one way relationship
- master learns to see the world in a new way with fresh eyes
- apprentice moves on then becomes a journeyman
- going to different masters
- gradually starting to teach others
- ken robinson: have to move to an organic process of education
- teach a whole mind:
- need self-belief, manners, confidence, politeness
- as well as skills in business, design, technology, etc
- universities move at a glacial pace
- takes 5 years to change a curriculum…
- short form courses
- patterns: josh long
- general assembly
- those who can, do; those who care teach
The Web is… Constant
How do we design for constant change… and not go mad
Nathan Ford @nathan_ford, Monotype, http://artequalswork.com
- web design not yet nailed down as a discipline
- creating repeated success in a volatile environment
- previously worked as Creative Director at Mark Boulton Design
- these ideas come from that time
- team
- bring the client into the team
- or bring your team into the client
- embedding
- learn empathy…
- look for a champion on the client side
- someone who trudges through all the muck
- make sure they can involve all the stakeholders
- get the problem stakeholders involved as early as possible
- no big reveal — eliminate surprises & blame
- wicked problems
- term from sociology: massive problems that are hard to define and difficult to resolve
- web sites are a simpler thing, but their implications often make them behave like a wicked problem
- measure goals by improvement, not completion
- when you don't know, try a lot of things
- don't be afraid to throw stuff away
- failure is ok, but you must keep learning
- ensure the client writes the user stories
- can help with a workshop to elucidate
- work in iterations
- each iteration should include research, design & building
- then evaluate and repeat
- don't forget to evaluate…
- always have an available prototype
- brings the pain of the project earlier
- lets them show the working consensus to others
- start with real content
- if you don't have any, make it up (NOT lauren ipsum…)
- motivates client to actually make their own
- build out grids from content
- grids within grids
- content-based items
- no high-level overarching
- choose the right css units
- percent for scaling
- vw & vh for headlines & page framing — relative to the viewport
- pixels for media queries — one to one, easier to understand
- ems and exes for typography
- exes work better with newer web fonts
- work on x-height
- let things get big: but limit on content items
- example: typekit blog — building out a design based on the Chapparal typeface
- also leads to simpler testing
- but still need to test on devices
- especially type sizes — can be surprising on actual hardware…
The Web is… Everywhere
What we can learn from console browsers
Anna Debenham @anna_debenham, http://console.maban.co.uk
- new style of inputs: gestures & voice
- think about small screen and a very big screen
- everywhere you can stick a screen, eventually there will be a browser
- "don't fall prey to convenience of device silos" cameron moll
- console browser users are (currently) likely to be younger and lower income
- consoles and web TVs have low memory
- performance is crucial
- the xbox browser can pretend to be a windows mobile device
- probably added to allow simpler interfaces
- large screen doesn't always mean more pixels…
- handheld consoles often have very wide screens
- often misidentified to show full fat design
- should probably have a simpler design
- the PS Vita includes Amazon's Kindle Fire Silk UA in its agent string…
- dual screens often have odd behaviour
- Nintendo 3DS has two screens with different widths…
- Wii U aiming to be a full entertainment system
- four different ways to zoom
- really important for viewing web on TV when text is often too small
- supports various presentation modes
- turning mirroring on and off
- draw curtains, prepare then reveal
- play video on main screen, while continue to browse
- can use multiple wiimotes as pointers
- similar for xbox one
- using xbox smartglass app
- supports split screen: game/tv + browser
- voice and gesture works really well
- vimeo couch mode:
- user choice for big screen support
- microsoft's design for xbox and windows phone is truly scalable
- x-webkit-speech — for speech synthesis
- currently Google Chome only…
- microsoft has a design guide for kinect
- really good read to understand gesture design
- 30% of people this year used a smart TV to browse the web
The Web Is… Playful
See Lee-Delisle @seb_ly
- http://lazerarcade.com
- used microphones to detect nerf bullets hitting a screen
- smashingconf opening animation
- laser light show mapped onto a dome & pipe organ…
- definitely worth watching the video
- lunar trails
- http://moonlander.seb.ly
- records its trails into moonlander.seb.ly/viewer
- then built a physical arcade machine
- full screen browser, controlled by an arduino pretending to be a keyboard
- all linked up to a giant wall-hanging plotter
- based on polar plotter, but using DC servos rather than stepper motors
- playfulness on the web has died a little bit
- the little flash games got taken over by the marketing agencies
- became viral campaigns that nobody wanted
- internet of things — nobody knows what it's for yet
- much more space for being playful :-)
The Web Is… In The Hands of the 97ers
Emma Mulqueeny, Founder of Rewired State and Young Rewired State @hubmum
- people born in 1997 and later, grew up with social media
- those born at the beginning have no leadership
- Ivan Illich: deschooling society
- "educational webs … transform each moment … into learning, sharing & caring"
- the 97ers are already doing peer-to-peer learning
- the discussion about teaching how to code is almost irrelevant
- the teachers won't be teaching how to learn line by line
- role of all-knowing teacher will become irrelevant
- much about flipping the classroom and enabling the teacher as guide
- refugees united: dealing with families split up as they crossed the Somali > Kenya border
- refugees would have similar names, might lie as they're scared etc
- YRSer Kevin figured out that storytelling was important
- designed service to speak a local story into the phone
- then find stories that roughly match
- reunited families went from 3% to over 79%
- identity is crucial to 97ers
- their stories (not their names) are their identifier
- tagged photos
- peer verification
- try not to police community as that affects identity
- have a very early understanding of how to influence community
- they get immediate feedback from youtube/facebook/etc
- have figured out how to tweak and skew their message until it works
- can be quite an arrogant generation — they know how to get those likes…
- going into the world
- the most unsafe thing they could do would be to work for a big organisation
- self-employment is much more attractive — feels safer
- not about making lots of money — more about long-term employment
- the Wi-Fi is the bedrock of their needs
- it's the gateway to their community and therefore their support network
- they can't engage with politics until 18 — it's too late…
- they engage with policies rather than parties
The Web Is… All Consuming
Keir Whitaker @keirwhitaker, Shopify
Best to watch this when the video comes out — I couldn't do it justice with notes.
- daily todo: 1 big thing, 3 medium things, some small things
The Web Is… Made Of Links
Phil Hawksworth, R/GA @philhawksworth
- Paul Downey's 2008 "uberdoodle": The URL is the Thing
- Ted Nelson: coined the terms hypertext, hypermedia & transclusion (and teledildonics…)
- you can link to anything from anywhere — the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts
- :// => "double-meh"
- Paul Downey: The Web is Agreement
- browsers are very liberal in what they accept
- browsers starting to obscure URLs
- mobile Safari already hides everything but the host
- Chrome Canary doing similar thing
- Jake Archibald: the URL is the share button of the web
- taco bell #onlyintheapp — no longer have any content on their website
- and only with access to lots of permissions on your phone
- google experimented with different shades of blue for links (#41shades)
- apparently the change made about $200m difference
- but they lost a designer who said he couldn't argue for all his design decisions
- more than 60% of population of India & China is still offline
- we will need to support them…
Unfinished Business Geek Mental Help @ The Web Is
An enormously important discussion, started by Andy Clarke a few days ago.
The discussion was recorded as an episode of Unfinished Business and included Chris Murphy, Cole Henley, Relly Annett-Baker and @pumpkinsouper.
There are many more articles to be read at http://geekmentalhelp.com/ — go and read, even if you think you don't need to.
I think the most crucial advice I heard, was "keep talking" — this discussion is not over…


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06 March 2015
Free speech? Are there some no-go areas? Who says so? Thursday 12 March 2015, 6.30-8pm, in 3E 2.4
Excellence is not the only point of education
06 March 2015
Sam Carr writes for The Conversation
Matthew Lloyd on cancer drugs at Science Café: Mon
06 March 2015
Dr Matthew Lloyd (Pharmacy & Pharmacology) will give a talk: How to develop drugs to treat cancer at this month's free Bath Science Café: 7.30pm for 8pm start - The Raven Pub, Queen Street, Bath.
Closure of Norwood Ave/Convocation Ave: 30 Mar - 6 Apr
05 March 2015
We have been informed by B&NES Council that it intends close Norwood Avenue and Convocation Avenue between 7am & 7pm from 30 March for up to a week in order to resurface the road.
Thousands sign up for Making an Impact MOOC
05 March 2015
5,264 people have signed up to our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Making an Impact: Sustainability for Professionals.
Listen: Janet Scott on material waste of mobile phones [9:42]
05 March 2015
Dr Janet Scott (Chemistry) was interviewed on BBC World Service radio.
Thinking about research impact? New IAA funding: 24 Mar
05 March 2015
Researchers are invited to the lunchtime launch of the second EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) on 24 March 2015, 12.30-1.30pm, in CB3.9.
What Europe's hopeful left can learn from Latin America
05 March 2015
Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein writes for The Conversation
Recent academic promotions
05 March 2015
Congratulations to all those who have been promoted/translated
Straw built eco homes receive Passivhaus accreditation
04 March 2015
As a result of the world leading research from our Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, the construction method used in the UK's first commercially available straw eco homes has been recognised by industry for its energy standard, being awarded the prestigious Passivhaus accreditation.
New Chair appointed to lead Bath water research
04 March 2015
Dr Jan Hofman has been appointed to lead our new Water Innovation & Research Centre: WIRC@Bath.
Student Shows at the Edge & the Mission Theatre
04 March 2015
Shows this week - Much Ado about Nothing; Bath's got Talent; Chinese Variety Show; Fit Steps.
Is it anxiety or epilepsy?
04 March 2015
Professor Paul Salkovskis (Psychology) describes the similar symptoms of panic attacks and seizures in a Mail Online article.
Political risk in Turkey in 2015 seminar: Wed 11 Mar
04 March 2015
This seminar about the political paths and dangers that Turkey is going to face this year.
Science PhD students come first & second in regional FameLab
04 March 2015
Overall winner Emma Sackville (Department of Chemistry) will compete at the national final on 22 April in London; Annelisa Sadler (Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology) finished a close second at the event held at Techniquest, Cardiff.
Why UK should heed a warning from US over defence spending
04 March 2015
Professor David Galbreath and Simon Smith (PoLIS) write for the Conversation.


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A slip of the hand is no fault of the mind, but when a trained medical professional makes such a slip, the quality of education may be called into question, says Tota.
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A slip of the hand is no fault of the mind, but when a trained medical professional makes such a slip, the quality of education may be called into question, says Tota.
Political reality sometimes kills beautiful moments when the system discourages certain types of true love from blossoming, writes Chiok Phaik Fern.
Mary Ann Lim peels aways a widely believed myth shrouding prostitution in Malaysia – and comes face-to-face with the grim reality of human trafficking.
Engaging in consensual oral and anal sex is not something that should be punished. Indeed, the government shouldn't govern how we have sex, says Chong Yee Shan.
We should do our bit and contribute to the only planet we have, says Shazni Bhai. How? Come over to the bus stop now.
Nik Aziz was a highly principled political leader cum preacher; even a counter-model of what a political leader ought to be, observes Francis Loh in this tribute.
Danesh Chacko reflects on the legacy of the former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, two years after his passing.
We limit our opportunities and challenges when we only dance within the ropes of gender stereotypes, says Praseetha Naidu.
Malaysians should not be caught up merely with the convictions in particular cases; they should instead demand accountability in the entire process of the justice system, says Ronald Benjamin.
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Europa League Matchday 5: Group C Highlights
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Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev hit by flareRussia's match at Montenegro was temporarily suspended shortly after kick-off when Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev appeared to be struck by a flare fired from the stands
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Dion Dublin has signed on as a presenter for BBC daytime show Homes Under the Hammer
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Computer Science professor Andrew Barto has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in recognition of his contributions to reinforcement learning methods and their neural network implementations.
Sonia Nieto, professor of Language, Literacy and Culture in the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, received the 2005 Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts Award during the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention held Nov. 17-20 in Pittsburgh.
The Board of Trustees voted Nov. 16 to award tenure to Claire E. Hamilton, associate professor of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, and T.J. "Lakis" Mountziaris, professor of Chemical Engineering.
Professor Rex Wallace, who chairs the Classics Department, graduate student James Patterson and alumnus Michael Shamgochian presented a paper on the Etruscan Texts Project Online at "Markup for Museums: Scripts, Artifacts, and XML" a conference held Nov. 12-13 at Brown University.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) presented its Moving Spirit Award on Nov. 15 to Anna Nagurney, professor of Operations Management, in recognition of her "outstanding and sustained contributions" as the faculty advisor to the campus' student chapter.
Lawrence E. Meunier, 62, of Deerfield, a retired carpenter I at Physical Plant, died Nov. 13 at the Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield.
Dean Allen, 79, of Amherst, retired principal psychologist at University Health Services, died Nov. 1 at home.
Kelly Aiken of Hadley has been named the first director of Outreach Workforce Development.
Manisha Sinha, associate professor of Afro-American Studies and History, has been awarded a research fellowship in American history by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Summer 05 photos
This is just an assortment of plant photos from 2005, some of them aren't technically garden photos -
Part of Mom's flower garden around the base of a red maple tree -
Hostas and other plants in a sunlit patch -
Goldenrod bloom attended by insects in a field near Tower Hill Botanical Garden near Worcester, Massachusetts -
A branch of a mulberry tree growing wild along the edge of a field near my house (I'm not sure what type of mulberry it is) -
Common milkweed in flower, surrounded by wild grapes, from the edge of a field near my house -
Dragonfly perched on the end of a stick at the edge of a garden in Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts -
African violet blooming in the dining room at home - it produced a couple of flowers the previous summer, but this was the first time that it bloomed more heavily -
I used to do full sized photos because Picturetrail didn't have the thumbnail links and I was never able to get text links to work on this site.
The African Violet doesn't get as much sun there as it would probably like during the winter months, but all the south-facing windows are already taken by quite a few other plants. In the summer, it gets sunlight late in the afternoon and seems to like that. The whole plant tilts at an almost 45 degree angle towards where the sunlight comes in!
Hi! Nice pics. Tell your Mom I love her garden, so show us some more. I'm beginning to wonder if waht I thought was native milkweed is or not. Mine doesn't look like yours-Iy smell also, but had so many butterflies on it and grows everywhere-blooms late summer-Fall. I'll try to get a pic this year and see if Y'all can figure it out. Back to picture dreaming for me. Ginger
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The picture where Duffy is holding the suitcase...is that a stationary set? It seems like the picture below it has stickers and that the holder for them is cardboard. Am I interpreting the pictures correctly?
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The picture where Duffy is holding the suitcase...is that a stationary set? It seems like the picture below it has stickers and that the holder for them is cardboard. Am I interpreting the pictures correctly?
DuffyD, will you be changing your Avatar when something is available for SV?
Um...I dunno...:???: Probably before then, though. I'll probably change it on 3/15, right after White Day. But we should have the full skinny from the official site sooner than that, even.^^
Is it wrong that all these new photos did was make me want more? :lol: I should be working, but I keep scouring the internet in hopes of finding full scans of the magazine with the missing goods, and prices...
Wow, talk about being overloaded with cuteness! So the case with the long strap might be a camera case? I'm with you DuffyD, to small for my camera but perfect to hold your ticket and FP when your in the park. I use the Halloween camera case that way.
So cute the Bear size bag and camera. I too like that its sold sepertatly.
The costume is cute. I'm not sure about white shorts. I hope they wash well I'm sure over time they will get dirty.
all very cute can't wait to see what else they have.
I'm in serious overload! I'm so screwed! I'm gonna be broke! I want to look more, but I had a very short period on my lunch break to get online, so I'll be back later tonight!
LOVE the Shellie May tote bag! SQUWEEEEEEEEEE! :yea:
Everything looks so cute! I can't wait to see more. I especially :love::love::love: the fork and spoon! I can let more of my inner nerd out with that set. Haha. And Duffy and Shellie May's 30th Anniversary outfits remind me of Sam's camper's uniform and Suzy's dress from Moonrise Kingdom, respectively.
Ok I HAVE to find a way to get some of this stuff. Even the "cheap" stuff... and talk my mom into getting something as well. Those tote bags are ADORABLE. But I already have a plethora of tote bags it's ridiculous. I looooove the bear size little bags and the cameras. If I can get even just those I'd be happy. Or the mini popcorn bucket. I wanted that mini popcorn bucket SO BAD last year that I nearly cried.
My mom REALLY wants a Shellie May of her own but is reluctant to pay the TDS price. She does have a Shellie badge from last year's Sweet Duffy that's tiding her over in the meantime, but.... she's VERY envious of my Shellie May.
aimster-My mother and I were just talking about how she wants a Shellie May also! I was telling her about all the stuff coming out! She has a Shellie May cell phone strap she attached to her purse and takes with her everywhere. I was kind of thinking I might get her one for Mother's Day if she decides it's too expensive for her.
That tray with Duffy pedaling Shellie May...it has TINY DUFFY and TINY SHELLIE MAY on it too!!! LOL. I wasn't sure I was seeing Shellie May HOLDING a Shellie May, until I saw a Duffy in Duffy's bicycle basket.
I guess they could be made out of flowers; fair enough. It's hard to tell at that size.
O.O Oh my goodness..that preview has me so excited for Spring Voyage. I planned on spending alot but jeez. I may be spending more then I thought. Those tote bags are definitely something I really want. I can't wait to see the official site and finally decide what all I want. :D


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London, 27 June 2014 - EMEA's leading Cloud event, Cloud World Forum, thrust Cloud into the spotlight once again last week with thousands of visitors, over 300 speakers and the industry's top providers converging on the Olympia National in London and driving the most comprehensive agenda in the Cloud market.
This year the event was co-located with Big Data World Congress and Enterprise Apps World. Big Data World Congress saw Watson supercomputer demos, courtesy of IBM, insights into the use of Big Data in weather and climate forecasting from the Met Office, data analytics in the gaming industry, care of Mediatonic and a case study on data infrastructure at Spotify, delivered by Wouter de Bie, Team Lead Data Infrastructure, Spotify.
The evolving role of the CIO came into focus on Day One of the Cloud World Forum conference, with a panel discussion titled 'Redefining the role of the CIO in the era of the Cloud', which examined the increasingly hot topic of how Cloud is effecting the role and responsibilities of CIOs as companies fight to stay ahead of their competitors and maintain the pace of innovation.
The event boasted an impressive line-up of the industry's technology giants including: Intel, Oracle, HP, Dell, Google and Microsoft and it also featured an exclusive C-level keynote Future Cloud Theatre, with CIOs and CTOs from leading end-users, such as: Coca Cola, UEFA, BBC, BMW, Marks & Spencer, UBS, CERN and Lufthansa.
Onyeka Nchege, CIO at Coca Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, gave a keynote presentation called, 'Open Happiness in the Cloud: Taking a 100 year old traditional brick & mortar organization to the Cloud' - discussing culture and the impact of high expectations, leveraging the workforce and managing the technology rush. Nchege also discussed how the company has started to move its non mission-critical systems to a private Cloud with plans to move everything off-premise within five years.
This year's Cloud World Series Awards winners were also crowned as part of the event. Judged by world class experts in Cloud Computing, the winners were announced in six categories encompassing: Best Cloud Service, Best Cloud Application, Best Cloud Platform, Best Cloud Security Solution, Best Cloud Data Centre & Storage Solution and Best Big Data Analytics Solution. The full list of winners can be found here: www.cloudworldseries.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/silver-lining-for-cloud-world-forum-winners/.
Ewa Campbell, Head of Marketing, Cloud World Series, said: "2014 was a real success for the Cloud World Forum. We had a strong and diverse conference agenda and there was a fantastic buzz on the show floor throughout the event. We've received some really positive feedback since, from visitors, speakers and participating companies and are already looking forward to making 2015's event even better than this one."
Following the success of this year's event, Informa Telecoms & Media can confirm that Cloud World Forum will take place at the Olympia Grand in London for 2015. The dates for next year are 24-25 June 2015. For further information, visit http://cloudwf.com/. Alternatively, keep up to date with the event on Twitter using @CloudWSeries or #CloudWF, to gain exclusive previews ahead of 2015's conference and exhibition.
About Cloud World Forum
Cloud World Forum is EMEA's leading Cloud event with the industry's most comprehensive agenda of all things Cloud. Thousands of delegates come from more than 70 countries around the world to meet the industry's leading solution providers. Now celebrating its sixth year, the show gathers the pivotal payers of the Cloud revolution and features 12 theatres led by Cloud end-users. More than 300 speakers from multinationals, SMEs, public sector organisations, online players, regulators, telcos and analysts are set to take the floor in engaging, thought-provoking keynotes, hands-on labs, brainstorming sessions and live demos over two days.
About Informa Telecoms & Media
Informa Telecoms and Media (www.informatandm.com) organises more than 120 global annual events, attended by more than 70,000 executives worldwide. With a focus on quality content, Informa Telecoms and Media deliver a key audience of decision-makers from the mobile, fixed, alternative, wholesale, MVNO, broadband and satellite operator communities. Informa Telecoms and Media is also the leading provider of business intelligence and strategic services to the global telecoms and media markets. Driven by constant first-hand contact with the industry, its 90 analysts and researchers produce a range of intelligence services including news and analytical products, in depth market reports and datasets focussed on technology, strategy and content.
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50-60 miles. 16-18 mph cruising pace. Venture to the heart of Burlington County for a flat, leisurely ride with a lunch break. Play hooky and help me find the best pizza in South Jersey. Very High Winds or rain cancel , email if not sure. Start time might change due to summer heat, email to verify start time. Meet at Lumberton Municipal Building. Leader: Jimmy M., [masked].
I started the group because there wasn't any other type of group like this. I've met some great folks in the group who have become close friends and have also met some amazing business owners.
— Bill, started New York City Gay Craft Beer Lovers
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