Dissertation My Dissertation - Week 8 Sorry for the week break, I was away for 5 days and then spent a day driving around the UK so I've basically skipped a week of work. Technically this is week 9 of work, but it's the 8th iteration of work for my project. This
Dissertation My Dissertation - Week 6 & 7 This sprint has been the beginning of my front-end work. Originally I had planned to do all of my designs stage-by-stage, starting with some hand-drawn designs, then Photoshop wireframes and finally actually coding the design. I ended up taking a slightly different route.. I felt like I needed this whole
Dissertation Featured My Dissertation - Week 5 I didn't do an awful lot of work this week, I was very busy with not-dissertation-things. I did manage to complete a code review and refactor my current codebase for the server. Although these were the only tasks I accomplished this week.. Refactoring I refactored a lot of
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
Dissertation Featured 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
Dissertation Featured 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
Dissertation Featured 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
Dissertation Featured 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
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
Overleaf Featured 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
IBM My Industrial Year so far.. My course I study Computer Science (G401) at Aberystwyth University, I am currently on my Industrial Year (8 months in!) at IBM. As a part of my course I was required to find myself a placement, and on this placement I am visited twice by a tutor assigned to me
