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 …

Last Tuesday I attended a talk/workshop organised by IrishDev.com about StormMQ and the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard that's cooking up. I was very impressed by how polished and well prepared the presentation was, very enjoyable. Showing "time slices" beside each topic from the beginning, giving a …

Last Thursday I happily attended TEDx Dublin 4.0 at the Science Gallery. I thought it was a bit too computer sciency slanted (I really enjoyed the 3rd edition, with talks on physical product design, or shark slime, and other very interesting things I would never have thought about otherwise …