NDC Sydney wrapped up last month, and because it happened between a bunch of other things (preparing for our move to Seattle, recording the podcast with Scott Hanselman, a conference call with Jon Skeet & Jakob Bradford - post coming soon!), I hadn't take the time to digest it all. My talk First, my talk - Video Transcoding … Continue reading NDC Sydney
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My podcast with Scott Hanselman
Yes, that's right - I recorded a podcast with Scott Hanselman 😀 There's a story behind it too... I bumped into Scott at NDC Sydney. It was the evening before the main conference started, and we were both helping out with the Kids Code Club. We started chatting about what I was presenting on Thursday - video transcoding systems, … Continue reading My podcast with Scott Hanselman
Lessons learned in Public Speaking
Every year, I try to learn something new. 2014 was javascript, 2015 was back to CS fundamentals, and 2016 is my Year Of Public Speaking. I've been lucky to be able to present the same talk multiple times this year, which is an overview of the new video transcoding system we built at the ABC: Internal presentation at … Continue reading Lessons learned in Public Speaking
“Developer-esque” relations
It's not technically my official job, but I do some "developer-esque" relations for the ABC's Digital Network division. I started doing it because I like it, and it's been very educational. To clarify, the phrase "developer relations" could be interpreted in a couple of ways: Your company has products or services it sells, and you're trying to help people in the … Continue reading “Developer-esque” relations
Metro: the ABC’s new Media Transcoding Pipeline
In December last year, the ABC launched a new video encoding system called Metro ("Media Transcoder"), which converts various sources of media into a standardised format for iview. It's been a fantastic project for the ABC's Digital Network division - we've built a cheap, scalable, cloud-based solution that we can customise to suit our specific … Continue reading Metro: the ABC’s new Media Transcoding Pipeline
Running Women Who Code
I've helped to run Women Who Code Sydney for about a year (along with Lucy Bain and Peggy Kuo), and it's been a blast. We organise practical hands-on workshops for a variety of technology like Arduino, Golang, Sass, Scala and Swift. Participants spend about 1.5-2 hours working through a tutorial or problem set on their laptops, and can ask … Continue reading Running Women Who Code
Code Sydney – a Javascript study group
I've done quite a few random side projects using Javascript, but I've never learned it "properly", and I've always wanted to. In a nice coincidence, a fellow geek Lucy Bain started a Javascript study group a couple of months ago called Code Sydney, which uses the Odin Project's course material - so of course I signed up. Course Content I've really … Continue reading Code Sydney – a Javascript study group
Creating a Music Matrix with the Web Audio API
Last week I stumbled on this Tone Matrix, which uses the Web Audio API to generate and play sounds. I got really interested in the mechanics of sound generation and wondered how they did it, but unfortunately, there’s no source… so I decided to learn more about the Web Audio API, and recreate the matrix … Continue reading Creating a Music Matrix with the Web Audio API
The Hipster, Hacker and Hustler
The term “Hipster, Hacker and Hustler” was coined in 2012 and describes the “dream” startup team. It consists of a hipster (designer) to make your product look great, a hacker to build it, and a hustler to think about strategy and marketing. Many VCs and seed funds swear by this mix, and admit that it … Continue reading The Hipster, Hacker and Hustler
Three days of Haskell
I spent three days up in Brisbane between March 17-19 on a course called "Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell". It was intense! The course was run by Tony Morris & Mark Hibberd from NICTA, and Katie Miller from Red Hat. It was originally billed as Lambda Ladies, but it turns out there weren't quite enough … Continue reading Three days of Haskell
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