Girl geek dinners

Last night I went along as a +1 to Oxford Girl geek dinners, an event organised in order to encourage more women to get involved in technology. It’s an informal gathering with some presentations and lots of opportunity for networking. Men are permitted, but only if accompanied by a girl geek. From the central website: […]

Marcus Povey

Last night I went along as a +1 to Oxford Girl geek dinners, an event organised in order to encourage more women to get involved in technology. It’s an informal gathering with some presentations and lots of opportunity for networking. Men are permitted, but only if accompanied by a girl geek. From the central website: […]

DNS is a symptom of broken search #sopa

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Marcus Povey

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Introducing the BCT Framework

Over on GitHub I have just open sourced a PHP web and web services framework which I’ve been making use of to build a lot of projects recently. Initially, it was built for a single project but I’ve ended up using it for many other things, and I thought it might be useful to the […]

Marcus Povey

Over on GitHub I have just open sourced a PHP web and web services framework which I’ve been making use of to build a lot of projects recently. Initially, it was built for a single project but I’ve ended up using it for many other things, and I thought it might be useful to the […]