BarCamp London 2 schedule

Unscheduled

• 5 minute lightning talk on building an unobtrusive JavaScript slideshow

  by Natalie Downe

  Demonstrating and walking through an unobtrusive JavaScript slideshow that changes the URL fragment to maintain browser history.

  • JavaScript
  • Progressive Enhancement
  • Show and tell
  • Unobtrusive JavaScript

• Geeks On A Train (and other adventures in network theory

  by Matt Westcott

• Groupthink Judo

  by Mark Ng

  • Journalism
  • News
  • Politics

• Intro to Arduino

  by Nigel Crawley

• Neighbourhood Fix-It / BBC News Archive

  by Matthew Somerville

  Launch of what renamed to FixMyStreet, and a look at my large archive of BBC News front pages

  • BBC News
  • FixMyStreet
  Coverage slide deck

• Offshore Outsourcing and the Value of Test-Driven Development

  by Guy Rintoul

  Coverage slide deck

• OpenID Explained

  by Simon Willison

  An introduction to OpenID via a series of live demos, including discussion of the new applications you can build with it.

  • OpenID

• Overengineering is Fun!

  by Robert Lee-Cann

  A fun talk about how us geeks can get carried away and miss the simplest solution to problems. Included a walkthrough of a tea ordering system, which involved Jabber, a web client, scrolling LED display and lots of graphs!

• Project Management Basics for Busy Geeks

  by Meri Williams

  1. Project Management is not The Enemy
  2. Basic Project Lifecycle
  3. The “Big Secret” of PM
  4. Tools to Help You Manage Your Projects Better

  Coverage slide deck

• Random Owl Talk

  by Louise Downe

  • Owls