The Hack Day Liveblog
Today we’re running the inaugural globadev hack day! This will be a liveblog of the day: hack going well and not so well, and the presentations at the end. Keep following!
About Tim Blair
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Building an API and Mobile Platform for 10 million Users
Four days before the turkey was served up at Christmas last year, we threw the switch on the biggest project we’ve ever done at globaldev. We launched our new mobile counterpart to our desktop application for nearly 200 of our biggest sites.
We’re lead sponsors of BarCamp London 9
After the fantastic success of last year’s BarCamp London, it didn’t take us long to decide to sponsor this year’s event too! With our love of a good time, it was a fairly obvious decision to take on sponsorship of the Saturday night party…
Eliminate the Impossible to Find the Improbable
One of the Sherlock Holmes’ more-often quoted phrases is “how often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” And how true that can turn out to be…
Reading Geek Night 19 Roundup
The 19th monthly Reading Geek Night once again raised the bar in terms of the mixture of topics covered: an introduction to hacker spaces, the return of development-oriented talks with a discussion on CouchDB, and a long list of considerations to take into account if you’re planning on cheating on your partner.
Reading Geek Night 18 Roundup
Another mixed bag of topics in the April Reading Geek Night: this month covered technology in art at South Hill Park, successfully branching an commercial product and creating an open source one from it, and a history of mobile, from horse-drawn versions right up to modern smart phones.
Tales of the Unexpected
Sometimes things go wrong. The results of the “something” going wrong are usually fairly obvious — searches not returning, systems not starting, payments not processing — but working out why that “something” stopped working (or started working differently) is the challenge.
Reading Geek Night 17 Roundup
The most recent Reading Geek Night contained an eclectic (as always!) mix of talks, covering open-source courseware, building custom book apps for the iPad, and an intriguing list of "things you didn’t know about wool…"
Reading Geek Night 16 Roundup
After a January hiatus due to holidays, honeymoons and some other less-worthy excuses, the globaldev team returned to the 16th Reading Geek Night. This month’s presentations included trying to understand the differences between developers and managers, discussions on a #rdggeek Hack Day, and a webcam running on a BBC Master.
Reading Geek Night 14 Roundup
The festive and final Reading Geek Night of 2010 saw two more excellent talks: A Self-Help Manual For Cyborgs by Simon Bostock, and Hacking Kinect by Chris Alexander.
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