From 741731402c3f4fd1e5e76d391f652047908c7f2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jenkins Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 15:26:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 01/13] Adding Wolans Ramda talk --- videos.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/videos.html b/videos.html index 9445952..0dde838 100755 --- a/videos.html +++ b/videos.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@

My heart began to sync

Craig Marvelley - @craigmarvelley

Next-level functional Javascript with Ramda

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Comin soon...

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Warren Seymour - @woogoose

19th March 2015

From 7adaab24e7b0c3a0f6a877d2ec6c33df447a3964 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jenkins Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:13:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 02/13] Adding 1st June 15 vid --- videos.html | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/videos.html b/videos.html index 0dde838..1f8bfd4 100755 --- a/videos.html +++ b/videos.html @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@
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18th June 2015

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The Tale of The Million Dollar Homepage

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Gavin Davies - @gavD_UK

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Knowing your Rs from your elbow

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Coming Soon

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Steph Locke - @SteffLocke

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21st May 2015

My heart began to sync

From 58f6ce113ba9119e2c2a35beb54b418df00770c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jenkins Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:21:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 03/13] Adding Stephs video on R --- videos.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/videos.html b/videos.html index 1f8bfd4..4fe5a2c 100755 --- a/videos.html +++ b/videos.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@

The Tale of The Million Dollar Homepage<

Gavin Davies - @gavD_UK

Knowing your Rs from your elbow

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Coming Soon

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Steph Locke - @SteffLocke

21st May 2015

From 801f131331056a7dc6f652de9d64ac2513218670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jenkins Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:39:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 04/13] Adding first of july vids --- videos.html | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/videos.html b/videos.html index 4fe5a2c..99a8229 100755 --- a/videos.html +++ b/videos.html @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@
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16th July 2015

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Go Mad for Monads

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Warren Seymour - @woogoose

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Salty Goodness

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Soon...

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Matt Willsher - hello@willsher.systems

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18th June 2015

The Tale of The Million Dollar Homepage

From d8844013d1b9743be034e09be12a9300080d5fd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jenkins Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:12:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 05/13] July videos part 2 --- videos.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/videos.html b/videos.html index 99a8229..89e02b1 100755 --- a/videos.html +++ b/videos.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@

Go Mad for Monads

Warren Seymour - @woogoose

Salty Goodness

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Soon...

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Matt Willsher - hello@willsher.systems

18th June 2015

From 119751db660012ad4e6ac37b857d6376b182f753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Davies Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:01:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 06/13] Blog post for August - bi-monthly --- .../2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md | 2 +- blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md b/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md index 918bd20..a4b4fb2 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-05-10-venue-change-for-may-meetup.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Since we started Unified Diff back in 2012 we've hosted the event at [number](http://www.coolplaces.co.uk/system/images/4862/P1020088-large.jpg) [of](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UUV5SCEflwQ/URThyWQ1ffI/AAAAAAAAGb8/Qg0Q5Gje9as/s1600/DSCF9456.JPG) venues... Before landing on the perfect location... [Founders Hub](http://foundershub.co.uk/). -Sadly though, the hub has now closed and left a sizeable hole in the Cardiff tech scene. +Sadly though, the hub has now closed and left a sizable hole in the Cardiff tech scene. This leaves us and a number of other events in search of a new home, and after a lot of looking around and visiting various places we've decided to make that home the [Acorn Recruitment](http://www.acornpeople.com/our-locations-map/south-wales-midlands/cardiff-branch) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b031277 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: August update - switching to bi-monthly +--- + +The Unified Diff team met up recently to discuss how it's going. Jenko made graphs and everything. I ate a pizza that made me feel unusual. + +Anyway, we are happy with Acorn as a venue - it puts the focus on the talks. + +We have a challenge, however: very few people are coming forward to do talks. Whenever you see me or Warren do a talk, it's often because someone has dropped out or we simply couldn't find a speaker and we're worried you'll get sick of the sight of us! + +We seem to be relying on a small group of speakers who are great but we always hoped that we could encourage more people to come forward. We could contact big companies to ask them to send speakers, but when we started Unified Diff, we wanted to be a community event - by local software people for local software people, talking about real things that we do - rather than sitting there being sold something by a tech evangelist. + +When we started in 2012, there was very little going on. Now, you have, in or around Cardiff: + +* [Cardiff Tech Talk](http://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Tech-Talk/) +* [DevOps Cardiff](http://www.meetup.com/DevOps-Cardiff/) +* [SQL Cardiff](http://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-SQL-Server-User-Group) +* [Cardiff R User Group](http://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-R-User-Group) +* [Design Stuff Cardiff](http://www.thisisdesignstuff.com/cardiff/) +* [South Wales Agile Group](http://www.meetup.com/South-Wales-Agile-Group/) +* [Games Wales](https://twitter.com/gameswalessouth) +* [Digital Tuesday](https://twitter.com/DigiTuesday) +* [SWLUG](http://swlug.org.uk/) +* [diff.NET](http://www.meetup.com/diff-NET/) + +I'm bound to have missed some off, that's just from a quick scan of our [South Wales tech meetups twitter list](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff)... So that leads us on to - is Unified Diff still relevant and necessary? Two factors suggest that it may not be. Firstly, if people aren't volunteering to speak, we can't be the community event we set out to be. Secondly, there are now a large number of meetups, so - achievement unlocked? Mission accomplished? + +We are, however, still getting solid numbers of attendees (20 to 30 usually), so for now, we've decided to keep it going on a bi-monthly basis. + +Feel free to [tweet us](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff) and let us know what you think. Our [next event is scheduled for Thursday September 17th](http://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/224469697/). + +- [@gavD_UK](https://twitter.com/gavd_UK), August 2015 From f0089a7f4d464892e3e7cd08241f74fb11d90b88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Davies Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:33:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 07/13] Say every other month rather than the ambiguous bi monthly --- blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md index b031277..7df4178 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -title: August update - switching to bi-monthly +title: August update - switching to every other month --- The Unified Diff team met up recently to discuss how it's going. Jenko made graphs and everything. I ate a pizza that made me feel unusual. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ When we started in 2012, there was very little going on. Now, you have, in or ar I'm bound to have missed some off, that's just from a quick scan of our [South Wales tech meetups twitter list](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff)... So that leads us on to - is Unified Diff still relevant and necessary? Two factors suggest that it may not be. Firstly, if people aren't volunteering to speak, we can't be the community event we set out to be. Secondly, there are now a large number of meetups, so - achievement unlocked? Mission accomplished? -We are, however, still getting solid numbers of attendees (20 to 30 usually), so for now, we've decided to keep it going on a bi-monthly basis. +We are, however, still getting solid numbers of attendees (20 to 30 usually), so for now, we've decided to keep it going but only having a meeting every other month. Feel free to [tweet us](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff) and let us know what you think. Our [next event is scheduled for Thursday September 17th](http://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/224469697/). From 302431a6bbda98d43c29110693d91a654683c094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Davies Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:50:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 08/13] Add missing it --- blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md index 7df4178..ee5610d 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-08-07-bi-monthly-format.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Anyway, we are happy with Acorn as a venue - it puts the focus on the talks. We have a challenge, however: very few people are coming forward to do talks. Whenever you see me or Warren do a talk, it's often because someone has dropped out or we simply couldn't find a speaker and we're worried you'll get sick of the sight of us! -We seem to be relying on a small group of speakers who are great but we always hoped that we could encourage more people to come forward. We could contact big companies to ask them to send speakers, but when we started Unified Diff, we wanted to be a community event - by local software people for local software people, talking about real things that we do - rather than sitting there being sold something by a tech evangelist. +We seem to be relying on a small group of speakers who are great but we always hoped that we could encourage more people to come forward. We could contact big companies to ask them to send speakers, but when we started Unified Diff, we wanted it to be a community event - by local software people for local software people, talking about real things that we do - rather than sitting there being sold something by a tech evangelist. When we started in 2012, there was very little going on. Now, you have, in or around Cardiff: From 365a2b8cd0f03fcda8daeef3580aab21364ecf6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Davies Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:06:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 09/13] Add sudo shutdown now post --- blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02f848f --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: September 2015 - sudo shutdown now +--- + +Although we talked about going to a [every other month format](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/08/07/bi-monthly-format.html), this week's Unified Diff might be our last... + +No big deal, no-one mad, no-one jelly, no toys chucked from any prams. Here are our reasons: + +1. There are now plenty of meetups in Cardiff and we're not here to compete. +1. We are all mega busy with family and jobs and it's become a bit of a grind to keep the event going. +1. It's really hard to get speakers. People just aren't coming forwards. +1. It's just not quite as fun as it was when we started out. + +We're not shutting anything down permanently; we'll be like King Arthur and his knights, we're not ruling out a comeback. We might do the odd event if the opportunity arises. + +So, come along to our [next (final?) event](http://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/224469697/) and share some of your Unified Diff memories! It's been a fun ride. + +- [@gavD_UK](https://twitter.com/gavd_UK), September 2015 From c2c9212837db4020762ca6db916f0c67fc7f5a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: handybitesize Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:15:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 10/13] Update 2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md It'll reboot immediately without that --- blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md index 02f848f..68cf620 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -title: September 2015 - sudo shutdown now +title: September 2015 - sudo shutdown -h now --- Although we talked about going to a [every other month format](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/08/07/bi-monthly-format.html), this week's Unified Diff might be our last... From 7de2666c13fabab9ad7f09155a22314dc36e28ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Davies Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:53:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 11/13] Add the whole team to the shutdown post --- blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md index 68cf620..436fc8e 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: September 2015 - sudo shutdown -h now Although we talked about going to a [every other month format](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/08/07/bi-monthly-format.html), this week's Unified Diff might be our last... -No big deal, no-one mad, no-one jelly, no toys chucked from any prams. Here are our reasons: +No big deal, no-one mad, no-one jelly, all toys still safely in prams. Here are our reasons: 1. There are now plenty of meetups in Cardiff and we're not here to compete. 1. We are all mega busy with family and jobs and it's become a bit of a grind to keep the event going. @@ -16,4 +16,11 @@ We're not shutting anything down permanently; we'll be like King Arthur and his So, come along to our [next (final?) event](http://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/224469697/) and share some of your Unified Diff memories! It's been a fun ride. -- [@gavD_UK](https://twitter.com/gavd_UK), September 2015 +September 2015 + +- [@craigmarvelley](https://twitter.com/craigmarvelley) +- [@gavD_UK](https://twitter.com/gavd_UK) +- [@handybitesize](https://twitter.com/handybitesize) +- [@jenko](https://twitter.com/jenko) +- [@rodnaph](https://twitter.com/rodnaph) +- [@woogoose](https://twitter.com/woogoose) From 1531ba67315a49ffa95ca836301baa56e8e6320f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Davies Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:59:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 12/13] Grammar fix --- blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md index 436fc8e..7420e1c 100644 --- a/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md +++ b/blog/_posts/2015-09-16-sudo-shutdown-now.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post title: September 2015 - sudo shutdown -h now --- -Although we talked about going to a [every other month format](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/08/07/bi-monthly-format.html), this week's Unified Diff might be our last... +Although we talked about going to an [every other month format](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/08/07/bi-monthly-format.html), this week's Unified Diff might be our last... No big deal, no-one mad, no-one jelly, all toys still safely in prams. Here are our reasons: From 1aea05495b6efc8f090d474d8c250a904e1d382c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jenkins Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:14:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 13/13] Adding a blog post about the revival. --- blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md diff --git a/blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md b/blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cba5ae --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/_posts/2017-02-09-rebirth.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: February 2017 - we came back! +--- + +Without much fanfare, but with plenty of nods of approval, Udiff came back in the summer of 2016. + +If you read our [last blog post](http://unifieddiff.co.uk/blog/2015/09/16/sudo-shutdown-now.html) you may have seen us suggest "We might do the odd event if the opportunity arises." +and that's exactly what's happened! It seems that a meetup every few months (roughly quarterly) seems much more attainable. +The goal when we started Unified Diff was to try and be the catalyst for more tech meetups in +and around Cardiff and there are [some](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Tech-Talk/) [great](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-Go-Meetup/) [meetups](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-SEO-Meet/) [out](https://www.meetup.com/UmbCardiff/) [there](https://www.meetup.com/Cardiff-R-User-Group/) [now](https://www.meetup.com/South-Wales-Agile-Group/), so going to a quarterly meetup just makes sense. + +[Tonight](https://www.meetup.com/unified-diff/events/236816719/) (9th Feb 2017) is our third meetup since the revival and hopefully there will be many more but on a more +infrequent basis. + +Which means that we're looking for speakers again! So please [get in touch](https://twitter.com/unifieddiff) if you have a talk you'd like to give +or demo of some cool thing you're working on or anything else you think will interest an IT crowd. + +The other good news is we've managed to secure a great new venue thanks to the kind folks at [Bipsync](https://www.bipsync.com/). So if you haven't +joined our revival yet, why not come along tonight! (or next time if you're reading this after the fact!)