Work has continued on MakeStaticSite, the Bash utility to create static snapshots of websites, refine and deploy them — just through a single command. Now at version 0.22.2 and available for download, recent updates include: We’ve even updated the animation Read More …
(from a technical perspective) Launch of MakeStaticSite.sh Website November 2022: A website dedicated to MakeStaticSite is now available at https://makestaticsite.sh/. It provides the latest version of the software, released under AGPL, along with various documentation to help getting started. Motivation Read More …
Foreword The issues of Website security and performance continue to loom large, with organisations large and small continuing to suffer severe loss of service following a compromise — whether a site gets defaced, Google results become hijacked, or, more seriously, Read More …
Web-based Intranet for Qatar Museums (2012-2014) Problem The Qatar Museums Authority (via archive.org) had responsibility for a dozen or so new museums that were emerging to make Qatar a cultural hub for the Gulf. A single EMu database instance was Read More …
2009-2012, 2014-2020 Role: Systems developer (as a staff member of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford) Brief: Develop and maintain the main Website for the Museum (but not the social media channels) and integrate the collections Read More …
Gems of Earth and Air February 2015 – May 2015 Brief: Oxford University Museum of Natural History Collections had amassed numerous separate PostgreSQL databases with limited online access. They were in the process of migrating all into a single instance Read More …
June 2011 – April 2012 Following a successful tender process, I was contracted to overhaul the website of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), a UN NGO having general consultative status to ECOSOC with HQ in the UK. The Read More …
The projects I have been undertaking in the past 25 years or so span theoretical research, software development, policy, implementation and practice. Much is experimental and might not be realized as a product, but in seeking practical benefit, I try Read More …
Mobility has become the key characteristic of our period. Social and physical mobility, the feeling of a certain sort of freedom, is one of the things that keeps our society together, and the symbol of this freedom is the individually-owned Read More …