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After the PhD - an update

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My PhD pass recommendation was officially accepted on the 5th of the month! :)

I am now looking for work in London, and especially in software startups. Last Sunday I went to the Silicon Milk Roundabout event in which loads of developers met loads of great London start ups.

Otherwise, I have managed to do a few bits and pieces on Github, including pushing up an in-development Javascript project from a few months back (to make a IBMPC emulator though I haven’t done much on it due to time pressures but recently got interested again after seeing the awesome jslinux), and mainly to get Bristol university to open source a piece of MATLAB software I am developing for them. This is part of outreach and educational program to help teach and demo image and video compression techniques.

Finally, I hope to find time to take the chapter from my thesis on the Human Visual System and open source it. However, since I had to significantly cut it down for the final draft I want to first update and expand it.

As for everyone trickling through, especially for the Teambox install guide or the nightly Cappuccino framework reference docs, I hope to add more interesting content up here in the future, so watch this space.


Boxy: My server in a wooden box

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This is Boxy. (more pictures/closeups at flickr)

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Boxy is a happy Atom-D510-based server housed in a little home-modified wooden box. Discretely designed for the fashion conscious home, it looks like nothing more than a wooden box… with a big blue LED… and a huge red fan… and a latch… to keep it closed.

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Boxy is super quiet thanks to the very low noise case-fan, fan-less CPU and Pico-PSU power supply.

Boxy loves Debian and entrusts his inner well-being with its goodness.

Checkout some awesome pictures of it here!

(Many thanks to Michael for all the help!)


Installing Teambox: A Full Guide For Debian

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Installing Teambox: A Full Guide For Debian and Apache

Copyright Stephen Ierodiaconou 2010

Teambox is an excellent project management system. It follows a ”social” logic, introducing status updates, discussions and collaborative working to create a sort of tasks/wiki/timetracking/twitter mix. It has ”external” user accounts allowing clients limited access to projects to get status updates/share files/join discussions etc. It is constant flux with new features appearing regularly. In my opinion, though it sorely misses a few key features (such as a way to organise uploads), it is the best project management web app I have tried to date.

Installing Teambox is relatively straight forward, but I ran into a few little issues here and there so, after working them out, here is what I did.

The following instructions are to install from the latest Community Edition on Github and include installing search and imagemagick dependancies.

To build Teambox there are a number of critical dependancies (gcc and the like) and so you will actually need around +200Mb disk space to install these alone. It is also important to note that it is a large Rails app and requires 100-200+Mb free memory to run.

This document is based on information from a number of sources, but most importantly:

If you find any errors or anything else of note, email me at stephen@flat53.com.

NOTE: Teambox is not at all designed to live in a subdirectory of a domain, e.g. http://www.my.com/teambox (I tried it) Hence it is recommended to install it in its own (sub)domain, e.g. http://teambox.my.com. This makes configuring the Apache webserver alot easier. If you really must install it in a subfolder there are some instructions at the end of this entry.

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