Andrew Harvey
I build cool things, dig music, take pictures and write words.
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Tweets
- Looking up while waiting to get into the Baxter. @ The Baxter Inn http://t.co/MXym7c2K
- Photo: This, ladies and gentlemen is the leader of our great country. It looks like she just needed a hug,... http://t.co/cN3wPvvK
- @zbender Pfft. Sif bin. Cons are not my jam. Tigers and Volleys all the way.
- The volleys need a wash http://t.co/cs1xPsF5
- I should really be in bed, but watching Makarova give Williams a shellacking is too enjoyable. #schadenfreude
- Hot tip if you're tired of calls from recruiters - While the jobs market is not good for everyone right now,... http://t.co/8Qh1QV7q
- Dinner: Chilli, Honey and Worcestershire prawns, with baked Kipfler potatoes, fried honey asparagus and sweet potato chips for the entrée.
- Photo: Oh, Ando! http://t.co/fuZ5a48X
- Photo: Chris, recently back from Nepal was looking suave as ever. http://t.co/3ERq5YA3
- Photo: The Groom showed off his brand new piece of jewellery for me. http://t.co/fHrHbGEQ
- Yummy AeroPress coffee to start my morning. #winning
- Photo: Is it any wonder that Jimmy is quite the wanted man? http://t.co/YsvUNXov
- Can someone in the US please download this for me? http://t.co/dRLyxeaN
- @freshtonic Yeah, I found that on Friday as well. Good thing I'm on holidays :)
- Video: Anyone who gets kids excited about playing music should be knighted. http://t.co/ZWCGzf1J
- Continuous Deployment brings Continuous Investment - Lately we’ve been working to improve our development... http://t.co/JDgvxFlQ
- @izzyglow Sounds scary.
- @izzyglow What are holiday things? I was going to clean up some freelance work and sleep in. What else should I do?
- And now, my first ever week of annual leave. It's a weird concept, especially after the last few weeks.
- Tasks for today: get our LDAP server configured so that I can use it as a key server for signed tags in git.
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Photos
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Top ArtistsM83MUTEMATHSufjan StevensBjörkBeirutSigur RósFleet FoxesBotanistRadioheadKashmirRegina SpektorNoah And The WhaleColdplayJohn WilliamsMountain Mocha KilimanjaromúmThe RaconteursThe Go! TeamPortisheadMiles DavisDJ ShadowYouth GroupThe WaifsCaribouCustom KingsBand of HorsesSt. VincentPublic EnemyInfadelsCharlie ParkerBright EyesKanye WestVampire WeekendAngus & Julia StoneElixir featuring Katie NoonanDizzy GillespieQuaThelonious MonkBroken Social SceneThe KnifeThe PoliceA Tribe Called QuestHilltop HoodsGomezWolfgang Amadeus MozartThe BeatlesArcade FirePage FranceTame ImpalaLittle Scream
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Info
- SummaryOver the last 5 years, I have worked in very different fields, from support technician, systems administrator, team leader, developer and engineer.
I embrace technical challenges head-on, working to create the best solution possible within the time constraints. I love working on small, close-knit teams to produce great work.Specialties: Ruby, Python, HTML, CSS, MySQL, distributed processing, data processing architecture, system design, amazon web services, NoSQLExperience- May 2011 - PresentDeveloper / Westfield
- Aug 2010 - May 2011Back-End Engineer / ChompAt Chomp I was responsible for maintaining and improving the existing python based crawlers, as well as writing new crawlers and improving their operations.
- Sept 2009 - Aug 2010Developer / LexerAt Lexer I was responsible for designing and building a tool to monitor social media. I was responsible for creating the system almost in its entirety (the one section of the code that I did not "own" was the javascript front end).
The system included crawling and data processing components written in Python, a search engine first implemented in Solr then migrated to Elastic Search, a Riak cluster, and a Ruby on Rails front end. - Apr 2009 - Sept 2009Technical Lead: User Migration Project / Kordia SolutionsAs the Australian team leader of the user migration project, I successfully coordinated moving several hundred users and their respective workstations and mailboxes between active directory domains at the same time as deploying a suite of applications using Microsoft's SCCM.
- Apr 2009 - May 2009Web Developer / ISeekGolf Pty Ltd
- Dec 2005 - Mar 2009Freelance web professional / Polymorph CreativeAs a freelancer, I worked in close conjunction with various businesses to provide build and maintain web applications and provide support to users.
- Mar 2008 - Mar 2008Contract Rails Developer / Mark.In a short term contract role, I developed a web-services based application for internal use using Ruby on Rails with full RSpec test suite.
- Apr 2007 - Jul 2007Senior IT Technician / Raffles KvB SydneyI provided support to staff and students at the Raffles KvB Campus in Sydney. This included software and hardware troubleshooting, network administration, work with Windows XP, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X clients and servers. Also took on role of network security, tracking down rogue hosts and rogue users.
- Nov 2006 - Apr 2007Contract Developer / Streetline MediaI was responsible for the planning and development of CMS systems for clients and maintenance of existing deployed solutions.
- Jan 2006 - Sept 2006Support Technician / North Sydney Boys High SchoolWhilst still studying I was engaged to assist with IT services at the school as a paid contractor. This included:
- First level support, server management, management of 200+ workstations.
- Windows 2003 Domain Administration.
- Server and Workstation management using Altiris Remote Management tools.
- Diagnosis of hardware faults.
- Security planning and execution.
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Websites:
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Interests:new media, social networking, social media, music, analytics, photography
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Posts
- Hot tip if you're tired of calls from recruiters
While the jobs market is not good for everyone right now, it seems that in my line of work, you’re never short of calls from recruiters. A couple of months ago when I had just finalised a move to a permanent position, I was completely jack of talking to recruiters. They would call me at all hours of the working day and I wanted a way to easily ignore them.
In a brainwave I found a simple, fairly elegant solution. I created a contact in my phone named Recruiter. I was thinking of much less savoury things to call them, but I didn’t really want those words splashed across my iPhone screen. Then, every time I’ve had a call from a recruiter since, I add their number to my Recruiter contact.
The result? Every time a recruiter calls and they haven’t blocked their number (I often don’t answer blocked numbers anyway) I can quickly see that from the word Recruiter on the iPhone display and reject the call. Boom.
The next trick is to stop them from leaving voicemails…
i. Katie and Jimmy
After a cultured evening seeing Fleet Foxes perform at the Sydney Opera House, Katie and Jimmy decided to let their hair down by killing some Nazi zombies together.
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat Major, Op.73 ’ Emperor’
Close your eyes and dream.
The clip from Midnight City from M83’s Hurry Up We’re Dreaming.
It seems that I just like music with freaky film clips.
Hmmmm. I think that combined with my new bad this will be quite nice for my laptop. (via Laptop Case Sleeve w/ Zipper 15 inch fits by fernfiddlehead)
- Hurry Up We're Dreaming
The latest M83 album is one of a couple which is rocking my socks right now.
Check the review at pitchfork and go and grab it for your enjoyment.
I saw the midnight in Paris trailer and my interest was piqued, so I did a little searching and found this gem.
What the hell happened to Owen’s silly snout? Aside from use as a venue for the 2006 winter Olympics downhill-mogul event it clearly serves no purpose, other than to irritate me. Perhaps it irritates you as well, but I don’t care because I’m egotistical and self-centered.
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Checkins
- The Baxter Inn156 Clarence St.
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- SparrowShop 2, Ernest Pl
- Foxtrot28 Falcon St
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- 100 Market St100 Market St
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- Apple Store367 George St.
- 100 Market St100 Market St
- Sydney Opera House2 Macquarie St.
- Hornsby RSLHigh St.
- Turramurra Music Centre1267 Pacific Highway
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- 100 Market St100 Market St
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
- P J O'Brien's Irish Pub57 King St
- Mecca Espresso67 King St.
- Food on Five Food Courtcnr Pitt St. Mall & Market St.
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Map
- NVLCOct 03, 11 - Oct 06, 11
- Gold Coast, Australia, June 2011Jun 10, 11 - Jun 13, 11
- KazakhstanMar 03, 11 - May 15, 11
- O'Reilly StrataJan 31, 11 - Feb 08, 11
- OSCON & Emma's WeddingJul 16, 10 - Jul 31, 10
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Repositories
- Egophone takes extracted backups and has a look inside using ElasticSearch and MongoDB1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 21, 11
- a web (interface | service) for viewing collectd statistics1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Feb 23, 10
- A capybara driver that uses WebKit via QtWebKit.131 forks / 711 watchers / Pushed Jan 27, 12
- A Graph Database for JRuby. It uses the java lib neo4j as storage and lucene for quering/indexing55 forks / 378 watchers / Pushed Jan 27, 12
- Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine229 forks / 1680 watchers / Pushed Jan 25, 12
- Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support.159 forks / 1505 watchers / Pushed Jan 18, 12
- A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)51 forks / 719 watchers / Pushed Dec 16, 11
- a web (interface | service) for viewing collectd statistics36 forks / 279 watchers / Pushed Nov 28, 11
- Egophone takes extracted backups and has a look inside using ElasticSearch and MongoDB1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 21, 11
- a web (interface | service) for viewing collectd statistics1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Feb 23, 10
