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The London Java 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/Londonjavacommunity/events/111285372/

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/Londonjavacommunity/events/111285372/

 Organised by RecWorks:

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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


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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


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The London Java 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/Londonjavacommunity/events/105372892/

· 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/Londonjavacommunity/events/105372892/

 Organised by RecWorks:

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

Please see link for details and to sign up – http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/106690932/

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/Londonjavacommunity/events/106690932/

 Organised by RecWorks:

What is the LJC

The London Java Community (LJC) is a group of Java Enthusiasts who are interested in benefiting from shared knowledge in the industry. Through our forum and regular meetings you can keep in touch with the latest industry developments, learn new Java (& other JVM) technologies, meet other developers, discuss technical/non technical issues and network further throughout the Java Community.