Brighter mornings, lighter evenings and a whole lot more tech events this month.
Thursday 2nd April 2015 – 7pm – Engine Shed, Bristol Temple Meads, Stations Approach, Bristol, BS1 6QH
Jon Jagger introduces Cyber-Dojo to the group this month. It’s a browser-based shared learning environment where programmers can practice their programming.
Afterwards, you’ll hear all about extending Docker with Powerstrip from
Kai Davenport. It’s a Docker API proxy which allows multiple adapters to hook into the same Docker daemon.
Thursday 2nd April 2015 – 10:30am – The Guild Coworking Hub, High Street, Bath, BA1 5EB
Another month, another networking event for the folks at BathSPARK. Drop into the coffee morning and meet other techies to connect and spark ideas.
Tuesday 7th April 2015 – 6pm – Momentum Financial Technology office, 10 Temple Back, Bristol, BS1 6FL
These events give developers the perfect chance to get together in an informal social setting to work on projects, learn and share with other devs.
It creates a great environment to work on current projects and learn new technologies in any language, at any skill level.
Tuesday 7th April 2015 – 7pm – MixRadio, Prudential Buildings, 11-19 Wine Street, Bristol, BS1 2PH
After the PHPSW collaboration last month, April brings the meetup back to normality.
Henry Lockett will show you the basics on how to start your very own plugin. Afterwards,
Simon Pollard will run through the process of how best to build your own custom theme using a real demo.
Tuesday 7th April 2015 – 6:30pm – Brightpearl Office, New Bond House, Bristol, BS2 9AG
Learn all about the Play! framework from Rob Warren, who will be showing you how to build web apps with it.
Wednesday 8th April 2015 – 7pm – Brightpearl Office, New Bond House, Bond Street, Bristol, BS2 9AG
More 5-10 minute lightning talks this month on a number of exciting topics. These include ‘Refactoring repositories’, ‘OrientDB’, ‘Drupal 8’, and many more!
Thursday 9th April 2015 – 7pm – The Westgate Pub, 38 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EL
Following on from the awesome Bath Ruby Conference, this get-together will give everyone a chance to brainstorm future meetup ideas. Talk through you ideas for fun activities, events and conferences over a drink or two.
Thursday 9th April 2015 – 6:30pm – MixRadio, Prudential Buildings, 11-19 Wine Street, Bristol, BS1 2PH
Welcome to the first in a new series of meetup events, working through The Odin Project, an online not-for-profit course teaching full-stack web dev. It starts with Ruby & Rails at the back-end, moving to front-end languages and frameworks, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc…
Thursday 9th April 2015 – 8:15am – Engine Shed, Bristol Temple Meads, Station Approach, Bristol, BS1 6QH
How do you adapt your marketing to different levels of technical knowledge? And how can you reach these diverse individuals within an organisation? Come along and learn the answers to these questions and more. Share ideas, learn from other people’s experiences and techniques and pose your questions.
Tuesday 14th April 2015 – 6:30pm – MixRadio, Prudential Buildings, 11-19 Wine Street, Bristol, BS1 2PH
This session moves on from last month and is aimed at the mid-level front-end developers who are looking to improve their skills. You’ll learn about Interpolation, Tween engines and Basic GLSL, among others.
Tuesday 14th April 2015 – 7pm – MixRadio, Prudential Buildings, 11-19 Wine Street, Bristol, BS1 2PH
Matt Corral (DNV GL) and Jeremey Gillies (The Environment Agency), will share stories from their experiences as UX teams of one across a breadth of different industries. They’ll share what they learnt along the way and how they came to make a real difference.
Tuesday 14th April 2015 – 6:30pm – MixRadio, Prudential Buildings, 11-19 Wine Street, Bristol, BS1 2PH
Aimed at mid-level front-end developers who are looking to improve their skills,
Edan Kwan will teach you all about interpolation, tween engines, basic GLSL amongst other things.
Wednesday 15th April 2015 – 6:30pm – Basekit Office, 4th Floor, The Pithay, Bristol, BS1 2ND
James Smith from DevOpsGuys talks all about Continuous Delivery for databases. Get in touch with the group organisers should you have something you want to talk about during the meetup.
Thursday 16th April 2015 – 6:30pm – Simpleweb, Unit G, Albion Dockside Building, Hanover Place, Bristol, BS1 6UT
Simpleweb challenge time! This month, you’ll be asked to build something cool using any of Twilio’s APIs. Remember, you can work alone or in teams of up to 3 and there’s to be no coding before the event! Prizes revealed on the night.
Thursday 16th April 2015 – 6:30pm
This month there’s an interesting guest speaker who is actively using ElasticSearch on an appealing project. Watch the meetup page for more details to follow!
Friday 17th April 2015 – 8:15am – The Guild Coworking Hubh, High Street, Bath, BA1 5EB
Knowledge is power (as they say), so as an organisation, how can you ensure that you’re gaining the most information and benefit filly from the data you already hold? Discover what tools are on the market to help you and what areas of your data you need to be looking at. Pastries and butties provided!
Tuesday 21st April 2015 – 7pm – Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre, 2 Lower Castle Street, Old Market, Bristol, BS1 3AD
Michael Feathers, Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, talks about the radical idea of placing code and architecture first, making team structure, process, staffing and feature choice subservient to it.
Tuesday 21st April 2015 – 7pm
3 speakers deliver 3 different talks based loosely on data storage and push notifications. Topics include “And introduction to Couchbase Mobile”, “Working with CloudKit” and “From Zero to Push in 10minutes”. Afterwards, there’ll be beer and nibbles!
Tuesday 21st April 2015 – 8:15am – Engine Shed, Bristol Temple Meads, Station Approach, Bristol, BS1 6QH
Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) has risen to the forefront over the last couple of years. It helps us get more bang for our buck! But should you care about CRO and can it really make a difference to your bottom line?
Come along and learn more about this area, share ideas and learn from others.
Wednesday 22nd April 2015 – 7pm – Waterside 2 @ Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol
Some excellent talks this month from great speakers. Learn all about DevOps in a windows + .NET platform and native mobile cross-platform with Xamarin.Forms and C#. Exciting stuff, right?
Wednesday 22nd April 2015 – 7pm
Edan Kwan will run the session, aimed at mid-level front-end developers who wish to improve their skills.
Tuesday 28th April 2015 – 6:15pm – Friska, 70 Queen’s Road, Bristol, BS8 1QU
This is a fantastic, fun and professional meetup for anyone involved in the creative sector who would like to get to know others over a drink and a chat. You may be looking for partnerships, collaboration or your next job. You never know who you’ll meet!
Tuesday 28th April 2015 – 7pm – Engine Shed, Bristol Temple Meads, Stations Approach, Bristol, BS1 6QH
Information is a major component of our lives. But how can you make sure the information you produce and present is accessible and inclusive to a wide range of audiences? Come along and Katie Grant will tell you all you need to know.
Thursday 30th April 2015 – 8:15am – The Guild Coworking Hub, High Street, Bath, BA1 5EB
Due to the success and great feedback from the first content marketing meetup, here comes another one! Here the group will hold further discussion around best practices and tools for the trade for conducting content marketing strategies.
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