I'm a PhD Student in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, supervised by Joemon Jose.

I'm also an amateur photographer, and probably spent more time than I should lusting over lenses. Some of my favourite photographs can be found on my flickr account.

Journal Entries & Publications

  • TREC Microblog 2014 Go Bindings
    A. J. McMinn — An alternative to lots of Java, 5th August 2014
  • Building a large-scale corpus for Evaluating Event Detection on Twitter
    A. J. McMinn, Y. Moshfeghi & J. M. Jose — CIKM 2013, 29th October 2013
  • Removing entries from Nautilus Places
    A. J. McMinn — They fixed this in 3.12, 2nd December 2012
  • Fixing OutOfMemoryErrors in Hadoop
    A. J. McMinn — java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, 4th October 2012
  • Making an Editable JLabel in Swing
    A. J. McMinn — You'd think this would be included by default, 8th January 2011

Twitter / @JamesMcMinn

  • How do I have another cold? :'(
  • The @golang team are great developers, but they really don't seem to have a clue about community.
  • Today I require copious amounts of coffee.
  • On the plus side, I'd have been disappointed if I'd stayed awake till 6am and Hillary had won with an early landslide.

Get in touch

Room 220
Sir Alwyn Williams Building
Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ

E-mail

me@jamesmcminn.com

Phone

+44 769 123 50 81

Code

  • Golang IR Tools
    A toolkit for performing some basic IR tasks in Golang (Indexing, parsing, similarity, etc.)
  • Twitter Stream Reader
    A TCP Server for delivering content from (and simulating) the Twitter Streaming API.
  • Twitter Stream Recorder
    Record data from the Twitter Streaming API to disk in hourly (GZIP compressed) log files.
  • Go JSON RCP over HTTP
    A basic library for performing JSON RCP over HTTP in Golang.
  • Go Twitter Tools
    A small set of utilities for working with Twitter in Golang.