This is tomorrow at Imperial. All welcome. Come along to the pub if you can’t make it to the talks.
Full details at : http://biogeeks.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/february-tech-meet/
Briefly, talks are:
Andrew Clegg : Building your own search engine with Apache Solr
Manuel Corpas – KaryoDAS: An Interactive Genome Visualization Tool
Phil Dawes – Decentralised version control with Git
eeep. Forgot I’d signed up to go to dev8d.
Looks like it might be fun though – I’ve signed up for a beginners’ Arduino workshop and a Clojure coding dojo. Might drop in on the Rails and Python stuff too, as people keep trying to convince me Perl is going the way of Linear [...]
Just bought tickets for this.
Dara Ó Briain, Tim Minchin, Marcus Brigstocke, Robin Ince, Ed Byrne, Shappi Khorsandi, Professor Brian Cox, Simon Singh, Professor Richard Wiseman, Dr Peter Wilmshurst and Dr Ben Goldacre at the Palace Theatre, Sunday 14 March 2010 in aid of the Coalition for Libel Reform.
Useful fact I didn’t know until today. Do this:
ssh -D8008 me@my.ssh.server.at.work
And you’ll get a SOCKS proxy on localhost:8008. Then you can just tell Firefox (or whatever) to use it and all your web requests will go through your server, giving you access to journal articles etc.