February 2013 - Announce-RedBrick - lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

Monday Downtime || Science HackDay 2013
by kylar 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hey everyone I hope you've al registered for science hack day! (details below). ==Downtime Monday 25th== ==Science HackDay== ==Downtime== Date: Monday, 25th of February 2013 Time: 10:00pm-10:30pm Just a quick note about tomorrow's downtime. All redbrick services will become unavailable at around 10pm tomorrow evening. The admin team will be applying updates which should take about half an hour. Remember to save anything you are working on at the time and back up any critical files just to be safe. If you have any questions or concerns email them to helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie == Science HackDay 2013 == Date: Saturday 2nd of March Time: 9:30am Venue: The Hub, DCU Ireland Event Link: http://sciencehackdaydublin.com/ Science Hack Day is an all-day-all-night event that brings scientists, engineers, computer scientists and designers together to find solutions (hacks) to real-life problems and questions during a brief but intense period of collaboration (36 hours). Science Hack Day's have become an international trend successfully bringing science and technology together by providing a platform for different types of creative and inquisitive minds to collaborate in the same physical space on focused tasks. It'll be a two great days of problem solving fun! Make sure to register at their website above in order to ensure yo get a ticket!! That's all for now, Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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Intro to Selenium
by kylar 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hey all, Just a quick update on tomorrow's 'Intro to Selenium Talk'. The talk is being held in LG25 and will start at 6:30, not 6:00 as previously stated. See you there, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13.

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Tech Week || Intro to Selenium || Coding Competition || Moodle Talk
by kylar 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Hey all, this week is Tech Week. A week to celebrate all things technology related. Here's what we've got on this week: == Intro to Selenium IDE with Failho == == OpenNet Programming Competition == == Moodle Founder Talk == == Paul Bunbury's Anniversary Mass == == Intro to Selenium IDE with Failho == Date: Tuesday 19th February Time: 6pm Loccation: TBC Selenium IDE is a development environment for Selenium scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. It can also be used for converting IDE tests using Selenium Webdriver to allow for fast cross browser testing. Carri will be giving us a brief introduction to the Selenium IDE, it's history and some theory. Then on to the fun stuff; She'll be running through some quick "do it yourself examples" and showing us how to imitate the behaviour of real users of a website/web application using Selenium. == OpenNet Programming Competition == Have skills? Want to make some easy cash dollah? Openet in conjunction with RedBrick are holding a coding competition on 20th February. You will be given a problem and have 90 minutes to code up a solution in either Java or C++. The competition is open to 3rd, 4th and full- time masters students. The prizes are as follows: 1st: €1000 2nd: €500 3rd: €500 And up to €500 in spot prizes up for grabs on the day with free finger food and drink to all entrants provided by the NuBar. Well worth entering! To enter, please register here: http://www.openet.com/landing/code/register.php You will need your student card, laptop and charger on the day. Registration starts at 2:30 in The Venue. == Moodle Founder Talk == Date: Wednesday 20th February Time:6pm Venue: HG23, Nursing Building, DCU. Registration Link: http://bit.ly/Wj8u4M Moodle Founder Martin Dougiamas, will be giving a free talk entitled "The challenges of designing and delivering an open source project" during tech week this year. For anyone thinking of going into software development this will be a great opportunity to hear from an experienced industry professional. To date, Martin has worked on a number of projects including 'Moodle', which is now used in over 200 countries by over 1 million educators. This talk is free of charge however registration at the link above is necessary. We hope to see you there. == Paul Bunbury's Anniversary Mass == Paul's first anniversary mass is being held in St. Aengus' Church on the 13th of March at 10:00am. All are welcome to attend. Regards, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13

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TechWeek Plans || Moodle Founder Talk || Science HackDay and more..
by kylar 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hey everyone we've got some exciting events coming your way very soon, == TechWeek == == OpenNet Programming Competition == == Moodle Founder Talk == == Science HackDay == == Notes Hosted On Webspace == == TechWeek == Exciting stuff, Tech Week this year is being held during week 3 from the 18th to the 22nd of February this year. We will have a full calendar of events for the week available for you soon. Some of the highlights you can expect include a talk from the founder of Moodle and a programming competition we are running in conjunction with OpenNet. == OpenNet Programming Competition == Have skills? Want to make some easy cash dollah? Openet in conjunction with RedBrick are holding a coding competition on 20th February. You will be given a problem and have 90 minutes to code up a solution in either Java or C++. The competition is open to 3rd, 4th and full- time masters students. The prizes are as follows: 1st: €1000 2nd: €500 3rd: €500 And up to €500 in spot prizes up for grabs on the day with free finger food and drink to all entrants provided by the NuBar. Well worth entering! To enter, please register here: http://www.openet.com/landing/code/register.php You will need your student card, laptop and charger on the day. Registration starts at 2:30 in The Venue. == Moodle Founder Talk == Date: Wednesday 20th February Time:6pm Venue: HG23, Nursing Building, DCU. Registration Link: http://bit.ly/Wj8u4M Moodle Founder Martin Dougiamas, will be giving a free talk entitled "The challenges of designing and delivering an open source project" during tech week this year. For anyone thinking of going into software development this will be a great opportunity to hear from an experienced industry professional. To date, Martin has worked on a number of projects including 'Moodle', which is now used in over 200 countries by over 1 million educators. This talk is free of charge however registration at the link above is necessary. We hope to see you there. == Science HackDay == Date: Saturday 2nd of March Time: 9:30am Venue: The Hub, DCU Ireland Event Link: http://sciencehackdaydublin.com/ Science Hack Day is an all-day-all-night event that brings scientists, engineers, computer scientists and designers together to find solutions (hacks) to real-life problems and questions during a brief but intense period of collaboration (36 hours). Science Hack Day's have become an international trend successfully bringing science and technology together by providing a platform for different types of creative and inquisitive minds to collaborate in the same physical space on focused tasks. It'll be a two great days of problem solving fun! Make sure to register at their website above in order to ensure yo get a ticket!! == Notes Hosted On Webspace == Link: https://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/PubCookie_on_Redbrick We have recently been contacted by some lecturers about redbrick members hosting notes on their personal web space. We see no real problem with this however it can become an issue if students are using notes from past modules as a substitute for notes on modules which they are currently taking. We would ask all our members who are hosting module notes on their web space to place them behind a simple htaccess file, (see instructions at the link above) or simply take them down. If you have any questions on how to set this up, contact helpdesk(a)redbrick.dcu.ie Thats all for now, Robert Devereux, Redbrick Secretary 2012/"13.

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