Back in March, which seems to be already so long ago, we organized the first Mahara conference in New Zealand, Mahara Hui. On the first day of the hui (gathering, assembly in Te Reo Māori) we asked participants to write down their 5 wishes for Mahara. We gathered them in a jar, and at the […]
I have a bit of catching up to do, but so as not to get even further into the past, let’s start with the most recent event: the Summer of Tech Hackfest on 31 August 2013. Summer of Tech is a great opportunity for students to find internships in Wellington tech companies. We’ve been participating […]
Wellington is quite far away from many other places and thus knowing the correct time where our colleagues are, when we can reach clients or when we can schedule a server outage is a necessity. With today’s new fangled technology viewing predefined time zones is just a mouse click away. But it doesn’t look as […]
One of our developers is going to be a dad real soon. His waiting stirred the creative juices among the other developers. Brett came up with the following “from conception to birth” scenario à la version control system (used with permission): mkdir baby cd baby git init . awk ‘BEGIN { s=”ACGT”; genes=””; srand(); for […]
Summer of Tech (in general known as Summer of Code, but NZ expanded it to include more disciplines) is still almost half a year away for us. To shorten the time until then and to keep students and companies involved, the Summer of Tech team organized a Hackfest today. They brought soon-to-be graduates and mentors […]