So this weekend I took my skills on the road again, attending the 11th NHS Hackday which was in Manchester for only the second time. The venue was the Ziferblat, an unbelievably cool space, with a very relaxed collaborative theme. There were no formal challenges, but people pitched ideas they would like to try and teams formed around them.
There were two challenges that caught my eye, one around an SMS based system to dole out hands on learning opportunity to junior doctors and the other to try and simplify presenting the information in the medicine information leaflets to patients.
The first problem was very popular and soon had a group of professional developers signed up, so I decided to join the second team where I felt I would have more to contribute. Overall the project went well. As is often the case there were a lot of things we would have liked to deliver, but that we did not have time to complete, but it was a great team of people and I really enjoyed the 2 days of the event.
The code was in Bitbucket with Git, so it was a good chance to use Git commands. I also tried some work in jQuery and with AJAX requests, so learnt new things and tried new skills in the wild.
There were two challenges that caught my eye, one around an SMS based system to dole out hands on learning opportunity to junior doctors and the other to try and simplify presenting the information in the medicine information leaflets to patients.
The first problem was very popular and soon had a group of professional developers signed up, so I decided to join the second team where I felt I would have more to contribute. Overall the project went well. As is often the case there were a lot of things we would have liked to deliver, but that we did not have time to complete, but it was a great team of people and I really enjoyed the 2 days of the event.
The code was in Bitbucket with Git, so it was a good chance to use Git commands. I also tried some work in jQuery and with AJAX requests, so learnt new things and tried new skills in the wild.
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