Edinburgh Coffee Morning - 18th of May 2007

May 18, 2007

Andy, Fraser, Fraser Edwards, Me and Ewan, oh and a new face to the Edinburgh Coffee Mornings, Douglas (Below) who joined us later on.

Cornwall Scratch

Mike was some where on the Cornish coast either on business or pleasure, maybe a bit of both. We did try to have a virtual gathering with him over Skype but we failed miserable. Luckily Edwards had built a virtual Mike using MIT very clever programmable animation software called Scratch.

A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed.
Free tool offers ‘easy’ coding - BBC

See Mike in action at…

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/fraseredwards/3800

Ewan Bacon

As always Ewan was excited by the excellent Centotre bacon rolls! This week Ewan had been to the exotic location that is Prestonpans to speak about digital video making to some teachers. Ewan also showed us his extreme learning examples using flickr, and a quick overview of eduBuzz.org.

Other Stuff

Couple of other things mentioned, where…

Online backup tool called Mozy, good but let down by a poor application, apparently it runs better on the Mac.
Using Delicious and Firefox to share bookmarks between users.
Fraser using Ubuntu Linux operating system full time on his laptop.
Which lead us onto chat about FTP client for Linux, Edwards mentioned FireFTP a add on for Firefox and I mentioned Filezilla.
Feeling the morning was going slightly geeky, we turned our attention to Flickrvision.com and had a quick chat about Twitter.
iGoogle themes that change depending on the weather in your location, mine currently looks like this…
Fraser was looking for a decent Weather API so he could recreate Google weather theme on other pages.

Drinks Evening

I was quite keen to organised a Friday evening drinks, maybe starting off at my office in town and then head to some waterhole later on. I also know David Airey a graphic designer in Edinburgh was quite keen to meet up too. I think my office could hold up to 20 people, anymore and I think we would need to look at other location.

We are currently think the 29th of June?

See upcoming..

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user/106396/

Check out Ewan’s post at…

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/05/edinburgh_coffe.html