The latest from SuperMondays

SuperMondays – Dev Ops

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.

Posted January 10th 2014 in Events | Comments are disabled

HTML prototyping, Web standards and Encryption videos

This month we improvised with the videos recording them on a mobile phone. Hopefully the lack of recording quality will not take anything away from the content.

Martin Underhill – The Importance of Web Standards

Vicky Teinaki – Got HTML prototypes

You can view Vicky’s slides on SlideShare and read her summery blog post.

Ross Cooney – A Brief History

Apologise that Ross’s question were cut short. The battery in the phone ran out. Do you know how much effort it takes to recover video from an iPhone when the battery has run out. We did not until this but it turns out to be a lot.

So that is SuperMondays done and dusted for 2013, and we hope to see you all again in January 2014.

Posted November 30th 2013 in Review | Comments are disabled

HTML prototyping, Web standards and a hint of encryption

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.

Martin Underhill: The Importance of Web Standards

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.

Posted November 19th 2013 in Events | Comments are disabled