March 2010 – Aimee Maree Forsstrom

Social Innovation Camp – 2010

By aimeemaree | March 26, 2010October 28, 2022 by aimeemaree

The project I volunteered on for Social Innovation Camp¬†Sydney, March 2010, Web DeveloperTools 4 Good. The website is an idea of Project Australia. The main technology’s in use are: http://www.linux.org/ Linux http://www.apache.org/ Apache http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL http://www.php.net/ PHP5.2 http://www.drupal.org/ Drupal6 The toolbox will assist Project Australia both in its consultancy work and as part of an online ‚Action incubator‚ AU for social innovation in Australia. www.tools4good.org.au

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Digi Girlz day – Microsoft Australia

By aimeemaree | March 25, 2010October 24, 2022 by aimeemaree

So the Digi Girlz day was held at Microsoft Australia with great success. The day started with a keynote from Sarah Vaughun about what her experience was like in high school university and that first job and how she ended up in a top role in IT. After the key note the girls broke up into teams and circulated the rooms. I was located in the round table room and held discussions with students on…

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Windows Phone Series 7

By aimeemaree | March 18, 2010October 24, 2022 by aimeemaree

Windows Phone Series 7 is finally here I was lucky enough to attend the Sydney Windows User Group in March 2010 to watch a presentation by Nicholas Rand on Windows Phone 7 series. As soon as I heard him say Zune and XNA my ears got excited. Development for Windows Phone 7 will be done in XNA and Silverlight. I first looked at XNA code in November 2009, and attended the Image Cup Dev Camp…

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First Digi Girlz event in Oz

By aimeemaree | March 17, 2010October 22, 2022 by aimeemaree

Microsoft Australia are holding the first Digi Girlz event in Oz. This event is being organised by Catherine Ebiner. The event is aimed at years 9 to 12 Female High School students to help inform them about the large range of jobs in the IT field. There will be demonstrations of new technology and also some fun XBox/Games Industry information from Girl Gamers and a round table discussions with univeristy students and teachers about the…

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Cloud Camp Sydney

By aimeemaree | March 5, 2010October 24, 2022 by aimeemaree

Cloud Camp Sydney was held at Technology Park Redfern. Not a large event quite small and really just a quick overview of certain aspects and a chance to talk to other IT professionals about Cloud technology’s and how there being used what issues and advantages found. Went to the event with @alanjlee @aussienick, and got to see @NickHodge there with some other very smart people. http://www.cloudcamp.org/sydney/2010-03-04