Today my colleague gave me a leaflet advertising Social Innovation Camp. The idea sounds interesting and most likely I will try to attend because there will be a camp taking place in Glasgow. Now I just need a great idea or two...

I felt like writing about photographing but this blog is already full of various post about relocation, living abroad and software engineering. Adding photography would mess it up even more. Therefore, I set up Apertoire blog. Feel free to visit it and add it to your favorites.

Getting to know local people with similar interest both integrates you and improves your skills. Here are couple starting points if you are new in Scotland and you would like to expand your network.

User groups:
Java User Group Scotland
Scottish Developers
Agile Scotland
BCS Edinburgh Branch


Events:
Tech MeetUp
BarCamp Scotland
Developer Day Scotland
Scotland on Rails


There are much more outside this list - so submit your favorite computing related group or event by sending me email or through comments.

Yesterday I attended BarCamp Scotland for a second time. I arrived late so I missed some presentations but otherwise the day was great. This time I did not present anything even though I had a plan to do so. My Selenium presentation's technical demo was not working properly so I decided to skip this time.

I think this year the highlights were Mike Masnick's presentation about 'Business Models for a Digital Era' and after that an interesting discussion about online personal profile management. Time between presentations was spent on networking and I ended up convincing couple fellow developers to try out Selenium. Even though I warned that it is not a perfect tool but it definitely beats writing test cases manually for HttpUnit.

Some photos from the event can be found from my Flicker account under BarCampScotland tag.