Category Archives: programming

A friendly PyCon Australia 2013 Early Birds reminder

We’re down to just over 20 early bird registrations left of our original quota of 80. That means that we’ll probably run out of Early Bird tickets before our deadline of Friday. The big announcement to every mailing list I … Continue reading

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PyCon Lightning Talk: Job Security

At the recent PyCon North America, I presented my lightning talk on coding in Python in a way that is sure to keep you employed. This was my first time presenting in front of an audience of thousands (2500, I … Continue reading

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Announcing the LCA2013 Open Programming Miniconf!

TL;DR — submit a proposal at http://tinyurl.com/opm2013-cfp before the first round closes on Monday 29 October 2012. *** I’m pleased to announce that The Open Programming Miniconf — a fixture for application developers attending Linux.conf.au since 2010 — is returning … Continue reading

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Talk: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Java!

Hark! My TUCS Tech Talk for this semester is an attempt to show the connections between Java as a programming and software technology, and the technology that followed it. You can view it at the TUCS Blip.tv page or in … Continue reading

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Linux.conf.au 2012 Open Programming Miniconf — Call for proposals now open

TL;DR — submit a proposal at http://tinyurl.com/opm2012-proposal before the first round closes on Friday 7 October. I’m pleased to announce that The Open Programming Miniconf, a fixture for application developers attending Linux.conf.au since 2010 is returning as part of Linux.conf.au … Continue reading

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30 Days of Geek: 14 – Favourite Computer Conference

Oh. You probably won’t be surprised to hear this one, but the answer is Linux.conf.au the Australasian Free and Open Source Software Conference. I’ve been attending since Melbourne 2008, and have since “been” to Hobart in 2009 and travelled to … Continue reading

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30 Days of Geek: 05 – Quick nifty hacks you’re proud of.

As it turns out, probably about 90% of the coding that I do these days is in the form of nifty hacks. This is particularly because in research the impetus is not necessarily to have code that is reusable in … Continue reading

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30 Days of Geek: 01 – Why do you consider yourself a geek?

Right, so for those of you who missed my announcement a couple of weeks ago, I’m taking part in the 30 Days of Geek blogging challenge throughout November. This is the first of those posts. So this first of those … Continue reading

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Open Programming strikes again

I’m very pleased to announce that the LCA2011 organisers have accepted my proposal for the Open Programming Miniconf to be run at Linux.conf.au in Brisbane in January.  This is a new, improved, shorter-titled successor to the wildly successful Open Programming … Continue reading

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AUC /dev/world/2010 — I’m Presenting!

AUC /dev/world/2010, the Apple University Consortium’s conference for developers working on or with Mac or iOS devices is on again this year, on the 28th and 29th of September, in Melbourne.  Last year I presented a talk, and ran the … Continue reading

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