Monthly Archives: September 2008

Scripting Enabled Day 2

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

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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A Hard Act To Follow

I read the news yesterday that Eoin Colfer will be writing another installment of the 5-volume Hitch-Hikers’ Guide To The Galaxy trilogy. This set off alarm bells in my head, even though the project is going ahead with the full … Continue reading

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dConstruct 2008

I realise I’m hideously behind with blogging about lots of geeky stuff, but here goes. Apologies if you were expecting this sooner! This year’s dConstruct was a lot larger than I was expecting: the last time I went in 2006 … Continue reading

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BarCamp Brighton 3

Immediately after dConstruct was the latest BarCamp, held at the University of Sussex once more. The usual suspects were in attendance, as were some new faces too. Good to see the BarCamp word spreading. Here are some photos from some … Continue reading

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