I recently had the pleasure of being invited to give a talk at Geek Girl Dinners in Sydney. I was excited as now I have delivered talks at Geek Girl events on both sides of the planet (achievement unlocked). The talk was about online branding and what is means to the average person.I decided to give this talk to pass across some knowledge to other geek girls about setting up an online presence. The talk…
Attended the first PHP user group meet-up in Sydney. Was great to see the PHP guys again as always great discussions. The talks were on security and presented by Yahoo. @jazdor showed some main security issues with PHP, cross site scripting, SQL injection, man in the middle attacks. He showed some easy ways that people can use these holes to attack a website. He presented with both slides and live demos so we actually got…
I was able to make it to another London Drupal Pub Meet-up on 27 September 2010. It was a great night and Alie, Randy and Angie from Lullabot where there. I ended up spending alot of the night outside on the smoking terrace chatting Drupal with other London Drupal hence and did not get to chat much with Lullabot. Was a great night as always friendly social atmosphere always meeting new people and got to…
After my presentation at Edinburgh tech meet-up I meet Kate Ho from Scotland Geek Girls who asked me if I would like to present at the September dinner. I was pleasantly surprised and quite taken back by the offer. I spent the next while polishing up my slides to represent more about what OLPC as a project does rather then just a pure technology stack look which was the angle I took for the Edinburgh…
Went to see the Edinburgh Mobile Meet-up that i had heard so much about. It is put on at Inspace in Edinburgh University, the space is lovely. The whole area is painted white to act like a Canvas for the artworks to be displayed on. The Life Turns exhibition at http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/outreach/inspace Inspace was still on display. Life turns was a new media exhibition which enabled people to download an iphone app and take a series…
The London web Meet-up organiser Nathan O’Hanlon decided to make the 16 September meet-up something different by holding it on a ferry as it cruised up and down the Thames. http://www.meetup.com/londonweb/calendar/13824435/ I went with my friend Tom Bamford a fellow Drupalista. There was a presentation by Andy Hume from Clear Left about “the Progressive Web” great talk I was really impressed. There were also three shorter talks from Mozilla on HTML5 and building Mozilla plug-ins.…