Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
Out of the blue I got a message from the mysterious Sam. I have known Sam for a while and sometimes we have chats in coffee shops while I work on Fridays. We are quite different characters and that always makes the discussions we have interesting, sometimes too interesting as I’m slightly distracted from my work. The message read……
Marc Canter, the founder of Macromind the company which became Macromedia. Messaged me recently as he wanted to let me know about a new type of event called a Brainjam. Marc is fantastic guy and I had the joy of having him talk at London Geekdinners way back near the start of it. Join a…
I recently joined makerba.se. Makerbase is: A place to tell the world what you made, and to find out who made the things you love. Edited by everyone. You can change and add to anything that you see. A way to see projects: Stuff like apps and web sites and digital works of art. (Not…
Social media cafe Manchester was a diamond in Manchester’s tech scene for a long while. It was inspired on Loyd Daves’ Tuttle club which was in turn inspired by my own Geekdinners. Who says you can inspire, eh? Started in 2008 Social Media Cafe became an institution. Meeting regularly on the first Tuesday of the…
Wendy g said it best. The problem is the next generation seem to think they are tackling new problems. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the open rights group, something I’m proud to say I was at and supported from the conception. Its also 8 years and a couple months since BarCampLondon1. The Geeks…
I had attended the Manchester girl geek barcamp (aka BraCamp) on Saturday at MMU. It was well attended and great to see so many people and it really makes me think there is till room for another Manchester BarCamp? There were a range of good talks and I did a few myself including one about…
I had the pleasure of going to Manchester Tech Nights, which is usually clashing with the Manchester Werewolf Chapter. Thankfully not this one, good work Chris sorting this one out. The bit which stood out for me was a talk from Elizabeth Clarke who talked about the interaction between males and females in the work…
While talking to Martin, Sam, Chris and others over the last few weeks. I have been thinking how things have been forgotten. The history of geek culture seems to get forgotten too often. Recently a discussion about the tech community in Manchester with Martin raised a bunch of questions in my mind. How much of…
I attended a networking workshop at the BBC the other day. I was wondering how it was going to go, because sometimes the workshops at work can be hit and miss. The trainer for the workshop was down to earth Darren Jenkins from digienable. Darren was good and his advice was welcomed. Now I know…
My friend Chris has something which has been bugging him. He told me while we had a late breakfast in VividLounge. There’s something that’s bugged me about events in Manchester’s tech scene for a while. There are a lot of great specialist events, and a lot of networking events, but there appears to be little…