7.5 (8.5 for genre). Stylish with an excellent lead performance (its pared down presentation and plot had echoes of the classic Point Blank).
Though lacking in any great substance (cf, to say, The American) it consistently held one’s attention from the very first shot to the closing credits — something to be said of very [...]
Availability All week Last Week Away until Friday when did a lot of email catching up Quite a bit of coding on Recline Data Explorer while away. Check out the demo This Week CKAN – finishing and integrating Recline OKFN Labs BibServer Sprint
Announcing PyWordpress, a Python library for WordPress that provides a pythonic interface to WordPress using the WordPress XML-RPC API:
Code on github: https://github.com/rgrp/pywordpress Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywordpress/Along with a wrapper for the main functions it also provides various helper methods, for example to create many pages at once. This is somewhat [...]
This covers the last 2 weeks as I did not manage an update last week.
Availability Mon-Thurs: but in Boston Mon-Tues and travelling back to UK Wednesday Week of 21st November In South Africa all week More meetings and coding with people in South Africa including Cape Town meetup More work on Community [...]As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing bi-annual reviews of what I — and projects I’m involved in — have been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 6 months.
CKAN and the theDataHub Finalized separation of software and site: CKAN = data hub software, theDataHub.org = community [...]Availability All week In South Africa Mon-Thurs (return to UK Friday) Activity All last week in South Africa for Shuttleworth Fellows meetup Post about meetups and hackdays in South Africa Humanities working group meetup Limited coding and contribution to CKAN, specifically on: data package manager Recline Data Explorer (with Max [...]
Tomorrow evening (Thursday) I will be giving the ICAEW’s (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) IT faculty annual lecture. I will be talking on the topic of “Open Data: What, Why, How” — more info below.
The event is free, but unfortunately invite only due to limited capacity -(email richard.steele@icaew.com to attend). [...]
Availability All week (though may be at Moz Festival at end of the week) Activity Back last week from Open Government Data Camp Mini-hackday with Pedro Markun and others on OKFN Community Dashboard OKFN Hiring Planning of OKFN Labs Posts about Shuttleworth Fellowship renewal and plans for next year [...]
Last year I had the great fortune to be supported, in the role of a Fellow, by the Shuttleworth Foundation in my work to help Bootstrap the Open Data Ecosystem.
Not only was it great to have the resource to dedicate myself full-time to this area, but as a Fellow you get the [...]
Availability Very limited due to Open Government Data Camp Activity In San Francisco last week Tuesday – Saturday. Attended Code for America Summit and had a variety of useful meetings including with Wikimedia Foundation folks including Erik Möller and Dario Taraborelli, Dan Whaley of Hypothes.is and Max Ogden. Below are some [...]
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