A good turn out of developers, designers & marketing men at Centotre today.
Edinburgh Coffee Morning
A good turn out of developers, designers & marketing men at Centotre for this morning.
Mike printed some Moo Cards to hand to perspective Coffee Morn attendees, who will be thrilled to find my head on them.
I spoke to Tim about film production analogue vs digital, on watching live TV or taping / digital time shifting programmes for watching at another time of day. My favourite quotes included “Television is like a river. Programmes are thrown in never to be seen again.”, “watching wrestling in the afternoon is like eating asparagus in December.”
I talked shop to Nick and Olly about shopping cart systems, payment gateways, Rails, Django and MVC frameworks in general.
Having recently implemented an XMLRPC / MetaWeblog API end-point for Random Sequence, I demoed blogging from Mars Edit or TextMate on your Mac rather than using your blog’s online admin area. I also demoed using Markdown syntax to make your blog posts more readable at the editing stage. In retrospect, this would’ve been a good topic for me at BarCampScotland.
This led to a discussion of “Show me, don’t tell me”, and how I really should have a screen-cast to demo what Sticky Notes does. Mike assures me that Snapz Pro is the tool of choice for this.