Local Creatives (and a little about DC)

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Stuart Gibson writes about going local with Twitter: Northern Ireand can feel a little insular at times, even more so when you are outside the sprawling metropolis that is our capital city, so to find this whole world of other geeky types so close was a revelation. Within a week I ...

BarCamp WiFi Disaster

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Okay, this one left me scratching my head. When I arrived at BarCamp, we were allocated two IP addresses on the QUB network and I set about using one of them to provide a public network and the other to provide a Private network for the Webcasts or whatever and to ...

BarCamp Belfast 08 mini review

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Things that interested me most... Emma Persky's Feature Recognition. Although challenged by being opposite Brian O'Neill's freelancer talk (and let's face it, what geek doesn't dream of sticking it to the man and going ronin!). Best idea - move it to another time slot and that really worked I think. I ...

OCC BBQ, Terryglass, Tipp - 16th July

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The motion was made for one party to attend the OpenCoffeeClub BBQ being held in Terryglass, in Tipperary on the 16th July 2008. Surprisingly, the other party did not wince or shout or laugh but immediately began assisting with preparations for the trip. Preparations are underway. Which is pretty much how ...

Great minds and all that

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Ian Robinson writes about Northern Ireland Cocoa Developers Some of us from Northern Ireland, who were at WWDC, are thinking of setting up a local Cocoa developers group to met and discuss development and technologies related to the Mac OS X and iPhone/iPod touch platform. It is envisioned that there will ...

BarCamp Belfast this coming Saturday!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I got this from Andy McMillan, the organiser of BarCamp Belfast 2008. L I N E U P 9:00 - 10:00- Session-setup (registering) & networking 10:00 - 12:30 - Morning sessions and workshops 12:30 - 2:00 - Lunch (provided) 2:00 - 5:00 - Afternoon sessions and workshops 5:00 - 5:30 ...

BarCampBelfast 2008

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

BarcampBelfast 2008 is planned for Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm. Last year I had other commitments and couldn't make it but I intend to turn up this year. Mac-Sys did sponsor it last year and will be doing so again. I think we need more of these events. There's already ...

BarCamp Belfast: 30th June 2007: QUB

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I grabbed this from Tom Raftery's social media? blog. BarCamp Belfast is taking place in Queens University Belfast on Saturday June 30th. Sign up on the wiki now if you are going to attend. Here's the wiki link. I've never been to any sort of BarCamp so I'm not sure what to expect ...