I decided last night to come down to BarCamp Brighton, when I saw there were some tickets made available. A friend was travelling down so I got a lift straight to the campus and arrived just as it was kicking off. The usual introductions were made and everyone did the traditional standup and give three tags – it seemed about 40% of the attendees had never been to a barcamp before.
My intention here is to attend stuff I know nothing about, avoiding any marketing or social media sessions. So far, I’ve suceeded.
- Session 1: Flash and Particles A badly prepared session that started off poorly, with ramblings about the company website. It got better as it went through, with some interesting details abut the maths behind the particles and how to apply them which I could have heard a lot more about if time had not run out.
- Session 2: RDF for beginners Tom Morris gave a revised presentaiton from his original from Semantic Camp. I enjoyed this as it was clear about how to use RDF, with some concrete examples of the code. I’m still unsure about the why though, later Tom admitted that use cases still need to be developed. A list of resources are available at http://icanhaz/swtutorial
Tags: barcampbrighton, barcampbrighton2, flash, rdf, tom morris
