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Running a database is often challenging. Issues such as speed, reliability, scalability and data consistency often keep DBA’s awake at night with worry. This month we had two excellent presentations, these were: (more…)

This month we had a few presenters who presented short five minute presentation on some of the projects that they have been working on. These speakers were (after the break):

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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:

• Stephen Moretti
• Vicky Teinaki

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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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• Call me Delia: A tale of good design – Leanne Johnson
• HTML5 apps for iOS (and probably beyond) – Andy Far
• CMS design integration/theming – Richard Carter

The slides are also available from Slideshare:

• Call me Delia: A tale of good design and Presentation Notes
• HTML5 apps for iOS (and probably beyond) and the app at http://unflappable.semibad.com/
• CMS design integration/theming

Reviews

• Stuart Holmes published a review on his blog.