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Video Report on BBC R&D Move from Kingswood Warren to London

2010-02-04T15:48:52+00:00

The BBC are moving their R&D facilities from Kingswood Warren in leafy Surrey to Centre House in West London. This film, narrated by Ant Miller, shows how the relocation has progress so far:

Ignite London 2

2010-01-30T10:44:59+00:00

Craig Smith writes: Ignite London 2 is set to illuminate the Capital on Tuesday 2nd March 2010. It will take place from 7pm at the Luminaire in Kilburn during Global Ignite Week. The Luminaire is a...

Scottish Ruby Conference 2010

2010-01-27T12:00:00+00:00

In April 2008, Scotland on Rails hosted 80 delegates and 20 speakers from the UK, Europe and around the world in Edinburgh for the first Ruby conference in the UK since RailsConf2006. The conference...

O'Reilly Donates £1000 to Bletchley Park Thanks To Geek Atlas

2010-01-26T16:24:51+00:00

Geek Atlas - £22.99 (978-0-596-52320-6) O'Reilly will continue to give 50p for each copy sold in the UK Bletchley Park, the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during WWII and...

Christian Crumlish - Wallacespace, Covent Garden

2010-01-25T11:55:37+00:00

Craig Smith writes: Last week I went along to see Christian Crumlish speak at Covent Garden Wallacespace. Christian is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and co-author of Designing...

Announcing the Q4 Prizedraw Winner

2010-01-12T07:55:59+00:00

Whenever Josette or one of her Merry Band of Followers (which includes me) runs an O'Reilly bookstall at an exhbition in the UK or Mainland Europe, attending delegates get a chance to win £250 of...

2011: Europython in Florence!

2010-01-07T09:53:27+00:00

Francesco Pallanti writes: After a period of radio silence here we are back on air more resolute than ever! There's a news however that we'd like to tell to everyone in the Python community. The...

Jonathan Ive on Mac Design

2010-01-06T15:16:35+00:00

Chingford-born Apple designer Jonathan Ive on Mac Design and Unibody MacBook manufacture: Via Leftsetz Letter

Christian Crumlish visits Europe!

2010-01-05T16:08:52+00:00

Christian Crumlish, curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces, is coming to Europe. He has two talks lined up, one in London, one in Berlin, where he...

openeo.biz - Survey about Open Source

2009-12-22T15:06:56+00:00

Adam Walczak - a Polish Software Developer, if I have extrapolated correctly from his site - has created a survey to assess the circumstances where Open Source is being used in business: The goal of...

QCon London 2010 - 8th/9th March 2009 - Special Offer for O'ReillyGMT Readers!

2009-12-15T22:58:56+00:00

QCon London 2010 Tutorials: March 8-9, 2010 / Conference: March 10-12, 2010 QCon is always a fantastic event. Once again, it's being held at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. There are over...

Open Hardware Conference - London

2009-12-15T08:58:22+00:00

It was my pleasure to attend the - hopefully inaugural - Open Hardware Conference at NESTA in Plough Place in London. The event was jointly organised by NESTA, Open Business and 40 Fires, the...

Codebits - Lisbon, Portugal, December 2009

2009-12-07T23:23:02+00:00

Josette Garcia writes: Codebits - the fun event for all techies. Inspired by Hackday, London, Celso Marthino and Pedro Custodio, both then from Sapo.pt, decided two years ago to create Codebits in...

UKUUG - 2 New Tutorials Announced - Zenoss & Erlang

2009-11-24T09:30:00+00:00

The UKUUG have announced two new Tutorials in conjunction with O'Reilly. On January 27th 2010 in London, we have Zenoss Introduction Workshop, led by Zenoss Master Jane Curry: Zenoss provides...

Maker Faire, Newcastle, 13th-14th, March 2010 - Call for Proposals

2009-11-23T10:46:57+00:00

A Call for Proposals has gone out for the 2nd UK Maker Faire, which is due to take place in Newcastle on the 13th and 14th March 2010: Following the outstanding success of the first UK Maker Faire...

XP Day, London, 7th/8th December 2009

2009-11-19T11:33:42+00:00

December 7th and 8th 2009 sees XpDay taking place in London: The Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC) are pleased to announce the 9th consecutive London XpDay conference, to be held December 7th and 8th at...

Write-up of November's iPhone and Smartphone Publisher and Developer MeetUp

2009-11-18T11:16:40+00:00

November's iPhone and Smartphone Publisher and Developer Night was another triumph, an Augmented Reality Special. 24 was kitted out in its Christmas garb, and once again thanks to Yuza Mobile for...

Skills Matter Conference Season - 25% Discount For O'ReillyGMT Readers

2009-11-16T11:27:20+00:00

As we previously mentioned, Skills Matter are having a quite astounding series of events. And they got in touch to kindly offer O'ReillyGMT Readers 25% Discount on all of the following: Agile...

iPhone & Smartphone Developers & Publishers Night - An Augmented Reality Special

2009-11-10T15:07:12+00:00

The next iPhone & Smartphone Developers & Publishers Meetup is an Augmented Reality Special: For our 16th November meetup we'll welcome Ravi Damani, the co-founder of Acrossair, the agency behind the...

Barcamp Manchester 7th-8th November 2009

2009-11-05T16:41:15+00:00

Still a few tickets left for Barcamp Manchester 2, taking place this coming weekend (at the time of writing) at Contact on Oxford Road: Google Map If you're anywhere in the region, this will be a...

Report from the International PHP Conference 2009, Barcelona

2009-11-02T10:25:14+00:00

Josette Garcia writes: How many techies does it take to build an elephant tower? Result – This elephant is, of course, the mascot of PHP. Attending the International PHP Conference in Barcelona, I...

Interview with Michal Slaski and Rusty Klophaus

2009-10-28T15:52:47+00:00

At the last Erlang Factory in London, I interviewed Senior Erlang Consultant Michal Slaski and Creator of the Nitrogen Framework Rusty Klophaus about how Erlang Web Framework and Nitrogen can work...

UKUUG Spring 2010 Conference - Call for Papers

2009-10-26T13:51:51+00:00

The UKUUG Spring Conference for 2010 is due to take place in Manchester from 23-25 March: We are currently accepting proposals for talks; so if you are a systems administrator or developer, we want...

Open Hardware Conference - London, December 4th 2009

2009-10-20T13:14:40+01:00

40Fires and Nesta have announced the Open Hardware Conference, which will take place in the Nesta offices in London on the 4th December 2009 between 10am and 8 in the evening: Collaborative...

Leeds Girl Geek Dinner - October 21st 2009

2009-10-19T15:32:03+01:00

The fifth Leeds Girl Geek Dinner is happening at the Loft Leeds this Wednesday, the 21st October 2009. Background: "The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl...

Bristol Knowledge Unconference - December 12th/13th 2009

2009-10-16T08:08:34+01:00

The world requires we all have a touch of the Polymath about us these days, even if it's in a small way. Whatever your profession, chances are you double up your tasks, updating your skills so you...

Madlabs and Robot Hack Day

2009-10-14T17:55:18+01:00

Madlab is Manchester Digital Laboratories: ... a 1000 sq. ft. former shop in the Northern Quarter – open Thursday-Sunday from 10am-late (plus other evenings when there’s an event happening). It’s a...

Mark Imbriaco - 37 Signals

2009-10-12T12:51:22+01:00

Here's an interview I did at Erlang Factory with Mark Imbriaco of 37Signals about Campfire. Among the high end topics we discussed - how did Campfire come about, how was it written, how do the rest...

Erlang User Conference 2009

2009-10-07T16:34:11+01:00

One of the very pleasing things that is noticeable when observing the European Tech Scene is how many of the people doing impressive and interesting things are themselves interesting and indeed...

Photos from FOWA - London 2009

2009-10-02T13:57:55+01:00

Photos taken early on Thursday at Future of Web Apps 2009, in Kensington Town Hall, London. www.flickr.com