applications

applications and software

The London Clojure Community:Clojure at Nokia Entertainment

Join us at Skills Matter for the London Clojure Community meet up.

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Date: 22 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Seedhack Fashion and Online Retail

Seedcamp's Seedhack hackathon returns to disrupt fashion and online retail on the 8th, 9th, 10th of February at Google Campus. It will be a whirlwind weekend of brainstorming, hacking and product creation. We’ll be bringing together hackers, companies and API experts with the aim of solving real world problems to create real companies.

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Date: 8 February 2013
Location: Google Campus, UK

GGUG:Groovy Coding Practice

Yet again The Groovy & Grails User Group, we will be doing some Groovy coding practice and looking at ways to solve different programming problems. This is a great way to learn new techniques, library methods, and tools.

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Date: 21 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

CEO Tales: Open Source Business Models

Network event for entrepreneurs, investors and corporates wanting to learn more about successful open source business. First registrations collect free Raspberry Pi

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: 5 New Street Square, UK

Functional Programming eXchange 2013

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Fourth Functional Programming eXchange our annual conference on the functional programming paradigm, practices, technologies and ideas.

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Date: 15 March 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Music 4.5 Open Data

Open Data: devaluing or driving music business models? An increasing number of businesses are built on other businesses’ open data. Re-using data-sets to create new business opportunities is sensible business strategy, but what about making money ‘for free’ from other businesses available data?

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Date: 5 March 2013
Location: Lewis Silkin offices, UK

TechPitch 4.5

TechPitch 4.5 brings together tech startups, investors and entrepreneurs for an evening of business idea pitching by startups and productive feedback from experts. Eight tech startups will present their business ideas and revenue models during a three-minute pitch followed by a five minute Q&A by a panel of judges.

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: Pinsent Mason's auditorium, UK

Seedcamp London

Apply to Seedcamp London for an intense day of mentoring and the first chance of 2013 to join the Seedcamp Family.

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: Google Campus, London, UK

The StoneHack Challenge

Three hackathons in 3 days during which teachers suggest ideas for apps and challenge developers to build working prototypes in a day. Prizes for winners and runners-up each day. Venue is the Stone Computers stand (C70) at BETT, Excel Centre, London. 30 Jan --2 Feb 2013. More info here: http://hackathoncentral.com

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: Excel Centre, UK

a4uexpo Europe 2013

a4uexpo Europe 2013 will see in excess of 900 delegates come together in Amsterdam, to learn, share knowledge, network and be at the forefront of digital evolution. Join us for 30+ interactive conference sessions covering the very latest in performance marketing, alongside networking, value-add features and a lively exhibition floor.

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Date: 2 July 2013
Location: Hotel Okura, NL

Instagram Faceplants, Flickr Back From Dead

Instagram's Head in Your Hands Moment

What a bizarre couple of weeks for the image conscious, or at least the photographically-minded, first Instagram severs it's close ties with Twitter, then ratchets up user anger with a dramatic changes in its terms, enabling it to sell users' photos.

Meanwhile, over at Flickr, the once beloved haunt of pictures the product development wheels have cranked into high gear with numerous updates including a well-received and surprisingly snazzy mobile app.

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In The Brain of Uncle Bob , Let's Learn a Little Clojure

We warmly welcome Uncle Bob Martin back to Skills Matter this January! Following on from his 2012 talks, this is not one to be missed!

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Date: 24 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

London Ajax User Group : Why a JavaScript Query Language?

Why a JavaScript Query Language?

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Date: 8 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

In The Brain of Bodil Stokke: ClojureScript all the way down

Join us for a live coding session with clojure expert Bodil Stokke

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Date: 10 January 2013
Location: The Skills Matter exchange, UK

One Flew the Cuckoo's Nest: Instagram Ends Integration with Twitter

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In the latest social media battle, Instagram has switched off their integration with 'Twitter Cards', the app used to display multimedia within tweets - meaning we're no longer treated to twitterfeeds enhanced by beautiful photography (albeit mostly of cats and food).

So why the move back to 140 characters, a link and strangely cropped images? Speaking at Le Web '12 last week, Kevin Systrom, Instagram's founder and CEO, said the decision was "an evolution of where we want links to our content to go."

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