Last week I stumbled over yet another buzz term in digital. Big Data. For sometime I’ve known that lovely people are working very hard on Hadoop projects, secretly in glamorous places. Telling me snippets of exciting news. I really didn’t get the link till I went to see my brilliant friend Hilary on a panel with Hadoop founder Doug Cutting at London Big Data.
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Arduino Iris Hack Day
For a few years I have been wondering what I would make if I had electronics training rather than software. We maybe about to find out. Iris were kind enough to invite me to their Arduino Hack Day
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Make a Book
Don’t just write one. Make one. In the quest to make code sometimes it is good to diversify and do something non tech. Cook. Garden. Make books ?
After all books are the lifeblood of development. When I was small I needed magazines and books for copying little bits of assembler codes. Now google has the answers. Last year when I learnt Ruby I didn’t go near a book. It was some delight that the Arduino hack day this month had books littered around.
The book making class jcn and I attended was part of Selfridges Words Words Words campaign. Continue reading