Brainstorm Dev Network

Brainstorm Dev Network To promote and invigorate the computer science and digital media development scene, first at the University of Technology, Jamaica and Jamaica at large.

The BrainStorm Dev Net (BSDN) is a project of RoaringSteed. We see there is a need to help develop the young minds of Jamaica and want to do our part in this process. The BrainStorm Sprints are a series of compendious, creative, challenges, designed to test both knowledge and skill in computing.

Twenty years ago today CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web freely available to everyone. To celebrat...
24/09/2013

Twenty years ago today CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web freely available to everyone. To celebrate that moment in history, CERN is bringing the very first website back to life at its original URL.

If you’d like to see the very first webpage Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW team ever put online, point your browser to: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .

Interested in understanding a new programming language before the start of the school semester? Ruby is a good choice. I...
02/08/2013

Interested in understanding a new programming language before the start of the school semester? Ruby is a good choice. It's faster to understand and very powerful when it comes to building web apps.

We have been using it on a few projects over the summer and recommend that you give it some attention. Here is a link to a very thorough beginners guide:

Ruby is an object-oriented language. What does that even mean? It has unique quirks and characteristics that we’ll explain clearly. This article assumes that you have no programming experience, not even HTML.

What have you been learning so far this summer?
15/06/2013

What have you been learning so far this summer?

03/04/2013

The topic for this Fridays Developer Meetup has been set.

The presentation:

Get some REST: Powering mobile apps with a RESTful back-end

What will be covered:

-- What is REST
-- REST vs SOAP
-- What does REST have to do with mobile apps
-- Setting up Drupal as a REST back-end
-- Request and sending data from an app

Hope to see you there!!!

03/04/2013

There has been two weeks of in-activity from the Dev Network, we ask for your forgiveness. We have organized and have officially set two days for the Dev Network to meet.
Tuesdays ( room: undecided ) and Thursdays ( room 2B6 ) @ 4pm. The leader for the days will be Gianni and Adrian, respectively. That said we meet this Thursday @ 4pm ( usual time ) in room 2B6.

07/03/2013

Meeting up @4 today same room: 2B4

02/03/2013

Thursday's meet-up was a success. Had a very fruitful discussion on web development and upcoming events for the BSDN.

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