Mashing up the Universe at the Science Museum on Saturday, ActionScript frameworks and Design Patterns at the London Flash Platform User Group at the Cosmo Bar in Clerkenwell on Thursday, and Playful09, ‘a day of cross disciplinary frolicking’ on Friday.
On Saturday 24th November I popped into the Science Museum for the launch of the Cosmic Collections website competition to learn about their new API that they have launched to the collection for this exhibition. It was a fun day of meeting astronomers, other developers, a few designers and of course the museum people themselves. Everyone is so nice. Apart from the technical info, we workshopped a few astronomical ideas by literally connecting concepts with pieces of string, and were given a tour of the exhibition, some drama, and an introductory talk on astronomy. Overall a good time, I enjoyed it.
On Thursday I went to the monthly London Flash Platform User Group meeting at the Cosmo Bar in Clerkenwell Road. I’d been a couple times before and really enjoyed the talks, but not this time. The topics were interesting (Design Patterns and Appliciation Frameworks), and the speakers were knowledgeable, but either that part of my brain was switched off, or the lack of microphone and length and detail of the talks and high turnout in a venue too small all combined to make it a less worthy event. I’m not complaining though – I think Tink and the LFPUG and all the speakers do a great job at putting on these events every month, and I will be back later this month for the talks on Red5 and Augmented Reality in Flash.
Friday was Playful 09. I was very excited about going, and I was not disappointed. Here are my initial thoughts on the event. I am planning to write more here about what I learned over the next week.
It’s been a good week for a geek.