Guy Roberts

Note to self, instead of peering at wrongly formatted JSON like this;
SyntaxError: missing ) in parenthetical cannot parse JSON response: { “success” : true, “msg” : “This is the message !”, “rows” : [ { "task_id" : "jbpm$2", "description" : "Can you look at this buddy ?", "status" : "Not Yet Started", "priority" : [...]

Recently I’ve worked on several community based web sites. Here I’ll discuss the lessons learned and also describe some of the considerations in building one. Its mostly common sense.
By ‘Voluntary Organisations’ I mean groups in the UK who operate on a not for profit basis. Typically they are small bodies [...]

The Community Edition of Alfresco has a footer showing their logo, copyright and some scary phrases to encourage you to buy the Enterprise version straight away.
We needed to remove the scary phrases and I quickly found this useful explanation of what to do by Tom McQueeney.
So I checked out the source, edited PageTag.java [...]

Here is a groovy front seat view of a glider launching. I don’t often take a camera up but on this day Rob Taplow did the flying from the seat behind me. All I did on the launch was to press Record. And to find a Rolling Stones song to [...]

Bimbling means to glide aimlessly around the sky, as opposed to purposefully racing off on a mission to get somewhere else quickly.
Here is a GPS trace from a bimble I did yesterday with Les at Buckminster Gliding Club in the Vale of Belvoir.

The spiral shapes are the circles we flew in thermals being blown [...]

I had a lot of time to think as I cycled to Scotland. And one of the thoughts was that all of the phone boxes are fading to pink. Nothing stays the same.
The one pictured here was the first example I found on flickr. Its in a village called Holme, Nottinghamshire [...]

Today I handed over the administration password of Make One Change Today to West Bridgford’s foremost community organiser, Kate Troy (not Kate Tory as I wrongly spelled it earlier).

Here is a screenshot of the new web site that I have built and hosted for Broxtowe Youth Homelessness, a charity that acts to reduce the number of young people leaving home prematurely.

For the Community Accounting web site I used Google Maps to display the locations of seventy organisations around the UK. I provided John, the administrator with a web page so that he could edit the locations by automatically geocoding postcodes. I stored the long/latitude in a MySQL database and generated the necessary [...]

This is about how I cycled from Nottingham to John O’Groats in May 2009 to buy a mug. Fifteen Years ago I did the complete Lands End to John O’Groats trip and bought a souvenir mug at each end. I dropped the one from Scottland and have often thought about [...]