Community developer events venues

ThoughtWorks UK Office

Events coming up

• Dec 10

  London Geek Nights: Naked Objects

  London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  This is a talk about the the Naked Objects methodology given by Dan Haywood who also has a book out on the subject. Naked Objects is a framework to help you develop the domain layer using the principles of domain-driven design. Exposing the domain objects in this way rapidly develops the ubiquitous language, while supporting a model-driven design. Come along and join in a discussion on how Naked Objects supports DDD.

Past events

• London Geek Nights: Game Programming

  Fri, 21 Nov 2008, 18:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  This is a Geek Night dedicated to developing games. The core of the evening is going to revolve around the XNA platform. We are also hoping to have talks on game development with Java, open source projects on the Cell/PS3 and also a talk by Iain Simons the author of Inside Game Design.

• London Geek Nights: ClueSwap

  Tue, 20 Jan 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  ClueSwap is about giving and receiving Clue. Think of one thing you would like to learn about. Think of one thing that you could teach someone else. Those two pieces of information are all you need to attend ClueSwap.

• London Geek Nights: Don't get tied to the Rails

  Tue, 27 Jan 2009, 18:30 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  In this talk Dan North of ThoughtWorks provides a brief introduction to Ruby and Rails and highlights some of the drawbacks of the Rails / ActiveRecord model for web applications. Then he demonstrates an alternative web stack called Ramaze that he believes addresses many of these drawbacks, particularly around the areas of evolutionary design and testability.

• London Geek Nights: Geek Games Night

  Thu, 19 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  It's another Geek Games Night! If you've been inspired by our first night then come along and show us what you've created. If you haven't been inspired yet then come and hear some great talks like these. Iain Simons talking about game design...

• Creating a language on the JVM

  Tue, 10 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Ola Bini is the creator of the language Ioke, a lead implementer of JRuby and, in short, a man who knows a lot about implementing languages on top of the JVM.

• London Geek Nights: Startup Innovation

  Thu, 23 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  London is blessed with a wide variety of innovative startups that are pushing the boundaries of technology on the web, in distributed systems, in messaging and also creating new services and business models.

• London Geek Nights: Erlang in your Infrastructure

  Tue, 12 May 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  From messaging to queues to document databases, Erlang is increasingly providing the service backbone for applications written in a variety of languages; even if you code in Java, Ruby, Javascript or C# you may be relying on Erlang to provide reli...

• London Geek Nights: Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk

  Tue, 2 Jun 2009, 09:00 - 18:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Seaside is a web application framework that is written in Smalltalk. Smalltalk has been hugely influential on the development of computer languages but realistically how many people have ever used it? Seaside is a practical application of Smalltalk to the web sphere. This Geek Night is going to cover how Smalltalk makes web development different and how Seaside is being put to use in the "Real World".

• London Geek Nights: Web Unconventions

  Tue, 2 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Welcome to the new century where we all know how web applications are developed. You have your MVC web framework with your ORM on top of the relational database that is used as a datastore. You test it with Selenium and you swear at Javascript and...

• London Python User Group

  Wed, 3 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  It's back with details to follow.Expect lightning talks with a PyCon/EuroPython flavour or propose something below.

• London Geek Nights: Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk

  Tue, 30 Jun 2009, 09:00 - 18:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Seaside is a web application framework that is written in Smalltalk. Smalltalk has been hugely influential on the development of computer languages but realistically how many people have ever used it? Seaside is a practical application of Smalltalk to the web sphere. This Geek Night is going to cover how Smalltalk makes web development different and how Seaside is being put to use in the "Real World".

• London Geek Nights: Clojure Dojo

  Tue, 30 Jun 2009, 09:00 - 18:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Clojure is a JVM language that has syntatically similarities to LISP, full integration with Java and its libraries and focuses on providing a solution to the issue of single machine concurrency.Its small core makes it surprisingly easy for Java developers to pick up and it provides a powerful set of concurrency strategies and data structures designed to make immutable data easy to work with.

• London Geek Nights: Pairing 101

  Tue, 30 Jun 2009, 09:00 - 18:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  In his book Outliers, Gladwell shares the story of a Korean airliner crash caused by issues in the cockpit. That example brings to mind the excitement and challenges of what would seem to be the simplest of XP practices: pair programming.Simple on the surface (2 people, 1 computer); challenging in reality, we will dig into the tricks and benefits of effectively pair programming.

• London Geek Nights: Clojure Dojo

  Mon, 20 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Clojure is a JVM language that has syntatically similarities to LISP, full integration with Java and its libraries and focuses on providing a solution to the issue of single machine concurrency.Its small core makes it surprisingly easy for Java developers to pick up and it provides a powerful set of concurrency strategies and data structures designed to make immutable data easy to work with.

• London Geek Nights: Pairing 101

  Tue, 8 Sep 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  In his book Outliers, Gladwell shares the story of a Korean airliner crash caused by issues in the cockpit. That example brings to mind the excitement and challenges of what would seem to be the simplest of XP practices: pair programming.Simple on the surface (2 people, 1 computer); challenging in reality, we will dig into the tricks and benefits of effectively pair programming.

• London Geek Nights: Heroku

  Tue, 6 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Adam Wiggins of Heroku (a Cloud Computing service that charges as you scale) will be talking about the exciting mash of exciting technologies that power Heroku (Erlang, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Git) and about founding, creating and developing an ambitious tech startup. Heroku is one of the most exciting startups out there at the moment because it makes the Cloud immediately available to Ruby developers everywhere.

• London Geek Nights: Huddle your QA

  Tue, 27 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Let's take a look at the often dysfunctional relationship between QAs and Developers. How can they work together to create excellent software most effectively. This Geek Night is going to feature an experience report from two QAs, a film and a presentation on story huddles. For this Geek Night we would really like to get as many QAs, Developers and Team Leaders/Managers as possible to discuss how and why the relationship breaks down and how to rebuild and reinforce it.

• London Geek Nights: Huddle your QA

  Tue, 27 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  Let's take a look at the often dysfunctional relationship between QAs and Developers. How can they work together to create excellent software most effectively. This Geek Night is going to feature an experience report from two QAs, a film and a presentation on story huddles. For this Geek Night we would really like to get as many QAs, Developers and Team Leaders/Managers as possible to discuss how and why the relationship breaks down and how to rebuild and reinforce it.

• London Geek Nights: Geek Night Review of the Year

  Thu, 19 Nov 2009, 19:00 - 22:00 in London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

  A series of lightning talks about the important happenings and developments during 2009. Five minute lightning talks with a free format and topic. Please sign up at the wiki. Talks confirmed so far: Garry Shutler: .Net rebellion against the angled bracket tax Felix Leipold: Using Apache Lucene as a "queryable cache" Robert Rees: How Heroku solved the deployment problem We want you to tell us about the year you've had!