BarCamp Nottingham schedule

Saturday 23rd July 2011

• SASS, Compass & Live.js for designing in the browser.

  by Steve Lacey

  http://sass-lang.com

  http://compass-style.org

  http://livejs.com

  • Design
  • JavaScript
  • Sass

  At 4:00am to 4:20am, Saturday 23rd July

• Speak More Betterer

  by Proactive Paul

  Presentation skills - tips and tricks to help you create and deliver memorable presentations.

  At 2:00pm to 2:20pm, Saturday 23rd July

• High Speed Flash Photography

  by CazM

  Some of my experiences in taking high speed flash photography, including water splashes, smoke, bubbles etc.

  • Photography

  At 2:30pm to 3:00pm, Saturday 23rd July

  Coverage slide deck

• Can Open Standards help unlock the Internet?

  by Jonathan

  Open Standards have driven the success of the Internet. This session explores the creation of Open Standards, the advantages of their use for both Integrators and Consumers. It also introduces OpenID, OAuth and Portable Contacts as examples of how further Open Standards are now helping unlock data stored in online services.

  At 3:00pm to 3:20pm, Saturday 23rd July

• Round-robin Databases

  by Jonathan

  Events and data are happening all the time around us and in systems we create as software developers. Round-robin databases offer a fixed size data structure to log time-variant data which is aggregated over days, weeks, months and years. Producing simple graphs can help you spot trends over time which might not have previously been obvious. MRTG and RRDTool are introduced as software tools to help start exploring this approach.

  At 3:30pm to 3:50pm, Saturday 23rd July

• Makers, Hackspaces and Appropriate Technology

  Short talk on trying to join makers with projects relating to appropriate technology. Mainly relating to starting an appropriate technology group at Nottingham Hackspace.

  At 5:30pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 23rd July

  Coverage slide deck

Sunday 24th July 2011

• Playing the Customer Development Game

  by Adrian Howard

  Adrian rambled on a bit about lean startup and customer development.

  At 1:30am to 2:00am, Sunday 24th July

• Tsunami

  by Proactive Paul

  The unreported side of the story from Japan (March 2011) and the long term effects.

  At 11:00am to 11:20am, Sunday 24th July

Unscheduled

• Do More With Less (or How I Leaned to Stop Worrying and Love The Code)

  by Kian Ryan

  A short talk on anti-pattern productivity. Ditch the GTD, ignore the InboxZero and apply some simply common sense rules to actually getting things done in a day.

• Node and Phantom for awesome website scraping.

  Using Node and jQuery server-side for programmatic webpage scraping. Haven't tried Phantom yet, which allows the use of WebKit in the same way, hopefully by July I will have!