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Live projects
- A UserMeter – using an old fashioned Ammeter to monitor our server load
- The UK 2050 Calculator – a visualisation of a complex excel model that allows you to explore the many ways the UK energy system could be changed.
- excel_to_code - compiles Excel spreadsheets into pure C or pure Ruby code, so that they can server as the backend to visualisations, or be driven programatically.
- Sankey - A javascript library for drawing Sankey diagrams.
- rubypeg - A ruby library for constructing parsing expression grammars
- how-much-is - A single page web application for doing unit conversions and simultaneously giving a sense of whether the number is big or not
Dead or passed on
Random scripts & notes
My history as a programmer
My mum taught me to program when I was aged 8 or so, in BBC Basic on (you guessed it) a beeb, I then graduated onto programming in Assembler and some Pascal on the BBC and on my arc. During my university years I worked for a few start-ups doing some coding in Java including a web-server that customised content to the person viewing it in the days when that was pretty novel and high tech, and some work on electronic health records. I didn’t do any programming while I was working as a Strategy Consultant, but re-learnt when I went back to University for my PhD. My default language is ruby.
Updated 3 January 2014