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sneer from me, for now) and developers, developers, developers. Some of our best customers are developers. Come on you lot, visit us and make our day.

The Crieff Hydro hotel where the conference will be held: One thing I certainly wasn’t expecting from Pycon UK was music. Not only is PyconUK the only conference I know to that had its own conference song (with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan), the theme continued to having personalised mugs made for every delegate: Pycon UK mugs Even the lightning talks were introduced by a hip-hopping compere and rounded off by a duo playing their tubas!

I had some new camera gear and so I made this little video of the event – mainly to see how my new camera would work with Kdenlive, but also, hopefully, to give a little insight into the event itself. Lally and Les, the organising team behind the event, did a great job bringing it all together and hopefully, this won’t be the last we’ve heard from them! Open Source & Community Outreach Manager Here’s the paper I wrote for last week’s FLOSS UK Spring 2012 conference.

The conference features a wide variety of notable and prominent speakers in the Ruby programming world. This year’s sell out event differs from previous years, as on Thursday 7th April, a Tutorial Day will take place, where eminent developers Chad Fowler and Keavy McMinn will cover the fundamental building blocks of Ruby. A free alternative to the Tutorial Day on Thursday 7th April 2011 is The Ruby Festival. The Festival will serve as an unconference event, providing a hacking space to encourage users to share their knowledge and experience in the Ruby programming language.

I’m still scribbling out what I’ll speak about, but it should be a practical guide to virtualisation, focussing on KVM and explaining away the horrid networking details that confuse newcomers. I’m pretty sure it’s an open house if any Bytemark customers wanted to come along and listen. We’re oot and aboot over the next few weeks: The UKUUG conference is a merciless 3-day technical assault which you can endure with a couple of hundred other system administrators and programmers.

And the organisers couldn’t say this, but I will – CLOUD Expo Europe is going to be a better Linuxw*rld, formed from many of the embers of the last UK show. While relegating Linux to only an initial, it is organised by many of the same people, and has pulled the focus out to other UNIXes, cloud computing (oblig.

I’m busy making the arrangements for all three, and hope our new web site will make an appearance just before (maybe during, maybe on the train down at this rate) the UKUUG conference. Any blog followers, customers or stalkers are welcome to meet me for a drink around any of these events, just drop me a line or comment below. Also – new staff – we have a Yann! And next month, a David.

Historically it’s been a bit of a long one (I’m sure they used to be five day marathons…), but there are always some absolutely fab talks which will open your eyes to some new technology or software. If you’re building a business on top of free software, as we are, it’s a highlight of the UK Hopefully there are still some tickets left if you hadn’t considered it until now – look out for Tim or me if you wanted to say hello.

I don’t really do slides, just scrolling through text and pointing at diagrams. But hopefully this is more useful afterwards – the paper spills all the details on how we’ve been implementing BigV, our excellent new hosting system.

I will welcome them both soon, but in the mean time please treat them nicely if you see them answering your emails.

Unfortunately sponsored customers and Bytemark staff are ineligible for this competition – sorry guys, we love you already! Winners will be notified by email & announced on this blog at the start of the week beginning 6th of May.

In the run up to the main event, they have organised a huge number talks from some very interesting British hackers – including Gervaise Markham of the Mozilla Project, Matthew Somerville from MySociety and Craig Rothwell, an insane genius who has designed and built his own handheld gaming unit. I’ll be attending all day 2) coderack – from one of our customers Lunar Logic Polska, a competition for Ruby developers to help further the Rack framework by writing some interesting and useful plugins. I don’t think there’s an ungeeky way to sell that so I won’t even try. Rack was a very sensible suggestion, two years ago, on how to plug web servers into Ruby programs in a very general way. It meant that people who wrote web servers, and people who wrote fancy web frameworks like Rails, could get along in a common language.

I’m very glad to have been able to help! The Education Jam at Pycon UK During lunch, I met someone using Bigv.io to build a Luzme is an eBook price comparison website. Essentially, you can use it to see the price and availabity of Ebooks across the different eBook vendors and whether you can get it on your device – it can even let you know if the price drops. For me, actually being able to sit down and talk with someone who was so well acquainted with our platform was reminder of the creative things that can be built, once you give someone the resources!

One of the most enjoyable things about sponsoring events for Bytemark is that I get to go and meet some of the most enthusiastic and inspiring minds – and see how our support really can mean the difference for some events. Today at Barcamp Blackpool, it was quite special. Whilst it was windy, wet and wild on the promenade, inside impromptu conversations were happening all around, 3D printers were busy building and sessions were being done on any manner of topics – from Devops to a taster workshop in Fencing!

The Ruby Festival is open to those not attending Thursday’s Tutorial Day or the conference itself on Friday and Saturday. Festival and Tutorial Day attendees are invited to donate to the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland. Scottish Ruby Conference has raised over £15,000 for terminally ill children in previous years. We’ve built our business on Ruby since 2002 so we really should have sponsored a Ruby conference sooner! Our new hosting platform is built on Ruby, and we’re glad that our favourite language is supported by a vibrant and clever community.

We’re very excited to see what new ideas will come of these three days in Edinburgh. We’re sponsoring the UKUUG Spring Conference in central Leeds this week. It’s the absolute best venue for working sysadmins to catch up on technical topics, and usually has a lot of great talks.

If you’re not on BigV yet, whether you’re a new or an existing customer, getting online is simple – there’s still time to enter. One winner will get: - Travel & food expenses - 2 Conference Tickets - 2 single occupancy hotel rooms Crieff Hydro from the day before the conference, until the day after (11th-14th) And of course, we’ll blog about the winners To enter, simply email competitions at bytemark.co.uk before 15:00 BST Friday 03/05/2013 with details of the thing you’re entering.

For the Jam, we separated into groups and with guidance from one of the teachers there, we helped put together a “scheme of work” – essentially a series of lesson plans for a specific class. One of the things we had to bear in mind were the “differentiation” – how we could push and challenge the gifted students whilst simultaneously supporting the other end of the bell curve – this is a lot more tricky than it may seem at first glance. The group I worked in, focused on teaching basic HTML+CSS – hand coding a static website to a year 9 group of about 30 students.

We recently received this letter from Cecilia Hern·ndez, a formerly sponsored child who now works for CFCA in Guatemala.

Cecilia Hern·ndez, far right, graduated from the CFCA Hope for a Family sponsorship program in 2008. She now works for CFCA as a social worker.

I serve the sponsored members and their families, and I feel blessed to be able to continue being a member of this great family. CFCA changed my life definitively.

I noticed that I was different from the other children because I had someone (Cecilia’s sponsor, Susan Alexander) who cared about me. I truly felt very fortunate.

All my family is very grateful to you. I say goodbye with the confidence that God, the Father Almighty, will guide your spirit and will shower blessings on you and everyone who is by your side. Note: We let Susan, Cecilia’s former sponsor, know of Cecilia’s letter. Susan sponsored Cecilia from 1996 to 2009. “I’m just thrilled to hear about her and that she’s doing so well,” Susan said.

When I was 7 years old I suffered from Hepatitis A, and the doctor told my mother that the expenses to cure me would be great.

Now that I have this responsibility with the sponsored members, it signifies for me a kind of spiritual growth because I see in every child the little child I was. Thanks, CFCA, for offering hope, love and dignity to the sponsored members and their families.

Pictured with Cecilia are members of her family, including her mother, far left. I would like to tell you with much pleasure about my experience during my sponsorship. More than 14 years ago, my mother approached CFCA to get help for our family. Thank God that I managed to belong to the program. I spent my childhood and youth with CFCA.

I am sending my most sincere greetings on this occasion. I hope that you are very much blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and may peace reign supreme in your heart.

At present I am working with CFCA as a social worker in the Hermano Pedro project in Guatemala for more than a year now.

I can very proudly say that you did restore the dignity of my family, and, of course, you restored mine.

CFCA offered to cover all the expenses of my sickness and thanks to the help of my sponsor and CFCA, I recovered fully. With a lot of effort and support from my parents and CFCA, in 2008 I managed to graduate from school and in the middle of the following year I retired from the program. Then CFCA allowed me to return but with another, more important role.

Europe is sometimes cruel to tight pockets, but if you are observant, in fact there are many free and inexpensive things that can be enjoyed, including at the fashion city as caliber as Paris.

The good news is, all the museums in Paris allow free admission on the first Sunday of each month. The line was still long, but free at least. Imagine the following situation: you have checked out the hotel, but the departure time to the next town is still long.

Despite having to pay expensive tickets and lining up for a long time, being able to see Mona Lisa smile is an unforgettable experience.

Instead of sitting idle you choose a walk, but you are reluctant to carry bags or pay locker rent. The solution is, leave luggage at the luggage care counter in Louvre Museum. It’s on the inside of the main pyramid, not far from the museum entrance. Not only jackets and umbrellas, backpacks and luggages can be deposited, free of charge until six o’clock PM. Read more… Get FREE Traveler's Guide by Email Categories: Travelers Guide Tags: Champs-Elysees, Charles de Gaulle Airport, Eiffel Tower, France, Gare du Nord Station, Grand Palais, Louvre Museum, Luxembourg Gardens, Notre Dame Cathedral, Orsay Museum, Palais Royal, Paris, Paris Plage, Petit Palais, Place Saint Michel, Pont Alexandre III, Pont Neuf, Seine River

Paris is the storehouse of the world famous museums. Two of them are are the Louvre and Orsay.

Let me quote Jeff Bezos “People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.” Jeff observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding and re-considering a problem they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking. Jeff’s right.

He argued that 7 inch devices are destined to fail. He said; it’s better read in his words: “Apple’s done extensive user-testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff.

He argued that no one will buy phone with larger screens. What did we see with iPhone 5?

This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps.” “The seven-inch tablets are tweeners, too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.

One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70% of the benefits of a 10-inch screen. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven-inch screen is only 45% as large as iPad’s 10-inch screen. You heard me right; just 45% as large. [Increasing screen resolution on small devices] is meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size.” And now the iPad Mini is here.

HELL NO! Change is constant. There’s nothing wrong with it. In fact, it happens to be the personality trait of smart and successful people.

Steve Jobs was one such guy. And Apple is a company led by such people. So don’t fuss about contradicting yourself, go ahead, absorb new information, change your opinions – it happens to the best of us. I’m concluding this post with Tim Cook’s thought on Microsoft’s effort to combine a tablet and laptop. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those aren’t going to be pleasing to the user.” Following Apple’s past of changing beliefs, don’t be surprised if you see an iToaster with Retina display in the next keynote

Steve Jobs once said that the 3.5 inch screen is just the right size for a mobile – big enough to produce detailed, legible graphics, but small enough to fit comfortably in the hand and pocket.

It comes with 7 inch(ish) screen. Apple does it again – contradicting itself by creating a device with a form factor it vehemently argued against. Should we cry foul for Apple not practicing what it preached?

A large 4 inch screen! iPhone 5 did have direct inputs from Steve. Then comes the 7 inch tablet argument.

There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them.

Americans Elect, the group promoting a centrist, third-party choice for president that would be nominated through an online convention, has officially called it quits. As we remember Abigail Adams’ prescient observations and conclude the celebration of Women’s History Month, we can also “remember the ladies” who contributed to the revolutionary cause. Here’s a look at some of them.

As America remembers her greatest presidents, it’s worth reflecting on the presidency itself, both to celebrate its glories and to ponder its glitches. We made this list and checked it twice. Here are the Top 10 staff-written stories we were proud to share with Constitution Daily readers over the past year.

Here is the story of how the United States almost celebrated Independence Day on July 2nd.

Each month, we will be offering an opportunity to connect art and science through a new series on The Cummer Blog. Please join us in this conversation, and tell us what topics you would like to see more information on.

I see The Cummer offering a place to dissolve those boundaries; within its beautiful gardens and galleries, all ages can relax and learn. Together we can become lost in the grand landscape of an artist and also discover a living landscape on a grand river. We will experience and calculate the gravity surrounding a sculpture and follow the centuries of step by step chemistry required to make a porcelain tea pot. As we work to combine art and science, creativity will be heightened and understanding found.

I have seen surprised looks and heard praises on how visionary it is to introduce science into an art museum. Yet, it seems natural to do so. For centuries art and science have worked together to solve problems through innovation and create a world to live in. But, in our busy lives we tend to separate the two and relegate each to their separate realms.

So even if you choose to glance over them only, you should look at the table of contents of each. This way you can select what you must read or want to read.

To illustrate Guidelines on Electronic Mail Security refers to the IDPS document in several places. There is also nice information to be found about WLANs.

The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology ) USA released three documents recently, these are listed below: |date||number||version||title of publication| |2007-02||SP 800-45||2||Guidelines on Electronic Mail Security| |2007-02||SP 800-94||final||Guide to Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)| |2007-02||SP 800-97||final||Establishing Wireless Robust Security Networks: A Guide to IEEE 802.11i| Having a look at the above three guides is definitely worth your time. For instance, the IDPS document explains concepts used with very good examples that illustrate the points made very well. It is also interesting to see how the three documents above relate and refer to each other.

Way back towards the beginning of the year, we were commissioned by The Lane to shoot a vintage tea party- made for the littlest members of the bridal party. The idea was to showcase to The Lane brides, some of the gorgeous children’s dress designers we have at our fingertips here in Australia, while at the same time inspiring sweet tables for your little ones to dine at. We absolutely adore children at weddings! Their cute, funny and unpredictable ways are guaranteed to keep your guest entertained. Accommodating children at your wedding can be fun, especially if you are planning an outdoor reception… let them run barefoot and free, making new friends and eating lots of cake!

He leads the NFL this season with 15 receiving touchdowns. Washington tied the game at 27 when David Anderson caught a 6-yard scoring pass with 6:58 to play in the third quarter, but Brady found Welker on a 24-yard scoring strike on the Patriots’ ensuing drive to cap the day’s scoring and deliver a 34-27 victory for New England.

After a Redskins field goal, Rob Gronkowski caught his 14th touchdown pass of the season — an NFL record for tight ends — on an 11-yard pass from Brady. Washington responded with a pair of touchdown passes by Rex Grossman that gave the Redskins a 17-14 lead in the second quarter.

New England outlasted Washington to earn its fifth-straight victory with a 34-27 decision in Week 14. The Patriots took advantage of three touchdown passes by Tom Brady, who finished with 357 passing yards on 22 completions in the game. New England struck first with a defensive touchdown when Andre Carter strip-sacked Rex Grossman in the end zone. Vince Wilfork pounced on the loose ball to give the Patriots a 7-0 lead.

The teams swapped field goals before Stephen Gostkowski closed the half with a 24-yarder as time expired to tie the game at 20. Gronkowski caught his second touchdown pass of the day to open the second-half scoring and give New England a 27-20 advantage.

The second-year tight end finished the game with a game-high 160 yards and a pair of touchdowns.