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Archive for September, 2011

Review: An introduction to 4 programming languages

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday SuperMondays!! (@mynameiscolin )

Every day we work with the tools that we are familiar with. We develop applications, build web sites and deliver projects to happy clients. However, it is frustrating that sometimes the tools we use are not perfectly suited for the job at hand. Learning to use new programming languages is hard, indeed there are so many to consider!

Here are a few write ups of the night:

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Review: Games, the state of play

If you follow the news in technology, you’ll have seen that games (and specifically gamification) is a big thing right now. This month Supermondays (or Super MonTuesdays thanks to the Monday Bank Holiday) took the subject head-on with talks from various angles in the industry, ranging from Java-based gladiator cricket games, to running games at conferences. (you can continue reading this excellent account of the night on Vikky Teinaki’s excellent blog ).

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