Category Archives: Development

Maker Projects – Alex’s Mobile

Posted on 17 January 2010 by Bob

I’ve added a new section to my projects pages, and put a page in place for the baby mobile I’m creating for Alex. I’ve back dated a load of the updates, as I’d been meaning to post blog entries about … Continue reading →

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Facebook performance woes

Posted on 10 December 2009 by Bob

Today Facebook launched their new privacy settings and forced all their users to update their settings. We noticed at Yahoo! that we were started to get lots of timeouts from Facebook’s APIs that we use on the Yahoo! homepage. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Junkbots

Posted on 25 September 2009 by Bob

Recently I subscribed to MAKEzine and it has reinvigorated my interest if hardware hacking. Which is good, as I’m doing a talk at SkillsMatter in December on that very subject. Since I won an iPhone in a raffle last month … Continue reading →

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Tesco TJam

Posted on 5 August 2009 by Bob

So this evening I attended Tesco’s TJam event held at Microsoft’s London Customer Centre at Victoria. Tesco is starting the rollout of it’s new backend Grocery application, code named Martini (anytime, anyplace, anywhere). They have opened up their new APIs … Continue reading →

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T-JAM and the Tesco Grocery API

Posted on 3 August 2009 by Bob

Finally found something I can talk about openly. Having spent so long working on commercially sensitive applications, which is now in the open. Anyway, apart from helping the Yahoo! OpenHack day, I also signed up to Tesco’s T-JAM event which … Continue reading →

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