Monday 21 July 2014

Google Student Ambassador visit to Warwick Central State School!



Ashleigh, my fellow Google Student Ambassador and myself went to Warwick Central State School to meet up with their Prep/1T class! Warwick is a 3 hour drive from Brisbane.

We introduced them to this awesome coding game which I recommend to anyone who hasn't had any experience with programming (no matter their age):


They learned about for basic programming concepts like loops and they were all prodigies. Then made their own Google Glasses.

We had tonnes of fun and gave out lots of swag.

Monday 14 July 2014

GovHack~ Fix My City!



Over the weekend, myself and a team of super rad people went to GovHack! It's a competition that gets the public to use government and local data to create an application. There are tonnes of prizes, free food which makes up for the soul draining experience as the competition lasts 48 hours.

At 48 hours with limited sleep~

While my team didn't really know each other prior to the event, amazingly our limited skill sets happened to compliment each other.

I worked on processing the data on the front end and incorporating swishy effects with JavaScript. Also I did most of the video.

This is the video:

We eventually found out that it costs $16 to report a problem to someone in council, and $400 to report something to the Lord Mayor. If we integrated our system directly into their SAP instance, it would bring a lot of value.

Our final work is functional, but needs a lot of polishing. I'm super happy with it and I hope something like this be used in the future. It's taught me the effectiveness of quick prototyping and why many tech companies utilise 20% time and hack days.

GovHack was super fun. Totally worth it~

Here's our final submission:
http://54.187.176.148:3000/

Github:
https://github.com/elliotthilaire/fixmycity

More information about the project here:
http://hackerspace.govhack.org/content/fixmycity

Tuesday 8 July 2014

Studio Ghibli Nails!



My friend Madison so graciously lent her hands for my various Ghibli doodlings. Some of them turned out amazing, others not so much.

Noface is a thing of nightmares.

Sunday 6 July 2014

New Website!


Most excitingly, I used CSS3 animations to make my tongue stick out the more one scrolls.

Other than that:

  • Bootstrap for all that responsive goodness
  • PHP script to create a blogger feed
  • PHP script to create an email contact form
  • Timeline JS to make myself a nice interactive résumé
  • Terrible Engreesh