New GDC/LJC Event: The London Developer Sessions on Tues 18th June 2013 at 18:30 #ljcjug #gdcldn Organised by @RecWorks

The London Java Community & Graduate Developer Community’s next free event is – The London Developer Sessions on Tuesday 18th June at 18:30.

Please see link for details and to sign up – http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/120885842/

This is our monthly social gathering, which incorporates members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities. This is an informal social evening most of the evening will be spent having ad-hoc informal discussions in small groups.

We are back to The Slug and Lettuce this month: 19/20 Hanover Street, London http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/. We have had some fantastic feedback from those who have attended the event at this venue before and will be holding this month’s event in the same great location. The venue has a nicely sized function room with its own private bar, there are some great offers on beer, there is free wi-fi and it’s easy to move around and chat to lots of people. Most importantly it is a friendly and relaxed environment where developers can get together to chat and network.

The event will kick off at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until around 11:30 with members coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 50 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members, both junior and senior, can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.

Barry or another RecWorks team member will be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it’s a great chance to come along for a chat.

Please see link for details and to sign up – http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/120885842/

Organised by RecWorks:

 

LJC/GDC Partner Events – brought to you by @RecWorks #ljcjug #gdcldn

Hi Guys,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed all the events while I was away. I am back with some more great partner events for the next two weeks starting with a code Dojo tonight. Looking forward to catching up with everyone at an event soon.

Here’s what’s going on – enjoy….

Monday 3rd June - London Code Dojo 23 – Meteor hack

This evening we’ll explore what it takes to produce a simple web app using the Meteor.js framework. Please make sure that you have the framework installed before you arrive on the evening. PLEASE NOTE: I’m not aware of getting Meteor up and running on Windows machines other than in a Linux or OSX VM e.g. VirtualBox.

RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/117792142/ (EVENT OVER NOW BUT CHECK THE LINK FOR FUTURE EVENTS)

Monday 3rd June - Not Just Arduino

7pm – at London Hackspace - User group for people who want to learn, share and experiment on all microcontrollers (beginners welcome)

RSVP for this Not Just Arduino event: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Not_Just_Arduino (EVENT OVER NOW BUT CHECK THE LINK FOR FUTURE EVENTS)

Monday 3rd June - In The Brain of Jon Pither: Functional Programming in the enterprise

This is a general yet opinionated introductory talk as to why functional programming is a good fit for all institutions, including the heavyweights. It’s based on a couple of case studies of introducing Clojure to an investment bank and an large newspaper group, and this talk may feature some live coding.

RSVP for this Skills Matter event: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/functional-programming-in-the-enterprise-4235 (EVENT OVER NOW BUT CHECK THE LINK FOR FUTURE EVENTS)

Thursday 6th June - Java Development Testing

A technical and interactive presentation on how ‘Development Testing’ is addressing the ever changing landscape of software delivery: high quality, secure applications, limited resources and an ever increasing pressure to launch faster across multiple channels!

Suited to a technical audience from developers, architects, testers to managers, this talk will be presented by Coverity, the global leaders in Development Testing.

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/119372312/

Saturday 8th June - Hack the Tower – June 2013 (last one for a few months)

A hack day for the technical communities in London. Its a great chance to build apps with other developers and discover how to get the most out of new technology and practices.  Bring your own projects to work on, or join in with others on their ideas.

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/100797252/

Tuesday 11th June - EUCE IS (NOT YET) EMACS UNDER CLOJURE

In this talk Hakan Raberg delivers a talk on Deuce. Deuce is a re-implementation of Emacs in Clojure. It’s a port of the C core and re-compiles existing Emacs Lisp to Clojure.

For more information check out Hakan’s Github

RSVP for this London Clojure Community event: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/deuce-is-not-yet-emacs-under-clojure

Monday 10th June - 7 languages in 7 weeks: Io ‘Day 2′

A workshop run in the Code Dojo format for people reading and working through the Pragmatic Programmers book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” by Bruce Tate.

RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/119127472/

Tuesday 11th June - Code & Coffee West London

Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.  http://www.electriccoffee.co.uk/, Electric Coffee Co in Ealing Broadway

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/120264412/

Tuesday 11th June - Code & Coffee Central London

Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/106663202/

Wednesday 12th June - Java Native Interface with Eclipse and Android

Presented by Jeff Lawson.

The Java Native Interface (JNI) enables Java developers to make use of C libraries for high-performance functions such as telephony, sound and graphics. JNI enables developers to re-use their existing C/C++-based software and opens up the opportunity to use the C/C++ libraries developed by the company or organisation they work for.

This event provides broad and detailed coverage of JNI across all platforms and specifically for the Android NDK. This is a how-to presentation with fully working code samples and turn-key instructions for implementing all aspects of JNI listed..

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup

.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/119738442/

That’s everything for now – Don’t forget to get in touch if you know of any other events or would like us to promote your groups too.

Have a great sunny Monday

Sam

@shRecWorks

 

New GDC/LJC Event: The London Developer Sessions on Tues 21st May 2013 at 18:30 #ljcjug #gdcldn Organised by @RecWorks

The London Java Community & Graduate Developer Community’s next free event is – The London Developer Sessions on Tuesday 21st May at 18:30.

Please see link for details and to sign up – http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/116174302/

This is our monthly social gathering, which incorporates members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities. This is an informal social evening most of the evening will be spent having ad-hoc informal discussions in small groups.

We are back to The Slug and Lettuce this month: 19/20 Hanover Street, Londonhttp://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/. We have had some fantastic feedback from those who have attended the event at this venue before and will be holding this month’s event in the same great location. The venue has a nicely sized function room with its own private bar, there are some great offers on beer, there is free wi-fi and it’s easy to move around and chat to lots of people. Most importantly it is a friendly and relaxed environment where developers can get together to chat and network.

The event will kick off at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until around 11:30 with members coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 50 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members, both junior and senior, can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.

Barry or another RecWorks team member will be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it’s a great chance to come along for a chat.

Please see link for details and to sign up – http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/116174302/

Organised by RecWorks:

LJC/GDC Partner Events – brought to you by @RecWorks #gdcldn #ljcjug

Hey guys,

I hope that everyone had a wonderful relaxing long weekend, it was great to see a few of you at DevoxxUK last week. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did, thanks for all the support you guys gave the LJC booth. It is time again for another partner email and there are some great events coming up in the next few weeks. Starting tonight, Code & Coffee with the London Software Craftsman Community.

Good luck to everyone who has signed up for the Hackin’ The City event this weekend  http://www.hackinthecity.com, looking forward to seeing you all there.

Here’s what’s going on:

Tuesday 2nd April - Code & Coffee Central London *EVENT WAS YESTERDAY – SEE LINK BELOW FOR FUTURE EVENTS*

Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.

RSVP for thisLondon Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/106663002/

Tuesday 2nd April - Code & Coffee West London *EVENT WAS YESTERDAY – SEE LINK BELOW FOR FUTURE EVENTS*

Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.  http://www.electriccoffee.co.uk/, Electric Coffee Co in Ealing Broadway

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/111384222/

Tuesday 2nd April - London Code Dojo 21 *EVENT WAS YESTERDAY – SEE LINK BELOW FOR FUTURE EVENTS*

We’re a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. Food and drinks are provided.

RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/107693212/ *Full but waiting list available

Saturday 6th April - National Hack the Government 2013

CALLING ALL HACKERS, DEVELOPERS, DESIGNERS AND GEEKS!

Rewired State, for the fifth year running, will be hacking the Government. We’re delighted to run this event and it has become a firm favorite and a flagship event in the Rewired State calendar.

National Hack The Government Day will be held this year on 6th April 2013 and we are inviting you to join us to build software, visualizations and other creations that puts the government’s meticulously-compiled facts and figures to good use….

RSVP for this Rewired State event: http://rewiredstate.org/hacks/national-hack-the-government-2013

Tuesday 9th April - MongoDB London conference

As seen in a raffle held via The London Java Community in March 2013..The largest MongoDB event in Europe. At MongoDB London you can expect to hear from contributing 10gen engineers on exciting new features in MongoDB 2.4, the MongoDB java driver, success stories and case studies from local customers and community members — and most of all networking opportunities with London’s top tech talent.

As a valued member of the community we can offer you a 10% discount on general admission tickets. Book at this link with the code LJC10 to get your ticket.

http://www.10gen.com/events/mongodb-london-2013

Wednesday 10th April - Jon Pretty: Rapture I/O

Jon Pretty (@propensive) will be talking about Rapture I/O (http://rapture.io), a comprehensive open-source Scala library providing much of the functionality of the java.io and java.net packages with a much more intuitive and extensible Scala API. Rapture I/O takes advantage of Scala’s best features to provide a simple and safe interface to common I/O operations.

RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/109455572/

That’s everything for now – I will be back in two weeks to bring you some more partner events. Looking forward to catching up with you all at the next event! If you’re interested in getting your group or event on the list then please contact me for further assistance.

Sam

@SHRecWorks

 

New LJC/GDC Event: The London Developer Sessions on Tues 16th April 2013 at 18:30 #gdcldn #ljcjug Organised by @RecWorks

The Graduate Developer Community’s next free event is – The London Developer Sessions on Tuesday 16th April at 18:30.

Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/111285422/

This is our monthly social gathering, which incorporates members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities. This is an informal social evening most of the evening will be spent having ad-hoc informal discussions in small groups.

We are back to The Slug and Lettuce this month: 19/20 Hanover Street, London http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/. We have had some fantastic feedback from those who have attended the event at this venue before and will be holding this month’s event in the same great location. The venue has a nicely sized function room with its own private bar, there are some great offers on beer, there is free wi-fi and it’s easy to move around and chat to lots of people. Most importantly it is a friendly and relaxed environment where developers can get together to chat and network.

The event will kick off at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until around 11:30 with members coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 50 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members, both junior and senior, can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.

Barry or another RecWorks team member will be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it’s a great chance to come along for a chat.

Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/111285422/

 Organised by RecWorks:

 

LJC Partner Events – brought to you by @RecWorks

Hi Guys,

Its time for another partner email. There are some really great events coming up in the next few weeks, if you are interested in some pizza and coding tonight there is the London Code Dojo. Otherwise there are some great events coming up like the developer session tonight and Devoxx UK next week.

Here’s what’s going on:

Monday 18th March - David Pollak: The Grand Unification *This event has now happened – Please see the link for future events

Yep, @dpp’s got his fingers in a lot of pies… he founded the Lift web framework project, he founded the Hoisted content management project and its commercial side, Telegram, and he founded the Visi language project… but how do these projects fit together?

Come join David for a night of demo of all three projects and a clear description of how they fit together, and you might even see Visi running inside a Lift app..

RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/105999042/ 

Monday 18th March - London Groovy & Grails User Group Meetup *This event has now happened – Please see the link for future events

We have long-time Grails user David Dawson giving us an alternative application architecture to stateless services, one based on command objects!

RSVP for this London Groovy & Grails User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-ggug/events/106289672/

Monday 18th March - London Code Dojo 20 *This event has now happened – Please see the link for future events

We’re a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. Food and drinks are provided.

RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/107693132/ *Full but waiting list available

Tuesday 19th March - The London Developer Sessions

You absolutely have to get to this event – it’s the best place to come, drink beer and just socialise with other developers. Talk about projects you’re working on, problems your facing, advise a grad or two or just come to discuss anything you like. It’s a great chance to meet first time LJC members as well as seasoned professionals. Ged will be there with a few LJC Book club members. The RecWorks crew will be there to give any career advice as well as a few Adopt a JSR advocates to help explain how you can get involved. Really what reason do you have not to come along?

RSVP for this London Java Community and Graduate Developer Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/106690932/

Tuesday 19th March - Code & Coffee Central London

Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/105664212/

Tuesday 19th March - Code & Coffee West London

Code & Coffee is a cool meeting for those who like coffee and love writing code. The idea is simple. Just come along and you may find other developers writing some code before going to work while drinking some coffee and/or having breakfast.  http://www.electriccoffee.co.uk/, Electric Coffee Co in Ealing Broadway

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/109589832/

Tuesday 19th March - London Arduino #3 – Project demos + Arduino Jam

Join us for an evening of presentations and informal discussions around Arduino.

Even if you are a total beginner, bring your projects, boards, and questions!

RSVP for this London Arduino Meetup Group event: http://www.meetup.com/LondonArduino/events/106683762/

Tuesday 19th March - March 2013 – Team Transformation for Continuous Delivery: Chris O’Dell, 7digital

An essential part of Continuous Delivery is collaboration within and between teams. Jez Humble and David Farley believe that cross-functional teams are crucial for CD, because the complexity of the whole system and speed with which changes need to be made mean that the traditional silos of “Ops”, “Release”, “Dev”, etc. are a barrier to effective software delivery..

RSVP for this London Continuous Delivery event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Continuous-Delivery/events/96187482/

Wednesday 20th March - London Java Community: Meet a Project

· Are you looking to join an existing open source project, but don’t know where to start?

· Are you interested in finding out more about open source software in general?

· Are you looking to start a personal project but don’t know what to base it on?

· Are you interested in trying out some new technologies and wondering how to use them in a personal project?

If the answer is yes, this event could be for you. This is part of the MaP series of events designed to connect open source software projects and potential contributors….

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/105372892/

Thursday 21st March - What do you mean, backwards compatibility?

Presented by Trisha Gee.

The Java driver for MongoDB is the most… mature… of the NoSQL database’s drivers. It was designed without some of the modern Java features we now take for granted (generics, I’m looking at you), and is the sort of API that might be much easier with the eagerly anticipated lambdas in Java 8..

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/109032992/

Thursday 21st March - Scala Coding Dojo

A regular coding dojo session run on every third Thursday of the month.  The dojo is now held regularly at the central London offices of TIM Group.

RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/91374072/

Friday 22nd March - Hackathon: ‘Out of the Box’ TV Challenge

We are calling for Android developers to show what they can do with Google TV, smartphones and tablets and to change the way we view television!

Students, home hobbyists and small companies, to teams from within the television, creative and technology industries are invited to get involved and demonstrate their creative thinking and technical abilities. Over the weekend they will develop and present concepts or prototypes intended to explore what the future television viewing experience could look like.

We are looking for both individuals and teams, developers and creatives to take part..

RSVP for this London Android Group event: http://www.meetup.com/android/events/106658412/

Saturday 23rd March – MongoDB March Madness Hackathon

This March, MongoDB User Groups from around the world are hosting the MongoDB March Madness Hackathon, working to build tools to help the MongoDB community code better and learn from one another – while also competing for some amazing prizes.

RSVP for this London MongoDB User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/London-MongoDB-User-Group/events/106898042/

Tuesday 26th March - LJC Community Night at Devoxx UK

Devoxx UK will open its doors on Tuesday the 26th of March in the evening as part of the LJC Community Night!

Attendees will have free access to the Social event in the exhibition space, the Hacker Garden for some hands on coding and of course the BoF sessions including topics on Java EE, Hacking on Java itself and more!”

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/107051772/

That’s everything for now – I will be back in two weeks to bring you some more partner events. Looking forward to catching up with you all at the next event!

Sam

LJC/GDC Partner Events – brought to you by @RecWorks

Hey guys,

I hope you’re all are having a wonderful Monday, I have just retuned from a lovely sunny holiday in South Africa and really looking forward to some great events over the next few weeks.

Here’s what’s going on:

Monday 4th March - London Code Dojo 19

We’re a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. Food and drinks are provided.

RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/104397622/

Tuesday 5th March - Code & Coffee

Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/104265242/

Wednesday 6th March - Easy Integration with Apache Camel and Fuse IDE

In this talk James Strachan will give an overview of the Apache Camel project and how it can be used to solve your integration problems. We will introduce the Enterprise Integration Patterns & show how Camel can implement them easily using Domain Specific Languages and use them to connect to any middleware, transports, protocols or services.

RSVP for this JBoss User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/JBoss-User-Group/events/102513792/

Thursday 7th March - QCon London – LJC User Group Meeting

With great help from the organisers of QCon we have been able to secure a speaker for a special LJC event held at QCon. We are lucky to have Arun Gupta speaking on Thursday 7th March at 18:30.

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/106458472/

Thursday 7th March - Talk Big Data with Darach Ennis and John Vlachoyiannis

The User Group on the 7th of March is sponsored by QCon London and will take place between 18:30-20:00 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London. Darach Ennis will talk about ‘Conversational Big Data’ and John Vlachoyiannis’s talk subject is “LDB: The BigData In-Memory database built with Erlang, C and LISP”.

RSVP for this Erlang User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/erlangusergroup/events/106468222/

Saturday 9th/Sunday 10th March - Rewired State – WoW Hack Day

We are excited to have the opportunity to run a hack alongside the WOW – WOMEN OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL, at London’s Southbank Centre.

RSVP for this event: http://rewiredstate.org/hacks/wowhack

Saturday 16th March - Hack your Mind with Candy

Another chance to hack with the London Scala user group and the wider software development community. Read about the HackTheTower event in February to get a feel for the event.

RSVP for this London Scala User Group event: http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/106002042/

That’s everything for now – I will be back in two weeks to bring you some more partner events.

Looking forward to catching up with you all at the next event!

Sam

@SHRecWorks

New GDC/LJC Event: London Java Community: Meet a Project on Weds 20th Mar at 18:30 #ljcjug #gdcldn Organised by @RecWorks

The Graduate Developer Community’s next free event is – London Java Community: Meet a Project on Wednesday 20th March at 18:30 at UCL.

Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/107052402/

· Are you looking to join an existing open source project, but don’t know where to start?

· Are you interested in finding out more about open source software in general?

· Are you looking to start a personal project but don’t know what to base it on?

· Are you interested in trying out some new technologies and wondering how to use them in a personal project?

If the answer is yes, this event could be for you. This is part of the MaP series of events designed to connect open source software projects and potential contributors. It will be in a speed networking style, involving Project Ambassadors speaking to small groups of 3-6 developers. Giving a pitch of an open source or personal project, then answering questions before moving on to another group. The events are intended to answer potential contributors questions around the projects, focussed mainly around starting points.

There are a lot of developers in the industry, from students to experienced developers that are interested to get involved in something in addition to their day time position, but aren’t really sure where to start. There are also a great deal of interesting projects covering everything from popular open source frameworks to the Adopt a JSR program launched by the LJC. Many of these projects rely on support/enthusiasm from developers and are keen to get more enthusiastic people involved. Not to mention that most candidates that get involved in personal projects seem to escalate their careers, salaries, day rates and passion for the industry.

You will get a chance to meet project leads for 3-6 different projects and discuss the differences between them and their experience with open source development and their experiences in general.

Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/107052402/

 Organised by RecWorks:

New GDC Event: The London Developer Sessions on Tues 19th Feb 2013 at 18:30 #gdcldn Organised by @RecWorks

The Graduate Developer Community’s next free event is – The London Developer Sessions on Tuesday 19th February at 18:30.

Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/100216752/

This is our monthly social gathering, which incorporates members of The London Java Community and Graduate Developer Communities. This is an informal social evening most of the evening will be spent having ad-hoc informal discussions in small groups.

We are back to The Slug and Lettuce this month: 19/20 Hanover Street, London http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/hanover_street/. We have had some fantastic feedback from those who have attended the event at this venue before and will be holding this month’s event in the same great location. The venue has a nicely sized function room with its own private bar, there are some great offers on beer, there is free wi-fi and it’s easy to move around and chat to lots of people. Most importantly it is a friendly and relaxed environment where developers can get together to chat and network.

The event will kick off at 6:30 PM and usually goes on until around 11:30 with members coming and going at all times throughout the evening. We usually attract 50 – 70 members so it is a lively event in which members, both junior and senior, can connect in a relaxed atmosphere and set the development world to rights.

Barry or another RecWorks team member will be onsite so if anyone is looking for free recruitment advice it’s a great chance to come along for a chat.

Please see link for details and to sign up - http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/100216752/

Organised by RecWorks:

GDC Partner Events – brought to you by @RecWorks

Hey Guys, Sam here,

I can’t believe we are already through the first month of the year. Hope your year has started off as well as mine has. I’m looking forward to seeing some of you at tonight’s LJC event.

Now on with the partner events for the next few weeks…

Tuesday 29th January - LJC and Greenfoot

Presented by Michael Kölling (bio below).

This presentation will show you how to engage young programmers (teenagers from 14 years old upwards, and young adults) with programming in Java. We will show Greenfoot, an engaging, fun-to-use, educational Java environment and give plenty of tips about teaching and motivating kids to code…

RSVP for this London Java Community event: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/97859402/

Wednesday 30th January - Heroku & Postgres – ask the experts

From 5pm onwards. Craig Kerstiens of Heroku is over from San Francisco to answer your questions on the Heroku platform and Heroku Postgres database.  Drop in to the “Look Mum No Hands” cafe and ask Craig any and all questions you have.  Heroku is a great platform for deploying Java, Scala & Clojure apps & services easily and this is a rare chance to pick up tips from the experts face to face.

RSVP for this London Salesforce Developers event: http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/98708072/

Wednesday 30th January - Hands On Session – Extreme Start UP

Extreme Startup Our practices are there to help us. They enable us to continue to produce high quality code even when the business requires us to change direction or strategy. We practice these skills on small problems, and away from the pressure of production code. But what happens to our practices when we increase the pressure?…FULL – WAITING LIST AVAILABLE

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/99520732/

Monday 4th February - London Code Dojo 17

We’re a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. Food and drinks are provided.

RSVP for this London Code Dojo event: http://www.meetup.com/London-Code-Dojo/events/94309022/

Monday 4th February - Spring of Code – Hub Westminster

Talk on “10 Sustainability Models Around Free and Open Source Software” by Sander van der Waal from the Open Knowledge Foundation

RSVP for this Spring of Code event: http://www.meetup.com/Spring-of-Code/events/98948432/

Monday 4th February - SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Webinar Series: Part 3 – Tuning and Scaling WebLogic

Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle provides a solid foundation for SOA based on the Java Platform Java EE 5. In this webinar our certified WebLogic Specialists consultant will look at WebLogic specific features that enable rapid diagnostics of performance problems.

Register here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/207684631

Tuesday 5th February - Code & Coffee

Morning session (7am – 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.

RSVP for this London Software Craftsman Community event: http://www.meetup.com/london-software-craftsmanship/events/89099502/

Thursday 7th February - stORM, ORM mapper and littleye performances

David M Chandler from Google will present his project ‘stORM’ which is an open source ORM for SQLite on Android. Followed by Kumar Rangarajan from Little Eye Labs will present their toolkit which acts as a CT scanner for your android app analyzing battery and memory issues.

RSVP for this London Android Group event: http://www.meetup.com/android/events/100037032/

Saturday 9th February - Hack the Tower – February 2013

A hackathon for technical communities around London to come together and build interesting apps and discover great technology.  Following on from the successful hackathon with the London Scala community, we are inviting all those interested in Java, Scala, Clojure, node.js, play framework, MongoDB, Neo4j, Heroku & Force.com and anything else to get together and get creative.

Sign up at the LSD site http://www.meetup.com/LondonSalesforceDevelopers/events/96133122/ or on LSug site http://www.meetup.com/london-scala/events/96136332/ or LJC on http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/100205572/

Monday 11th February - SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Webinar Series: Part 4 – Oracle Service Bus Performance

Oracle Service Bus 11g extends the performance and scalability of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. In this webinar we take a look under the hood of Oracle Service Bus and provide hints and tips for increasing performance of your services.

Register here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/957988103 

Tuesday 12th February - Meet a Mentor – University College London - Graduate only event

Have you always wondered what you want to do when you graduate?

Are you worried about all the talk of grads finding it hard to find work and what it will mean for you?

Do you want to know the difference between working in a bank, a gaming company or a startup?

What technology should you specialise in? Java, Ruby or any of the other countless programming languages?

Now is the chance to find out. You may well have heard the buzz about the Meet a Mentor events – this is the next in a series of events open to all students. Also please get in touch if you are interested in becoming a mentor: email Anji at ac@recworks.co.uk

RSVP for this Graduate Developer Community event: http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/100215772/

That’s everything for now – I will be back in two weeks to bring you some more partner events.

See you later guys!

Sam

@SHRecWorks