NoSQL meeting report

So I went to a NoSQLSummer meeting yesterday night. Upon entering the deathly empty MINC complex, I thought “startups never sleep?”, but I found most of Neo’s staff in a cosy war-room called “Innovation Lab”. No coffee, but soda bottles. Copies of the paper were spread around the large table. We met. We hung out. …

Free RFID workshop with Forskningsavdelningen

Forskningsavdelningen decided to have a RFID workshop on Thursday (today 27 August 2009), so please come today and bring your rfid tags and readers. As you may know, RFID is a technology used in transportation cards sucha as the new SkÃ¥netrafiken “Jojo”, Stockholm Länstrafik’s “Access”, and the London Underground “Oystercard”, as well as Öresundsbron bridge …

Hackmeetup notes: Bubble Bobble theme song on my Arduino piezo

Hackmeetup last night was a new attendance record. It also featured Mark saying “I’m finished with this project!”, again. A Bluetooth scanner project, which was using Rhino to wrap Java APIs, again. There were some new faces, and lots of electronics know-how in the house. I learnt a ton from Micke, who show-cased his company’s …

Hackmeetup on Javascript mini-report: RFID on Rhino

This past Tuesday, we ran another Hackmeetup. Same great location, same great time. Mark ran a talk about Typography on the Web for an audience of three. For the hardware experimentation session, Carl had left, so it was Mark, me, and David, and we all worked on the same project. Mark had brought a USB-connected …

Hackmeetup, on Javascript, July 22

Hi friends, This coming Tuesday night, July 22 we’ll deal with Javascript. It’s thus a theme. And, no less than two people asked to make presentations: Morgan Roderick (from Gazebo) explains Event Delegates Mark Wubben (sIFR lead developer) will do a short version of “Bringing Typography to the Web with sIFR 3” Location: Västergatan 23, …

EuroPython 2008: My little log

This is an undetailed log of goings-on and other inspiration at EuroPython 2008, which took place in Vilnius, Lithuania (the southernmost of the Baltic countries). Arriving in Vilnius, which has an airport the size of a thimble, we started into the city in a cab. Cab driver tried to upsell some prostitutes. We were more …