Gyda
Hacio’r Iaith 2012 ar y gorwel (3 mis o heddiw fel mae’n digwydd…), Dwi’n dechrau hel meddyliau am sesiwn fyswn i yn hoffi gwneud ar beth fysa S4C ar gyfer y genhedlaeth nesaf yn edrych fel (y rheswm am yr enw S4C 2.0).
Ers i mi ysgrifennu’r tameidiau cyntaf nôl yn fis Ebrill, dwi wedi cael rhagor o syniadau. Wedi dweud ‘ny, fyswn i yn hoffi agor y drafodaeth lan i gynulleidfa llawer mwy eang (ie, chi annwyl darllenwyr!). Beth fydda chi’n hoffi gweld gan y sianel? Rhagor o wasanaethau ar-lein? Cynnwys ar iTunes/Amazon/LoveFilm? Fwy o wasanaethau amlieithog? Fwy o fanylder am beth mae’r rheolwyr yn gwneud? Ffordd haws i gyhoeddi cynnwys annibynnol? Fwy o wasanaethau i ddysgwyr?
Dwi am ddechrau rhoi hwn at ei gilydd o gwmpas y Nadolig, a fyddai’n siŵr i roi rhagor o wybodaeth i chi am sut mae pethau yn datblygu.
With
Hacio’r Iaith 2012 just around the corner (3 months to today infact…), I’m starting to collect some notes on a talk I’d like to give on what a next generation S4C would look like (hence the name S4C 2.0).
Since my posts back in April, I’ve had a few more ideas. I’d like though to open it up to a much wider audience and invite you (dear readers) to join in and tell me what you all think. What would you want from the channel? More online services? iTunes/Amazon/LoveFilm access? More multi-lingual content? Greater transparency from the management? A simpler process for getting more ‘independent’ content broadcast? More services for learners?
I’ll start to put this all together around Christmas, and keep you in the loop about how it’s all going.
Lincs/Links
Rhag ofn eich bod chi’n meddwl fy mod i draw yn Iwerddon ond am hwyl (Dwi yn cael hwyl, ond dim dyna yw’r unig reswm bod ‘ma), fe ges i un o’r amseroedd ‘na lle glywais i rywbeth sydd wedi gwneud i fi ail-feddwl fy marn ar bwnc yn ystod trafodaeth ar ddatblygu meddalwedd diogel.
Dwedodd un o’r bobl o’n i yn cyfweld:
Lest you think that I’m over on the Emerald Isle for fun (I’m having fun, but that’s not the primary purpose of my visit), I had one of those “wait, what? oh yeah…” moments during a discussion on secure applications development.
It centred around the this analogy (edit 21:18 – given by the interviewee):
“If we taught people to drive the same way we teach people to do secure code, then we’d have a lot more dead people and destroyed cars”
Dwi ddim yn sicr faint ohonoch sydd wedi bod ar gwrs datblygu meddalwedd diogel (fyswn i yn tybio ddim llawer), ond y tueddiad yw rhoi amser hir ar dangos beth sy’n gallu digwydd os bod chi’n gwneud pethau yn anghywir, ac wedyn treulio amser byr iawn yn dangos y ffordd gywir o wneud y peth. Yn dilyn o’r cydweddiad blaenorol, dwedodd y sawl bod ‘ny fel gadael i bobl cael damwain erchyll yn ei char, ac wedyn dweud “paid gwneud ‘ny…”.
Felly, y cwestiwn yw… ‘da ni’n dysgu’r pethau ‘ma’r ffordd gywir? Ydi hi ddim yn well dangos y ffordd gywir i ddelio gyda mewnbwn gan ddefnyddwyr, strwythur SQL, neu wallau o’r meddalwedd? Ar ôl gwneud ‘ny, dangos iddyn nhw beth sy’n gallu digwydd os bod nhw ddim yn gwneud beth da ni’n argymell. Ond hefyd, ydi’r fath beth yn dibynnu ar y dechnoleg sy’n cael ei defnyddio, a’r systemau sy’n cael ei adeiladu i adolygu’r cod wedyn? Efallai bod yr ateb ddim mor haws a dwi’n disgwyl.
Mae’n syniad diddorol i mi, ac yn un fyswn i yn hoffi datblygu yn bellach… os bod gennych chi unrhyw feddyliau, fyswn i yn hoffi clywed nhw. Dwi am geisio hefyd cynnal sesiwn ar hwn yn ystod Barcamp Llundain dros y penwythnos.
I don’t know how many of you have been on a secure coding course (I’d hazard a guess and say “not many”), their tendency is to spend most of the time showing you what goes wrong (“look at how bad SQL injection can be!”), then spend a tiny fraction of that time showing you how to do it right.
If we continue from our Continuing his analogy, the Interviewee said it would be akin to letting someone crash a car, and then saying “don’t do that…”.
So, my question is this… are we teaching these things the wrong way around? Is it not better to show people the correct way to handle things like user input, SQL queries, or error handling? Once we show them the right way, we can then move to show them what happens when it goes wrong. Having said that, any of these types of training guidelines would depend on the technology being used, and the associated infrastructure for reviewing the code afterwards, so maybe the answer isn’t as clear as we’d like it to be.
It’s an interesting idea, and one I’d like to explore further… if you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear from you. If I do manage to nab some time, hoping to do a session on it at Barcamp London.
Diweddaru | Update – 29/10/11
So I ran the session at Barcamp London, you can see the slides here:
Well, dwi wedi gwneud y sesiwn nawr yn Barcamp:
Sesiwn reit dda, gyda trafodaeth diddorol. Disgwyl nawr i cael rhagor o adborth dros y dyddiau nesaf.
An pretty good session, with a very interesting debate. Now to wait for some more feedback over the next few days.
Hwyl!
B
Wel, mae’r trefniadau ar gyfer
Hacio’r Iaith 3 yn Aberystwyth yn edrych yn dda, ac mae ‘na noddwyr wedi dod ymlaen yn barod. Yr unig beth da ni angen nawr yw pobl i gynnig sesiynau ar gyfer y peth (ac i helpu gyda ‘ny, dwi’n gobeithio cyhoeddi manylion ar sut i wneud sesiynau mewn barcamps yn agosach tuag at y penwythnos – mwy na thebyg ar ôl Barcamp London)
Gyda chadarnhad heddiw o priodas Prys S4C i’r BBC, dwi nawr yn fwy awyddus i ddatblygu sesiwn ar beth ddwi wedi penderfynu galw “S4C 2.0″. Fydd y sesiwn siŵr o gynnwys llawer o’r syniadau dwi wedi bod yn trafod ar y blog yma, a rhywfaint o’r syniadau dwi wedi datblygu oddi ar y we.
So arrangements are well underway now for
Hacio’r Iaith 3 in Aberystwyth, and we’ve already got some sponsors have been lined up. Now all we need is more people to sign up to do talks (to that end, I’m hoping to push out a guide to barcamp talks sometime near the weekend – probably after Barcamp London).
With the announcement today of the S4C’s shotgun wedding to the BBC, I’m even keener to develop a talk on what I’ve decided to call “S4C 2.0″. The talk will probably focus on a lot of the ideas I’ve explored here before (ad nauseum), as well as a few more ideas I’ve been developing off-line.
So, I’ve been on the go quite a bit lately… as I type, I’m listening to the rain lash down on an already sodden Dún Laoghaire (I’m out here for the week with work, staying at the rather nice Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel –
@fitzcastle). I thought, given I’ve got some time to kill…
Well, dwi di fod lan i dipyn o bethau yn ddiweddar… a tra dwi’n ysgrifennu hwn, dwi’n gwrando ar y glaw yn tywallt lawr ar Dún Laoghaire (dwi draw ‘ma am yr wythnos hefo gwaith, yn aros mewn gwesty reit neis o’r enw Gwesty Castell Fitzpatrick –
@fitzcastle). A gan fy mod i hefo rhywfaint o amser sbâr…
Blackpool Barcamp 3
Ar ôl methu Barcamp Blackpool flwyddyn ddiwethaf, mi o’n i yn reit awyddus i fynd lan eleni. Y peth cyntaf o’n i yn sylwi oedd bod LLAWER mwy o bobl yno eleni (sydd lawr i’r gwaith caled mae’r trefnwyr wedi gwneud i ddenu pobl o bob cornel o’r wlad). Nes i wneud sesiwn byr ddaru mi creu ar gyfer Tweetcamp yr wythnos flaenorol. Mi ges i amser i siarad fwy yn am bwnc dwi wedi trafod ar y blog ‘ma o’r blaen, sef
sut ddaru’r we helpu fi ail-gysylltu gyda’n gallu i ysgrifennu yn y Gymraeg.
Syniad munud diwethaf oedd y peth rili, a dwi’n meddwl os fyswn i wedi dewis sesiwn hwyrach, fyswn i wedi cael fwy o amser i baratoi, ac wedi denu fwy o bobl i weld y peth… Dwi di gael amser nawr i weithio ar y peth, a dwi’n mynd i geisio gwneud y peth unwaith eto yn…
So, having missed Blackpool Barcamp last year, I was really quite keen to make it up for this year’s event. The first thing you noticed was how many more people were gathered there this year (which is a credit to the organisers, who’ve grown it from a really tiny event two years ago to one that attracts people from all over the country). I ended up delivering a talk that I’d initially prepared for Tweetcamp the week before but didn’t deliver. The talk centred around themes I’ve previously explored on this blog of
how the web helped me re-establish my ability to write in Welsh.
It was a spur of the moment thing really, and I think had I maybe opted for a later session, I’d have had another hour to practice, and drawn in a few more people to see it… I’ve since had some time to work on it, so I can try again at…
London Barcamp 9
So, picture the scene… I’m sat waiting on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin, and decide “you know what? I’m going to switch my phone back on” and the first alert I get is from Barcamp London, telling me I had a chance to nab a ticket off the waiting list, just as the plane starts to taxi…
Queue minutes of frantic fiddling as I try to remember my Eventbrite login details before the plane takes off. Thankfully, I got one, and I’m looking forward to seeing what a REALLY big barcamp looks like.
Dychmygwch yr olygfa… Dwi’n eistedd mewn awyren Aer Lingus ar y ffordd i Ddulyn, a dwi’n meddwl “pam ddim edrych trwy Twitter am rywfaint? A’r neges gyntaf dwi’n gweld yw un o Barcamp London, yn dweud fy mod ni nawr yn gallu cael tocyn o’r rhestr aros, fel mae’r awyren y cychwyn symud…
Dyma fi’n gwario’r munudau nesaf yn ceisio cofio fy nghyfrinair Eventbrite cyn i’r awyren cychwyn. Diolch byth, ges i un mewn amser, a dwi nawr yn edrych ‘mlaen i weld beth mae barcamp ANFERTHOL yn edrych fel.
Public Parts and Publicness
So, my Twitter followers will know that I’ve been quite excited to get a hold of
Jeff Jarvis’ latest book “Public Parts”. I have to confess however that I’ve had little time to read it lately, and the few times I’ve tried to make time usually result in me waking up the next morning with a cold cup of tea on the sideboard, and the book neatly placed next to it. Thankfully, an hour’s flight to Dublin meant I got some time to catch up.
I’ll post a fuller review in time, but the hundred odd pages I’ve read so far have been quite enlightening. He offers a detailed insight into his life, and the advantages he (and others) have drawn from living an ‘open’ life on the web (he doesn’t advocate full disclosure, merely suggesting that there are advantages to be had by opening up). I must confess, I find it hard to disagree with anything in there. I too have found advantages employing many of the things he suggests. I’ve made good friends through Twitter, Google+, E-Mail Lists, my Blog and at Conferences. I’ve managed to reconnect with a part of my life I had feared I’d lost, and learnt more about photography than I ever could through formal education.
So, I think I’ll try to embrace the concept of publicness a bit more and see what happens.
Fydd y bobl sy’n fy nilyn i ar Twitter yn gwybod fy mod i wedi bod yn reit hapus cael gafael ar gopi o lyfr newydd
“Public Parts”. Ond mae’n rhaid i mi gyfaddef fy mod i heb gael llawr o amser i ddarllen y peth, a’r ychydig amseroedd dwi ‘di ceisio, nes i ddeffro’r bore wedyn hefo’r llyfr yn ei le, a chwpan oer o de wrth ei ymyl. Diolch byth felly am awr o hedfan i Ddulyn, a rhywfaint o amser i ddal lan.
Gwnâi ysgrifennu rhywbeth fwy mewn amser, ond mae’r 100 dudalen dwi ‘di darllen yn barod wedi bod yn ddiddorol dros ben. Mae o’n disgrifio ei fywyd, a’r manteision mae o (ac eraill) wedi gweld trwy fyw bywyd ‘agored’ ar y we (dyw e ddim yn dweud dylsa pawb dweud popeth wrth bawb ar-lein, ond yn cynnig bod manteision i agor lan). Mae rhaid i mi ddweud fy mod i’n gweld bod gwir yn llawr mae o’n ddweud. Dwi wedi gweld y manteision trwy rannu fy mywyd ar y we fel mae o’n cynnig. Dwi wedi gwneud ffrindiau da trwy Twitter, Google+, rhestrau e-bost, fy mlog ac mewn cynhadledd. Dwi wedi ail-gysylltu gyda rhan o’n mywyd o’n i yn poeni fy mod i wedi colli, a dysgu fwy am ffotograffiaeth na fyswn i wedi gwneud trwy addysg ffurfiol.
Dwi’n meddwl gwnâi ceisio gwneud fwy gyda’r syniad o fod yn agored ar y we, a gweld beth sy’n digwydd.
Dros y penwythnos, bues i lawr i Lundain ar gyfer Tweetcamp 2011. Cynhadledd yn edrych i mewn i’r defnydd o’r we gymdeithasol yn ein bywydau, gwaith a phopeth arall. Mi ges i’n synnu gweld y gwahanol fathau o bobl oedd yno, o bobl y wasg, trwy i bobl y we a phobl marchnatai.
So over the weekend, I spent the day down in the east end of London at Tweetcamp 2011. The conference explored the use of social media within life, work and everything in between. I was surprised to see the cross-section of people in attendance, which ranged from journalists to web designers through to marketing and PR people.
Mi nes i ymuno a’r drafodaeth ar ddefnyddio Twitter mewn mwy nag un iaith. Ar ôl ‘ny, ges i drafodaeth bellach gyda dynes sy’n gweithio ar y genhedlaeth nesaf o’r we (ac yn enwedig gwaith ar y we mewn mwy nag un iaith). Fe ddaru ni symud ymlaen i drafod y technegau gorau i ddefnyddio’r we gymdeithasol ac i sut mae’r gwasanaethau cyhoeddus yn methu cymryd mantais ar ddatblygiadau mewn technoleg.
Cynhadledd wych, ac amser neis.
Mewn nodyn hollol wahanol, gyda’n helyntion diweddar, mi nes is ddod i’r casgliad fy mod i angen ail-ystyried fy agwedd i gadw copïau wrth gefn. Dwi’n un eithaf anghofus (ac weithiau’n reit ddiog) pan mae’n dod i gadw copïau wrth gefn. Mi o’n i arfer yn cysylltu disg USB i’r cyfrifiadur a disgwyl iddo orffen ei waith. Dim y ffordd orau i wneud hynna, gan i mi ddarganfod bod fi ond ‘di gwneud ‘ny unwaith mewn dau fis.
Felly, y peth orau oedd gwneud i’r cyfrifiadur gwneud y gwaith i mi. Dwi eisiau cael copi yn lleol ac mewn amser un mewn lleoliad arall. Mae’r ateb lleol yn dod mewn ffurf Apple Airport Extreme, sy’n galluogi fi rhannu disg USB dros y rhwydwaith, sy’n meddwl fod y cyfrifiadur ar-lein adref, mae’n creu copïau wrth gefn heb i fi gwneud unrhyw beth. Y cwestiwn nesaf yw, sut dwi’n mynd i gadw copi wrth gefn mewn lleoliad arall. Dwi dwi weld hysbysebion am wasanaethau fel Carbonite, ond fyswn i yn hoffi cael syniadau gennych chi.
Tan tro nesaf felly…
I ended up in a discussion on how you’d approach using Twitter in multiple languages. I got into an interesting chat with a woman working on the next generation of the web (and in particular the approach to a multiple language web). We ended up having a fascinating discussion over issues ranging from the best approach to social media through to how pubic services fail to address or take advantage of the developments in technology.
A fab conference, and a jolly good time.
In completely unrelated news, with my recent issues with my poorly work macbook, I came to the conclusion that I needed to address my approach to backups. I came to the conclusion that I’m both incredibly forgetful, and a little lazy when it comes to such things. My old approach was to connect a USB drive to the laptop (when I remembered) and let it finish. I looked over the backup logs and realised that before this weekend, I’d only backed up once in the last two months.
So, the best idea was to actually make the computer do it for me. Now, I wanted to have a local and eventually a remote backup. The local solution came in the form of an Apple Airport Extreme, which is now letting me share a hard drive over the network, which means that as long as the system is online in the house, I’m backing up my data. So, if the laptop gets broken, I have a backup. The next question is, what happens if the house burns down… What options do people use for a remote backup? I’ve seen adverts for services like Carbonite, but I’d like to get some recommendations from the rest of you.
So, until next time
B
Cyhoeddwyd bore ‘ma bod Steve Jobs wedi colli ei frwydr hir â chancr. Penderfynais gymryd foment i feddwl am ei ddylanwad ar y diwydiant cyfrifiadurol, ac ar gymdeithas. Beth bynnag yw eich barn ar Apple (dwi’n hoffi beth maen nhw’n gwneud), does dim ffordd i wadu ei ddylanwad ar y byd. Roedd lansiad yr Apple I yn 1976 yn herio’r farn bod cyfrifiaduron ond yn declyn busnes, lansiad y siopau cyfrifiaduron, lansiad yr iPod yn 2001, yr iPhone yn 2007 a’r iPad yn 2010 a’r her i’r hen syniadau o beth ydi’r cyfrifiadur a sut dylid fo edrych. Mae dylanwad Jobs i’w weld ym mhobman.
Fydda ni’n eich methu chi, Mr Jobs.
News hit the world today that Steve Jobs lost his long fight with cancer. I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on his contributions to the industry in particular and to society at large. Whether or not you like Apple (I happen to quite like their products), there’s no denying the Jobs’ impact on our world. The initial release of the Apple I back in 1976 challenged the perception that computers were tools of business, through to the launch of their retail stores, the launch of the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010 as well as challenging the preconceptions about what a computer was and how it should look. Jobs’ influence has pervaded every aspect of the industry.
Rest in peace Mr Jobs. You’ll be missed.