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Posted by on Dec 16, 2013 in featured | 0 comments

This blog and most other UKOLN sites have been flatfiled – reduced to plain old HTML+CSS+a bit of JavaScript. This is an intentional...

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Archiving Old Dynamic Websites

Posted by on May 29, 2012 in code, featured, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Archiver is a web based application written in Java using the Spring Framework. Its main use is to produce static versions of websites...

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Some are more NoSQL than others

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 in featured, research | Comments Off

I’m no SQL Expert Over the past few years I have had my fair share of tricky data management opportunities. There was the financial...

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HCI in the Chemistry Lab

Posted by on Mar 1, 2012 in featured, JISC, project, technology | Comments Off

As part of the Smart Online Framework (SRF) project, today saw the first of several sessions geared to usability analysis of...

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Detecting motion: DLP-TILT 2-axis accelerometer

Posted by on Dec 15, 2011 in accelerometer, code, ebooks, featured, JISC, Project Sunflower, technology | Comments Off

Using an accelerometer to assess musculoskeletal stresses Accelerometers are helpful for characterising device usage and detecting the mode...

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CSS3 – Better Late Than Never

Posted by on Nov 28, 2011 in code, featured | Comments Off

CSS 1/2 Back in the year 2000, we, and by that I mean anyone who wrote web-pages, were bungling around with CSS. I was being told tables...

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