Welcome, raison d'être
I'm Alaric Nightingale, currently I'm in my third year at university studying Computer Science at Clare college, Cambridge. This site exists because I get bored and keep feeling like I need somewhere to write my gibberish. Whether people read it or not. I like commentating on news of political and computing genres, so that will be my most likely outlet.The other main reason for the site is to show that I really can do webdesign, people's first question if you say you can do webdesign is usually "Have you got a website?", and since I've had a web presence for approximately the last 5 years, why stop now? If anyone finds the site funny or informative it's really just a bonus.
The site
About a year ago I decided to move away from the ajrn.co.uk domain and to the informationstorm.co.uk one because apparently my initials aren't easily remembered by anyone other than myself. I also want informationstorm to be slightly more useful than the old ajrn.co.uk domain, I may even resurrect the tutorials if I have some time (unlikely until I graduate).There is some general stuff about me under the me category, some information about the site's design and the coding of the backend under siteinfo. I put links to some of the more helpful websites I visit up in the links section, part IA and IB compscis at Cambridge may find them of some use.
Enjoy your visit,
NEWS
24 Jun 2005, 18:51
10 Jun 2005, 18:05
Cambridge: over.
Wow, exams have finished and the Cambridge experience is over.
It feels quite strange.
It feels quite strange.
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27 May 2005, 20:19
Warm summertime revision
It's a lovely day, finally feels like summer! I'm stuck inside trying to (avoiding) revision. Two weeks and the whole Cambridge experience is over, not quite sure if that's sunk in yet. I'm going to miss the view of the Cambridge skyline bathed in evening sun, apologies for the picture quality, it's only from my ickle cameraphone thing.
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21 May 2005, 15:24
Long overdue update
It's been a while since I last updated here! I've been busy trying to sort my life out---dissertations, projects, jobs et cetera. But I have a couple of updates:
- I found a job over Easter. I'll be working in central London as a software developer from September.
- I've finally finished the coursework aspect of my final year here in Cambridge. It ended as a bit over 11,000 lines of Java with a 11,900 word dissertation. I'm feeling a little drained at the moment after a couple of all nighters to polish it, but I can't stop because I've got finals in a touch over two weeks and need to start my revision.
I'll probably update again after the exams are over.
- I found a job over Easter. I'll be working in central London as a software developer from September.
- I've finally finished the coursework aspect of my final year here in Cambridge. It ended as a bit over 11,000 lines of Java with a 11,900 word dissertation. I'm feeling a little drained at the moment after a couple of all nighters to polish it, but I can't stop because I've got finals in a touch over two weeks and need to start my revision.
I'll probably update again after the exams are over.
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22 Mar 2005, 17:22
'Code Vault' Updated
About a year ago, instead of revision I wrote a small script of just under 500 lines to syntax highlight code files and display them. Now, a year later I'm releasing the first update to it! It's only a minor change:
- Fixes a compatibility bug---it was working with PHP>=4.2 but not 4.1 which was the stated compatibility.
- Makes the XHTML generation greedy, and so if you get several tokens of the same type then it coalesces them into one set of span tags rather than multiple ones. This should have a noticable effect on the size of the generated HTML file and seems to also speed up the generation probably due to decreased memory usage.
The script, oddly named 'Code Vault' because it makes no pretentions to securing the files is displaying itself here: http://www.ajrn.co.uk/src/?/xix_code_vault.
Licensed under the GPL, feel free to distribute, alter etc as appropriate.
- Fixes a compatibility bug---it was working with PHP>=4.2 but not 4.1 which was the stated compatibility.
- Makes the XHTML generation greedy, and so if you get several tokens of the same type then it coalesces them into one set of span tags rather than multiple ones. This should have a noticable effect on the size of the generated HTML file and seems to also speed up the generation probably due to decreased memory usage.
The script, oddly named 'Code Vault' because it makes no pretentions to securing the files is displaying itself here: http://www.ajrn.co.uk/src/?/xix_code_vault.
Licensed under the GPL, feel free to distribute, alter etc as appropriate.
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