Second Wednesday

Due to the number of people attending Second Wednesday we have outgrown the Mezz Bar at Broadway after only four months! We are pleased to say that events from October 2010 will be held at Antenna in the cafe bar. Having just joined Antenna, I can vouch for the quality of the facilities, the coffee [...]

When 18:30 Monday September 06 2010 Where Dogma, The Lace Market, 9 Byard Lane, Nottingham NG1 2GJ Description GeekUp Nottingham takes place on the first Monday of every month. It’s a grass-roots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in all forms of technology and creative media. This month we have: Refactoring [...]

We had another full house at last night’s Second Wednesday for the talk by Nottingham copywriter Camilla Zajac from Green Light Copwriting. Even with lots of people on holiday we still filled the Mezz bar at Broadway – if this carries on we will need a bigger venue! Lots of new faces too, including Andy [...]

Check this out – may be worth a Second Wednesday day trip to this one! New Adventures brings you an affordable, punchy, carefully-curated schedule: ten presentations, two debates and plenty of audience input. Expect ideas and opinion from some of the web’s most respected voices. This event will enthuse, excite, ask questions, and seek real outcomes. Find [...]

Just picked up this review of July’s Second Wednesday & Web 2.0 Surgery event from LucyHG: http://lucyhg.posterous.com/2-for-1-web-20-surgery-and-second-wednesday Nick

Just read an interesting article on Smashing Magazine (makes a change from lame “top 10″ lists) about the perils of working alone. For freelancers this can be a major problem, and something we have discussed at previous Second Wednesday events. Whether it is visiting each other’s offices or using a shared workspace – do you [...]

Last night’s Second Wednesday was the busiest ever with 26 Nottingham web geeks nestled into our new venue at Broadway media centre. Derek O’Brien gave a great talk about HTML5, CSS3 – what it is, how it works and where we can use it (slides and source files here). We also discussed potential hash tags [...]

From the horse’s mouth: “CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer’s Cocoa Framework for programming on OS X, the iPhone and the iPad. During our monthly meetings, depending on numbers and speakers’ availability, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics. If we don’t have a specific speaker, [...]

Aware Monitoring are hiring – more info at http://awaremonitoring.com/blog/post/awesome-developers-needed1/

Just heard about this contract up for grabs: Details: Nottingham 3 Months (possibility of extension) £300 per day Requirements: PHP, MYSQL, HTML, Javascript and CSS Facebook application development experience desirable Payment gateway application experience desirable Role: You will be thrown in the deep end because of large job orders for current and future games titles. [...]