[57north-discuss] Member application Intro

[richard.buchan at dbil.com]

1. Your Name (nick):

Richard Buchan (chil)



2. Your Background

BSc Electronics - Leeds
MSc Computer Science - Edinburgh

Oracle Financial systems expert



3. Your Hacklab-related Interests

Music, Social Media, electronics, systems



4. What knowledge can you bring hacklab community?

20 years in commercial systems development - databases, database
programming, *nix, finance systems
Currently into twitter apis use and system development

live projects:

@chilkathaiku on twitter
 - This is an automated Haiku (Japanese poetry) generator, using a
database of every single English word sectioned by word type, sylables,
meaning and synonyms.
A database program creates the Haiku, and then takes a random word in the
Haiku and searches Google and Bing images for a related image, adds a
random hash tag and an icon denoting the word that was searched - adds
these all together and tweets this every about 10 minutes (the time is
randomised to try to get around the spam filters on Twitter)


@space_LSE
on twitter - stock picking trading program
http://theartofstockpicking.blogspot.com


5. What do you wish to learn from the hacklab community?

initially help in getting a midi project realised



6. Link to photo (not essential but useful)

http://www.aerobatics.org.uk/results/2009/duxfordcup_2009/duxford.htm  
(Masters Gold)