View from the Potting Shed

A presentation by the JRuby Guys (Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo) at Scotland on Rails.
This is a post that I’ve had sitting in my WordPress drafts since early April about the Scotland on Rails conference that I attended, actually the same weekend that Jane and I discovered that she was pregnant … so that made […]

A nice and friendly way to begin a presentation.
About 10 months ago we launched a new website for the University.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been hosting a number of feedback sessions inviting folks to comment on what they think works, what doesn’t work, what could be improved, and giving us an opportunity to showcase […]

It would appear that to park in the Dyer’s Brae staff car park in St Andrews you would need a car that is some kind of shade of red or blue.
It would also appear that a complete inability to park straight would help too, as this photo ably demonstrates:

Very poor, Mr Reeves; very poor!

Last night I did something I’ve not done in fifteen years: I had dinner at a University of St Andrews hall of residence.
Pizza express
Rewinding a few hours, I had just finished a lunchtime presentation about website statistics and customising our search engine when I was standing chatting with someone and nibbling on the left-overs from […]

The antibiotics appear to be beginning to work, although I’m predictably now feeling a little rougher around the edges and more tired. But nothing that a handful of pills and a month in bed won’t fix!
Sadly, that’s not going to happen though.
Job satisfaction
Work is incredibly busy just now. (When is it not?) But […]

Photo of the interior of St Salvator’s Chapel (photo by Suny Brockport)
Here’s the text of my homily from last night’s carol service at St Salvator’s Chapel, University of St Andrews.
It was a real privilege to preach at such an event, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I was nervous before hand. Really nervous; my mouth went dry, […]

Jeff Barr of Amazon addressing the IWMW 2007 conference in York
Back in June, at the snappily-titled Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 conference at the University of York, I attended a presentation by Jeff Barr, who has the enviable job title of Senior Manager, Web Services Evangelism at Amazon.com.
That’s right, Amazon have a Web Services Evangelist. […]