User:JamesHarrison

Hi. I'm James.

I'm a student, and in my spare time I work as web application consultant. I'm studying computer science at Royal Holloway, University of London. I have interests in flight, genetic and adaptive algorithms, neural networks, theatrical lighting and sound, and live audio engineering.

My blog and personal web page can be found here, which includes write-ups of some of my spare-time projects. The contact page on my blog also lists ways to get in touch with me, though for hackspace I'm in the hackspace IRC.

Projects, Current and Past

• Drone4 (working title) - Quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle for aerial photography and other $stuff
• Backchat - Sentiment analysis for Twitter
• PoliticsPosters - Poster generation for the 2010 General Election
• EVE Metrics - EVE Online market data aggregation and analysis
• ISKsense - EVE Online website advertising using ingame currency

Skills

• Programming languages - Ruby, Python, PHP (if I have to), C, XC
• Hardware/Protocols - Arduino, basic electronics, theatrical lighting, DMX, OSC, audio engineering
• Databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, memcached
• Graphics - Basic 2D and 3D
• Web Programming and other Stuff - HTML, CSS, Haml, Sass, Ruby on Rails, Django, Sinatra, nothing Microsoft, nothing Flash
• Also, I can wield a soldering iron without killing people most of the time