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TechMeetup Glasgow #9
February 2010 is drawing to close so its time to get together for another TechMeetup Glasgow. If you’ve never attended a TechMeetup, no worries, you’re totally welcome. It doesn’t cost anything and you don’t need to sign up. Just bring yourself and your inquisitive mind – you’ll find kindred souls talking tech in between bites of pizza and swigs of beer.
As ever we’ll have two speakers lined up to show us tech in all its varied glory.
Speaking this month:
- Neil Scott from the http://visit-glasgow.info/ site, talks about building a local events portal, their turmoils with WordPress, their visual inspiration lessons learned from releasing early and their plans for future.
- Dave Sapien is a games developer from Me and the Giants, and will be talking about their latest apps for very young baby’s. Visual developmental aids for infants between 1 and 18 months old. Dave will go through the challenges in design, physical considerations, and underline technology used to create the seemingly simple apps.
So if you like the sound of it, come along. We’re in the usual place, the glorious Saltire Centre at Caledonian University, at the usual time: 7pm for beer & pizza. Talks start 8pm sharpish and we finish up by 10pm. I
A massive thanks to our sponsors Wellness & Health Innovation for providing the beer and pizza, and to Glasgow Caledonian University for providing the terrific space.
TechMeetup #9
Wednesday, 24th of Feb.
Kick-off at 7pm, finishing at 10pm.
Ground floor of the Saltire Building.
Glasgow Caledonian University
P.S. You can download a map to the Saltire Centre from here. We’re in building “10″.
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
TechMeetup Glasgow #8
Boom,boom, boom, it’s 2010 and time for the 1st TechMeetup Glasgow of the year. We’ve got two great speakers lined up with a great opportunity to meet both old and new tech acquaintances. As usual the great people at Wellness & Health Innovation are making it possible enjoy the evening with some pizza and beer.
The speakers this month once again span the technology world. Presenting this month are:
John Carlos presenting on the experiences of building http://www.thisiscentralstation.com/, a creative social network for people interested in art, film and design
Jay Jagpal talking about Adobe Flash & Flex, how it can be used today and how it will drive iPhone and multitouch development tomorrow.
So if that sounds like a great line up, come along. We’re in the usual place, the glorious Saltire Centre at Caledonian University, at the usual time 7pm for beer & pizza. Talks start 8pm sharpish and we finish up by 10pm. If you’ve never attended a TechMeetup, don’t worry – we’re a friendly bunch. No need to pay, register, or even let us know that you’re coming. Just bring yourself, your bonne humeur, and your inquisitive tech-mind.
TechMeetup #8
Kick-off at 7pm, finishing at 10pm.
Ground floor of the Saltire Building.
Glasgow Caledonian University
See you next week.
P.S. You can download a map to the Saltire Centre from here. We’re in building “10″.
Thanks to Wellness & Health Innovation and Glasgow Caledonian University for making TechMeetup Glasgow possible and successful.
The videos for Carlos’ and Jay’s talks are now available on Vimeo.
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
TechMeetup Glasgow #7
Look and listen with stereoscopic sight and stereoscopic sound.
See the wonders of the world in 3D!
Thanks to our two speakers Colin Urquhart from Dimensional Imaging and Aaron Bassett from 2Fluid for two amazing talks.
You can find Aaron’s GeoLocation code at http://github.com/aaronbassett/TMU-Geolocation.
See you in January!
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Announcing TechMeetup Glasgow #7
Next week will see us host the last TechMeetup Glasgow of 2009. Our usual 4th Wednesday of the month slot is a bit close to Christmas and I’m not sure if Dominos does a Turkey and Cranberry pizza (actually they probably will).
So this month we’re going to make it an extra special and varied one with two speakers and two completely different topics.
Colin Urquhart, Founder & CEO of Dimensional Imaging (di3d.com), will talk about spinning his company out of Glasgow & Edinburgh University in 2003 into one of the world’s leading companies in human body 3D surface image capture, with applications ranging from facial surgery to video game character creation. Colin will conclude by introducing Dimensional Imaging’s new 4D surface image capture system, which extends its core 3D image capture technology into the 4th dimension of time.
Aaron Bassett - It’s four in the morning. Do you know where your users are? Aaron will be looking at how you can use the new Geolocation API right now in your web apps to find your users locations. While concentrating on those clients which currently support this API (Firefox 3.5 & iPhone OS 3) Aaron will also show you how to use object detection and graceful degradation to fall back to a geo-ip lookup for those users whose web client has not yet implemented the Geolocation API.
We’re in the usual place, the glorious Saltire Centre at Caledonian University, at the usual time 7pm for beer & pizza. Talks start 8pm sharpish and we finish up by 10pm.
If you’ve never attended a TechMeetup, don’t worry – we’re a friendly bunch. No need to pay, register, or even let us know that you’re coming. Just bring yourself, your bonne humeur, and your inquisitive tech-mind.
See you next week.
P.S. The videos from last month’s TechMeetup Glasgow have been uploaded to the TechMeetup channel on Vimeo.
P.P.S. You can download a map to the Saltire Centre from here. We’re in building “10″.
P.P.P.S. We were premature in confirming our third speaker this month hence this post updated shortly after the original announcement.
Thanks to Wellness & Health Innovation and Glasgow Caledonian University for making TechMeetup Glasgow possible and successful.