http://www.supermondays.org/2009/07/03/open-podium-review/ A strong and vibrant IT community based in the North East Of England Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.supermondays.org/2009/07/03/open-podium-review/comment-page-1/#comment-122 June SuperMondays Review « Infosanity's Blog Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:24 +0000 http://www.supermondays.org/?p=201#comment-122 [...] Alastair’s talk caught me unawares as I was expecting a technical overview of maintaining geographically dispersed content and services for load-balancing and DR. Instead I was introduced to a world of following GPS co-ordinates to find hidden caches of goodies, in the real-world. Whilst the concept of geocaching was new to me, once aware of it’s presence it appears to be a very popular hobby, Twitter seems to be full of people all over the globe discussing success or failure of searching for various caches. I’m failing to fully do justice to Alastair’s presentation and geocaching as whole, so I’d advice watching the footage yourself (along with the rest of the talks). [...] [...] Alastair’s talk caught me unawares as I was expecting a technical overview of maintaining geographically dispersed content and services for load-balancing and DR. Instead I was introduced to a world of following GPS co-ordinates to find hidden caches of goodies, in the real-world. Whilst the concept of geocaching was new to me, once aware of it’s presence it appears to be a very popular hobby, Twitter seems to be full of people all over the globe discussing success or failure of searching for various caches. I’m failing to fully do justice to Alastair’s presentation and geocaching as whole, so I’d advice watching the footage yourself (along with the rest of the talks). [...]

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