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Week of SkillSwaps (including me on screencasting)

Danny has organised a whole week of SkillSwaps (overview on Upcoming) for the week commencing Nov 19th. The events are: Photography 101 (Jane Dallaway) Master Screencasting (me) Agile: Iterating the Reasons (Joh Hunt & Tom Hume) The Art of Storytelling (Charlie Davies) 10 reasons why you shouldn’t test your software (Rosie Sherry) For my Master […]

£5 App Day *Tomorrow* on Sat 10th

We host our first-ever day-long £5 App event tomorrow (full itinerary). We have 25 confirmed on Upcoming, another 10 by email with people travelling in from as far afield as Birmingham and London. Hopefully there will be students from Sussex Uni and maybe random people from the 10,000 brochures that Wired Sussex have distributed. It’ll […]

5 Pound App *Day* on Saturday 10th 10am-6pm

For the Digital Festival we’re having a whole day (sign up->Upcoming.org) of £5 App Goodness aimed at moving your project forward: When: Saturday 10th November, 10am-6pm Where: North Laines, see Upcoming Cost: Free Food/Drink: You supply your own, shops nearby Wifi? Yes, laptops welcome Sponsor: Alan Newman of SensibleDevelopment (plug: talk to Alan for bespoke […]

Thursday Night – ShardCore Private View @ Tin Drum (Kemptown)

ShardCore (resident artist for the £5 App meetings) is showing a large selection of his geek art at the Tin Drum in Kemptown this Thursday evening (6-8pm, 1st Nov 2007). This is his first ‘private view’ and, given how much work he has on show, it’ll be a good ‘un. Come along! Pop in for […]

ShardCore’s Art on Brighton Radio

Woot – ShardCore‘s geek art is being discussed on the local Radio Reverb sometime in the next hour. You can listen live, Neil’s work appears at times at the £5 App (pics) and is currently hosted in The Tin Drum in Kemptown. Update – mp3 now available from ShardCore’s blog. It is amusing, he really […]

Where to Post a Tech-Job Advert in Brighton

Recently I’ve been asked to help find a few candidates for some jobs – it seems that the ‘job ad’ solutions in Brighton aren’t all that well known outside of their immediate circles. I figured I’d summarise some of the options, please comment if you’ve something to add. Newspapers: The Argus: I hate to say […]

FivePoundApp *Day* during Digital Festival

Our Five Pound App Day [Upcoming] is listed on the Digital Festival site now, running on Saturday 10th November from 10am-6pm. Please sign-up on Upcoming so we can plan our numbers. The theme is ‘moving start-ups a step forward’, we’ll have four sessions during the day on: The Perils of Bootstrapping (by me + other […]

London Python Meetups – active again

I’m pleased to see that the London Python meetups are running again. I’m also annoyed that I didn’t realise that one was running last night, but ho hum! There’s a write-up by Fuzzyman (Mr. voidspace) and Tim Golden and it sounds like the free beer, pizza and great talks went down a storm. Next time […]

Next £5 App Meet – Building Communities by Jeremy Keith (ClearLeft)

ClearLeft’s Jeremy Keith will be talking on how he built a large web community at next Tuesday’s £5 App. Sign-up on Upcoming please so I know numbers, or Unattend if you can’t make it (so I buy the right amount of beer). The Session (http://www.thesession.org/) is a community website dedicated to Irish traditional music that’s […]

Becoming a Freelance Programmer (Part 3)

Most people are helpful and supportive of freelancers. They know that freelancers survive by being good, trustworthy and helpful and so they try to help. Do remember to tell people that you are freelancing, what you do and what you’re looking for. Don’t bore them, just let them know what you need and they’re bound […]