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Re: The First Annual UK Technical Conference For People Called Ben* - Ben Summers’ Blog

Dan W — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:44:08 -0000

Will there be nametags?

Re: London Tube Commuters Hunted by Intelligent, Annoying Spotlight

Dan W — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:01:21 -0000

The entrance tunnel to the V&A is not the "London Tube" and is not frequented by commuters.

Re: Hintsights at “Arup explores prototyping” and 100% Open Union’s “User Makers & Distributed Production”

Dan W — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:30:16 -0000

That's brilliant, thank you

Re: Hintsights at “Arup explores prototyping” and 100% Open Union’s “User Makers & Distributed Production”

Dan W — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:39:44 -0000

Would you happen to have a link for the presentation that talks about small scale production costs?

Re: I’m leaving the UK

Dan W — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:06:13 -0000

Best of luck and thanks for all your help over the years. Hope you enjoy the better weather out west.

Re: The 2012 Olympic Flame: Halfway to London

Dan W — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:54:57 -0000

Correction to image 6, that's in Bristol not Bath

Re: Meet Dr Kenneth Tong: The brains behind the Vodafone Booster Brolly

Dan W — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:57:34 -0000

Is there a demo video of the signal boosting working?

Re: http://spaceappschallenge.org/blog/2012/03/01/software-hardware-data-visualization-and-citizen-s/

Dan W — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:30:08 -0000

Thanks for the clarification. It's probably worth making that clear on the site. I know quite a few British hackday regulars who are saying grumpy things because currently it's giving the wrong impression about the ethos of the event.

Incidentally, why isn't this called a hackday?

Re: http://spaceappschallenge.org/blog/2012/03/01/software-hardware-data-visualization-and-citizen-s/

Dan W — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:19:55 -0000

The 'challenge' briefs seem overly restrictive and not in the traditional ethos of a hackday. Attendees shouldn't be mistaken for employees.

Re: Google's Tech City incubator to open within weeks

Dan W — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:33:30 -0000

Correction: London Hackspace is not "offering cheap desk space for startup entrepreneurs". It's a community group for hobbyists.

Hackspaces, coworking groups and serviced offices are all different things, not interchangeable terms.

Re: Apple iPhone 4S release: live

Dan W — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:23:46 -0000

We made a thing that watches for live photos of iPhone 4S queues: http://instaqueue.herokuapp...

Re: Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC

Dan W — Wed, 25 May 2011 10:42:39 -0000

Thanks.

I've been wondering recently how best to archive websites & apps besides storing the code & data. Trying to archive the experience rather than the ability to recreate the software.

Your flickr screenshot approach seems perfect for a daily changing dashboard.

Re: Ladies and Gentleman, this is the BBC

Dan W — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:03:30 -0000

Lovely project.

I find your archiving of the dashboard through screenshots uploaded to flickr interesting. What was the thinking behind that?

http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: The State of the Internet of Things - Is There Enough Commercial Activity?

Dan W — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:51:03 -0000

"Too Many Experiments, Not Enough Commercial Activity?"

Having attended the London hackathon and worked on the DisplayCabinet[1][2] hack I have to disagree with you. The discourse around the Internet of Things is currently dominated by the commercial activity, the likes of IBM flogging it's software to governments and the deployment of RFID in logistics.

What a hackday lets us see is what happens when the infrastructures created by the commercial activity get played with and repurposed. Lots of playful rapid prototyping. It's not an environment for creating products or startups. It's *for* experiments. Not seeing something that knocked your socks off shows there isn't enough experimentation yet.

[1] http://journal.benbashford....
[2] http://www.iamdanw.com/made...

Re: http://blog.tommorris.org/post/4064187505

Dan W — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:27:22 -0000

I've used wkhtmltopdf to generate a printed guide book for sxsw. The patched Qt version support for page-break-inside in CSS is super useful

Re: http://blog.tommorris.org/post/4064187505

Dan W — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:28:58 -0000

I'm looking at it for rendering SVG & Canvas to pdf rather than unit testing

Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/3143639036

Dan W — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:16:54 -0000

Thanks. The link must have been cut off somehow

Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/1077797177

Dan W — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:19:07 -0000

Yeah, weekend might be enough to finish one app. Perhaps a month like http://appril.org is wiser.

Re: iPhone 4 Price Plans Compared – The Correct Way [Updated x 2]

Dan W — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:50:44 -0000

Stuck my Three dongle SIM in a 2G only phone and it didn't seem to fail over onto 2G

Re: iPhone 4 Price Plans Compared – The Correct Way [Updated x 2]

Dan W — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:47:24 -0000

Oh dear, hadn't realised that. I assumed they leased edge/gprs off another network?

Re: iPhone 4 Price Plans Compared – The Correct Way [Updated x 2]

Dan W — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:39:48 -0000

Right now I'm leaning towards buying the iPhone unlocked and using the £15/month SIM from Three who offer 1GB/month data. It seem to work out cheaper if I own the phone for >18 months (which I'm likely to do), otherwise a vodafone, tesco or Three contract can all be quite cheap.

Re: Apple: Pay Full Price For an Ebook You Already Bought

Dan W — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:24:23 -0000

This problem applies to Kindle as well as iBooks, check out http://www.geardiary.com/20... for a similar problem there.

Re: Capturing and connecting research objects: A pitch for @sciencehackday

Dan W — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:12:59 -0000

Could you use Pachube? http://www.pachube.com/

Re: http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/571211577

Dan W — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:15:06 -0000

Took me ages to figure that out. It's quite clever. They only have to dig up the pavement once. Any upgrades or removing monoliths can be done fast and without disruption. They installed the whole of phase 1 in the same morning. Similar approach is being used for London cycle hire scheme, all the foundations are already installed awaiting the racks to be slotted in.

It seems that legible London is fantastically designed, even down to the tiny details.

Re: Stranger than fiction: even the greatest satirists couldn’t invent Sir Nicholas Winterton

Dan W — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:23:52 -0000

He's got a point about being able to get more work done in first class. Guaranteed table and no screaming children means better productivity but probably more detachment from those he's meant to represent.

Let him pay the first class upgrade for himself rather than expense it.