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Presenting at Sussex Uni Research Day

Last week I was kindly invited to speak at a Research Day for the Infomatics dept at Sussex Uni. by Inman Harvey and Anil Seth.  The plan was to talk about ‘life after my MSc [10 years back]’ and to figure out if and how we could get more students involved with tech companies in […]
16 years ago

£5 App Xmas Special Write-Up

We had a lovely night!  50 or so enlightened souls joined us at The Werks in Hove for Aleks and Barry‘s talk on the development and launch of SpaceShip! followed by 4 excellent gamesy-themed 10 minute demos. As Richard says: “I mean, how does this sound: I turn up at The Werks, icy cold, to […]
16 years ago

£5 App Xmas Special Listing Details

We’re plotting our 14th £5 App meet.  This, our second Christmas Special, will have a gamesy happy crimbo feel.  Picture (from a few months back) kudos to Josh: Date: Wednesday 10th December, sign-up on Upcoming please.  Location The Werks (Hove nr Palmeira Sq) – note their piggy bank for a second projector at the end […]
16 years ago

Girl Geeks, Flash Big Screen, £5 App Xmas Special

Here are three local events that I’m rather looking forward to: Girl Geeks on Tues Dec 2nd with Emily on Building Robots.  Emily will walk you through a history of robotics, show neat demos and then show real live hand-built robots (4 of ’em) Doing Stuff including, just possibly, sumo wrestling.  Someone remind Emily to […]
16 years ago

£5 App Xmas Games Special

We’re plotting our 14th £5 App meet.  This, our second Christmas Special, will have a gamesy happy crimbo feel. Date: Wednesday 10th December, sign-up on Upcoming please.  Location TBC. Our very own Aleks Krotoski will lead the evening with the launch of the Guardian’s new on-line text adventure SpaceShip! We’ll probably run the second half […]
16 years ago

Brighton Python Meet, Weds Oct 29th

We’re having our second Brighton Python (Upcoming) meetup next week on Weds Oct 29th at The Hampton Arms (gmap), a 15 min walk from Brighton station.  The pub is 5 minutes from the Churchill shopping Centre and the clocktower off of Western Road (the main shopping road that runs parallel to the sea front). This […]
16 years ago

Brighton Python Meetup (Oct 29th)

John and I are organising another Brighton Python meet for the evening of Wednesday Oct 29th (Upcoming for details). [photo by southtyrolean] We threw one months back along with Paul Silver’s The Farm freelancers, we filled the The Hampton Arms with close to 60 geeks IIRC.  The pub is a 15 minute walk from Brighton […]
16 years ago

ProCasts.co.uk – first version on-line

I’m very pleased to say that the first version of ProCasts, my professional screencasting site, is now on-line.  I’m taking the professional screencast activity that I performed for three years under the older ShowMeDo Services site and building it up as my own activity. The site has one screencasting example by me (along with many […]
16 years ago

£5 App Write-up (6 demos at our Demo Camp)

What a fab night!  I counted 46 people which makes this possibly the largest event we’ve thrown – thanks to all for attending.  Sponsored beer, live Qik video, 6 great talks and lively post-event pub conversation – who could ask for a better evening?  Josh made this rather excellent panoramic view of us all: Each […]
16 years ago

Science Companies around Brighton?

I’m asking you for some feedback – which science-based companies do you know of around the Brighton/London area?  Can you leave me a comment if you know one that I don’t already know? Why am I asking?  I’m an A.I. researcher by trade, I’ve used Python, C++, Java and Matlab to solve ‘interesting problems’ over […]
16 years ago