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Facebook – resigned – woot!

Thank-goodness. I feel lighter and my world seems brighter. I have quit Facebook. First I had to turn off all the damned annoying notification emails. Did I want to be Poked, Pro-poked, zombied and pirated? No, of course not. Nor did I want the endless Questions and Group Invites. And what’s with people Friending you […]
17 years ago

ShowMeDo – new videos, ffmpeg, Google Group

I made two posts a little while back on the ShowMeDo blog about compiling ffmpeg on RedHat and compiling LAME on RedHat. We use these to auto-process new ShowMeDo videos, another step in taking Kyran and myself out of the loop. It is always nice to realise that a bottleneck is ‘you’ and ‘you’ can […]
17 years ago

Django-powered £5 App site

Our five pound app site is now Djangoified via some uber-John-coding. The next speaker is Tom Hume of Future Platforms, talking about: “The Gritty Realities of running a software company: a reasonably warts-and-all discussion of the last 7 years of FP, rounded off with a showcase of some of the more ludicrous stuff we’ve managed […]
17 years ago

Printable Events-Summary List?

I mention the events that I attend (£5 App, OpenCoffee Sussex, Girl Geek Dinner, Geek Dinner, Geek Wine Thing) to friends and colleagues and often I’m met with a blank stare. It seems that most people I know just don’t realise that there are events like these in town. I’m wondering if a printable list […]
17 years ago

OpenCoffee Sussex – first meeting

Today Jon (Inuda) and I ran our first OpenCoffee Sussex at the Sussex Innovation Centre. The aim of our OpenCoffee is to get the start-ups in the Innovation Centre talking to people in Brighton and vice versa. Matt Weston runs the excellent Business Bricks (Upcoming listings) every Friday in town (at the RedRoaster or Mad […]
17 years ago

Brighton Bloggers Collage

Jane‘s script-fu has put together a wonderful collage of all 279 bloggers who make up the Brighton Bloggers list. See it here, I’m on the bottom row. 12 people have tagged their blogs so far…
17 years ago

fivepoundapp.com live

fivepoundapp.com is now a live and running site. Currently it is just a static page linking to the recent talks, soon John will Djangoify it. We’re open to ideas, first off we’d like to let people submit links to their own write-ups and flickr photos. What else do we need?
17 years ago

Dan’s talk – mp3 available

Dan Glegg’s talk from the last £5 App is now available as an mp3, see his blog entry. Hi talk is clear, slides are available too. John hopes to get a fivepoundapp website up and running soon and then we can have links to all the resources in the one place.
17 years ago

Jobs Board at the £5 App Meet

At the first £5 App meet we had a lot of people who either run their own company or are part of a start-up. I spoke to a bunch of people about how they go about finding contractors and permie staff and everyone agrees that it is a right pain. Personal networking seems to be […]
17 years ago

Raj (kwiqq) on Brighton’s Geek Scene

Raj (kwiqq.com) blogs about the local Brighton start-up scene and our ShowMeDo.com gets a mention. Raj and Alan will be presenting at the next £5 App meet (upcoming.org 8th May). Raj also covers the Brighton Girl Geek Dinners, I was at the 3rd event last night – another strong turn-out and a great talk on […]
17 years ago