My weekend was spent in Richmond at eBay’s awesome offices at barcamplondon5. It was nice to attend a barcamp again after organising the last one in London and always fun to present (my talk notes and slides will be up soon).
After the general (and totally) unrequired hoo-hah from people regarding the ‘keynote’ I hoped that [...]
barcamplondon5 = win
Bentley’s - eaten and reviewed
You say that the free London papers are good for nothing then you actually find something useful in them; as I did when I found out about London Restaurant week - £25 for a three course meal sounds like a bargain and a good way to sample what would normally be an expensive restaurant in [...]
just shoot me now
Working in a University you do come accross all sorts of people from all different walks of life, background and most importantly to me wed knowledge. This of course is fine, not everyone should be expected to attend conferences, run their onw website outside of work hours and constantly hammer thier liver when meeting [...]
Beware free things!!
Just a quick one but after the two days I have had at work (I thought they would be nice and easy but was very wrong) I just wanted to say something about the use of third party services and open source software projects and that is BEWARE!!
when to stop complaining…
Over the past few days I have been reading with interest articles by Paul Boag and then John Oxton talking about people being over critical of work they do (”it doesn’t validate”, “the menu button’s are a little bit off in IE4″, “the CSS is a bit of a state”) which is in the public [...]
