Kings of Code

Side events

The 29th of June is open to side-events, these events are organized by the community and are provided "as-is".

Amsterdam.rb Barcamp, an unconference on various Ruby topics.
Fronteers seminar, front-end seminar about Canvas, Dojo mobile widgets and Advanced jQuery.
AfternoonTutorials, tree comprehensive tutorials about Ruby on Rails, Subversion and iPhone App Development;
Hyves “Open” Hackathon, a hackathon on open technologies like OAuth, OpenSocial and OpenID;

Hyves “Open” Hackathon

June 29, 14:00-20:00 | Location: Hyves HQ | Registration required

Hyves, Holland's largest social network organizes a hackathon on open standards and open techniques.

Your challenge:

to hack an application in just a few hours.

Our input:

a quick introduction on all Open standards and Open techniques that Hyves uses and you could use for development of you app. For example: oAuth, OpenID, OpenSocial and the XMPP protocol;
our best developers to help you kick ass;
food and beverages for all participants;
drinks to round off a splendid afternoon.

What to do now?

come up with a great idea on an application;
subscribe in time, space is limited;
make sure you bring your laptop, we will provide juice and wifi :)

See you there! Space is limited and registration will be offered to all Kings of Code attendees.

Attendees: 50
Venue: Hyves HeadQuarters

Address: Frederiksplein 42 (tram 4 and 25 from Amsterdam Central Station will take you there directly)

Amsterdam.rb BarCamp

June 29, 12:30-18:00 | Location: Escape Studio | Free entrance

Wes Oldenbeuving & Julio Javier Cicchelli are organizing a Ruby BarCamp at Escape in the center of Amsterdam.

It is an unconference, so there is no fixed schedule. Sessions you can expect:

Sam Aaron: Communicative Programming with Ruby
Michel Rijnders: Code Reviews
Jan Lehnardt: CouchDB (or an introduction to Erlang)
Justin Halsall & Menno van der Sman: Location Based Search using Ruby on Rails
Julio Javier Cichelli: Client-server applications with Sinatra and MacRuby
Eloy Duran & Manfred Stienstra: Short and Sweet II

There will be a lot of discussions and time for small presentations, so if you like to present something bring your laptop.

The venue is sponsored by Rock & Code, Wes Oldenbeuving and drinks are sponsored by 80beans!

Attendees: 100
Venue: Escape Studio
Address: Rembrandtplein 11, Amsterdam

Fronteers seminar

June 29, 09:00 - 12:00 | Location: Tuschinski | Registration required

Fronteers, the Dutch front-end association, organizes a seminar in the morning on various front-end topics. It takes place at Tuschinski in room 2. The program is as follows:

Time	Room 2
09:00	Doors open
09:30	Edwin Martin Advanced jQuery Techniques
10:15	Marcel Beumer <canvas>
11:00	Short break
11:15	Joost de Valk SEO issues developers can solve (Nikolai Onken will speak at the conference)
12:00	End

After the seminar there is a break for lunch (not provided) and continue with AfternoonTutorials at the same location.

This event is only accessible for Kings of Code attendees. Space is limited and registration will soon be offered to registered attendees.

AfternoonTutorials

June 29, 13:00-17:00 | Location: Tuschinski | Registration required

We decided to organize a side event ourself with sessions presented by Dutch developers. It takes place at Tuschinski in room 2, after the Fronteers Seminar. This afternoon offers three interesting tutorials:

Time	Room 2
13:00	Doors open
13:30	Menno van der Sman & Justin Halsall Introduction to Rails: Building a location based search engine
14:30	Jasper Hauser & Jonathan Dann Controlling Versions
15:30	Short break
16:00	Joris Verbogt iPhone App Development: Go Native!
17:00	End