No, not the knights who say "Gee!"
The fragrant Natbat, my co-worker and fellow cheese-eater, is organising an Oxford(-shire)-based geek evening:
Oxford GeekNights #1
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 @ 8.00pm
Jericho Tavern, Jericho, Oxford
Further to my earlier post, the first Oxford Geeknight was splendid.
Coming to the end of the Drupal project on which I’m currently working, I spotted someone else’s brand new site on drupal.org: TeamSugar.
Oxford Geek Nights #3 has been somewhat firmed up since I last posted. It’s in six days time (Wed 25) at the usual place, The Jericho Tavern.
Keynotes are confirmed—Andy Budd of Clearleft and Matt Biddulph of Dopplr—and we even have a (deep breaths) geek troubadour introducing the whole evening.
I'm going to OpenTech 2008. If you haven't already registered, you might just squeak in, but you'd better hurry: last thing I heard they were nearly 90% full. Give it a whirl, though.
Entrance is only a fiver and the schedule looks great.
I'm typing this from Google Chrome. Since it was released almost two weeks ago I've wanted to blog about it, but have been mostly hampered by no easy access to Vista or XP.
Currently live blogging from the Google Developer Day, London 2008. Fittingly the live blog is a Google Doc.
Like a moron, I left my mobile phone at home, and then ended up separated from everyone I know; so have a look at what I'm liveblogging and find me, if you care.
Edit 2008-09-18: notes now below.
The End
Lightning talks 16.25-17.35, SF2
Google App Engine
The considerably more hirsute than previously Rob Purdie put together yet another great Drupal for NGOs meet-up yesterday in London.
Via Sean McGrath comes a reasonably lucid and comprehensible redux of the argument about of whether or not the XML standard should (or should have) stipulated draconian error handling.
It's heartwarming, really encouraging to see that Drupal 7 is undergoing a usability review. Drupal's a massively functional CMS, but all the functionality in the world won't help you when the average (for which read: can't write HTML, let alone PHP) CMS user can't discover it.