Sessions at BarCamp London 9 in The Black Lagoon

Saturday 29th October 2011

• Google AppEngine and its Bigtable

  by Dawid

  Bigtable is a scalable datastore that provides constant access time to stored entities.

  • BigTable
  • Google App Engine

  At 12:35pm to 1:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• (Re)Introduction to Ruby on Rails (3.1)

  by Cristiano Betta

  Ruby on Rails has come a long way and a new developer now needs to understand rvm, bundler, gems, asset precompiling, etc.

  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails

  At 1:05pm to 1:30pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Automatic Language Identification

  by Alexander Hosford

  Identifying a language from speech samples using SuperCollider and a Neural Net. Also, a slide of cats.

  • Natural Language Processing

  At 2:30pm to 3:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

  Coverage slide deck

• Windows Phone Overview

  by Kevin Lewis

  An overview of the new Mobile OS from Microsoft. Let's hope the visualiser works.

  • Windows Phone

  At 3:40pm to 4:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• NLP techniques to make you better

  by Lauren Wethmar

  I will run through a few techniques that you can use to build a good self image and improve your mood or lessen anxiety.

  • NLP

  At 4:15pm to 4:45pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Running a WiFi network and the law

  by Steve Karmeinsky

  By running a WiFi network (or any network) you have obligations under the law.

  • Wi-Fi

  At 5:15pm to 5:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Intro to Arduino

  by Dan Hagon

  Semi hands-on session with Arduino

  • Arduino
  • Hardware Hacking

  At 5:45pm to 6:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

  Coverage link

• Intro to Kinect

  by Dan Hagon

  A hands-off session :)

  • Hardware Hacking
  • Kinect

  At 6:15pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

  Coverage link

• Intro to Robot Navigation

  by Simon Parton

  A basic introduction of navigation for robots real world environments

  • Hardware Hacking
  • Robots

  At 6:45pm to 7:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Make Your Own Old Fashioned Cocktail

  by Ryan Alexander

  The Old Fashioned cocktail is possibly the first cocktail and a powerful tool for learning about spirits and mixology.

  • Cocktails

  At 8:40pm to 9:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

Sunday 30th October 2011

• Technology's impact on society and social skills

  by Simion

  Hai . im only going to talk about technology's impact on our lifes ( duh ) . come here if you have nothing better to do.

  • Technology

  At 10:00am to 10:30am, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Recession? Again? How I survived the last one!

  by Proactive Paul

  Could you take a 30% pay cut? In effect that is what happened to me in the recession of 2008/09. Some fail. Some survive. Why?

  • Recession

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• jQuery for Complete Beginners

  by Jack Franklin

  jQuery is awesome. Come find out why.

  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

  At 11:15am to 12:45pm, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

  Coverage slide deck

• Twitter Streaming API: Do More, Faster

  by Gareth Lloyd

  I will talk about the fun I've had with the Twitter Streaming API and lead a general discussion.

  • Twitter API

  At 12:00pm to 12:30pm, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• GiveCampUK - Coding for charity (Our Story)

  by Duncan Goodall, Iain Partington and Dylan Beattie

  We came, we saw, we coded, we slept (a little) but most importantly we gave! We present what we did and how.

  • Charities

  At 12:40pm to 1:00pm, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Solving Sudoku Programmatically

  by Wilfred Hughes

  An answer to the popular human DDoS: How can I write a program that solves a Sudoku? How do I generate puzzles?

  • Sudoku

  At 2:00pm to 2:25pm, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• Dependency Management on .net with OpenWrap

  by serialseb

  Be it that you need nhibernate, or want to publish your own library for the world to use, you need OpenWrap. This is the intro.

  • .NET

  At 3:00pm to 3:25pm, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• An Intro to http services development on .net and OpenRasta

  by serialseb

  Just a quick intro of what openrasta is and how it enables companies to build ReST-friendly services on .net today.

  • .NET
  • REST

  At 3:30pm to 3:55pm, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building