Flash Camp Birmingham is set to take place on the 7th September 2010, from noon till 8pm, in the Birmingham Library Theatre, Paradise Place, Birmingham, with O’Reilly as Silver Supporters. Jodie O’Rourke is one of the organisers of Flash Camp Birmingham, and its spin-off, Flash Camp Manchester. He is a Flash Developer, a Flash...
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Nicholas Tollervey did a fantastic talk about Code Dojo at EuroPython. Josette asked Nicholas to tell us more about London Python Code Dojo: Organise a Code Dojo! View more presentations from Nicholas Tollervey. What prompted Code Dojo? A group of us got talking in the pub about how best to train to be a...
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O’Reilly’s Josette Garcia had a cosy chat with Alex Martelli. Together they discussed the past and future of Python, Martelli’s role at Google, what he misses about Italy, working with his wife and how he feels about Erlang: Q. 1) Python 3000! What is the story behind this huge number? A. It started as...
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Rachel Davies is the co-author of Agile Coaching, written in conjunction with Liz Sedley, which was published by Pragmatic Programmers. Rachel is a director of the Agile Alliance and the Principle Agile Coach for Agile Experience. I spoke to her at QCon about her book, about Agile Development, how Agile Coaching works and why...
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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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DevCon London takes place on 27th – 29th September in West London at the Novotel London West. It is billed as The European conference on .NET technologies: DevCon London is a brand new conference for software developers, project managers and architects to learn about the latest Technology, Architecture and Agile Methodologies. Its roots lie...
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Gordon Guthrie is CEO/CTO of hypernumbers.com, an early stage semi-stealth start-up. He has previously had a range of senior technical and business positions including Chief Technical Architect at if.com and more recently as Solutions Architect at BT/City of Edinburgh Council. I bumped into Gordon at FOWA in London a few months ago, and asked...
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Kris Buytaert has been a prolific contributor to GMT for the last six months, bringing news of the goings-on from the heart of Europe, beside writing for his own blog, Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem. He is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium,...
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Develer Srl was founded in 2001 by the young and dynamic Simone Zinanni and was joined later on by Giovanni Bajo. Develer’s offices are situated in the heart of Tuscany in a little town north-west of the magnificent city of Florence. Simone started developing at the ripe old age of 12 and became a...
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It is cold, it is raining, I am in Roma. It is JavaDay IV at the Engineering Faculty of the University of RomaTre on January 30th. The bad weather did not stop people turning up – over 1600 came to listen to 30 experts in their field. The talks were divided into 6 tracks...
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Codebits – the fun event for all techies. Inspired by Hackday, London, Celso Marthino and Pedro Custodio, both then from Sapo.pt, decided two years ago to create Codebits in Lisbon. This year Pedro was not with us but Jose Castro did a super job. Almost 700 techies lined up on Thursday 3rd December for...
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