From time to time I end up talking publicly about things that interest me. More often than not, this will happen at BarCamps, but I’ve also been known to talk present at other public events. Below, you can see just what I’ve been rambling on about recently…

2009

June

• Turning Voyeurs into Active Participants

  UnSheffield 1 (21st June 2009)

  At UnSheffield 1 I led a discussion group where we talked about the various ways we as community leaders could help people to go from simple voyeurs to active members of the communities we are trying to grow. Paul Brabban helpfully liveblogged the session.

May

• Automated Frontend Testing

  BarCamp Leeds (30th May 2009)

  One more time for the talk that deals with how to automatically test that your sites are adhering to the standards your team decides on following. [SlideShare]

• SearchMonkey – A Whirlwind Tour

  Yahoo!’s Open Hack London ’09 (10th May 2009)

  A brief overview of SearchMonkey and what you can do with it. [SlideShare]

April

• How to make Awesome Broken Biscuit Cake

  Social Media Camp London 09 (25th April 2009)

  Tasty nommy cake, with lots of calories. [Flickr][Blog Post]

• Automated Frontend Testing

  YDN Tuesdays (7th April 2009)

  How to automatically test that your sites are adhering to the standards your team decides on following. [SlideShare (with audio)]

• Automated Frontend Testing

  BarCamp Bournemouth (4th April 2009)

  How to automatically test that your sites are adhering to the standards your team decides on following. [SlideShare]

March

• Automated Frontend Testing

  BarCamp London 6 (28th March 2009)

  How to automatically test that your sites are adhering to the standards your team decides on following. [SlideShare]

2008

November

• GitHub and sharing code

  BarCamp Sheffield (29th November 2008)

  I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. [SlideShare]

September

• WikiSlurp

  BarCamp London 5 (27th September 2008)

  How to slurp wikipedia for awesome data. [SlideShare]

• SearchMonkey

  Yahoo! Developer Evening, Munich (3rd September 2008)

  What is SearchMonkey, and how to go about making a monkey. [SlideShare]

June

• Starting to Monkey Around with Yahoo! SearchMonkey

  Yahoo! Developer Evening, London (25th June 2008)

  What is SearchMonkey, and how to go about making a monkey. [SlideShare]

May

• Multi-level vCards

  BarCamp London 4 (31st May 2008)

  When you meet people at events you end up with lots of business cards. I try to make it simple to put all that information online without giving away my personal details to undesirables. [SlideShare]

• GTA IV

  GameCamp (3rd May 2008)

  After a week of playing it intensively, what did I think?

March

• Twitter Bots

  BarCamp Brighton 2 (15th March 2008)

  What they are, how to use them. [SlideShare]

2007

November

• TV Tubes

  BarCamp London 3 (24th November 2007)

  A look at automatically downloading TV shows. [SlideShare]