Exeter, Great Britain
Scientist, Author, Hacker and Tinkerer
Areas of Expertise:
- Objective-C
- iPhone
- Perl
- Astronomy
- Sensors
- Arduino
- consulting
- speaking
- programming
- training
- writing
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Getting Started with Arduino and iOS
May 15 2012
To celebrate the release of my new video course Getting Started with Arduino and iOS, O'Reilly Media are offering 60% off when you buy it along with my book iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino. 60% off when you buy both the video and book together It's the MAKE Hardware Innovation… read moreLocation Enabled Sensors at Øredev
May 15 2012
Back in November last year I spoke at Øredev in Malmö, Sweden, about location enabled sensors, and the video of the talk has just been put up onto the web by the organisers. Øredev - Location Enabled Sensors for iOS from Øredev 2011. If you're interested in the topics discussed… read moreInterviewed at O'Reilly Where 2012
May 02 2012
I forgot to post a pointer to this at the time, but while I was out at O'Reilly's Where conference I was interviewed by Mike Hendrickson about location privacy, data leakage and data exhaust. read moreA fireside chat with Dale Dougherty
April 25 2012
While I was out at the O'Reilly offices in Sebastopol earlier in the month I sat down with Dale Dougherty to talk about how to make iPhones and iPads talk to the open source world. read moreMarch 31 2012
It's #iOS5 week at O'Reilly Media, and they're offering 50% off most of their iOS titles in ebook, including my own Learning iOS Programming (2nd Edition) and Basic Sensors in iOS. If you've been thinking about picking up some #iOS5 goodness from O'Reilly, then now is probably as good a… read moreMarch 22 2012
This article was originally published on the O'Reilly Radar. Big data isn't just about multi-terabyte datasets hidden inside eventually-concurrent distributed databases in the cloud, or enterprise-scale data warehousing, or even the emerging market in data. It's also about the hidden data you carry with you all the time; the slowly… read moreTertiary data: Big data's hidden layer
March 19 2012
Big data isn't limited to multi-terabyte datasets or data markets. It also includes the hidden data you carry with you all the time and the growing data on your movements, contacts and social interactions. read moreMarch 07 2012
I spent most of last week at O'Reilly Media's Strata Conference on Big Data in Santa Clara, where I was talking about the data you carry with you. Something I've started to call migratory data. Big data isn’t just about multi-terrabyte data sets hidden inside eventually-concurrent distributed databases in the cloud,… read moreFebruary 15 2012
A couple of days ago I received a BiKN for iPhone case and tags, with just over a week between ordering and it arriving on my desk, considering the big body of water in the way, I was pretty impressed by the rapid delivery. BiKN is advertised as a smart case that… read moreSeptember 28 2011
While you'll likely interact with your smartphone tomorrow in much the same way you interacted with it today, it's quite possible that your smartphone will interact with the world in a very different way. The next mobile war has already begun. read moreJune 16 2011
From custom chips, to the data centers backing its new iCloud effort, Apple is committed to controlling the end-user experience. The web has no place in their vision. read moreMay 19 2011
Those evangelizing the revolutionary qualities of "the next big thing" (whatever it may be) would do well to revisit past "big things." Truth is, computing goes in cycles. read moreThe secret is to bang the rocks together
May 13 2011
Every so often a piece of technology can become a lever that lets people move the world, just a little bit. The Arduino is one of those levers. read moreGot an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
April 20 2011
Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered that iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 are regularly recording the location of devices into a hidden file. read moreRadiation visualizations paint a different picture of Japan
March 21 2011
From talking to people on the ground in Japan, and by looking at the actual measurements across the country, a very different picture emerges than that reported by the Western media. read moreMarch 03 2011
We face a choice between a future of accelerating technological progress and an age of declining possibilities and narrowing horizons. That choice depends on the problems we choose to solve. read moreThe return of the Personal Area Network
March 01 2011
The web of things and less intrusive "wearables" could reignite the personal area network, at least in a slightly different form from years past. read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Webcast: An Introduction to building mapping apps for the iPhone and iPad
September 28, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The iPhone has quickly become one of the primary interface devices for geographically tagged data, and underlying geo-location on the iPhone and iPad devices is the Core Location framework. The framework...
Webcast: An introduction to building mapping applications for the iPhone and iPad
April 28, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The iPhone has quickly become one of the primary interface devices for geographically tagged data, and underlying geo-location on the iPhone and iPad devices is the Core Location framework. The framework...
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