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Shadow of the Giant : Orson Scott Card
Mon, 12/02/2007 - 22:58

(JPG) On his good days Orson Scott Card is one of the best science fiction authors out there - interesting thoughtful stories and realistic characters with believable motives and flaws. Even on his bad days his work is better than most of the science fiction out there.

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Eragon : the film
Tue, 02/01/2007 - 00:57

Eragon (2006)

Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Screenplay : Peter Buchman
Based on the novel by Christopher Paolini

By the time you read this I expect that director Stefen Fangmeier and screenwriter Peter Buchman will have committed seppuku and the author Christopher Paolini may have stopped spinning in his grave - I’m assuming here that Christopher Paolini died with shock on seeing the travesty that his novel became on the big screen.

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Endless Wire - the first new Who studio album since 1982
Sat, 16/09/2006 - 11:59
From the page on petetownshend.co.uk ... "Opening track, Fragments, utilises the pioneering Method music software developed by Pete in conjunction with mathematician/composer Lawrence Ball and software-designer Dave Snowdon."
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Visual Harmony image makes Endless Wire cover
Sat, 16/09/2006 - 11:52
From the page on www.petetownshend.co.uk ... "Design & Art Direction is by long-time Pete/Who collaborator Richard Evans, utilising elements created with the Visual Harmony software designed by Dave Snowdon and Lawrence Ball."
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Why Program?
Sat, 19/08/2006 - 13:53

Hopefully this will be the first of several articles I’ll be writing for Cache. I’ve been writing software since around 1983 and started writing professionally since around 1989.

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Old Projects
Sat, 19/08/2006 - 13:38

Large screen user interfaces

(JPG) As part of the European funded project Campiello, I worked for Xerox Research Centre Europe investigating the use of large screen displays as a means to support serendipitous information discovery and to support awareness between the members of a community or workgroup.The resulting display is designed to look visually appealing and avoid the

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Dave's Publications
Sat, 19/08/2006 - 12:35

Computer science and information technology

Refereed Journal Papers

"Neue Benutzungsschnittstellen für die Unterstützung von Arbeits- und Freizeit-Communities" Michael Koch, Dave Snowdon, Antonietta Grasso: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft 2(55), Jun. 2001, ISSN 0340-2444, pp. 124 - 129

"Pollen: Using people as a communication medium," Natalie Glance, Dave Snowdon and Jean-Luc Meunier, Computer Networks, 35(4), Elsevier Science, February 2001, pages 429-442

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Dave Snowdon's Curriculum vitae
Sat, 19/08/2006 - 12:18

Exceptional software developer with a talent for solving complex problems, producing intuitive user-interfaces and working in heterogeneous environments. Sixteen years professional experience on a multitude of languages and environments and a non-dogmatic results-focussed approach to languages and tools. Adept at bridging the gap between clients and developers.

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Web programming == No Fun
Wed, 24/08/2005 - 12:55

When I say web programming here, I’m thinking of mid-to-large scale application development in a language like Java, not relatively small-scale applications in PHP - which personally I find more fun probably because the size of the applications I would use PHP for means that it’s easier to keep the whole project in mind and also because PHP scripting has a shorter write-test-debug cycle than Java.

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Dazed wandering into blogging
Wed, 24/08/2005 - 08:02
Well, I finally got around to updating this site to add a blog. After months of thinking I would write my own blogging software I finally decided that I could spend my time more fruitfully than writing yet another PHP blog and so installed WordPress.
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