Gavin Bell is a key figure on the London developer scene. I first came across him when he showed me to the O’Reilly stand at Open Tech at Hammersmith, filling me in on the day’s events with his gentle Northern Irish brogue. I have seen him present half a dozen times and he’s never...
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Maker Faire was the most open, buzzing, hearty, heart-warming, dazzling and jaw-dropping display of invention, innovation, creativity, geekery and genial eccentricity you could ever wish to come across. It was a hardware hacking fest of the highest order. I was on the Make stand with my colleagues Graham Cameron, Simon Chappell, Alice Anderson and Josette...
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Christian Crumlish is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces. Christian spoke in London and Berlin in January 2010, when he kindly agreed to be interviewed: CS: What was your route into technology? What were your founding interests that have proven useful over the years? CC: I...
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O’Reilly author John Smart, (Java Power Tools) is across in the UK from New Zealand and will give two free talks at Skills Matter: Zen and the art of build script maintenance on 8th July 2010 and Real Programmers Don’t Need Unit Tests on September. On top of that, he will be running his...
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Dave Cross is the Techie’s Techie. He co-wrote Perl Template Toolkit for O’Reilly and Data Munging with Perl for Manning. His Perl Teach-In at the BBC sold out its 50 places in a day, with another 40 people joining the waiting list in just a few days more – there’s untapped demand out there!...
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I went along to see Christian Crumlish speak at Covent Garden Wallacespace. Christian is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces, and he did a fine hour-long talk (plus questions) about how design patterns can be used for building social websites. My notes, incomplete as they are,...
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Dux Raymond Sy is the author of SharePoint for Project Management. Here he is to tell us a little bit about it: What is your background, technologically speaking? I have a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and my first foray into IT was actually programming Motorola chips in Assembly programming language. I later evolved and...
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