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24
Jun 2010
Yesterday saw the National Physical Laboratory‘s (NPL) annual Water Rocket Challenge take place in Teddington, which saw school teams during the day, and adult teams in the evening, fill the skies with high pressure water rockets. Below are a selection of photos which I took throughout the day.
You can view more at NPL’s Flickr set.
16
Jun 2010
A photo which I took while working at my day job at NPL, for their spin off company Argento Diagnostics the other week, has been published in the Financial Times, alongside a story about Argento in the Digital Business supplement.
See a scan of the story below from the paper, or you can read the story online.
21
May 2010
Photos of Sexton’s girls Lucy Allen and Emma Cops.
Lucy Allen
16
Apr 2010
Working in collaboration with Cherry Designs, last week saw the relaunch of the new website for photographer Andrew Brookes. I was responsible of turning the new site design into a fully working site, coded in XHTML, PHP and jQuery.
Andrew Brookes is an award winning photographer, and his new site features a javascript gallery to showcase his work, as well as having sections to provide contact details and more information about him for potential clients to make contact with him.
The site is also optimised for search engines to increase it’s position in Google and other search providers.
31
Mar 2010
Well after a few months and a lot of time spent working on the site during the evenings and weekends the KTNs site is ready to be let out into the wild for you folks to explore, test and give us your valuable feedback!
Why has it taken so long? Well I’ve worked on this site solely during my spare time, which at times can be hard to come by – and there have been several big coding changes throughout its development, either to improve usability and page loading times – to just keeping up to speed with the developments of the new KTN platform currently being introduced over at http://ktn.innovateuk.org
So what is this site all about I hear you ask?
Well, to put it simply; the site’s main purpose is to monitor and gather all of the social media activity conducted by the UK’s KTN’s into one place! The site currently monitors several KTN accounts on Twitter, Flickr and their blogs on the new KTN website platform – with their updates being posted up to every minute on this site as and when new items are posted!
The site is structured in a way which should be familar to KTN members. Each KTN is listed on the homepage (and the networks page), and then sub groups of each KTN are listed on each individual KTN’s page.
For example;
www.ktns.co.uk – All main KTN’s updates
www.ktns.co.uk/networks/digitalsystems – Updates from the Digital System KTN’s main accounts
www.ktns.co.uk/networks/digitalsystems/locationtiming – Updates from Digital System’s Position, Navigation & Timing group.
Technical
The site is coded in PHP with a MySQL database for the core functionality, with jQuery being implemented to improve usability and add to the whole site experience such as auto-updating the stream as and when new updates are posted.
Future
There are many more features and updates planned to be launched over the next few weeks so keep an eye out over on the KTN site!
*Part of this blog orignally posted over at ktns.co.uk/blog
