Category: Web / Meetups
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Multipack’s March 2008 meeting
The Multipack describes itself as “a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands” and attending one of their meetings has been high on my list for over a year. This Saturday, I finally tried to get to Birmingham for the best price during the March meeting, and it was worth it. I…
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The Bristol Digital Media Scene
I was in Bristol for a few days earlier this week for Skillswap (which my company sponsored) and the UWE Web Developer Conference; both were excellent events so kudos to Laura and Dan & team respectively. Being at these events and rubbing shoulders with many smart people passionate about their particular corner of our industry…
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Workshops For Web People
I recently heard of a new workshop on The Multipack’s forum called Transcending CSS being presented by CSS don Andy Clarke of Britpack, and this book fame. Not sure what bribes they used to get him doing this but it’s definitely happening and I’ve already booked my place before they sell out. I also really…
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A Pragmatic Look At Symfony
On Thursday, I presented to around 30 developers attending the July Bristol Skillswap at Bristol’s Watershed. It was my first-ever public speaking gig (if you ignore some sales presentations), and I’m delighted by how well it went. The talk was a ten-minute PowerPoint introduction and then 45 minutes of live coding – this was pretty…
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Google Developer Day 2007 (London)
On Thursday, I attended the Google Developer Day 2007 event in London, and overall, I’d say it was worth the day out of the office. My headline excuse for going was that I’m working on a project that requires some Google Maps integration, and as there was a 1.5 hours hands-on workshop on it, I…
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UK PHP Conference 2007
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Yesterday, I attended the UK PHP Conference 2007, organised by the guys at PHP London; it was held at Keyworth Centre, a part of South Bank University, near Elephant and Castle Tube. The first talk was on mashups by Cal Evans, an interesting account of how he created a PHP/AJAX UPS parcel tracker for a…
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Midlands interweb groups
I’ve only been living in the midlands for a few months now but have already found two promising groups: The Multi Pack and PHP West Midlands. Multipack seems to be a bit more designery but they are organised, have a great website and put on meet-ups. It seems that some of the organisers are also…