We are back for our first SuperMondays of 2014 with some great talks on, about, and for Dev Ops.
Andrew Taylor – Past, Present, Future. DevOps from inside a billion pound company.
Andrew Taylor from Sage UK talks about the experiences, challenges and successes in running infrastructure for the FTSE100’s only software company.
Oli Wood – Building Boxes Better : (Sensible Scripting So Sysadmins Smile)
How we version control, build, deploy and manage our infrastructure
using a basic set of tools. specifically on AWS but a methodology that
could be applied else where.
Sam Lambert – hubot mysql me –
At GitHub we host 10 million repositories for over 4 million people. I will share with you how we deploy hundreds of times a day, manage hundreds of nodes and build GitHub, all using a chat bot named Hubot. Hubot was built at GitHub and quickly became the core of many of our processes, as well as a powerful culture tool. This talk will give you a look how we get stuff done and still have time to drop some pug bombs.
This month we have three excellent speakers covering the following topics:
Vicky Teinaki: Got HTML prototypes? We’ve come a long way since the days of mocking things up in Macromedia Fireworks and pulling them apart in Dreamweaver. Or have we? I’ll discuss some of the current practices on why to and not to prototype in code and some of the options each way, from Bootstrap to Axure.
Nothing is more important to a business than the bottom line. That goes for start ups, agencies and freelancers alike; web standards affect every business in more ways that we might think! I’ll be talking about reaching as wide an audience (or as big a market) as possible through well written HTML and CSS and how that code is easier (and therefore cheaper) to maintain.
Ross Cooney: A brief history of encryption from the Egyptians, Mary Queen of Scotts, American gold diggers and The Enigma machine. I will show the evolution of ciphers and some of the tricks used to break them. (NB: I am not a cryptanalyst, just an enthusiast!).
This event will take place on Monday 25th November at the Research Beehive in Newcastle University. We will meet at 18:00 for tea, coffee and sandwiches….speeches will start at 18:30.
Ignite100 is back for a third year, with 11 teams from across the country and around the world joining us in Newcastle. As the programme matures, so does the calibre of the teams – and with three teams from Newcastle in the mix, it’s yet another sign of a thriving tech community in the North East.
This is our sneak preview event; it’s the first time the teams present to the public, a month ahead of their demo day events in Newcastle and London. Expect rapid-fire presentations from all 11 teams, and plenty to talk about afterwards. We’d love you to join us.
