OGN7: speakers and books galore! June 15th, 2008

It’s ten days to OGN7; we’ve got a full roster of speakers, half a boxfull of books; it’s dork, and I’m wearing a work-related T-shirt.

Oxford Geek Night #5: you do the maths January 30th, 2008

I don’t know how well this reflects on me.
As I was wondering idly when the delivery would arrive containing OGN5’s book lottery giveaways (thanks again, Friends of ED!) I started making a note of calendar dates for different bits of OGN organisation. I was working with Trac milestones at the time, so they were all [...]

Oxford Geek Night #5: speakers and sponsors confirmed January 17th, 2008

The fifth Oxford Geek Night is shaping up to be a really great night. Following on from our keynote confirmations, we’ve now got a full house of microslotters.
Not only that, but we’ve also sorted our extra sponsorship. Joining the ever-indulgent, ever-understanding Torchbox are Google and Friends of ED. In return for sponsoring us, Google have [...]

A complex CCK module in Drupal September 20th, 2007

CCK is Drupal’s way of making rich content. It means that nodes of any content type can have any kind of data attached to them, so you can have e.g. a directory of superstore outlets, where the outlet records have their longitude and latitude (editable by a Google Map widget) whereas the contact records (e.g. [...]