StarCamp Talks

When I arrived this morning I caught Glen Verran who has just taken over the podcast.co.za domain as well as the website. Glen says that the original owner was actually approached my Mweb for the domain, but (luckily) he declined. Glen wants the entire website redesigned, and wants to keep podcast.co.za as the leading SA podcast directory. I think Glen is in a good position to run this project, especially because of his involvement in thezashow.com/.

Then Shaun from Career Junction spoke on Paper Prototyping. Essentially this is planning with paper – like a design wireframe. When one has paper ideas to put together, planning becomes easy so that you can decide what to keep, and what has to go. An interesting lesson on planning, as opposed to diving into a project without a full picture of that is involved.

Neil Blakey-Milner then presented a talk around scalability using OSS (Open Source Software). He defined scalability as “how easily an activity can support increased usage” and he spoke about LAMP and different aspects of Open Source. Neil was the head developer at IOL, and a serious player in area of serious development.

David gave a very interesting talk on Net Neutrality. I must admit, this was a bit over my head. Maybe Nur will make available the video he took!