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Communication and passion common theme for IT employers
Here are my notes from tonight’s seminar on IT careers. Seven speakers represented some of NZ’s leading IT companies. (these notes originally posted as facebook comments, they’re unedited other than a couple of typos). Simon Ferrari from Datacom – what he looks for: people who are socially comfortable, well adjusted, intelligence but transcripts not important, […]
Apples for the students? Beyond good or evil
February 18, 2013
We’ve got a new Mac suite at work. We intend to use it for teaching operating systems, networks etc, as well as a platform for developing for the iOS. On our department facebook page an interesting debate has been raging, started by the following question: I’d like to know (and I know of others who […]
EcoExplore citizen science app framework
November 21, 2012
Another successful capstone project, EcoExplore is a flexible and scalable framework built to be a foundation for mobile applications that aim to engage members of the public in the exploration of the natural environments of New Zealand, and enable sharing of their discoveries. The NZ Marine Metre Squared application is an implementation of the EcoExplore […]
Panda Island
November 21, 2012
Otago Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Information Technology capstone project sees groups of students undertaking year long “real projects for real clients”. Panda Island is a recently completed project. The Peace Foundation has identified a need for an interactive tool to complement their Cool Schools programme, which is aimed at primary school students to learn skills required […]
FarmBase
November 21, 2012
Here’s one of our recently completed capstone projects. The farm environmental accreditation process is a time consuming, costly and document-laden endeavour. FarmBase enables efficient management and auditing by providing agribusiness and environmental data in an integrated system (for Ian Brown Consulting).
Computing for Sustainability 
August 20, 2014
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