A strong and vibrant IT community based in the North East Of England
Alastair Mc Donald introduced us to the world of geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing), a treasure hunting game which is played by thousands of players around the world. The game is an intriguing mix of treasure hunting, navigation, and outdoor hiking/walking. Players (geocachers) place caches in hidden locations around the world and log them on a geocaching [...]
This month, in a break from tradition we will be running the event under a ‘un-conference’ format in much like the ‘barcamp’ and ‘cloudcamp’ events.
A un-conference is largely a US event format that has the attendees as the drivers and not the event organisers. The topics, speakers and format is largely decided by the attendees [...]
This month’s event was different from previous SuperMondays events for a few reasons, not just because of the fact that we held it on a Tuesday. This month we changed the venue, the format of the event and the topics of the speakers. We hope that you liked it!
During the first hour we were encouraged [...]
Our new image was chosen by 56% of the voters as their favourite. The image was designed by James Rutherford from Creative Nucleus. The full results are:
This month Culture Lab will be hosting Super Mondays, a strong and vibrant community of IT enthusiasts based in The North East of England who meet up once a month for a range of IT user group meetings and some unstructured discussions.
The event will start at 18:00 with tea and coffee and demonstration of several [...]
Roxy Bramley from Northern Film and Media was first to the podium to tell us about the Digital Dockyard (www.digitaldockyard.com). The dockyard is a new social network for the North East’s new media and gaming sectors. Created in partnership with Northern Film and Media and 4iP the dockyard hopes get developers working together and perhaps pitch on [...]
This months Supermondays event will take place on Monday 27th April at the Bedson Teaching Center at Newcastle University. The Bedson Teaching Center is located off Queen Victoria road, you can find a map here:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/maps/navigator.php?x=7&y=3&w=4&h=4
Our speakers this month are:
Sarat Pediredla — Taking your idea from a napkin to real money - An insight into Software Product [...]
Chris Barber from Carrot Media was first to the podium to tell us about a project that he as recently worked on integrating an online apparel shop into the Amazon.com market place. Chris’ client was already selling their clothing products very successfully through their existing online shop and on ebay but wanted to expand their [...]
The March 30th SuperMondays event has been announced, the speakers are:
Oli Wood – Arduino
The Arduino hardware is an open source circuit board which lots of developers, artists and home-hackers are using to build all sorts of interactive electronic kit. It runs the Processing.org language (amongst other thing) and lets you go [...]
It is with thanks to Shuoling Liu that we can show you the following videos of the February event:
Jonathan Noble — Microsoft Windows PowerShell, an introduction
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1948859522116926743
Microsoft released Windows PowerShell in 2006 to finally give Windows a decent shell and scripting language for automation and PowerShell V2 will come installed and on by default in the forthcoming releases of [...]
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