Cameron Prebble's Blog

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Just launched from the Greater Wellington Regional Council is the new Cycling & Walking Journey Planner. Built by the team at ProjectX Technology the Journey Planner provides optimised routes for both walking and cycling for the entire Wellington Region.Unlike the walking routes provided on Google Maps, this Journey Planner also uses the many public accessways and shortcuts to provide more convenient routes to the user, plus gives the user the ability to click-n-drag their own alternative r...[Read full story]

Tonight I'll be doing a quick talk at the New Zealand Computer Society's Evening with Industry up at Victoria University. This event is designed to inform students who are about to graduate what to expect when trying to enter the IT workforce.I'll be outlining my time spent with ProjectX Technology and Made from New Zealand, as well as my time involved in the Summer of Code.There will also be speakers from Trade Me, BNZ, Intergen, Code to Customer, Provoke, Catalyst and KPMG.More info can be...[Read full story]

Just thought I'd let the people know that Elston Gun, one of Wellington's most awesome live bands, are for a limited time letting you download their latest single Chaperone for free as part of Amplifier's Free Lunch campaign.If you enjoy their sound be sure to also check out their debut EP 'White Noise' released on Et Cetera Recordings.You can also check out their sounds at http://www.myspace.com/elstongun [Read full story]

On the 21st of March a large majority of my day was spent down at Oriental Bay helping dig Made from New Zealand's colossal 50 fern. This was awesome effort from which was only decided to be done a few days earlier by Made From director Tim Norton.Throughout the day we had many onlooker's curious about why exactly we were digging up Oriental Bay, "'cos we can!" seemed to be my common reply. This wasn't just some smart-alec reply either, nobody had any major problems with what we were doing, ...[Read full story]