It’s faster and more subtle to check your wrist than grabbing your phone out of your pocket. It feels like a platform with a lot of potential but nothing is fully exploiting it yet.
What we learnt running the first Flying Robot School – targeted at meeting the STEM challenge in rural areas – and how we iterated, DiUS-style, to improve.
The big themes this year were Enterprise Cloud and Big Data, with a few amuse bouches of Lambda and Docker for good measure.
Armed with hot cross buns, coffee, and ideas, the whole company took a day out to ideate, build, and “hack” projects around the theme of education.
A few months ago, I was in the market for a high definition IP based baby monitor, but they were all expensive and unreliable. I started thinking… How hard can it be to build my own baby monitor?
Our summary of an in-depth discussion on Continuous Delivery over lunch with a group of like-minded executives and senior business leaders.
The challenge for us, was to make something that was related to both the Hack Day theme, and our primary interest of cloud computing. We decided to create something based on Uplink, a 2001 game that simulates ‘hacking’, as seen in movies.
Creating an objective measure to use an input to our decisions about technology for projects using Meetup, Stack Overflow, and Github.
Everyone involved is aligned around the idea that we are there to deliver value back to the community – not to win a prize. This makes for a fantastic atmosphere on the hack weekends.
A look at the logout feature on mobile and web apps and audit some popular websites to demonstrate how many logout variations there can be. And some practical advice on how to make a logout function intuitive.