• Tango with Django

  Ever wanted to learn how to develop your own web applications, but you've got no experience? Why not use Django? It's an awesome, modern framework — and this book will teach your the basics quickly so you'll be developing like a pro in no time. First released in 2013, thousands around the world have learnt how to develop web apps with our book. We are now working towards the book's second major release. ActiveBookDjangoWeb Development

• The PhD Journey

  Doing a PhD is hard. You only really hear of the success at the end — but what was involved to get to that point? There's plenty of positive (and negative) experiences that you'll go through. I'm trying to uncover the things you seldom hear about and explain things clearly. ActiveExperiences

• The 486

  I've always had an interest in low-level programming. To make things a bit more exciting, I've purchased an old 486 computer with an enormous 16MB RAM. Apart from the nostalgia trip, it is teaching me how low-level systems work. ActiveExperiences

• Drawing

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• dmax.org.uk

  This website is a little project in itself. I'm keeping my web development skills up to date by by redeveloping this website. And, by keeping things up to date, I can pretty much use this website as a sort of (nice looking) interactive CV. Win-win. ActiveYou're looking at it

• PleaseTakes

  During my high school years, I was hired by my high school to write them software. My favourite project was PleaseTakes, a web application that allowed individuals to schedule class cover for teachers who were away. ArchivedSoftware

• SimIIR

  One of the main contributions of my PhD, SimIIR is a pure-Python framework that allows you to conduct simulations of interaction (simulating humans using search engines). It's been used for a number of different publications, and I hope to work on revising it for a future release. PausedExperiences

• Crisees

  This one was cool, and my undergraduate project! I made a really nice prototype called Crisees that sucked content from social media platforms (e.g. Twitter), and spat it out in an intuitive web-based interface. ArchivedSoftwareSocial Media

• Photography

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