NZ Google Barcamp 2010 - Search Engine Optimization

This was one of the discussions that neither Mark nor Richard attended and we didn't monitor its quality - so its quite noisy as the room faced the street and people were dispersed. If you are interested in the topic, you'll find useful information anyway!

CITCON ANZ 2010 - Install is Hard

The topic of build and deployment is an area that more and more developers need knowledge in, it's a strange and sometimes painful process in getting the perfect build system running.

Join us for this discussion from CITCON ANZ 2010 on why install is hard.

Theme music is "Fireworks" by Knoxville - used under Creative Commons.

CITCON ANZ 2010 - Doing it in the Cloud

Have you considered throwing out your servers, or your sys-admins and just doing it in the cloud (mp3)?

Listen to this session from CITCON ANZ 2010, recorded earlier this year in Wellington and find out if you're ready to free yourself from your earthly bonds.

Theme music is "Fireworks" by Knoxville - used under Creative Commons.

CITCON ANZ 2010 - Continuous Deployment

The practise of continuous deployment (mp3) is a often thought of as a madmans, or a fools game - but is it any more risky that that hotfix you made on a Friday after a few beers?

Listen to this session from CITCON ANZ 2010, recorded earlier this year in Wellington and decide for yourself.

Theme music is "Fireworks" by Knoxville - used under Creative Commons.

NZ Google Barcamp 2010 - Net Neutrality

A spirited discussion around Net Neutrality was had first up at the Google Barcamp.

Auckland Barcamp 2010 - RIAK

This face-forward talk is from Auckland Barcamp and discusses Riak, the key/value store database engine.

NZ Google Barcamp 2010 - Your GAE Experience

Lots of people turned up for this discussion - the room was crammed with people. One person had really used GAE in anger, a few people had experience putting applications on it.

Note Mark is responsible for the title for this one.

NZ Google Barcamp 2010 - Graph Databases

Graph databases, and no-sql databases in general are garnering quite a bit of attention. Neither of us attended this one and have yet to listen to it ourselves - thanks to the attendees for recording it!

CITCON ANZ 2010 - Testing: How Much is Too much?

Last session in one of the streams before the wrap-up stream, this started off as a discussion on how much testing is too much, and quickly morphed into discussions on behavior driven testing with cucumber and easyb and lots of other topics.

0racle versus Google

Oracle versus Google discussion (mp3) from the Auckland Google Bar Camp 2010.


Theme music is Fireworks by Knoxville, used under license of Creative Commons.

Testing Acceptance and Behavior Driven Development

Testing Acceptance and Behaviour Driven Development (mp3), recorded at CITCON ANZ 2010 at Fronde in Wellington, New Zealand.

Theme music is Fireworks by Knoxville, used under license of Creative Commons.

NZ Google Barcamp

Hi everyone,

Mark and I will be attending and participating (hey, its a barcamp after all!) in the NZ Google Barcamp held in Auckland on Saturday, 21st August 2010. If you spot us there, please introduce yourselves! Our pictures are up on Illegal Argument - we are both pretty opinionated as well so that'll help :-)

We hope to see you there and look forward to publishing as much content as we can record. If Mark and I want to go to the same session, you may find a Zoom thrust on you for recording purposes!

Barcamp Auckland 4 - MongoDB by John Ballinger

This is a session on MongoDB (mp3) from Barcamp Auckland 4 by John Ballinger of Bluespark.


Theme music is Fireworks by Knoxville, used under licence of Creative Commons.

CITCON ANZ 2010 - Testing Mixed Language Project

First up in our new Tech Casts feed is a session from this years Continuous Integration and Testing conference held in Wellington New Zealand.  This session focuses on testing mixed language projects (mp3).

Theme music is Fireworks by Knoxville, used under licence of Creative Commons.

Whats coming up

Greetings from Mark and Richard!
We have some recordings coming up from the following conferences - we are just finalizing music and checking bandwidth from Libsyn. We'll be releasing content from the following conferences:

• Citcon ANZ 2010 - Continuous Integration and Testing conference. Citcon was organised like a true unconference, hours of discussion went in before the talks even started about what talks should be held, which should be together and when they were held. The talks were mostly discussions with an occasional face-forward talk (e.g. Beekeeping and CI in the cloud)
• Barcamp Auckland 2010 - Barcamp Auckland works like a community organised face-forward style conference with lots of juicy content. Unfortunately only Mark was able to be there so we have four sessions for you on NoSQL, Mobile development and more!

Check back soon!