Over The Hills And Far Away

For the next two weeks or so I'm helping Martin Smith do his Land's End to John O'Groats trip, and so I'll only have slow internets to communicate from. Still, you can read about our travels at the new, shiny, lejog blog.

While this means you won't be able to send me post (the old, snail-paced variety) for a while, I doubt any of you want so, so that's not really important.

Also, once we get back there'll be a load of GPS data I will set to work visualising, if you like that kind of thing, and burning questions (which I have yet to determine) will be answered.

BarCamp Brighton

In the vain hope of making this slightly more blog-like, you people get a dose of my daily life for a change. This morning I was quick enough to sign up to BarCamp Brighton, which sounds like great fun, and also happens to be on reasonable dates. I am somewhat filled with anticipation, but also a slight trepidation, since I feel I should make the effort to give a proper talk and I find myself somewhat lacking in ideas for them at the moment. It's almost inevitable that I'll end up talking about LastGraph, especially since I'm redoing both the interface (to be somewhat nicer and more efficient), as well as changing the renderer (the new version uses Cairo, so it's possible to do direct-to-pdf output now, rather than the inkscape hack). Even more interesting perhaps is that I'm making the graphing library nice and modular and will probably add more graph types to both it and the LastGraph interface (I think a nice radial chart or two would look nice next). I'll release it at some point, and hopefully people can start using less bar charts in future when there's far nicer ways of presenting the data (although, in some cases, bar charts still do very well).

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Over The Hills And Far Away

BarCamp Brighton