EVENTS

Upcoming Events

BCS and womenintechnology.co.uk colloborated to bring to us W-Tech 2009-the premier networking event of 2009 for women- to meet professionals from all areas and levels of the industry and find out about training programmes, personal development and the latest technology trends.
Date:Postponed due to harzadous weather

Past Events

BarCamp Gh took place on the 22nd of December in Ghana AITI KACE .
BarCampGhana

I didnt get London BarCamp Tickets but BCS(British Computer Society) and Harry Metcalfe graciuosly organsed a spill over event .So on Saturday the 27th I was in London for a day of Geekiness.

I finally got my Bar Camp3 Tickets ,so between the 6-7 of September I was at Sussex University for a weekend of geekiness . Bar Camp is a free-to-attend unconference run by Brighton's local geek community for designers, developers, engineers, entrepreneurs, games geeks or user-experience freaks. A weekend of discussions, demonstrations, talks, coding and socialising where we all come together and learn from each other.
I enjoyed discussions on the social web and the way forward and Buildering(the art of climbing building))
Barcamp Presentation I gave on Flickr API's

SkillCentre, Masterclass in influencing skills This BCS(British Computer Society)Event was facillitated by Anthony Rees an IT and Management Consultant .He sought to impart the Key SKill of influencing Customers, Colleagues and people at the right levels. It was a fun filled ,hands on presentation

Using Word Press as a CMS A presentation By Mark Kirby for the Brighton Wuffie Club Mark covered the basics of how to create a client site using Wordpress as a simple CMS. He Also explored some of the pro's and con's of using Wordpress as a CMS and show you how to quickly turn a site's HTML and CSS into a Wordpress template.

Telegraph Developers Weekend Telegraph Labs, the Telegraph web development team's unit that experiments with new tools, hosted a developer weekend from the 26 -27 April which i attended . The saturday consisted of a morning of presentations and training/sessions from google, apple, adobe ,digg followed by a development competition that lasted through to Sunday. The talks/sessions were pretty good and from a developers point of view . It was a vey useful event and cudos to the telegraph event for a well planned event
Blogs of the event
Telegraph's own Shane Richmonds Tech blog
Press gazette

Brighton Geek Social Cindy Li a designer (at nclud) gave a talk about illustration as a solution to many corporate and personalised websites . An eye opening session for me .

Brighton Vine (A session on writting effective text for the web)
See Video below

£ 5 Apps
See Videos below of a £ 5 App Wallrss (Explanation of the inner workings of an App that creates an iPhone version of a web site )
Videos courtesy of Anthony Ribot . www.ribot.com