Tech Wednesday PM and other stories
It's been a while since I've attended a Tech Wednesday event, but I forewent my gym session to pop along and drink beer and eat pizza with a bunch of relatively likeminded people, and get shown some cool stuff. And there is cool stuff to be seen.
Most notably, the two presentations I enjoyed the most were from apps I already knew about and have supported: Whisk and Droplet, but I also liked Paul Rhodes' tour of Loggable, a time tracking system that takes a reflective approach by helping managers figure out where project time is really being spent, so as to make the process of quoting for future jobs a bit more profitable.
Also on show was Appacts, a mobile analytics platform similar (to my mind) to Testflight and HockeyApp, but without the useful thing of being able to store and distribute your app files for beta testing. Plus, I use Appcelerator Titanium in my mobile development, which comes with a decent enough stats package for my needs.
Overall I enjoyed the do, and am definitely looking forward to more of the same. I'm hoping to make it to more meetups, as I'm beginning to forget what a social life is like. I'm also really chuffed to have bought a ticket for DjangoCon, which will be my first time to mingle with fellow Djangonaughts and my first trip to Poland.
So, next up is Multipack, then WordPress Birmingham. Where else should I be going?