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12 items tagged “talks”

WildlifeNearYou talk at £5 app, and being Wired (not Tired)

Two quick updates about WildlifeNearYou. First up, I gave a talk about the site at £5 app, my favourite Brighton evening event which celebrates side projects and the joy of Making Stuff. I talked about the site’s genesis on a fort, crowdsourcing photo ratings, how we use Freebase and DBpedia and how integrating with Flickr’s machine tags gave us a powerful location API for free. Here’s the video of the talk, courtesy of Ian Oszvald: [... 171 words]

Scope. Matt Webb’s opening keynote at this year’s reboot11. You owe it to yourself to read it. 3 8th July 2009, 8:15 pm

djng—a Django powered microframework

djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project. [... 1500 words]

I’ve (probably) been using Google App Engine for a week longer than you have. My snappily titled App Engine introduction, presented at BarCamp London 4. 0 1st June 2008, 3:02 am

Debugging Django

I gave a talk on Debugging Django applications at Monday’s inaugural meeting of DJUGL, the London Django Users Group. I wanted to talk about something that wasn’t particularly well documented elsewhere, so I pitched the talk as “Bug Driven Development”—what happens when Test Driven Development goes the way of this unfortunate pony. The slides [... 1759 words]

Comet at the Highland Fling. I thoroughly enjoyed the Highland Fling yesterday. Here are the slides from my talk on Comet. 0 4th April 2008, 10:13 am

mySociety Disruptive Technology Talks. Four great talks coming up in London this Autumn, courtesy of the lovely folk at mySociety. 1 24th September 2007, 5:51 pm

Building the Social Web with OpenID. Slides from my keynote at yesterday’s PyCon UK. 2 9th September 2007, 12:36 am

Advanced Django. Slides from my hour long tutorial at PyCon UK this morning. Most of the material was adapted from OSCON, but I also added a new section covering newforms. 3 8th September 2007, 1 pm

Doing Local Right. The slides from my presentation at @media 2007. 0 9th June 2007, 7:31 pm

JavaScript Libraries: The Big Picture

I just gave my first talk at XTech 2007 (I’m speaking again on Friday, on OpenID). Slides are on slideshare.net. [... 40 words]

My Future of Web Apps talk as a slidecast

The team at Carson Systems have a pretty quick turnaround on their podcasts; they’ve had full recordings of every speaker up for a few days now. I spent a bunch of time over the weekend splicing the recording of my talk together with my slides, and the result is now available at The Future of OpenID (a slidecast). [... 177 words]

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