Category Archives: development

The Curse Of The Generalist

Or, Why I Don’t Do Well At Hack Days What do all of the hack events on the right have in common? Can’t see the link? Well, they’re all Hack Days/events which I’ve attended but never hacked anything worth demoing. … Continue reading

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BarCamp’s Off, Hack Camp’s On

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

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

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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