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Aug312010
Experimenting with JTeam’s SOLR Spatial Plugin
Over the past few months it’s become apparent that there are some deeply rooted issues with the default solr spatial plugin that I’ve written about in previous posts. Most notably, at different scales (Different radii) search items which were present at a smaller radius disappear when the radius is increased. The confusion is amplified for [...]
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Mar242010
Finding Ada #10 – Sue Morton
Ian’s post for #ALD10 – Sue Morton of (The then) Sheffield Poly
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Mar242010
Possible Projects for Rewired State: Culture event.
3 ideas for projects at the Rewired State : Culture event – Scripting new data silos into culture grid, a generic database -> OAI Gateway, Crowdsourcing data cleansing for cultural data sets.
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Feb212010
Cybernetic temperature maps to show variety hot-spots?
On Wednesday 17th Feb A few of us (@andymayer @aden_76 @Jagusti @saulcozens & co) got together in the showroom at the request of @Technophobia to discuss how sheffield city council could open up it’s data streams, what the priorities might be, and what economic benefit could be found.
During the course of this discussion we identified, [...] -
Nov022009
Working with LocalSolr and Lucene 2.9.1rc3 / Solr 1.4rc1
I’ve been trying to prepare a project using localsolr for the impending (I hope) arrival of solr 1.4 and Lucene 2.9.1.. Here are some notes in case anyone else is suffering similar issues.
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Feb042009
Twestival – Sheffield bad news :(
Dear all…..
The twestival sheffield organisers have met today and we’ve expressed a pretty unanimous concern that the event might not reach all our expectations. Due to many different reasons we’ve decided that rather put on a half-assed event and risk undoing the many months of hard work we’ve put into organising great community events in [...] -
Jan192009
Calendar of Geeky events in and around sheffield
Here’s a calendar I’m maintaining with various geeky events. Please feel free to send stuff to me on any of the usual channels, or get in touch to get permission to add events yourself.
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Nov062008
Catching up with sprints and progress
Been a while since I posted, alas blogging not uber high on my GTD list, so often gets pushed back… However, I thought it might be fun to share some of the work we’re doing in the lexaurus vocabulary editor in relation to SKOS vocabularies. Rob Tice has sent me some screenshots of lexaurus ingesting [...]
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Nov052008
Christmas parties, martial arts and "Stuff"
As it’s my personal blog…..
Every once in a while someone brings this old chestnut up, and I thought it was probably about time I aired my recollection….
A few years ago we were out on a pretty serious “Northern” christmas party which had kicked off at lunchtime and gone on well into the evening. The attendees [...] -
Aug062008
Sprint 3 – Washup and planning
A few months ago we started to experiment with scrum, sprints and backlogs in an attempt to formalise our agile development processes. I thought it might be fun to try and keep the blog updated every couple of weeks with what’s moving in the k-int world.. so here goes…
Hana’s done some great work on the [...]