BarCamp London 9 schedule
Saturday 29th October 2011
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Opening Talk
Welcome to BarcampLondon9!
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Beyond-Webscale Databases
by Daniel Knell
Proving that /dev/null is a ACID compliant high performance database
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How does IBM Watson work?
by Dale Lane
IBM Watson was the computer system that competed on the Jeopardy! quiz show earlier this year.
I'll explain how it works.
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Policing in your pocket - Surrey Police social media mobile app
by Angus Fox
Roadmap Review, Public Sector issues, Presentation and discussion by @nuxnix
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How to Sell a Purple Cow for Charity
by Janita
I'd like to explore virtual goods and facebook as a platform to make giving to charities fun and easy!
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CopterHack
by Dan Hagon
Control a helicopter with an Arduino and Kinect.
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REST, HTTP, and the PATCH verb (with kittens)
RESTful web services and the new HTTP PATCH Verb. Plus kittens.
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Why arcades are still needed
by Gideon Brett
Not gambling machines (there are enough of those in England) - I mean the ones with music games
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Secure Coding - Are we doing it wrong (discussion)
Are Security Consultants putting the emphasis on the wrong things when it comes to secure coding and applications development?
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CoffeeScript: JavaScript, but Better!
JavaScript is an awesome language but it's not without its flaws. CoffeeScript attempts to fix those & improve the way you write JavaScript. It's awesome.
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Google AppEngine and its Bigtable
by Dawid
Bigtable is a scalable datastore that provides constant access time to stored entities.
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The Theory of Board Games
by Imran Ghory
Ever wondered exactly why Go is harder than Chess, come and find out!
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Collaborative Consumption on Steroids
CC is about using P2P ideas to shape the material economy. It's neat already - but it can be made more effective and pervasive.
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Why Cybersecurity is Rubbish
by Alec Muffett
Cybersecurity: what Government thinks it is, what it really is, and why the difference between the two is important
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Silicon Valley versus Silicon Roundabout - a 'goldfishbowl'
a 'goldfishbowl' discussion
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Sculpture Creation for Software Geeks (with a laser cutter)
by Tom Parker
Can't draw, can code? Well then you too can make Art :-) Will contain lots of show-and-tell and demo items...
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Screw Privacy: Live Your Life in Public
Why do people spend so much time and energy trying to hide things from others?
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An interview with a 4.9 year old about UX, web an hardware
by Jason Grant, MSc and Ernie
This cannot be described - only experienced.
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(Re)Introduction to Ruby on Rails (3.1)
Ruby on Rails has come a long way and a new developer now needs to understand rvm, bundler, gems, asset precompiling, etc.
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Looking for a job? Don't look like an Arsehole :)
Discussion about what recruiters and Hiring Managers are thinking about when they look at your resume/profile.
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I Love Mobile but Why is Instagram the only Big Thing
by Janita
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So I seem to have opened a sweet shop
by Dom Hodgson
In the past month I opened a sweet shop... come and see what I've learned
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7 Different Things I Had to Learn to Make iPhone Games
I've never really finished any of these, but I had to learn more than half a dozen new skills to create even a simple game...
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why interaction designers can save the planet. Discuss.
by Kate P
A personal journey into the dark world of sustainable computing - and why it's missing something.
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Fancy a pint?
by Bryn Salisbury and Betsy Weber
Isn't beer awesome? Let's talk about it...
An ad-hoc session where we discuss beer, what's great about it, the various types and also get to talk about Whisky.
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Kinect: Turning a Toy into a Tool
by Sinead Doyle
Let's talk Kinect: how we can turn a device created for the gaming industry into a useful interactive interface tool?
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Automatic Language Identification
Identifying a language from speech samples using SuperCollider and a Neural Net. Also, a slide of cats.
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Lanyrd: From side-project to startup
by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe
Story of http://lanyrd.com - Becoming accidental entrepreneurs. Startup lessons learned, surviving Y Combinator & raising money
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Ail-Gysylltu (Reconnecting)
How I managed to reconnect with my home language, and my journey through the world of multi-lingual web. Meanders into the topic of the increasing use of Welsh (and minority languages) on the Web.
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Carcassonne Tips & Tricks
by CazM
Some tips to help you improve your Carcassonne game play
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