ricroberts

Hi Ric,

Just to build on Bens introduction. We are a unique consultancy focussed around Recruitment and social netWorks, our core focus is on the Java market, rather than Ruby. Our business model is very different from typical recruitment companies in that we generate 100% of our revenue from Recruitment, but spend 50% of our time on community focussed work. Rather than spend heavily on SEO or aggressive cold calling for new business, we do good things in the industry around building communities and organising events, we then spend time networking, building long term trusted relationships and proactively seeking referrals and recommendations. As a result of our model we are approached by many of the best developers in London before anyone else and have connections with many of the top employers.

As an example of what we do, and as Ben mentioned, I founded the London Java Community in 2007 and have since invested vast amounts of time and money growing it up to one of the largest and most active Java User Gro

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(function(){
  var mapManager
    , idleListener = null
    , startTime
    , map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), {
        zoom: 14,
        center: new google.maps.LatLng(53.48, -2.245), // Manchester
        mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
        streetViewControl: false
      });

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53.4,-2.3,53.5,-2.2: Object
  E01005061: Object
    label: "Manchester 018A"
    lat: 53.47055
    lng: -2.20851
    score: 53.71
    uri: "http://opendatacommunities.org/id/geography/lsoa/E01005061"  
  E01005062: Object
  E01005063: Object
  E01005064: Object

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// get the LSOA data from the database.
var getLsoaData = function(tiles) {

  // define this inside this closure - it's not useful outside the scope of this func
  var buildSparql = function(tile) {

    var lowerLat = tile[0][0];
    var lowerLong = tile[0][1];
    var upperLat = tile[1][0];
    var upperLong = tile[1][1];

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MapManager.prototype = {
  refresh: function() {
    $(this).trigger('started');
    errored = false;

    // clear these variables for this refresh
    if (map.getZoom() > minZoom) {
      $(this).trigger('zoomOK');

      var tiles = getTiles();

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var MapManager = function(googleMap, initialScoreDomain) {
  self = this;
  map = googleMap;
  scoreDomain = initialScoreDomain;

  $(this).bind('lsoaDataRetrieved', function() {
    lsoaDataRetrieved = true;

    // TODO: this is where we'll refresh the polygons on the map, later.
    // for now, just log out the lsoa data, and say we've done

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(function() {

  // the constructor.
  var MapManager = function(googleMap, initialScoreDomain) {
  }

  // public API
  MapManager.prototype = {
  }

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PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> 
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> 

SELECT ?lsoa ?notation ?label ?lat ?long ?score 
WHERE {   
  GRAPH <http://opendatacommunities.org/id/graph/geography/lsoa> {     
    ?lsoa a <http://opendatacommunities.org/def/geography#LSOA> .     
    ?lsoa geo:lat ?lat .     
    ?lsoa geo:long ?long .     
    ?lsoa <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#notation> ?notation .     

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    $(this).bind('boundaryDataRetrieved', function() {
      refreshPolygons();
    });

    $(this).bind('dataError', function() {
      $(this).trigger('finished'); // tell people we're done
    });

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  // private variables
  var map
    , scoreDomain
    , boundaryData = {} // map of tiles -> data
    , self;