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These few months hold some pretty exciting changes for me and Simon. Monday of last week was my last day at Torchbox, I have spent a very happy two years there but the time was right for me to move on.
As of the 10th of September I will be working as a freelancer, available to [...]
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The second Oxford Geek Night last night went well and was by all accounts a success. We came across various hiccups in setting up but several totally ingenious solutions and a few friendly geeks later we were all set.
The talks were great, and in my mind they really made the event what it was. So, [...]
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The talks for the forthcoming Oxford Geek Night event have now been announced. You might already know that Jon Hicks and James Webster are lined up for two great looking keynotes on Typography and Amazon web services respectively, which is very exciting. What you might not know yet is the fantastic line-up we have for [...]
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I wrote this a few weeks ago, it’s a hack for del.icio.us to scratch an itch that I had. At work we have a communal del.icio.us account so that if one of us finds a link we think might be interesting or informative to the others we can post it, together with our name as [...]
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As there are limited places available for microslots and demos at the forthcoming Oxford Geek Night in April, I have set up a wufoo form (I really love wufoo!) to manage talk submissions.
If you have a talk proposal please fill it out the form below or go to the wufoo form:
Fill out my Wufoo form!
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Recently at work I came across a particularly tricky IE bug that I have seen a couple times now. I thought I would share the solution since it wasn’t immediately obvious.
On the new Business in the community site (just launched by Torchbox) there is a timeline facility to show information about different events in Business, [...]
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