Summer of Tech

John Clegg - Who Wants a Career in IT?

Francois Marier

Fran?ois Marier of Catalyst (SoC Bootcamp fame) will be talking about "Contributing to Open Source". Fran?ois is an active participant in the open source community including Debian . He'll be talking about the merits of working on Open source projects and how you can started.

Bernie White - Presentations

Bernie White from themoment.co.nz provides insight and tips on how to present ideas.

What skill are needed for the next Internet?

A panel discussion led by John Clegg from Project X. Panel: Mr GeekZone - Mauricio Freitas Mr Web 2.0 - Richard MacManus Mr NZ Computer Society - Paul Matthews Mr Digital Development Council - Paul Alexander 1)What is the internet going to look like in 5 years? (Are we going connected 24/7?) 2) What interfaces are going to be using ? Web / mobile / integrated internet devices (Will we even know its connected?) 3) What skills are we going to need to succeed ? Design / Programming / Infrastructu...

Lulu Pachuau

Design Specifications - An Introduction. A developers guide to design communications for websites and applications. In the ever-changing face of technology and software development processes, meeting increasing demands of businesses, people and overall rapid change, fast iterations and collaboration (e.g. Agile development) are fast becoming popular approaches and issues for building software. But what if you are iterating through, and refining the wrong design in the first place? People are s...

Robert Coup

Distributed computing (preferably in "the cloud") is one of the hot topics at the moment. But what is it? And when and why would you want it anyway? And how do you *do* it? Some of the buzzwords we'll traverse - S3, EC2, Hadoop, App Engine, Messaging, Sharding, ... Robert Coup is a developer with sticky fingers - mapping, gis, javascript, python, django, databases, web-ops, open source, open data, and the technical side of a small Auckland startup: Koordinates.

Nik Wakelin

Nik showing you how to become a master of client-side scripting, adding some fancy AJAX and animations to astound and amaze.

Peter Watling

Full time iPhone developer at Orsome Software based in Chch, NZ. Author of some of the most popular iPhone apps in NZ, like WeatherNZ and success with tvGuide, both here and in Australia, South Africa and the UK. Perhaps his 'claim to fame' would be his BubbleWrap app which has had well over 1 million downloads worldwide. Peter has a 'lifetime' of experience in IT, from before it was even called IT, and has a career that has produced a lot of material you will recognise.

Douglas Talbot

Agile development – Is it the “42” of Software engineering? You all know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything. Well if you don’t, then you should! Agile development is either spoken about by supporters as the fix for everything wrong with software projects, or brings multiple expletives from some managers who swear they will never have Agile projects near them. I want to clarify for you as a software developer what Agile really means, and what skills and practices you wou...

John Clegg

A talk on how to get the best out of Summer of Code.