Developer Labs

writeslike.us: Wins and Fails

Posted by on Dec 3, 2009 in jiscwriteslike.us, Uncategorized, writeslike.us | Comments Off

Wins: ➢ Getting information such as institution names/URLs from Wikipedia, and widespread use of available web services in general ➢...

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Day-to-day work

Posted by on Oct 26, 2009 in JISC, jiscwriteslike.us, research, technology, Uncategorized, writeslike.us | Comments Off

1.scrum meeting + meeting minutes see the progress made by what people present – what they did yesterday, what they expect to do...

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USB webcam fun

Posted by on Sep 17, 2009 in linux, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Bought a pair of webcams (mostly for the purposes of playing with opencv). When plugged in, the uvcvideo kernel module recognises them, and...

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Linux on a Toshiba NB200

Posted by on Aug 26, 2009 in hardhack, linux, technology, Uncategorized | 7 comments

Thanks to Ultim8Fury, Leesa and Nick255 for the following. Presumably as it’s a fairly new model, after setting up linux (Ubuntu...

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Welcoming Wei Jiang to writeslike.us

Posted by on Aug 7, 2009 in jiscwriteslike.us, Uncategorized | Comments Off

A new staff member (casual staff) has just begun work, specifically on the Writeslike.us project. He is very experienced in designing and...

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JCDL 2009

Posted by on Jun 19, 2009 in fixrep, JISC, Uncategorized, writeslike.us | Comments Off

It’s been a good event; we’ve introduced a prototype for our new metadata consistency improvement system – FixRep....

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