October 2010
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Next Meetup: 23rd October
I’m In! Meet me at the Outhouse at about 14:00 for an afternoon of hackery and fun.
I’ll be working on a few pet-projects that seem to spring out of my every step, and I’d love to see what everyone else is up to.
Unfortunately, I (also a Sam) am taking over a little more as Sam Collins is now based in london, the silly fool.
July 2010
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Next Meetup is Saturday July 17th
At The Outhouse, Edinburgh again. We always say it starts at 12pm but it’s Saturday and most people seem to be asleep then, so let’s say come along at 2pm (we have the space until about 7pm). See you there!
One project I’d like to get started is a web/email/twitter based discussion forum for TechMeetup that would provide a way for announcements and discussions to take place amongst one group of...
June 2010
2 posts
Meeting up again this Saturday (19th)
Same time, same place: 12 noon onwards at The Outhouse, Edinburgh. Spread the word and bring a friend!
Meetup #4 quick notes
Thanks to everyone who came to the last meetup. The turnout was good, especially considering the unusually sunny weather that day.
Projects worked on included the new much-improved Techmeetup site that’s due to go live soon, a cool dashboard for Pivotal Tracker (no link yet), better parks project, and Facesnap. Abdel (@abdels) from said.fm is also learning Io, so if you’re interested...
May 2010
10 posts
Facesnap
You’ll be able to plug Facesnap into your website to let your users take and upload their pictures with a webcam. Main use case is to make it easier for your users to submit a profile picture. Facesnap can also be used by bloggers to host their own mini-DailyBooths.
On the tech side, the whole thing will be written in Javascript (Node.js) using VertexJs for storage.
Get in touch if...
Elastik, the flexible open source ticketing...
I will drop past and gently poke some stuff to do with Elastik, the open source ticketing system that aims to be incredibly flexible. Will also be chatting to people about another BarCamp …
James
Fun startup marketing video
I’m using iMovie for pretty much the first time, putting together a video for the startup I work for (TenBu). Trying to make it humourous and effective at showing off our product, a security alarm for your mobile phone and other things you’d rather not lose.
Likely looking for a bit of tech help when I get frustrated, or to add some cool effects, as well as suggestions of how to make...
mobile/web app.
The idea is simple: geotagged data of your expenses. So you went out to town and spent a few quid here and there. I would personally be interested in seeing which ones are the “hotspots” where I spend most of my money (which can then be classified into different sorts, of course.) This is something I *would like* to work on, not something I’m actively pursuing. If you’re...
Personal Finance Forecast
Given: 1) your current balance and 2) a list of expected income and expenditure and optionally 3) an estimated burn rate (possibly based on historical figures), it should be possible to produce a graph that forecasts how your bank balance should (roughly) change in the future. Sites like wesabe and mint seem to have all the info, but they’re focused on the past, on what you’ve already...
Light at the BAC
Last Royal Society of Hackers (RSH?) I was working on an art installation - an interactive interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Matchgirl. I’m just setting it up now at Battersea Arts Centre. A bit of a change from my normal hacking diet of data analysis and social media.
Daniel Winterstein
(winterstein@twitter http://winterstein.me.uk)
Edinburgh Parks
Have you ever tried to get information on parks and green spaces in Edinburgh? You might (eventually) get to this Edinburgh Council page: http://bit.ly/cAGRbh Where they will offer you an Excel spreadsheet with a list of parks. Yes, an excel spreadsheet…
I’d like to do better than that.
http://ollyjackson.co.uk
Tell us what you want to work on
You can post here and describe what project you’re working on or perhaps a project you’d like to work on and see if there’s interest from others. Please feel free to post no matter how small or large your project is and let’s get a bit of hackerville going on - click the ”What are you working on?”. Posty-posty…
Next Royal Society of Hackers, Designers,...
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[project] Hackersquare
Sam wants to made this, and any feedback or suggestions would be great before we start. It’s an app built on the Bloop API that lets you see where other developers are working in the city, and what they’re working on. Lots of us work on our own in coffee shops and it would be pretttty sweet to be able to see where the others are so we can come join and work together.
We still to need...
March 2010
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