With the arrival of the iPads, we’ve been changing many of our processes in order to put information on the fingertips of our senior mgmt team. Our key app right now is Dropbox and we convert most of the files to pdf. Dropbox is a great little tool, as it enables us to update files […]
Author: arkadian
Yesterday, I got an iPad at work (I love my job!), to replace my overweight and ageing A5 Filofax. It’s a US import, with only 16GB and no 3G, but hey, I got it for free, so I’m definitely not complaining! Web browsing is fantastic and the usual apple gestures make surfing very easy. Today, […]
It came to my attention today that a workshop took place in Italy a while ago on Arduino/Ikea lamps. This was an Arduino Workshop, part of the Torino Design Week. Event Description: http://arduino-tdw-2009.eventbrite.com/ Video on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/8559277 Arduino Code: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1263217950/ Blog post: http://www.alluvionemediatica.it/Blog/tabid/59/entryid/25/Default.aspx My original Arduino/Ikea lamp post was used quite a bit. One of […]
Gnuplot is a great command line tool that creates very quickly graphs from data files. The official site of Gnuplot is: http://www.gnuplot.info/ . To see examples of graphs produced by Gnuplot, you should have a look here: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.4/. Using python and gnuplot, I produced approx 80 graphs similar to the one below, that fitted nicely […]
You can find a lot of tutorials on Python, but these is a pretty good one (actually 7) from Nick Parlante from GoogleDevelopers on youTube – here is the link to the first one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk. This is a really a great tutorial for beginners. The book I’m using as my main python textbook (and would […]
O2, the UK mobile phone operator had an amazing offer a few days ago: they were selling their O2 Joggler for £49.99. This little gadget, with a touchscreen, wifi and an intel atom processor, wasn’t really a best seller for your average cosumer and O2 ended up selling them at a loss. I picked one […]