http://www.teamrubber.com Team Rubber talks on the Internet in a blog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:41:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past few weeks I've been spending my free time taking part in the Google AI competition (organised by the university of waterloo). While I didn't end up doing so well (I was disqualified for taking just over the 1 second per move permitted in one of my games), I ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/my-google-ai-tron-bot/ We host a number of clients' websites for them on our own servers. It's convenient and it saves a lot of deployment headaches, since we know our machines like the backs of our hands. Yesterday was one of those days. This chart shows the load average for one of our webservers. It's ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/sysadmin-versus-crowd/ A couple of weeks ago, David Gilroy from Conscious Solutions came to give a select few of us at Team Rubber a crash-talk in selling. I won't give away any of the secrets shared with us in this post, but it focused on the different approaches to sales that his ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/crash-talk-david-gilroy-from-conscious-solutions-on-effective-selling/ "Bristol offers what 87% of America’s towns and counties lack: the optic-fibre internet." Right story, wrong Bristol. Interested in helping get fibre for Bristol, UK? Try Connecting Bristol. http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/fibre-in-paradise/ We were excited this week to have the opportunity to introduce Delib's Dialogue App to a whole bunch of US government staff at a GSA webinar. It was slightly strange talking to an audience that you can't see or hear but I think it went well. We set ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/dialogue-app-makes-debut-at-gsa-webinar/ There's some nice space in our building coming up. Easy-in, easy-out. 35 King Street, near the Old Vic. It's an awesome building, very close to St. Nick's Market, the Apple, the Royal Navy Volunteer and other important amenities. Plenty of bike parking! See a picture! Give me a shout if interested andy@teamrubber.com View ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/nice-space-for-rent-in-bristol/ Last week was my birthday, so I'm now the proud owner of the new Tony Hawk game - "Ride". I'd seen some really bad reviews on-line, so I wasn't 100% sure what to expect, but having played it quite a bit now I've got to give it great marks - and ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/game-review-tony-hawk-ride/ Is your Keynote programme being a big fat c*ck pain in the neck? At Team Rubber most of us use Mac's all day every day. Ever use the Shift + Apple + 4 screenshot function? We all do. Ever noticed how sometimes Keynote presentations suddenly inflate in size to make you ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/how-to-make-mac-keynote-presentations-smaller-top-tip-default-to-jpeg/ The iFeatures blogs (which we're in the finals of) have launched over at the iFeatures website. Check out our team blog here and all the teams in the iFeatures final here. Our project is called "The Bristol Job" and is a family heist movie about an 11 year old girl who ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/ifeatures-blogs-launch/ Yesterday, I attended the Open Mobile Innovation Camp at the innovation centre in Bath. The event was hosted by Chris Book and had talks from Giles Turnball (Freelance Journalist), Bruce Lawson and Patrick Lauke (both from Opera). The focus of the day revolved around the current trends in mobile app ... http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/bath-openmic-4-mobile-web-html5-and-css3/