In 2 weeks I will be attending the "Re-imagining learning" conference in Limerick. I'm really looking forward to it! I'm not quite sure what to expect but I'm fairly confident I will have a great time and learn many new things. In particular, I'll pay close attention to talks and …

As briefly mentioned yesterday ;) I happily attended a talk by Kevin Warwick this week at the Science Gallery. The talk was fantastic as expected, and I'd like to take the time to tip my hat to the Science Gallery: if you haven't been yet, or if you plan to visit …

Last Thursday I happily attended a talk by Kevin Warwick, with the catchy title of "Kevin Warwick: My life as a cyborg". He introduced his work by talking to us about experiments he or his students did on themselves, which made for an intensely interesting and entertaining talk, interspersed with …

I'm facilitating-slash-attending a day-long workshop on Dexy in Tog next Saturday, March 26th. Dexy is an open-source tool for code documentation. The workshop will be presented and led by Dexy creator Ana Nelson and promises to be both interesting and a ton of fun :-) Ana plans to make it very …

A delayed summary of Python Ireland's February meet-up last Wednesday -- another great event, after which I promptly fell sick (getting ready to kick ass again now though :)). In January, the group had a simple and nice "pub meet-up", where a few Python beginners and novices turned up (including one who's …