Okay this is a bit delayed but its been in the pipeline for a while.
I recently attended the first ever BarCampNorthEast, held at the Art Work Galleries in Newcastle.
Now if you dont know what BarCamp is, it's described as ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. Basically at BarCamp you can:
give a presentation on anything you like
attend the many presentations held by others
have an all together jolly time meeting talented/cool kids
Personally, i love BarCamp because of its informal participatory nature, for example, Tara Hunt's discussion on mind hacks found everybody in a circle 'splaining their own personal hacks; Bon's hack involved setting his clock fifteen minutes fast which allowed him a combination of getting from A to B early or on time. Good hack!
The night time saw a rather tasty barbecue, mojito's (made by yours truely!) and an on-the-fly DJ set by none other than Ian Forrester using his amazing Pacemaker.
So yeah, BarCampNorthEast rocked! Roll on BarCampNorthEast2!
Like others beforeme, I thought I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself to our blog readers as I am new to the 'Lab (employee #5!).
I'm Reyhan and I'm a web developer who primarily concerns himself with front-end wizardry and occasional Django meddling.
I use OS X for the majority though i'm not adverse to playing with Linux or indeed, any other logical operating system. I'm a big fan of all things open source, web standards and Subway.
My current role at the 'Lab is working as a front-end developer on a pretty fantabulous bug tracker called fixx. Have you heard of it? If you catch up with Simon or I at @media 2008, we have some stickers and other fixx related goodies that we shall be giving away. So make sure you say hello.
Joining hedgehog lab appealed to me in many different ways (really) but what I'm particularly enjoying is the steep learning curve of working in a startup. It's inspiring to work with others who are as passionate about the internets and software, as I am.
I'm a fan of lists so here are some things I find a bit amazing:
I am sure you will be hearing more from me on the latest fixx goings-on and general ramblings about microformats, open standards and happenings at the 'Lab.
