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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 encouraged [...]

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 the forthcoming releases of [...]

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 Universe”
James [...]

Our third meeting was a success!

Last night we had 40 visitors to our third Super Mondays event. After drinking copious amounts of tea and Coffee (sponsored by Alex Kavanagh from Tinwood) we sat down for two presentations.
Alex spoke about the various free or open source applications that companies can use in replace of some of the more recignisable business applications. [...]

Language Wars, a review.

Our second meeting held on Monday 25th October went very well, we had over 50 attendees from various demographics (start-ups, programmers, students, academics and enthusiasts).
The event kicked off with a 45 minute networking session where copious amounts of tea and coffee were served courtesy of Paul Watson from Newcastle University. At such an early stage [...]

A Movement Is Born!

Last night we had our first meeting at the Newcastle University Beehive Centre.
Even with the short notice we had around 20 people from the various user groups as well as some PHD students from the university in attendance. Groups represented were:

ncl.rb Ruby

Tyneside Linux Users Group 
Amazon Web Services Group
Refresh Newcastle
Open Source Network
As well as [...]