The Blog of Scott

During my time at CITY A.M. I helped to build an interactive British General Election Map . This blog outlines how I created it. Let's see the map then Here's a simplified version of the map, hosted at Codepen. See the Pen D3 Election Map by Stephen Scott ( @sassquad ) on CodePen . Here, the map looks rather small, as it has been resized to fit the page. You can use your mouse wheel (or double-click/double-tap) to zoom in or out of the map, and click constituencies to view more detailed results on the left hand side. Each constituency is coloured according to party livery. This blog post gives a very general guide as to how that map was created. I'll be adding further detail about the creation of the map in subsequent posts. Acknowledgements This project was the work of several people, in addition to myself. Here are the other former colleagues who collectively made the election map possible: Michael King (back end programming of data capture system) Bill

[July 2017 update - links to BBC games updated to HTTPS links] I wrote this following blog post around Christmas 2015, during that time I posted various BBC Micro games running via the JavaScript based jsBeeb emulator onto Facebook. These games were typically buried within compilation discs, so were not easy to access. Although jsBeeb provides an  auto boot  facility, you still had to go through any menus provided on the disc in order to get access to said game. This post details how you can build your own images, via a special tool, available to build on all platforms. The article follows... As it is Christmas, there's no better time to stoke the fires of nostalgia, and take part in some retro gaming. In the past, a fair amount of effort was required to satisfy your desire for playing of games of yesteryear. Thankfully, browser technology and the incredible abilities of the JavaScript language now make it much easier than ever to play old games. The Internet Archi

I've had an on-off relationship with Vagrant , having first used it for a short while at a previous job. However, in my current employment, we primarily use Linux based laptops, while a select number use Macs. Either way, testing our website developments in Internet Explorer is an added, but necessary headache. However, Vagrant is actually quite brilliant for not only hosting development environments with ease, but for also hosting flavours of Windows, all with their different combinations of Internet Explorer. I remember back in 2010, using the likes of IETester to install multiple versions of IE within Windows. It was messy and unreliable. Back to 2016, Vagrant works with Virtualbox to bring you multiple virtual machines that allow you to test your work easily. I'll skip over installation of Vagrant and Virtualbox. Just visit their respective websites, and install as required. If you're intention is only to test one version of IE, you could simply visit modern.ie