Tagged: James Whelton & News
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The social good: an interview with Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s News
13.06.2013 In 1978 in rural Vermont in the United States, Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen founded an ice cream brand that has resonated around the world chiefly thanks to their ethic of... -
Return of the Dot Conf – time to Rage against the Machine News
06.06.2013 Social media campaigner Jon Morter who helped Rage Against the Machine get to the UK Christmas No.1 spot in 2009 is to be the guest speaker at this year’s DotConf at the... -
Girls that code could help fix skills shortage bugging tech News
23.04.2013 Normally, Slane Castle in Co Meath is associated with the deifying of rock royalty, like U2 or the Rolling Stones. But on a sunny April Saturday morning the talk was of a...Categories: Training, Software Development, R&D, Leadership & Management, Education, Computers, Careers and Employment -
Time to nurture the creative passion of a new generation of coders (video) News
16.04.2013 The gathering of CoderDojo mentors at DojoCon 2013 at Slane Castle in Co Meath at the weekend demonstrated the mentors’ resolve to instill a passion for creativity and...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Games/Entertainment, Education, Economy, Digital Media -
Tweak.com's Jerry Kennelly: Ireland needs to become a land of coders and scholars News
15.04.2013 The saints and scholars tag for Ireland is defunct – it now needs to be known as the land of ‘coders and scholars’, Kerry technology entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly told DojoCon,... -
Let’s get digital: experts discuss the impact of social media on our lives (video) News
13.03.2013 At last week’s International Women’s Day event in the RDS, Dublin, a panel of four female tech professionals and one "token" male discussed how digital technology – particularly... -
Slane Castle the venue for next CoderDojo mentor conference: Rock ‘n’ Code News
01.03.2013 Usually the venue for rock concerts, Slane Castle will be the venue for the next DojoCon on 12 April. Now in its second year, the conference aims to help mentors share know-how... -
Child coders teach Europe’s leaders the lingua franca of the 21st century News
05.02.2013 When James Whelton was a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Cork he got a call from a panicked neighbour whose nephew had just been diagnosed with a tumour behind his eye. A... -
Young coders and AR drones take European Parliament by storm News
29.01.2013 Thirty-six kids ages six to 16 from a number of EU countries and members of the fast-growing CoderDojo movement planted a very important seed in the mind of MEPs at the European... -
Newsmakers of the year: Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Michael D Higgins, John McAfee and Tupac News
31.12.2012 We recall the top newsmakers of 2012, including Presidents Barack Obama and Michael D Higgins, tech industry leaders Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer, the 3D resurrection of Tupac...Tags: McAfee, Eircom, 4G, ComReg, James Whelton, Facebook, Apple, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, YouTube, -
Four Irishmen make the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ lists News
17.12.2012 Four young Irishmen involved in the worlds of software, social entrepreneurship and marketing have been listed in the influential Forbes '30 under 30' lists of people to watch... -
Eircom launches Junior Spider Awards for young online innovators News
11.12.2012 Eircom is now accepting entries from primary and secondary school students for its 2013 Junior Spider Awards to showcase innovative ways they are using the internet in their...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 55-51 News
06.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs...Categories: Science, Research, Life Sciences, Hardware, Engineering, Development, Computers, Bio Tech -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 65-61 News
04.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 75-71 News
30.11.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
CoderDojo iOS app hits the Apple App Store News
27.11.2012 CoderDojo, the international coding movement that was started in Cork a year ago and now sees more than 6,000 children around the world learn how to write software every...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Phones, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Apps -
As CoderDojo founders are honoured, Irish software industry stresses importance of scale News
10.11.2012 Ireland’s software industry needs to scale and scale fast, the chairman of the Irish Software Association Karl Flannery stressed last night, warning indigenous companies face a... -
15-year-old CoderDojo ‘Coolest Project’ winner creates his own programming language (video) News
05.11.2012 Fifteen-year-old Maciej Goszczycki was the winner of the ‘Coolest Project’ Awards held for the first time at Intel’s massive microprocessor manufacturing facility in Leixlip, Co... -
20-year-old James Whelton named Internet Hero at the Spider Awards News
02.11.2012 To top what has been a remarkable year for 20-year-old entrepreneur James Whelton, the co-founder of the CoderDojo movement, he was last night named Internet Hero at the Golden...Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Education, Digital Media, Internet -
12-year-old Jordan Casey’s latest game Greenboy Touch now in iOS App Store News
31.10.2012 Twelve-year-old Irish coder Jordan Casey, who earlier this year became one of Europe’s youngest iOS coders, has just received approval from Apple for his latest game, Greenboy...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers, AppsTags: Android, PC, Mac, Apps, Jordan Casey, Harry Moran, James Whelton, iTunes, CoderDojo, Apple, Games, Video Games