Author Archives: Oliver Newth
Graduation and awards
This week I joined over 6,000 students who are graduating from the University of Warwick. Never having attended a graduation before, I wasn’t too sure what to expect, but my day was soon filled with far more than I had previously expected. At 10.00am, we headed into Butterworth Hall where I found my family sat [...]
End of the road
It’s been a great three years, but like all good things it must now come to an end. I’ve made friendships that will last a lifetime, taught in Africa and learnt a fair amount of soil mechanics. It hasn’t all been fun, but it’s an experience I’ve loved. Last week we had our graduation ball [...]
Tech I love – BE Broadband competition
There has been an incredible amount of progression made in technology over the past few years and the output of this can be seen just about everywhere: the cars we drive; the music we listen to. As there’s far too many to list here, I wanted to focus on some of the breakthroughs that have [...]
Cloud Hug – your new UK cloud hosting
Whilst I have been providing hosting to clients for a number of years, management has always been manually completed through telephone calls and emails. It therefore made sense to set up an automated system so clients could manage their own accounts. Enter Cloud Hug, a not-so-standard hosting solution. Whilst continuing to offer the personal support [...]
Lectures App for mobile devices
It’s been a few months since Lectures App was released in the Engineering department and it now has over 650 users. As with any project like this though, there have been some issues with it since which do need to be ironed out at some point. Anyway, one area I have always felt the project [...]
Geotechnical reports and stereonets
One of our recent projects involved producing a geotechnical interpretative report for a fictitious client. We learnt a lot through this exercise, namely through the difference of approach involved with creating a professional report to that of a laboratory report. One of the main parts consisted of producing stereographic views of discontinuities in the rock [...]
Festivals to look out for this Summer
So the Summer is once again approaching and a lot of people will be wondering which festivals they should be going to. I should start out by clarifying that there’s no one answer for everyone – it very much depends what you’re looking for. Instead of saying one festival that’s simply great, I’m going to [...]
The upcoming few months
Despite the high levels of coursework and material I have to learn at the moment, I’ve been lucky enough to have some great things to look forward to in the upcoming future. The first of these is a trip to Geneva, Switzerland to visit the CERN project (large hadron collider) - one of the most expensive scientific [...]
Experience Warwick prospectus interview
Admittedly a bit of self-promotion! I was recently asked to be filmed for a series of videos aiming to give prospective undergraduates an insight to the different departments at University of Warwick. Their final video (from the UoW Youtube channel) is below…
Fresh Store: Free Magento E-commerce Theme
Okay, so I have decided to make my first open-source e-commerce theme. I was originally going to sell it but simply decided: hey, I may as well give it away! Well… something like that anyway. It’s basically a clean, easy-to-use and highly adaptable theme that can be used for just about any kind of online [...]