March 18, 2015

Byte Into IT - 18 March 2015

39 minutes

On this week's Byte:

Guests:

Square Sounds is on this weekend, celebrating all things chiptune! We were joined by one of the co-organisers of the festival Eugene Davoren-Britton and Swedish chiptune wizard Anders Carlsson (better known as Goto80).

Greg Wadley, Helen Hughes and Joel Sterner of Proof of Concept came in to studio to give us a rundown on Facebook Party, which happened (almost) entirely on Facebook.

News:

A sad (or happy) day for Internet Explorer, with the long-lived browser finally being retired by Microsoft. Its replacement is named (currently) "Project Spartan". Impressive, huh?

At SXSW, Yahoo have announced that they want to remove the password.

Events and Opportunities:

Youth Without Borders are holding the Spark Engineering Camp in Melbourne from July 6 to 1, helping school students from non-traditional backgrounds to engage in university life, and get excited about engineering. If you're interested in participating as a student or mentor, check it out!

Freeplay Fete with games, workshops and a DIY craft stall where game-makers will be displaying their creations - Saturday April 1, 10am-6pm, venue TBA

CSSConf 2015 is on next week. It'll feature talks by leading Australian web designers and developers, and the schedule includes:

Pre-conference event at Bartronica, 7pm Wednesday March 25;

CSSConf at the Meat Market, North Melbourne, March 26 and 27 ; and

Decompress - a huge day of hacks, workshops and lightning talks at Meat Market on Saturday March 28 (free for CSSConf attendees)

Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Simon Leo Brown and Dan Salmon

Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter, Facebook, and G+ - see you next week!

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