Author Archives: Roo

This Weekend’s Project – Tag Wall

Posted by Roo, March 10, 2013

This weekend I managed to build my first web app from the ground up. It is shonky, it doesn’t do a lot, but I made it, from scratch.. Well, starting from the excellent HTML 5 Boilerplate and maybe with a few copy/pastes from Stack Overflow View the app here: http://www.roowilliams.com/tag It uses JavaScript, jQuery AJAX, PHP and and SQL [...]

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Digital Profile Idea

Posted by Roo, February 17, 2013
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For the last week or two I have been slowly teaching myself JavaScript by working through a project idea I had. I am enjoying the process of starting with something quite simple, and then coding in new functionality in a step by step process. The unripe fruits of my labour can be seen online here. [...]

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Interfaceless White Goods

Posted by Roo, February 17, 2013
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Why not give every home appliance a low-powered Bluetooth/WiFi module and do away with interfaces? Less tooling, less material variation, less quality control, interface design costs and more hygienic are among the many benefits that I can think of off the top of my head. What happens if your smart-phone breaks/gets lost you ask? Well that [...]

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Vintage Aesthetics

Posted by Roo, January 8, 2013
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Whilst being blessed with the ability to get excited about aesthetics and also the ability to get excited about technology, it is easy to neglect one area in favour of another from time to time. Currently I have been pushing hard on the tech side of things, learning to swim in a deep pool of [...]

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