Events

We keep up to date with the latest developments in technologies and tools. We make sure to post pull requests to fix bugs we found in projects. We offer helpful advice in forums to people with coding questions. We propose talks for meetups and conferences to provide insight and inspiration.

I will be reading the intro from my 'One Day the World Ended' project at this cosy little bookshop.

How digital games are influencing board games and vice versa. I will discuss the numerous ways that board games are joining the digital era.

Programming a Board game? Why would you want to do that?

This is a meet-up group for people interested in games as audio/visual interactive art, with less focus on mechanics or gamer culture.

Jekyll is an awesome static site generator written in Ruby. It's designed with simplicity in mind, but can be made more extensive and powerful by creating plugins and leveraging existing ruby gems.

_(and how tools written in obscure programming languages helped)_

The single node backend is dying or dead. A single instance of a database is no longer sufficiently available, resilient or elastic to cope with the quantities and changing requirements of data that modern applications demand. A single point of failure is no longer an option.

Using Crate a distributed database (Crate has a NoSQL base but is queried in SQL) as an explicit example Chris will show the theory and practice behind their component architecture, along with some basic but extremely cool queries to show what's possible with it. He will demonstrate the basic practicals of querying and coding for Crate using the gitHub archive.

Modern applications store a lot data and demand high availability of access to it. To cope with this increasing need, developers have long struggled with scaling, sharding and synchronizing multiple instances of traditional databases.

The single node backend is now dead or dying, let's look at the future.

In this presentation we will look the fact that in large scale and complex web applications the single node backend is now dead or dying.

In this presentation we revisit an infamous talk from Strata conference in 2012. We will look at importing, querying and analyzing the millions of events generated from one of the internet's most popular tools, GitHub.

Apache Mesos is a fantastic tool for abstracting CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual). Alongside these features is Mesos-DNS, which provides service discovery for all applications and services running in a Mesos cluster. These features combined lets you program against your datacenter like it's a single pool of resources, a useful tool when building highly scalable applications stacks.

In this presentation I will look at quick tips to keep ourselves a little healthier whilst we do what we love. I'm not talking gruelling evenings huffing and puffing at the gym, but manageable and easy advice to whip you into shape.