We went to see Goldie’s Timeless end-to-end at the Festival Hall as part of the Meltdown Festival on Saturday. Live drums, live vocals. Amazing.
They could have got away with so little, but instead it was obviously brilliantly planned, executed and performed brilliantly. Including an obviously health and safety approved (there were goggles and extra safety glass - someone put the time in filling forms) smashing of glass into a miked-up steel rubbish bin.
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Anatomy of a project space
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Checklist Team Team room * Sprint planning room (co-joined)* Fast Internet connection User needs Principles Drawing of service Sprint wall x 2 (A & B) Story wall Screens x 2+ (for demos / information radiators) Email group Git repository IRC/chat room Wiki/note-sharing * Both with whiteboard walls
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Manuals (XKCD) and manuals (VW Beetle).
Time to start understanding more than just the superficial about cryptography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Databases for lazy people
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Input
5 tiles is a brilliant example of designing from 1st principles.
It is an android keyboard, designed specifically for touch-screens to keep the screen free for content. I’m slowly beginning to pick it up.
I guess it’s similar to the sort of one -handed keyboards used by divers.
It is a very different proposition from Google’s keyboard or Swiftkey which try and learn about you and predict what you are typing using your data.
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Moving from Gmail
I finally got around to moving my email from Gmail to Fastmail. It’s been churning away moving over 8 years worth of emails for over 24 hours now.
First, that meant sorting out my domain name. It was with namesco, who don’t support two-factor auth which no longer feels like an acceptable risk for something that has defacto access to your email.
I moved it to iwantmyname.com. All very easy.
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Notes: Capital Ring, habitat
Completed the Capital Ring. Last 3 stages were a bit epic - about 19 miles in one day. Nearly walked into a deer.
The Capital Ring is well worth the effort, but there’s a total lack of good online information about it. It’s crying out for a dedicated wiki of tips, being able to link to each stage, open GPX tracks.
Off work this week, mostly working on habitat. I now have a working example client for posting location data, and for editing scenarios.
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Notes: 5 - 9th May 2014
Walked stages 9 and 8 of the Capital Ring South Kenton to Osterly (3 more to go).
Final show and tell of the Land Registry concept.
More work on habitat - a personal, programable datastore (or that’s what it is untill I have a better desceiption). I got oAuth working using Flask oAuthLib. So you can now allow clients types of access to specific resources.
Julian was down from Liverpool, so took him to visit South London Makerspace.
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