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SuperChristmas 2009.

SuperMondays, in partnership with Thursday Fizz, CONNECT North East, Adesign Association, Refresh Teeside, VBUG, The Hub and the Newcastle Branch of BCS are proud to announce: SuperChristmas is the Christmas party that brings our organisations together to round off an excellent year and to set the scene for 2010. The party will start at 7:00pm on Thursday 17th December 2009 at [...]

An introduction to databases at the Bedson

Last month we ran a hugely sucessful event on databases at the Bedson Teaching Centre at Newcastle University. This was our largest event with around 80 attendees from various backgrounds including academic, business, startup and freelancers. The three speakers were: Ross Cooney This was a quick presentation covering where databases come from? Why are new databases needed and [...]

SuperMondays on the Side

Last night we had a sell out event at the Side Theatre. This is an excellent venue and judging my the feedback we will be back there soon. David Coxon started off proceedings and gave an excellent presentation of how he setup the online store for The Baltic. Rather than choosing an off-the-shelf ecommerce application, David and [...]

Open podium, a review

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 [...]

Ambient Honeypots full of Jewellery

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 [...]

The Public has spoken, we have a new logo!

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:

April, a review

Click to play this video. 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 [...]

Arduino and Amazon Marketplace, a review

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 [...]

Powershell, Offline/Online and CloudComputing…a review

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 [...]

A packed night, from Flash to OpenPandora

The January Super Mondays event was bigger and better than ever before. Our fourth event had almost 60 attendees and while we over ran a little on time, the crowd was well entertained with four excellent presentations. (Tea and Coffee was sponsored by Lee Irving from Transcendit) James Rutherford — “Flash – Saviour of the [...]