Posted by Andrew
While most of the office rests over the weekend ready for a brand new week, I joined a team at Birmingham Science Park, Aston, who were building a game in 48 hours for Children in Need. The game is the result of a competition involving over 600 primary school children. The children turned up armed …
Posted by Luke
Recently, Leon and I attended Mongo Conf UK in London. What lay ahead was a day of talks about MongoDB, one of a new breed of databases designed to handle the needs of “web scale”. Having used it internally for several projects, we were eager to learn more about how MongoDB could become an integral …
Following on from my last blog post “updateConf 2011” a talk at updateConf by Anna Debenham highlighted the problems with the current model of teaching students ICT. Anna’s talk “The Digital Native” raised alarm bells throughout the Brighton Dome. Digital Native’s being today’s students that have grown up with technology. Anna kicked off by highlighting …
Posted by Andrew
On Monday I attended updateConf in Brighton. A conference focussing on mobile design & development. Aral Balkan who organised the conference kicked things off in style by singing to a room full of developers from the UK and abroad. Definitely not the normal way to kick off a conference but it set the tone for …
Posted by Leon
This summer marks 4 years since I graduated from Birmingham City University with a bachelors degree in MultiMedia Technology. Since then I’ve worked for a number of companies, including the University that I graduated from. I have learned (and still learning) a tremendous amount. This post is aimed towards graduates that are looking to pursue a …
