Archive for June, 2009

Not all Injections are Painful

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Isle of Man Section of the BCS is organising a talk tomorrow focusing on Dependency Injection as a coding technique. Here’s some more detail about the event: Our next event is about a programming technique called Dependency Injection. Here’s a brief outline: As...

BuyDig: Using Twitter to engage with customers

I came across the @buydig Twitter account today and it was good to see how they’re using Twitter to stimulate conversations with their customers. Brands using Twitter isn’t breaking news, but too many companies are using Twitter just as a broadcast medium, much the way RSS can be used. BuyDig...

Third Thursday June 09 : Social Media Club in the Isle of Man

photo credit: Many Cats 4 Me Are you interested in Social Media and based in the Isle of Man? If so, you just have to join us for lunch next Thursday. Whether you’re interested in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Friendfeed, Mister-Wong, Buzzster, Mixx, Furl, YiGG, Fark, Hugg, Propeller,...

Isle of Man: devG – C# language features

If you’re a .Net developer here’s an event you mustn’t miss here on the Isle of Man. It’s a talk about the new language features of C# and here are the details: Mike has agreed to share is knowledge with us, and will be giving a talk on the 3.5...

WordPress 2.8 hits the streets

I woke up this morning to find that WordPress 2.8 has finally be released. It was promised for the 10th June, but as I’m based in Europe, I didn’t get to see it till today. I’ve been running the RC down at WordPressGuru and haven’t really had any major problems....

eDemocracy in the Isle of Man

I never took the opportunity to write down my thoughts following Simon Collister‘s presentation on eDemocracy in the Isle of Man last month. It was a great talk and sparked more than a little debate within the participants. I think it was a very positive step that a number of...

What’s in your Social Media Policy?

I’m working with a client at the moment helping them think through what their Social Media policy needs to looks like, so it was quite fortuitous that @sherrilynne tweeted about a great post on Mashable entitles 10 Must-Haves for your Social Media Policy. In it, Sharlyn Lauby lists 10 factors...

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