Things are alway rather busy here, everyone working away on our various projects. It can sometimes be hard to spend a bit of time getting back to our roots and hacking away on stuff which is not related to our work. It is even harder to share this knowledge with everyone when it has no bearing on the task at hand.

With this in mind, we have been trying out a new scheme in New Bamboo Towers to encourage sharing of all those crazy gems of knowledge we discover in our own time. Thus the “Talk at 2” came into being (Damien has suggested “talk@2” but this seems a little 2002 to me). On Friday afternoon, one member of the team presents something that they find particularly interesting, and that other people might not be familiar with. It can be related to anything really, but usually has an element of programming in it.

So far Jonathan has done a talk on rSpec, and on Friday I presented an unbelievably useful and emotional piece about ActionScript 3 that moved many of the guys to tears. We will try to get these written up after the event so everyone can share the fun.

At this point I have to give a disclaimer that this might not happen every week, sometimes there just isn’t enough time, but we will certainly try to be diligent with it for as long as we can.

I also feel it needs a theme tune and maybe a logo, but don’t feel capable of creating either. In my head, the theme tune should be a mixture of the Countdown theme tune, and the Darth Vader music from Star Wars. If anyone can come up with something that encapsulates this, I’d be very interested in hearing from you.