Simon Willison’s Weblog

Oxford Geek Night 7: 25 June 2008. I won’t be able to make this one, but a reminder for anyone in the area that the seventh Oxford Geek Night takes place tomorrow night at the Jericho Tavern.

# 24th June 2008, 2:55 pm / events, oxford, oxford-geek-nights

Django Users Group London meetup, 19th of May. The inaugural meeting of DJUGL will be on the 19th of May at the Capital Radio building in Leicester Square, sponsored by GCap Media. Three presentations starting at 7pm (I’ll be giving one of them), then on to the pub. Sign up on EventWax; there are only 70 places.

# 2nd May 2008, 12:19 pm / django, python, london, djugl, gcap, gcapmedia, events

Open Tech 2008—5th July in London. Awesome—I still have happy memories of the last Open Tech (back in 2005), very excited about this one. Once again, it’s only a fiver to get in.

# 18th March 2008, 1:03 am / opentech, conferences, events, opentech2008

Good architectural layering, and Bzr 1.1. Mark Shuttleworth on the growing importance of plug-in architectures as an open source project evolves, as they allow new developers to release their own components without needing commit access to the project. Django is pretty good for this, but more hooks (and a faster event dispatch system) would be useful.

# 9th January 2008, 2:06 pm / hooks, bazaar, bzr, dispatch, django, events, mark-shuttleworth, open-source, programming, python

OGN5: Wednesday February 6, 2008. Great line-up for the next Oxford Geek Night: Rufus Pollock and Denise Wilton.

# 19th December 2007, 5:45 pm / oxfordgeeknight, ogn5, denisewilton, rufuspollock, events

Oxford Geek Night 4. Tomorrow night, usual venue. Topics include mySociety, Pylons, MythTV and more.

# 27th November 2007, 9:04 pm / oxford-geek-nights, pylons, mysociety, python, events, mythtv

HTML5 Media Support in WebKit. WebKit continues to lead the pack when it comes to trying out new HTML5 proposals. The new audio and video elements make embedding media easy, and provide a neat listener API for hooking in to “playback ended” events.

# 12th November 2007, 11:21 pm / media, audio, events, html5, osx, safari, video, webkit, javascript

JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events. Keyboard events in JavaScript are a total pain. This looks like a pretty comprehensive reference to getting them to work cross-browser.

# 9th November 2007, 11:07 pm / crossbrowser, javascript, keyboard, events

Oxford Geek Night #4. November 28th in the upstairs room at the Jericho Tavern; the first one run without Natalie at the helm.

# 6th October 2007, 12:33 am / jpstacey, oxford-geek-nights, oxford, events

OpenID event at the British Library. On the 8th of November. Sadly I’ll be in Berlin for the Web 2.0 Expo but it looks like a great lineup. Free to attend but limited to 50 people so book soon.

# 18th September 2007, 1:22 pm / openid, events, web2expo, berlin, britishlibrary

£5 app. Monthly Brighton meetup for people interested in building (and maybe selling) lightweight software with 1-2 man teams. Nat and I went along last night and really enjoyed it.

# 12th September 2007, 12:12 pm / brighton, fivepoundapp, events

Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate. Prototype gets a long-needed update to its Event API, and some interesting new Function.prototype extensions.

# 16th August 2007, 8:49 am / prototype, javascript, events

Cabochon event server. Written in Python (on top of SQLObject and Paste), uses JSON for messages, allows event consumers to subscribe with a callback URL.

# 2nd August 2007, 8:36 am / callbacks, python, sqlobject, paste, cabochon, events, json

Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python. Locks, RLocks, Semaphores, Events and Conditions as explained by Fredrik Lundh.

# 29th July 2007, 9:32 pm / fredrik-lundh, effbot, locks, rlocks, threading, semaphores, events, conditions, tutorial, python

Oxford Geek Night 3 now on the 25th July. The date has been moved back by a week.

# 4th June 2007, 9:49 pm / oxfordgeeks, oxford-geek-nights, events

Oxford Geek Night 3 (via) The date for your diary is July 25th (moved from the 18th).

# 2nd June 2007, 12:38 am / conferences, events, oxford, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordgeeks, upcoming

d.Construct 2007 is go! One of my favourite UK events. This year’s theme is “Designing the User Experience”.

# 21st May 2007, 12:15 pm / dconstruct, conferences, events, uk, andy-budd