PEE-PIG – Alan Dix’s summary of PPIG08

http://www.alandix.com/blog/2008/09/16/ppig2008-and-the-twenty-first-century-coder/

The PPIG 2008 Quiz

ppig08 programming language round (pdf)

ppig08 pictures round 1 (pdf)

ppig08 pictures round 2 (pdf)

ppig08 pictures round 3 (pdf)

ppig08 quiz sheet

Sources include http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ and http://en.wikipedia.org

Thank You

A big thank you to everyone that made PPIG 2008 such a success.  That includes to everyone who presented papers, asked questions and got involved in the discussions.  I hope everyone got as much out of the conference as I did.

I look forward to seeing you at PPIG 2009 in … Limerick, Ireland.

More Pictures

Pictures

Alan Dix’s Paper

Alan Dix gave a fantastic opening talk. See http://www.hcibook.com/alan/papers/PPIG2008-as-we-may-code/

Registration

Registration will be open from 10am to 10.30am at Infolab, and at 1.30pm until 2pm at the Chaplaincy.

Where to get breakfast

Many of the campus cafes are still on summer hours, and so do not open until 9 or 9.30am.  This should be no problem for Wednesday (and I can recommend the eggs on toast at the Infolab Cafe).  Diggles (near the Spar, just of the central square) is open from 8am for take away coffee and bacon/egg/sausage sandwiches so thats at least one option for Thursday and Friday.  I’ll keep my eyes open for other options.

Venues

The main conference will be at the Chaplaincy Centre.  This is what it looks like (picture from wikipedia):

The Doctoral Consortium and the Wednesday night meal will be at Infolab:

Both of these buildings are pretty hard to miss!

Travelling between Lancaster and the University

There are regular buses between Lancaster and the University (which is several miles from the centre), and its usually pretty easy to catch a taxi.  If you are arriving by train, the easiest thing to do is catch the X1 bus from outside the station (make sure you use the correct station exit!) which goes direct to the university.  There is also a taxi rank at the station.  Travelling from the station to the University by bus can take 30 – 45 mins, and by taxi about 15 mins.  Sometimes between about 4 and 6pm the journey time can increase by 30 minutes (however the conference is out of term time and so traffic should be okay).

If you are driving, there is plenty of parking in Lancaster (mainly pay and display).  There are also pay and display visitor spaces at the University.

See this page for more travel info: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/travel/travel.htm

A useful taxi number is 01524 848848 (This company is called 848-Taxis)