26 videos collected
Aug
5
Aug
5
Nat Torkington lives in New Zealand and has spent the last couple of years volunteering as a sysadmin, computer club organizer, and teacher at his local primary school. He shares his experiences of teaching programming to 8-12 year olds in his blog (and also on O'Reilly Radar) as well as in this inspirational talk from OSCON 2008. His conclusion, a call to arms for geeks everywhere to help their
Nice video from RailsEnvy from the OSCON 2008 conference. Lots of quick interviews from luminaries in the open source community.
Jul
21
Jul
21
This video, from the YouTube series "Simon's Cat" was featured on this week's Culture Show on BBC 2 [in the UK]. There are two others, equally great and hopefully more to come. All cat lovers will get a shiver of recognition when watching this!
Jul
18
Jul
18
Dean Shareski discusses the realities of being on-line. It's less dangerous than the media would have us believe but still, the footprints you leave do when you start to share really ripples out. Dean's suggestion that you should google yourself is really instructive! This is what Google knows about me ... what does it know about you?
Jul
15
Jul
15
Martin Weller (from the OU) has republished his presentation from a JISC Emerge conference on SlideShare and released it as a blog post on "The Ed Techie Blog" http://tinyurl.com/58w7sz.
Jul
10
Jul
10
Watching Bruce Johnson presenting and demonstrating the Google Web Toolkit at Eclipse Day and the Googleplex.
Jul
1
Jul
1
Google Open Source Programs Manager Chris DiBona discusses how, in fact, Open Source is too good to be true and thus must be magic. He will talk about how open source came into being, what it is, what it is not, and how Google uses it to write its software, release software to you and maybe make life a little more magical for you, too.
"Engaging User Experiences with Google App Engine": Nice case study about how user interface design and coding can work together to produce engaging web applications.From John Skidgel and Lindsey Simon of Google.
Jun
30
Jun
30
Brian Fitzpatrick and and Ben Collins-Sussman tell the Google I/O [and the rest of the world] about the open source project hosting features provided by Google Code.
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