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I gave a talk last Thursday at Worthing Digital entitled ‘Fast Slim Correct: The Evolution of JavaScript’. The story I wanted to tell was how a simple web scripting language has broken…

“In my own time. On my own time.” is a project by Royal College of Art graduate Charlotte Christofferson. The project examines how gender and age affect our perception of…

So today is a leap day, right? Well, yes and no. We generally assume the 29th of February is a leap day but in the original Julian calendar the leap…

Last weekend I took part in History Hack Day. I’ve been wanting to reboot the Computus Engine for a while and what better excuse than this. As a Hack Day…

I had an email this evening about parsing Facebook timestamps in Actionscript 3. The format for timestamps is defined in RFC3339 which as I’ve discussed previously, is a profile of…

photo credit: Marc Thiele Every September the UK seaside town of Brighton plays host to a vibrant celebration of creativity and technology. Now in its fifth year Flash On The Beach…

photo by Tom Dalziel New year is traditionally a time for introspection. Thoughtful consideration of the year ahead; the fruits of which become a new year’s resolution – a course…

Well I had “the conversation” this morning and it looks like my employer will be making a big round of redundancies next week. I don’t tend to talk about work…

“The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth…

Getting external data into Herodotus is an important part of the project. Data can be encoded in a wide array of formats and they all have to be parsed into…