Archive for the 'community' Category

Site Launch: Django People
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

One of the many sites Simon and I are collaborating on at the moment came into fruition in the (very) early hours of this morning.
Djangopeople.net aims to unite the Django community in their common allegiance of development environment. Until now the Django community’s spirit had been a victim of the documentation’s success, with such conclusive […]

Snipplr redesign
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

It is always the way, ideas are 10 a penny. If you don’t actually get round to implementing it someone else eventually will. Quite often though it’s the case that I don’t mind not having implemented it, just so long as it exists.
A fine example of this is Snipplr. Ever since I first got into […]

‘Networking’
Saturday, October 20th, 2007

I entirely agree with this chap when he talks about being in someone’s company because you want to be, not for what advantages it can get you in life.
I have been in situations at conferences where you think you are having a nice chat with someone and then they get starstruck and leave suddenly - […]

Settling into Brighton
Sunday, October 14th, 2007

It has been roughly a month now since Simon and I have moved to Brighton. Our lovely if tiny flat has been suitably warmed and we have happily settled into Brighton life now I think. I have recently been contracting 3 days a week for Clearleft and as well as working on some personal projects […]

Oxford Geeks hit the media!
Sunday, February 25th, 2007

It looks like the last of the Oxford Geek Nights has caused quite a stir in the media recently. I'm not entirely sure how the Oxford Mail initially came across the story but it got half a page of coverage in last Wednesday's edition (see online version or archived online version) As a result of this [...]

An excitable BarCamp
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

This week has just been all go! Fresh from a successful project launch I dived straight into BarCamp. BT were generous in their provision of the great venue we used for the weekend. There were over 160 people attending, roughly 70 of whom stayed overnight we think!

Co-organising BarCamp with Ian and Jason was a lot […]

First Oxford Geek Night a success!
Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Thanks to everyone who came last night. I really hope everyone had a fantastic evening, we had some interesting talks and some cool demos. It was pretty tricky to judge numbers from where I was sat, but I have been told that we had over 100 people at one point, which is great!
The running order […]

Line-up for Oxford Geek Night
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

The debut event for Oxfordshire based geeks draws ever closer, this coming Wednesday at the Jericho Tavern! As you may have already read, the doors to the upstairs bar will open at 8pm and the talks will then start at about 8:30.
We now have a fantastic line-up for the evening, starting with two 15 minute […]

Oxford Geek Nights
Sunday, January 28th, 2007

A note to anyone in or around the Oxford area on Wednesday the 7th February, or even to those willing to travel …. The first Oxford Geek Night will be held at 8pm upstairs in Oxfordshire’s fine venue of “The Jericho Tavern”.
For more information of the event and directions, please see the official site

Oxford Geek […]

Snap and Twitter on the wind
Friday, November 24th, 2006

I am undecided whether I like these Snap popups just yet, they seem a cute way of showing a preview, an indicator of what you get once a link is clicked on, they might well be a passing fad but I decided to try them on for size, just hover over a link on this […]