Leon Hassan

Dissertation

My Dissertation - Week 4

The big task for this sprint was to sort out everything I needed for my mid-project demonstration. I ended up setting up both continuous integration and cloud deployment too, it made my demonstration a little nicer. Next sprint will most likely end up being a code review and refactor, then

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My Dissertation - Week 3

In this issue of 'Dissertation Weekly', my tasks were to implement Google Maps travel API and to get pathfinding working. Pathfinding The first step in actually implementing some kind of pathfinding was to get some kind of weight for the edge between each venue/item. To do this I got

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My Dissertation - Week 2

This weeks tasks originally consisted of getting information about venues in an area, getting information for each of those venues and plotting a logical route through each of these venues. However after some cursory research into route plotting and how I could accomplish it, I pushed this particular task back

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My Dissertation - Week 1

This weeks tasks consist of setting up the project in version control and creating a proof of concept Node.js server (in version control). Version control I decided to use Git via Github as my version control because I have used it before, in both my industrial year and personal

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My Dissertation - Week 0

I'm back again, sorry for the lack of posts. I worked very hard at university and the downtime I did have I spent playing games and going out! The student life will soon be over for me, I should make the most of it right? My new blog series -

General

We're back in action!

I'm sorry that I've been so quiet recently, I'm afraid that I tried to upgrade Ghost from 0.5 to 0.11 and everything went sideways. So in my infinite wisdom I thought this would be the perfect time to upgrade my box from Ubuntu v14 to v16 the new

Technology

Atebol Interactive - My new job

Atebol started off as a bilingual book publisher that slowly made it's way into website design, specifically bilingual websites! Now we handle many educational and governmental websites. We're a small company and we get to do a lot of cool stuff. We get to try new things and have a

IBM

The Hybrid Hackathon & the end of my Internship

Sorry that there hasn't been many posts in the past 2 months or so! Life has been busy and I've been a little more than neglecting of my poor disused blog.. Here's a summary of what's been going on since my last post: * Finished first place in the HybridHack @ IBM

Docker

What is Docker?

Docker is a container system for software. It's focus is in making the deployment of software easier and more manageable. For example shipping containers made the transportation of all sorts of goods much easier to move and handle, loading times were decreased and you don't have to spend time packing

Japan

Travelling to Japan - Part 3

Kyoto This post is going to be about our trip to Kyoto and all the stuff we did while there!! Accommodation We stayed at the Backpackers Hostel: K's House Kyoto, we spent 4 nights here. It was a very different atmosphere when compared to the Emblem Hostel (from our first

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Running Node.js in Atom

Recently I've started writing Node.js and got to fiddle my way through configuring my Atom install to automatically run my Node.js code for me. Installing Node.js You can install Node.js using nvm (Node Version Manager) or you can download it from the official site. I recommend

Tutorial

Let's Encrypt! - Part 2

In the last post we covered how to install Let's Encrypt, and how to obtain your certificate. We're going to finish up this tutorial now by going over how to configure your SSL/TLS on Nginx and how to set up auto-renewal for Let's Encrypt! Configuring SSL/TLS on Nginx

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Let's Encrypt! - Free SSL/TLS certificates

Let's Encrpyt is a free, automated and open certificate authority by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG)! This will be a long tutorial, so I'll break it into two parts and this post will cover obtaining your certificate. Installing your certificate will be out later on! I hope this is

Technology

Reveal.js - The best presentations!

What is Reveal.js? Reveal.js is a framework for creating HTML presentations, it's super nice! How do I use it? Reveal is really easy to use if you have any JavaScript experience, and even if you don't you can just use a GUI editor like Slides. What makes Reveal

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IBM Emerging Technologies - New Project!

Let me start off by saying I'm sorry it's been a while, I had flu! Who gets flu in April!? The Project Last week, before being stricken with disease, I went to the first meeting for a new project from IBM Emerging Technologies. We call this project the AI bot-game.

Japan

Travelling to Japan - Part 2

Tokyo - Round 1 So this post is gonna go over where we stayed for our first stint in Tokyo, where we went in Tokyo and what we did! Accommodation We stayed at the Emblem Hostel for our first 3 nights in Japan, it was really really nice. The staff

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Beer52 - My first box!

A few days ago I ordered my first box from Beer52 (link is a referral, you get £10 off!). So this is gonna be an unboxing post, if you love your craft beer.. Read on! What did I get? I ordered a 10-beer box, the standard is 8 beers but

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Microsoft Keynote - 30/03/2016

It's happening!! So I'm writing about all the major parts of the Microsoft Keynote - March 30th 2016: * Windows Ink APIs * Windows Hello * Cortana APIs * Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition * Desktop app conversions * Bash on Windows * Xamarin * Xbox One retail developer kit I'll go over the points from the keynote that

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FED@IBM Hackademy

All of this week I've been in IBM Hursley for the Hackademy, ran by Damon Deaner and Sam Richard. If you're a fellow IBM'er or just an interested party, have a look at our dedicated Twitter account: @IBMFrontend. Or our hashtag: #IBMHackademy Day 1 & 2 We spent the first day

Japan

Travelling to Japan - Part 1

The Flight! Our flights were with Air China, found via SkySkanner and sold by LastMinute.com for £450pp. The flights were 14.5 hours each way we swapped in Beijing, China for 1.5 hours each way. We had an initial scare because in all my glory, only put our

IBM

Events galore!

As you all know I recently went to a Hackathon! Since then there's been a whole slew of cool events, namely the Hackademy for front-end design and a talk at Surrey University on various hot topics. Hackademy If you follow IBM and their various promotional campaigns, you might've seen some

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Travelling to Japan - Part 0

My girlfriend and I went to Japan for 13 nights, from London Heathrow to Tokyo Haneda! In the following blog posts (tagged "Japan") I will go over what airline we used, where we stayed, where we ate and drank and where we visited. I'm going to break it into a

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Hursley Hackathon

On Thursday I travelled down to IBM Hursley to meet up with my team and take part in the first IBM Hackathon, for placement and graduate students. We got on-site and had a presentation that went over the details of the 4 challenges we could choose from and then we

Technology

Internet of Things in the office

What is the Internet of Things? The IoT (Internet of Things) is the development of everyday objects having network connectivity and allowing them to send/receive data. This makes way for great things like The Magic Mirror created by Michael Teeuw, which is a mirror powered by a Raspberry Pi

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Overleaf Campus Challenge 2016

What is the challenge? Here's a wonderful poster from Overleaf themselves! Just click the poster to go straight to the challenge page! The following information can be found on the challenge page, on Overleaf: 1st and 2nd Place Overall Winners The winners of our Campus Challenge 2016 will be the