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System Unique

In Autumn/Winter 2011, I built my first HTML5 responsive designed website, for System Unique.

System Unique website

www.systemunique.com

Cartwheel Borderlines Project

This summer, I took on a role as an artist, developing and delivering workshops leading to a mass-participation digital art project called Cartwheel Borderlines Project.

Borderlines Project website

www.tellusanotherone.org/live

Murkage Sound

My leading work during the first half of 2011 was definitely the Murkage Sound project.

Murkage Sound

www.murkagesound.com

Celebrate Festival 2011

I've just been asked to work on the printed programme again for the Celebrate Festival Whalley Range this year!

Celebrate 2011 poster

I have designed the programme for the event every year since 2008, and some of the posters.  I also help out with some of the planning and volunteering on the day itself and the weeks leading up to it.

Installing HOBO on Windows with MySQL

In November I was asked to install HOBO, an excellent extension to Ruby on Rails, on a Windows PC, using MySQL as its database. HOBO is new, and at the time, only compatible with Rails 2.  So I learned Rails 3 from a book and used various websites to fill the gaps.  (See links at the end.) The version numbers are important.  I believe these combinations work:

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