Whisky Information

This entry is a sample of data sources on a specific whisky showing the variety of models which have been developed by different stakeholders from different perspectives.

Laphroaig
Laphroaig Distillery,
Port Ellen,
Isle of Islay,
Argyll,
PA42 7DU Tel. 01496 302418

Home site

General

• Scotland: Whiskies and Distilleries
  
• Wikipedia
• ScotchWhisky.net
  
• Whisky Magazine
• Scotland Whisky
• John Butler's site
  

Types of information

• Chronology
• Location
• Gooogle Map http://maps.google.com/maps?q=PA42%207DU
• Multimap http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=PA427DU&scale=25000&cat=loc
• Wikipedia Geohack
• Pronunication - John Butler's site
  
• Taste http://www.whiskyclassified.com/laphroaig.html
• Tasting notes e.g. Mike Padlipsky
  
• Ownership - changing ownership - see the yearbook
• Bottlings http://www.laphroaig.com/whiskies/index.asp?expanded=our_whiskies
• Glossary http://www.whiskymag.com/words/
  

Printed

• Malt Whisky Yearbook 2006 p170
• Collins Gem Whisky p 171

Week 1 lecture - Introduction

The lecture slides are here and on UWEOnline.

Course Books

No one book covers the material on this course but there are a few that I would recommend.

PHP and SQL
I've previously recommended PHP and MySQL by Larry Ullman at around a tenner from Amazon. This year we wont be doing as much with PHP but it will be used on other modules so this book would be useful.

There is a Wikibook on PHP which looks good.


XML
Two books I have previously recommended are

• Beginning XML - a WROX publication - now in its 4th Edition
• XML in a Nutshell - Eliottte Rusty Harold

The later is a good reference book

In searching in Amazon I came across

• XML - Learning by Example - by Robert Mellar, reasonably priced at 10.49
• There's another book for a tenner XML in Easy Stages by Mike McGrath.
• At the same price there is a SAMS book

I haven't seen any of these but the first sounds promising. Judging from the review, avoid the XML for Dummies book like the plague.

There is also a WikiBook which looks useful. An XQuery Wikibook which I am a contributer to will be used in the second semester

Week 1

For the tutorial this week there is a questionnaire to review year 1 and then a brief introduction to the Yahoo Pipes visual programming language.