Category Archives: development

BarCamp’s Off, Hack Camp’s On

Posted on Monday, 14th Jun 2010 by Caz M

A few weeks ago, we were disappointed to learn that the venue for the proposed BarCamp London8 had fallen through at rather short notice. However, there were lots of folks who had already booked their trips from overseas, so rather … Continue reading →

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Open Hack London

Posted on Tuesday, 12th May 2009 by Caz M

Yahoo!’s Open Hack London was held at the TUC Congress hall on 9th and 10th May. It was another great opportunity to learn about APIs, hacking stuff together and generally geeking out. [Yahoo! boss David Filo welcomes the geeks to … Continue reading →

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Scripting Enabled Day 2

Posted on Sunday, 21st Sep 2008 by Caz

Day two of the event was a “hack day” style event, where lots of geeks gathered with the speakers to try and build something useful. There were lots of mini-projects on the go. I did a bit of hacking with … Continue reading →

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Scripting Enabled Day 1

Posted on Saturday, 20th Sep 2008 by Caz

I attended the excellent Scripting Enabled conference and developer day recently held in London. It was extremely enlightening about various aspects of the web and how users with varied access difficulties are affected by the decisions us developers make every … Continue reading →

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@media session 11

Posted on Friday, 30th May 2008 by Caz

Global Design – Characters, Language & More Richard Ishida Richard is the W3C’s Internationalisation Activity Lead. Character Encoding There are many options, but Unicode is the best – it supports many languages in a single character set – making it … Continue reading →

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