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!
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
TechMeetup Glasgow #6 – 28 October
October 28, sees the return of TechMeetup Glasgow with a new format, after its 1-month sabbatical. We’ve got 3 speakers lined up to give talks. One talk will be our “main event” of the evening, whilst the other two be 5-10 minute “lightning” talks.
Laurence Hughes, 2Fluid
Over the next 6 months, TechMeetup will be inviting one guest speaker each month from each of Glasgow’s top creative/digital agencies to come a give a lightning talk on what they’re up to. Laurence Hughes of the recently rebranded 2FluidDigital is the first to step up and will be give us an overview of their latest projects, what technologies they’re using and where 2Fluid are going. If you’re looking for a job, to compare notes or indeed to check out the competition, don’t miss it!
Andy Bright, Tattie & Toppin
Andy is a Glasgow-based UX professional who recently parted ways with the TicToc family to go freelance, a choice already proving successful. Andy will be offering his experience with paper prototyping and how he creates value and reduces risks with sketching.
Ijonas Kisselbach, Vamosa
Ijonas is CTO at Glasgow-based software company Vamosa. He’s just spent the last year transitioning the company’s products from the enterprise desktop to the Amazon cloud. Ijonas shares his experiences in how to develop software and keep customers happy at the same time using a small team of dedicated developers.
We look forward to seeing both familiar and new faces next week at our usual location in the Saltyre Building on Caledonian Uni Campus.
TechMeetup Glasgow is made possible through the continued support from Wireless Innovation.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
TechMeetup Glasgow #5 – August 26th
August 26th is confirmed as the next TechMeetup in Glasgow. Once again held at the excellent Saltire Centre on Calidonian Uni’s campus. The usual beer and pizza is complemented this month by three excellent speakers:
Topic: How to Optimise for Profit using Google Website Optimizer (Jim Williams)
Why guess what web design would works best with your customers when you can ask them live on your site 24/7. Jim will show you how Google Website Optimizer can be used to quickly and cheaply optimise your web designs, increase your web site conversions and boost profitablity . Using case studies from his work at the social networking/gaming site weeworld.com Jim will share some of the many pitfalls and lessons learnt using Google Website Optimizer.
Topic: Programming Microsoft Surface (Kate Ho & Neelima Alluri)
The presentation gives a brief introduction on Microsoft Architecture and Surface SDK, differences between Surface programming & traditional WPF programming, and using Surface simulator to create rich surface experiences.
Towards the end we will have a demo of the surface applications developed by Kate and Neelima as part of the Touch Finance Competition.
As you can see, an interesting and diverse set of topics, providing the ingredients to an excellent Tech Meetup evening. We hope to see you there, at the usual time of 7pm.
TechMeetup Glasgow is made possible through support provided by Wireless Innovation.
Friday, July 17th, 2009
July Tech Meetup Glasgow: The Beauty of Code
Following our TechMeetup Glasgow earlier in July with a ‘Beauty of UI’ theme, we switched around this time for a session on the Beauty of Code, with talks from Thomas Figg (aka Tef) on what it takes to build a computer language, and Craig Nicol on the applications of genetic algorithms.
Unfortunately Tef couldn’t make it over, but we had a great session all the same – as always pizza and beer were enjoyed by all, and this was our first session in our new home The Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Craig Nicol on Genetic Algorithms
Craig provided a high-level introduction to what genetic algorithms are and how they can be used.
Genetic algorithms is a search technique used in computing to find exact or approximate solutions to optimization and search problems. As the name suggests, they’re inspired by the process of evolution in the natural world. The typical genetic algorithm consists of a genetic representation of the solution domain, and a fitness function for evaluating the solution domain.
Craig used example to clarify the topic and his presentation stimulated an interesting discussion of potential applications of the technology.