Barcamp London talks

Cake

Notes -

Try to get softer butter as it's easier to work with.

Don't overmix. If you do it might cause the cake to not rise properly. 

If your cake it golden, then it's done. 

Get a torch to if your oven doesn't have a light in it as you don't want to repeatedly open your oven to see how your cake is doing as it let the heat escape.

You can get a shiny aerosol spray amongst a myriad of options to decorate your cake with.

Putting your frozen butter close to the top of the oven can help bring it to room temperature, but not too close as then it'll just go wet.

Question - Can you use a food processor rather than hand mixing?

Yes (recommends Kitchen Aid)

Mobile Development with Titanium

The Titanium development architecture has the following layers - 

[Your application]
--------------- 
[Titanium APIs]
---------------
[Bridge (kroll)]
---------------
[Andriod] [IOS]

Titanium studio is based on Aptana (Eclipse-based IDE)

All you need to get started is to install the Android tools and IOS developer tools. 

On a prior project most of the time spent deploying to another platform was primarily making alterations aimed at smoothing the deployment to that platform as opposed to writing another application form scratch.

Appcelerator is working on improving the performance of their Android rendering engine by leveraging the v8 engine. 

- Visual demo of the editor going through creating a project. 

Appcelerator pushes versions of the SDK nightly so you can test for support with new versions. They are also trying out for mobile web support (this is currently available to developers in beta on their paid program). Essentially, this will let you package your applications into a collection of HTML & JavaScript, which you can then zip up and FTP to your server. 

When configuring for Android, you need to also include the Google APIs. 

Question - Performance 
K - It's reasonably performant.

Two Security Geeks Ranting

GW 
- Use bcrypt
- "PHP is special".
- "Do not use auto IP block" - "I get to write your firewall rules"
- PHP natively supports zlib:// or ogg:// and allows external access. 
- Also, PHP has its own protocol - php:// urls

AM 
- If a site doesn't allow non-alphanumeric characters, report a bug or go use another site.
- "SSL is f*cked" (DigiNotar) as the chain of trust could be broken at any point in the chain.
- Alternative to SSL proposed - convergence.
- "You want to be certain that the Amazon that you go to is the same one that your friends go to."

We are Wikipedians ask us things

Question - Research (academia moving to recommending wikipedia as a source for starting out when reading up on a topic?)

"Wikipedia is not a map, it is compass. It shows the general direction things are going ans then you have to tell where things are going from there."

TM  - Articles which have the grey star at the top right corner have gone through a vetting process.
TM - Icons in the corner provide an indication of the kind of peer review that they have undergone.


Question - Getting started (Is the concept that if you attempt to contribute you might be slapped down harshly accurate?)

I - The question is if the person has the potential to contribute meaningful content to the encyclopaedia.

TM - Sometimes people contribute specialist knowledge that the initial reviewer might not be familiar with. Whoever it is might only have 30 seconds in which to make a decision and makes the gut-feeling judgement on whether or not the article is worth keeping. 

We are Wikipedians, ask us things

Question - Research (academia moving to recommending wikipedia as a source for starting out when reading up on a topic?)

"Wikipedia is not a map, it is compass. It shows the general direction things are going ans then you have to tell where things are going from there."

TM  - Articles which have the grey star at the top right corner have gone through a vetting process.
TM - Icons in the corner provide an indication of the kind of peer review that they have undergone.


Question - Getting started (Is the concept that if you attempt to contribute you might be slapped down harshly accurate?)

I - The question is if the person has the potential to contribute meaningful content to the encyclopaedia.

TM - Sometimes people contribute specialist knowledge that the initial reviewer might not be familiar with. Whoever it is might only have 30 seconds in which to make a decision and makes the gut-feeling judgement on whether or not the article is worth keeping.