Category Archives: Web Technology

Google BigQuery and Predictions API – Swap data for processing time?

By Woody | August 10, 2010

Something led me to happen across the following video from google I/O 2010 which gives a full expo (57 minutes) on their BigQuery and Prediction API’s. You can see they have made a lot of ground with ridiculous processing, claiming to be able to run SQL queries (or a derivative) on trillion’s of rows in [...]

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Unpublished May and June 2010

By Woody | July 7, 2010

Hey blog, it’s been a while eh? Hows things? May was a month of brick lane curries, a new art exhibition (silent city), mini golf and a bunch of other blurry stuff. June was a good month (on the whole apart from hackers and google caffeine?!?), did incalculable amounts of coding, new site rollouts, tennis, [...]

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Javascript in Spreadsheets? – Google Apps Script Does that

By Woody | March 8, 2010

Far from being a google promoter, I do like this. Google Apps Script opens up google spreadsheets to scripting – Just like Macro’s etc in Excel, but with Javascript. This effectively opens up a world of online data processing and analysis that would have not been easily possible within a browser before hand, especially suiting [...]

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Multiple WordPress blogs from 1 instance / 1 wordpress folder to maintain

By Woody | January 23, 2010

WordPress is a victim of its own success, but its no victim. It is huge. Millions upon millions of people use wordpress to power their blogs (like this one for example) to make money and to have their voice present on the internet. It has become a first stop for a huge host of people [...]

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Art Interview Archive’s – Idea’s for Hans Ulrich Obrist

By Woody | January 13, 2010

Wired this month features a short story on Hans Ulrich Obrist and his archive of recorded interviews surmounting 2000 hours. It is proposed that the digitalisation and distribution of these is a challenge. This is a challenge I would like to take up and in almost open letter format I would like to discuss some [...]

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2015 – What will technology be in 2015?

By Woody | December 5, 2009

I read a fair bit of technology news and discussion online, its a kind of hobby of mine – around this I make sweeping statements about what I think things will end up like. While a fairly pointless thing to do its interesting to note what you think things will be like in the future [...]