Category: Conferences

Eurovision and Enigma Kerplunk at Over The Air 2011

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An absolutely lovely weekend at Over the Air has just finished (with some nifty train timetable work, I was back home in Edinburgh before 1am), and as usual, I can’t wait until the next one, even though the wait makes them so special. The glorious weather meant that the grounds of Bletchly Park were overflowing with coders, on the grass, deadlines ahead, playing around and trying to see if they could get the latest API’s, ideas and dev tools to work. As David Vella pointedly asked on Twitter, “…when was the last time this many coders were working overnight in

Bletchley Park, Over the Air, and Enigma Kerplunk

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Any modern re-telling of World War 2 has to include the exploits of Bletchley Park. It’s also home to the National Museum of Computing and is one of the heritage sites of modern computing. And this weekend, the annual “Over the Air” mobile developers conference will be at Bletchley Park! Naturally I’ll be there with a little hack/presentation that’s more about education and entertainment than entering the Hackathon. In previous years myself and others have taken on various tasks, including building a two-stage Spy Camera Rocket fuelled by Diet Coke and Mentos; prototyping a Star Trek Holodeck; flying round the

A consistent podcast is a flexible podcast

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One of the initial attractions to podcasting is the ability to listen to a show whenever you want to – be it in the car, the daily jog along the boardwalk, or on a long flight across the Atlantic.  I think this freedom for the listener has been one of the strengths that has made podcasting what it is today. More thoughts on staying regular over on the Blog World Expo blog.