“So this was the long-awaited trip to Libre Planet. My best friend Erle and I had spoken of this day for many years, and finally, luck would have it that we both had the time to be able to attend Libre Planet and visit Boston. The conference organisation and updates where great, there was a last minute change in the keynotes which was communicated to all attendees and the wider audience. This change whilst upsetting…
So I had been thinking about getting a 3D printer for a while, and as luck would have it whilst I was attending LinuxConfAU I bumped into my friend Chris Biggs who just so happened to be running a 3D Workshop in Brisbane in the coming weekends. The workshop he was running was to build the TronXy 3D Printer http://www.tronxy.com/ the exact model we where building was the Tronxy X3S 3D Printer So I headed…
So after over a decade, LinuxConf came back to Sydney. The week started as usual with the two days of mini-confs. This time I attended the Open Source Bioinformatics and the Open Education mini-confs. I was quite impressed with both of them and they had a good level of attendee participation. The endnote for the Open Source Bioinformatics talk was a gentleman who put an Opal Card reader into his hand ABC news article Opal card…
So Purism is a company I have been following since their inception. To address why I think they are the most important hardware company around I will write another blog post, but for most people I think they understand why. So if we take it from the point that this is a really exciting day for me then the right context is set. Opening the box was cool, black box, and black laptop, nothing too…
This was my first time attending Web Directions Summit, and considering how I was going to be based in Australia at the time it seemed like an opportunity not to miss. The lineup was spectacular and I was very excited to see Kyle Simpsons name on the list. The keynotes I must say also grabbed my attention, though they are often not a draw card I did not want to miss the opportunity to see…
“So I finally did it and applied to give a talk at Code, the awesome front-end focused conference run by John Allsop and the Web Directions crew. From the beginning of the CFP application, the process was smooth, once accepted Web Directions had a human hand hold you with information, flights, and accommodation. That was a nice bonus as I had been in America volunteering so the offer to cover costs came at a great…