You’ve heard of a brain dump, well this is a Chrome dump.

Looking up at the top of my browser I seem to have quite a few tabs open. About a third of theme have been open for a few weeks, another third have only been open since yesterday and the other third only open since this morning.

I’ve got some interesting content open (well I think it’s interesting) so I thought I’d get it down in a blog post. Sort of like a brain dump but instead of dumping the stuff out of my brain I’m dumping the stuff that’s currently open in my Chrome web browser.

• http://fengoffice.com/web/index.php (not the actual address since it’s privately hosted on my server)
  I use Feng office to keep track of projects, the tasks I’m doing on those projects and tracking the time I’m spending (I’m running an old version called opengoo)
• http://science.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm
  How nanotechnology works. Enough said.
• http://www.cheap-thermocam.tk
  Making a thermographic camera with a pan and tilt bracket, some servos, webcam, laser, infra red thermometer
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Super-MacroMicroscope-Webcam-Conversion/?ALLSTEPS
  Turning a webcam (no extra parts) into a microscope
• https://github.com/sanchothefat/wp-less
  Server side compiling of LESS
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8556413/passing-variables-to-a-less-js-stylesheet
  A stack overflow post on passing variables into a LESS stylesheet
• http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/54583/how-can-i-use-wordpress-functions-in-my-stylesheet
  Using WordPress functions in a stylesheet – I’m looking into passing variables between a client side LESS file and the WordPress backend.
• http://www.wpsites.co.uk
  My companies website - I’m currently redesigning the site (not a full redesign but re-coding using LESS and creating our control panel)
• http://phrogz.net/js/d3-playground/#BlankDefault
  D3.js playground – I’m just getting started with D3.js and SVG so it’s nice to have a window open where I can try things easily
• http://blog.visual.ly/creating-animations-and-transitions-with-d3-js/
  Some pretty easy to understand tutorials on using D3.js to create animations and transitions.
• https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Tutorials
  A whole load of other tutorials and resources for D3.js
• http://www.jeromecukier.net/blog/2012/05/28/manipulating-data-like-a-boss-with-d3/
  Manipulating data with D3.js
• http://www.mathworks.co.uk/products/image/ (not sure if this will be any use for my needs but I have it open so here it is)
  Image processing toolbox. – I’m trying to find a solution for detecting shapes in an image so that I can automate the creation of a UK map made of individual circles each with a radius of about 20px. I currently have a single PNG graphic of the whole map but I need to translate that into an array of x, y and radius values for each dot so that I can make an interactive version of that map in D3.js.
• http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/reading_and_writing_images_and_video.html
  Reading and writing images and video with OpenCV. – related to the one above, OpenCV seems like the best way to detect circles in an image/video and the first step is actually opening an image to process.
• https://github.com/ryanfb/ruby-opencv
  A Ruby wrapper to OpenCV. – I don’t want to go anywhere near C++ so hopefully I can do what I need in Ruby. Otherwise there is Python I suppose.
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10754093/opencv-cvhoughcircles-parameters-doubts
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9860667/writing-robust-color-and-size-invariant-circle-detection-with-opencv-based-on
  A couple of stack overflow posts on using OpenCV to detect circles. They aren’t using the Ruby wrapper but should give some pointers.
• http://blog.cheapvps.co.uk/index.php/2012/03/28/testing-wordpress-the-importance-of-php-opcode-cache/
  A blog post about the importance of the PHP opcode cache. – I haven’t got round to reading this but it might have some interesting stats.
• http://www.shipais.com/currentmap.php?map=livbay
  A live map of ships as they travel around the sea (uses AIS data) – I sit here in Southport pointing towards the Irish sea nearly all day and with that site I can see exactly what boat is out on the horizon, the direction it’s going, it’s speed, destination, where it’s been, even where it went yesterday!