Yesterday I skated a marathon. Actually I skated more than a marathon as I lost count and accidentally skated an extra lap. I was about to set off on my 13th lap when my friend ran over to tell me I could stop! haha So I skated about 29 miles in total. It was hard!… Read More Skating a marathon
Here’s some interviews pre-geekup! With me, Peter Cooper and Dominic from Nottinghack: http://vimeo.com/videos/search:geekup/78523487 Thanks to Phil for these The first GeekUp was a great success. We had about 15-20 people arrive, drink beer, enjoy and engage with the speakers. The speakers were fab. I have some video of Peter Cooper talking about getting permission to… Read More The first GeekUp Nottingham
Along with some other NRG’s I’m doing the Goodwood Roller Marathon on 8th August. I’m skating a full marathon and this is actually a huge thing for me. I’m the least sporty person ever, but I do love my skating. A charity I always like to support are Help for Heroes. These guys do a… Read More Skating a marathon
I am incredibly excited. We’ve got 195 attendees still down as coming, this is after the usual last minute drop outs. http://barcampblackpool.com After advice from our sponsor Yahoo, we’re catering with the expectation that around 50% of the attendees will be unable to make it on the day. From previous experience this has certainly been the… Read More #bcblackpool is upon us!
With less than a month to go to the event on 3rd July, we’ve allocated all 200 tickets and the event is proving so popular the Waiting List is filling up already: http://bcblackpool.eventbrite.com/ We’ve got the room at the venue to contain all 200 (if they show up) and more, but not enough sponsorship money… Read More Barcamp Blackpool Sold Out and needing Sponsorship
And the results are in…. “Ruby on Rails” It doesn’t sound very evil… but I have got some AWESOME I love Ruby stickers from @brightbox. Pics of me in my full gear to follow.
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I know you’re going to say the same thing as me when you hear about this… “How the hell did I not know about this earlier?!” Roller derby is basically two teams of 5 girls on roller skates. There’s one on each team trying to get around the track and it’s the job of the… Read More Roller derby
Today we tries using HttpRequestBase in our integration test, referenced System.Web and got the compilation error: “The type or namespace name ‘HttpRequestBase’ could not be found” Turns out you need to reference System.Web.Abstractions. Go figure. @michaelpapworth and I were stumped! Thankfully our colleague knew where it was hiding and told us the answer. Thanks Mr… Read More HttpRequestBase not found
Due to the fantastic advertising work by the people on our google group we’ve taken the decision to release a further 80 tickets! Up to now we have allocated 114 tickets. Which in a week and a half is fantastic!! I really believe we can allocate all 200. http://barcampblackpool.com The great thing about getting the… Read More Barcamp Blackpool is Rocking!
Gemma Cameron 