There’s no doubt that the environmental impact we are having on the world is a concern. Whilst many of us really do want to create change, reality makes hard to actually do something significant about it. The good news is that the web is increasingly becoming the platform to help make the change.
Social [...]
Ever wondered what Frameworks are? Interested in developing and learning about Flash? You may want to find more about the Framework Development presentation.
Presented by Chris Korhonen and Neil Manuell, the first half of the evening will talk about concepts behind frameworks and core design products such as MVC. You will find out [...]
The planning for the next Brighton Girl Geek Dinner is underway and sponsors are needed.
The next dinner will be in March and feature la fabulosa Relly Annett-Baker. The talk will be on the topic of copy writing. Relly will also be one of the speakers at Singularity - a great opportunity for her to perfect [...]
Singularity is a large scale 3 day online web conference. It will feature over 100 of the worlds leading web visionaries, designers, developers, celebrities and thought leaders. There will be choices to watch sessions live from the comfort of your own home, at a local event or view the recordings in your own time. It [...]
There are a few geeky events going on, many of which assume an interest in technology. The Geek Wine Thing is slightly different from the norm. Whilst it is targeted at the geeks, the only thing geeky about it are the geeks that turn up. There are plenty of non geeky things that happen during [...]
Node101 is a community driven ‘open source’ style project to share video blogging (vlogging) skills. It is open to everyone regardless of their technical capability. The idea of ’skillshare’ means that most people will be able to contribute to the conversation.
The first event, Learn to video blog, is scheduled for Monday 25th of February between [...]
Brighton residents, Simon Willison and Natalie Downe have launched Django People - a community for people who work with the the Django Web Framework.
The site launched around 24 hours ago and has already had an impressive 747 people signed up. The idea is to encourage Django developers to create a profile and [...]
Scoop and Crumb is a new cafe in East Street run by John (a friend of mine and Shardcore’s). Their differentiator is home made real ice-cream - new batches are made every few days by John himself.
I popped in this morning and John was good enough to give me some tasters…darn fine they were [...]
BarCamp is a grass roots ‘unconference’ for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.
In September 2007 Brighton experienced BarCamp for the first time. It is now coming back on March 15th & 16th 2008 at the University of Sussex.
BarCamp Brighton [...]
OpenCoffee Sussex ran this morning at the Innovation Centre from 9-11am. We had 15 attendees including Luke from WiredSussex, Peter from SInC, several students and the founders of a number of local tech companies.
I presented ShowMeDo for the 5-minute talk and asked for feedback on what sort of tutorial videos people might like to [...]
Project Brighton : Upcoming Brighton Podcasts
