Steward Townsend approved BarCampBankLondon 1 and 2 being hosted at Sun while he was there.  So without him we'd probably never have managed to start the events at all.     He's now working for ICAP and is promoting a seed fund/incubator for early stage financial technology startups.   FinTech Startups call to arms : Investment fund run through ICAP - wants to invest NOW   For more information go to   http://checkthis.com/4h6     FinTech Investment Fu …

… But PHARMEETUP is primarily about new contacts, career opportunities and business development. We are planning to organise our first meetups in restaurants or pubs and then try something more active.

The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the re …

Can we out perform INTEL and AMD? On a shoestring? And do it reliably? I am looking for engineers who are interested in making applications run fast and stable. When I started in communications engineering I built solutions with clock rates of 800 KHz (NOT MHz). Now CPU’s run 4,000 times faster, but applications are still inefficient. It seems that we accept “wait state”, and “hanging applications”, or “crashes”, as just one of those things? I want to design a new CPU (really an FPGA), with a Ve …

An official Adobe User Group with free monthly meetings - 3rd Thursday of each month. Speakers, hot tips, networking, sometimes informal pub meetings loosely based around the range of Adobe software products from Photoshop and Illustrator to Dreamweaver and Edge. Everything web and design related. All welcome.

Meet other locals who earn their living from the Internet. A place for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field.

For like minded, local developers who wish to push their skills to the next level. All levels welcome from beginners to experts. Typical technologies include: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS etc), Shell/Bash, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Doctrine, caching, memcache, html, xhtml, css, javascript (js), jQuery (ajax, animation), xml, W3C, SVN, Git, Hudson CI, Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, Design patterns, Best practices, TDD, Open meetings, nagios... Most groups are in London, so …

This is a group for startup businesses & entrepreneurs in the Guildford (and surrounding) areas. As the group builds members can offer support and help to newer members. Initially the group will be for entrepreneurs to help and support each other in their new ventures

Meetup for London software developers who are working on the iPhone platform or thinking about it. This group discusses technical and non technical aspects of iPhone development. Discussions will include development technologies and techniques, Marketing iPhone apps and other Entrepreneurial opportunities in iPhone domain.