Sessions

Inside guardian.co.uk (how we built it) info architecture, open source, etc.—Stephen Dunn

(was: Location sensing and DIY smart rooms – James Stanier)

Why we'll never be always online and what to do about it — Jonathan Lisfer (Osmosoft)

Control Templates with WPF (yes, it _is_ windows)

Basically a talk/discussion about identity, personas, new technologies and the idea of a pervasive layer providing social functionality through conventioanl websites.  Are all sites social?

Ask the BBC anything

looking at 4 groups of users:

• dyslexics
• colourblind
• visually impaired
• those with motor disability [who cannot use the mouse]

looking at typical ways in which web pages are inaccessible to these users, and ways we can make pages more accessible.
with PHP-driven demo:
http://www.digitalblonde.co.uk/usability

Can your web business be franchised (and should it?) a discussion—if it was to be franchised, what systems would need to be in place to ensure you can reliable reproduce your goals again and again

(was: Innovation @ guardian.co.uk)

Extending environments with pachube.com — Nigel Crawley

Google App Engine from the trenches—The good, the bad, and the ugly (with tips and tricks)—Aral Balkan

Bad XKCD—A programmer's introduction to deconstruction

Supercollider talk/free-style/Intro—Electronic music

An introduction to the Brighton Naked Bike Ride, inlcuding short films of the event.

For more information, visit worldnakedbikeride.org/brighton

Unfortunately, this talk was delayed by the fire drill.

Thinking inside the box (or what the Egyptians put in your harddrive)—r.willis

Playing with maps, FireEagle, and Twitter (or, building serendipitous task lists!)

Looking into the ways Expression Blend helps to create different templates for WPF controls - focusing on buttons.

In the world of the Web, it's common for sites to push and pull data to and from other sites & services. One example is that of sharing friends lists between social networks. All too often, however, websites ask their users to hand over passwords for different services; this is the Password Anti-Pattern.

Using APIs protected by OAuth, an open authorization protocol, we can allow websites to collaborate without falling prey of the Password Anti-Pattern.

The talk features demos and examples built in .NET using OAuth.net: http://lab.madgex.com/oauth-net/

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Basic tip on how to avoid you server being flagged up on the radar of script kiddies.

Slides: http://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/mytalkatbarcamp3.pdf

Should there be a BBC micro for the 21st century?

What can we learn from the last time?

What was the BBC MIcro- what was the world that it happened in really like? What could it be again?

Some questions, historical investigations, a short film with funny 70's ties, letters from maggie thatcher and ideas about the new sorts of technical leaps of understanding that the UK needs today. 

Talk about randomly chosen links from your del.icio.us / flickr / upcoming and last.fm accounts

All the links that came up!

(Adobe Air application to be open-source released once the bugs are properly ironed out)

All about QR codes

An introduction to Scratch, the best programming language for children.

Composed of a few slides and a how to create a simple game from, err, scratch. Plus, I'll also show how to interface with external hardware using the sensor board.

Slides are now online at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/tristan_roddis/257653

Basically I we all hate ie6 some say we still have to support it, I say we don't and I show you why we don't.

Notes available at:

http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/09/08/notes-from-barcampbrighton3/

Repeated due to popular demand

I was goind to do a session on building information modelling which is teh latest generation of software tools for building design and implements a structure similar to object oriented programming with a databse back end.

Unfortunately no one turned up, so didn't get a chance to run through my presentation :( , probably just a case of poor timing, but will definitely come up with a more interesting topic for next time.

Will post slides for what i was going to present when i get them sorted.