CAMDUG - Cambridge Developers' User Group

Hacking, Coding, Beer, Coffee, Laptops and Friends

From:	Alan Hemmings
Sent on:	Thursday, April 8, 2010 11:40 PM

Join a bunch of passionate lunatic coders at the Tram Depot on Saturday morning for some hacking, coding, beer, coffee... laptops and friends.

I'm going to be there from 11am onwards, regardless of whether anyone else arrives or not as I'm promised myself to take a deep dark look at Amazon services and will be hacking together a mashup of using Yahoo Query Language to query Flicker for photos about "my friends" latest tweets, and will be storing the result on Amazon's SimpleDB storage.

having recently looked at CouchDB at Snowcode (www.meetup.com/snowcode) I'm very keen to see how Amazon do their storage.

I'm a complete novice to Amazon S3, and will literally be cutting and pasting sample code from google'd sources together with code from a O-Reilly's "Programming Amazon Web Services" kindly lent to me by Warwick Bailey from Icodeon.

bring your laptop and share the latest API and cloud or webservice that you want to hack with and we'll do some pair programming, spending time on each person's interests.

RSVP now for 2 free beers at the pub on Saturday.
If the weather is as wonderful as it was today and you want to leave your laptop behind then feel free to come along just for the two free beers.

Beers for this event are sponsored by SNOWCODE. (i.e. me) You must RSVP before the prev Friday 5pm in order to qualify for the 2 free beers.

cheers,

Alan

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For software developers who care about their craft and enjoy expanding their horizons. Learning through doing, learning through chatting; good company and great fun. Generally with a Javascript, C#, NodeJS, Java, Ruby (and more recently Erlang, F#) slant, but not exclusively so and many of our events are language agnostic and deal with challenges and best practices surrounding software development for business as well as for fun. (We're looking for more Ruby and Python developers to please join us and help with sessions.) ..oh, and "functional" languages are quite "en-vogue" atom.

We generally organise events as people have ideas, or as sponsors and guest speakers are available, rather than having a regular schedule. Hack days are popular: getting together to learn about a technology through hands-on coding. Check out the past events if you want to know what else we've done. If you have other ideas for things that might be fun, feel free to post them.

Camdug is also the home of "snowcode": An annual free coding unconference held at a a great ski resort. This year's theme is "Node.js unconference" ... a week of awesome ski-boarding and learning. Booking for snowcode opens around 1st of February 2012!

What if you're looking for designers and/or developers and want to join CAMDUG to tap into the Cambridge talent pool?

If you're not a developer or designer or techie startup entrpreneur, then you can only join the group and attend socials by requesting to become a sponsor, which requires paying for beer and pizza at any of the socials that you attend. Becoming a sponsor is subject to approval by the management team and is a strict rule that ensures that the group members interests, privacy and fun are protected and that business interests are transparent.

If you are a recruitment agent, or work for a rectruitment agency, or have an interest in a recruitment agency then you cannot join as a member, and can only become a sponsor for an event.