Posts Tagged "university"
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Name Shaker
This semester, I'm studying a new course, "Prototyping Physical Interactions", that's aimed at strengthening students' problem solving skills using the new class of IoT devices that exist around us. T...
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Loading Spatial Data into Azure SQL Part 3
Continuing on with my work in querying spatial data in Azure SQL, I got stuck on the creation of a spatial index, which has been pointed out as being essential to the performance of an application...
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Productivity, or: What I'm Using To Get Stuff Done This Semester
I thought I might write a bit about what I'm using this semester to get stuff done, and work smarter; it's a mixture of things I've been using for a long time, plus some tools I only picke...
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Reflection: Semester 2, 2015
As my second (and penultimate) year of university concludes, I am again indulging myself to a post on thinking about what I've done this semester, what I've learnt and what I can improve on for...
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Loading Spatial Data into Azure SQL Part 2
I left off my last post uploading the polygons to Azure SQL, which took just a few hours. My next step was to be able to retrieve the LGA (LGA name) from the database, given a set of coordinates. T...
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Loading Spatial Data Into SQL Azure Part 1
I'm currently working on a university project in which we have elected to use a client-server architecture with an Android app on the front end and a web API working as the backend server. This serv...
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User Stories
Sometime in second semester last year, I had to design and document a set of user stories, and then present it in the form of a user story map. Documenting user stories is a fairly common task in th...
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Reflection
As the first semester of uni for 2015 concludes, I decided I’d do a little review of what I did well and didn’t do well this semester. I got this idea from Lachlan Harman (a.k.a. author...