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This site is maintained on a month to month basis,
that's when new stuff is added. Links are checked and maintained at
this point too. There's a page or two of Open OLTP News, that's updated in
a very sporadic way too.
News on little projects that I, Martin Sullivan am involved in that
may come to fruition soon, later, or never. It all depends upon what
seizes my imagination and if any enthusiasm can be found under the
heaps of lassitude found on the desk in front of me. Maybe there's
some it down the back of the sofa. Who knows?
There's also some 'Historic' Technical Notes that have been
languishing in a partially completed state for some time too. Those who
know me would not be surprised by this.
I have still a number of other not-quite commercial things going on
with this JCP stuff too, and it's worth commenting on them. A number
of sites are taking the FTP feed at least, and some have written to me
to say so. Which is nice. And there's Staffbook, who inspired me to
convert the limited Cockermouth effort into a national scrape and have
been extremely helpful with suggestions and encouragement. Kudos to
them and their principal, Paul Esherwood.
The Author is currently on
health sabbatical, but is interested in the odd bit of pro-bono work by
the way of therapeutic recovery. So if you've any odd bits of work that
he can tackle on a non-commercial basis from his base in Cockermouth
please let him know.
Real Soon Now
ZOIS web-site is now a part-time employee of
a company called MegaNexus, who offer Human Resources Management type
services. I think you could say that's what they do. They are, or at
least one of their principals is, anxious that I continue to provide
my JCP scrape feeds and do the odd little bit of scraping software for
them. It is good, it makes me feel wanted, and it shows that I'm
willing to return to some-kind of productive work, all be it not the
short-term geographically challenged stupidly long-houred grief-fests
that I was involved with before I fell ill. MegaNexus is a spin-off of
the Computer Science department of University College London, so it's
nice to be in some geek-heavy company, even it it is only by e-mail.
Releases
The author, Martin Sullivan, writes (on 2010-01-13)
I abandoned the formal release strategy some time ago. And much of this web-site has been on a care and maintenance basis since about 2003. My health sabbatical has exacerbated things and the inertia has been palpable. I have recently been moved, however, to start documenting the little hacks that I've done since then as Technical Notes. The following are relatively recent additions, the date of the TN reflects when the original work was done rather than when I got around to actually writing the TN.
Recent, as in the last couple of months or so ...
If you've not already spotted them there are two sister sites (basically being run from the basement of Stag House). The ZOIS Home site is designated as a rapid prototyping site, to show-off little hacks that might be difficult and/or not allowed by our co-location service and ZOIS Ash, which is a sort-of friends-and-family place of ephemera.
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| Cockermouth's former Jobcentre Plus office |
The ZOIS Home site is home to the Jobcentre Mirror
stuff. We scrape the Jobseekers Direct web-site
and offer an FTP feed of what
we've found. In addition there are two search systems. One is
'canned' and specifically for Cockermouth, together with
an explanation. The
other exploits the observation that local vacancies are tied to local
Jobcentre Offices and yield a better geographical match than the
official postcode-based one. Start by finding your local
Jobcentre and following the links to a cornucopia of relevant
vacancies. You can bookmark the local Jobcentre Office results page
and return day after day, until you've found what you want or given up
in despair. We've written an explanation of this
too. Finally, to prove we're not dinosaurs, we've put a Facebook
Fan Page up on this, as an experiment but also to allow discussion
and feedback.
Statistics of Sorts
We still get quite a few page requests a month and the logs have been building up. Some lines of Perl later and we can see what pages are the most popular. Here's the top 10 for February, 2010:
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