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Wowr

Display your World of Warcraft character, or any other data your Ruby site!

Wowr provides a Ruby interface to the data in the World of Warcraft Armory, allowing developers to query World of Warcraft items, characters, guilds using simple Ruby!

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Curriculum Vitae

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Qualifications

  • Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2
  • 3 A Levels: Computing, Mathematics, Physics
  • 1 AS Level: French
  • 13 GCSEs

Education

2004-Present MEng Computer Science at the University of Southampton
1998-2004 Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, Bucks

Skills

Programming Java, C/C++, Ruby (RoR), PHP, Perl, OpenGL, SDL, SQL
Markup XHTML, CSS, LaTeX, UML, RDF
Design Adobe Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Quark Xpress, Microsoft Office
OS Windows, OSX
Languages Proficient Japanese (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2)
Other Full clean UK driving licence

Employment History

Research Assistant, Information Agents Multimedia Group, University of Southampton

June 2006 – September 2006

Worked on a weather sensor visualisation project within the IAM group, as part of the ALADDIN project. Gained experience in designing and creating large-scale Java applications with graphical user interfaces, as well as RDF ontologies and methods for semantically describing data.

  • Gained experience of designing and creating large GUI-based Java applications.
  • Analysed the relative strengths and weaknesses of AWT and Swing for the application.
  • Designed and implemented RDF ontology for semantically describing and storing sensor data.

Research Assistant, Advanced Knowledge Technologies Project, University of Southampton

June 2005 – September 2005

Work included creation and modification of RDF documents using Perl-based scripts, and their storage on triple-store databases. Gained knowledge of the principles of the semantic web, RDF, storing data in the form of triples and improved my Perl programming skills.

  • Gained knowledge of the principles of the semantic web
  • Created and modified large RDF schemas for describing countries and their attributes
  • Learned RDQL and SPARQL, a query languages for searching RDF triple stores

Interests

I find Japanese language and culture fascinating, and have been studying it in my spare time for over 6 years.

Contact

E-mail: ben@benhumphreys.co.uk