Web technologies


Open Source software and Women

About 1 year ago Andrea Capiluppi presented at the BCS Open Source Specialist Group some very interesting data on gender in on-line communities. After the talk, one of the things that we wondered was how many women were actively participating in our group’s activities. One of the problems in trying to […]

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Sex, Drugs and Data (how it all started)

About 18 months ago I went to a data science workshop organised by Outreach Digital, 3 Steps To Growth Hacking with Data (using import.io), with 2 colleagues. The crowd was a bit different from what I normally see in other meetups that I go to. Most of the persons were […]


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JavaScript and jQuery in 3 days

JavaScript and jQuery are becoming more and more popular – and they are used in most web sites today. After the 90s and 00s, in which JavaScript has been misused and abused of, library as jQuery, Script.aculo.us, Dojo, MooTools and Prototype have emerged and changed the way in which we interact with […]


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Learning PHP (for beginners)

During the summer, I’ve been involved in a programme to train Computer Science A levels teachers – and I have developped some content for a module on web technologies. Starting from september, I have been working on updating that content to teach on “IM2801 – Web Applications Development” at UEL. […]