Travamigos is an app that allows solo travellers to connect with groups of like minded adventurers heading for the same destination. The app is the brainchild of 23 year old CEO and co-founder James Wormington, who came up with the idea while backpacking through Brazil in 2015. Come and hear James tell his startup story and network with him the other attendees afterwards.
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Ever feel like you're running your startup from inside an echo chamber? Would you value the thoughts and insight of other local entrepreneurs who can scrutinise you and your business from outside your bubble? If so then our round table events are a great way to quickly give you objective clarity or a helpful nudge.
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Serial entrepreneurs Callum McKeefery and Nikki Albano set-up Reviews.co.uk in Leicester in 2011. They now have offices in Leicester, London & Los Angeles.
Callum will share the story of how Reviews.co.uk has achieved a multi-million pound turnover, working with some of the UK's biggest online companies.
There will be an opportunity to network freely with other attendees after the presentation.
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Sentle is a cloud CRM designed for SMEs to make managing client data and communicating with them a breeze. Sentle offers an intuitive, feature rich contact database coupled with multi-channel communication features including telephony, call recording, conversational SMS, email and mobile. Founders Steven Brand and Warren Doyle will discuss their road to starting up. This will include what worked, what didn’t and lessons learned along the way!
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My Teacher's Feedback lets school teachers replace handwritten marking with recorded audio feedback to cut workload, improve students' progress and develop better relationships between home and school. Founder Mark Sutton, a senior teacher at Soar Valley College in Leicester (and former product designer) will share how he has turned his frustration with handwritten marking into a feedback system that teachers and kids love.
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This is an open invitation to all the Cyber Security Enthusiasts and Pentesters in Leicester to join us for an online CTF Challenge at Leicester Hackspace
A CTF event is an online based challenge for people passionate about Cyber Security. This game is normally played in a team to solve the tasks in a given period of time.
So come along and demonstrate your skills and share knowledge in various aspects of Cyber Security areas such as: web exploitation, analysing pcap files, cracking cipher codes, and reverse engineering.
We will be entering the PoliCTF challenge, an online jeopardy style capture the flag competition, open to participants from all around the world. Please visit http://www.polictf.it/ for more information.
* Please bring your own laptop during the session. We will provide free Wifi access for this session.
The meetup will also be the inaugural session of Leicester Hackspace's new Cyber Security and Pentesters Interest Group.
In order to particpate signup below to receive an invitation to the Challenge Team's PoliCTF Slack Channel by 7th July 2017 the start date for the challange.
For further information ask in the comments below or contact
Ahmed will talk about using docker for Micro Services. Storage and scalability features.
This week will be themed: Dockers for Deploying Apps
About it: Leicester Coders Night (LCN) is an evening like no other, dedicated to coders. Open to programmers & friends, LCN is all about improving your old skills, making some new skills and introducing yourself to a whole other world, the world of computing.During coders evening, participants will get the opportunity to talk to other coders/developers/programmers and peer learners.
LCN is not a hackathon - whether you come to learn, code, or to network, everyone will walk away with new friends and a great experience. The event is a great team-building exercise, a great way to support your friends, and a great way for you to show off your coding skills.
**What is on offer**
An opportunity to learn …… more about programming….other programming languages and a great opportunity for all those geniuses out there.
Paul will walk through four more adventures in Python he experienced in the past few weeks. Really useful things can be impemented in 20ish lines of code or less using Python’s extensive library of modules. This meetings examples include capturing realtime data from a flight simulator, scraping API documentation from a website into a data structure, and creating some experiments in machine learning. You will see how Python is an excellent choice for rapidly and easily bending the will of the computer to do your bidding, rather than the other way around!
About it: Leicester Coders Night (LCN) is an evening like no other, dedicated to coders. Open to programmers & friends, LCN is all about improving your old skills,making some new skills and introducing yourself to a whole other world, the world of computing.During coders evening, participants will get the opportunity to talk to other coders/developers/programmers and peer learners.
LCN is not a hackathon - whether you come to learn, code, or to network, everyone will walk away with new friends and a great experience. The event is a great team-building exercise, a great way to support your friends, and a great way for you to show off your coding skills.
**What is on offer**
An opportunity to learn …… more about programming….other programming languages and a great opportunity for all those geniuses out there.
Three PARTS:
This event comprises of three parts:
Introductions
Introduce your-self, your job/role, your organisation or ideas you want to share. This is an opportunity for coders to get to know each other. You are welcome to use the provided AV facilities to run a small presentation if you want.
Learning Session A presentation session will be held to get you started in coding or improving with the help of a developer. If your ever stuck, ask questions and peers will happily help. So come along and experience a fun time full of coding.
Attendees can stay after the session to code for fun or help others.
For this meeting Paul Muston from Musoft will give a talk on how useful Python is for getting stuff done. For anything from a quick script, through to production automation, including big data analytics, to production websites include SaaS. It is also great for learning aspects of computing, either imperative or declarative, object oriented or functional programming.
The Python language has just 33 keywords, but is extremely expressive. There are currently more than 100,000 packages available on PyPI, which are just a “pip install” away. Utility packages range from fuzzy date parsing utilities to web frameworks used by the likes of Pinterest and Instagram. It also has packages that excel in the fields of data processing and machine learning.
"An introduction and brief over view of c++ features, the session will involve building a generic vector data structure from scratch to get a feel for the language, it would be good if u install a compiler before the session I recommend clang for Linux and Mac and msvc for windows"
The March 2nd meet up is going to be presented by Chris Riley (@giveupalready)
Abstract:
Alice and Bob have secrets they want to talk about without Eve being able to listen in. Worse yet, the mischievous Mallory delights in changing messages sent between parties. In such a hostile environment how can Alice talk to Bob without their messages being overheard and how can she be sure that it was Bob that sent the message in the first place?
This talk will take a brief look at historic codes and ciphers before taking a look at modern day Cryptography. If you want to be able to know the difference between a block cipher and a stream cipher or get a glimpse into the mathematics behind public key Cryptography this talk is for you.
Before/After the Meetup:
A few members will likely be in The Font beforehand for a drink and a bite to eat, and afterwards there'll be a group heading to Soar Point (or somewhere else nearby) for a social catch up.
Parking:
Deacon Street car park is where people usually park, the postcode is LE2 7DP. (There's also spots on the street directly outside the gateway building but they're usually all taken up!) Deacon Street is available from 6pm onwards as we have permission from the University to use the car park.
Google Maps Link - Note the car-park is on Havelock Street (Despite being called the "Deacon Street car park" - we know...)
If you have any trouble parking / finding us, drop us a tweet @PHPem and we'll get you sorted.
The February 2nd meet up is going to be presented by Amy Dickens (@RedRoxProjects)
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Amy Dickens from the Mixed Reality Lab at The University of Nottingham will be giving a talk on three important questions you should ask when designing interfaces for users. Amy's research is in gesture controlled sound for users with complex disabilities and in her talk she will guide you through some of the expected and not so expected criteria she encounters in her work. Amy will also talk about developing communities as a GitHub Campus Expert and her work towards encouraging more women into technology roles.
Before/After the Meetup:
A few members will likely be in The Font beforehand for a drink and a bite to eat, and afterwards there'll be a group heading to Soar Point (or somewhere else nearby) for a social catch up.
Parking:
Deacon Street car park is where people usually park, the postcode is LE2 7DP. (There's also spots on the street directly outside the gateway building but they're usually all taken up!) Deacon Street is available from 6pm onwards as we have permission from the University to use the car park.
Google Maps Link - Note the car-park is on Havelock Street (Despite being called the "Deacon Street car park" - we know...)
If you have any trouble parking / finding us, drop us a tweet @PHPem and we'll get you sorted.
About it: Leicester Coders Night (LCN) is an evening like no other, dedicated to coders. Open to programmers & friends, LCN is all about improving your old skills,making some new skills and introducing yourself to a whole other world, the world of computing.During coders evening, participants will get the opportunity to talk to other coders/developers/programmers and peer learners.
LCN is not a hackathon - whether you come to learn, code, or to network, everyone will walk away with new friends and a great experience. The event is a great team-building exercise, a great way to support your friends, and a great way for you to show off your coding skills.
**What is on offer**
An opportunity to learn …… more about programming….other programming languages and a great opportunity for all those geniuses out there.
Three PARTS:
This event comprises of three parts:
Introductions
Introduce your-self, your job/role, your organisation or ideas you want to share. This is an opportunity for coders to get to know each other. You are welcome to use the provided AV facilities to run a small presentation if you want.
Learning Session A presentation session will be held to get you started in coding or improving with the help of a developer. If your ever stuck, ask questions and peers will happily help. So come along and experience a fun time full of coding.
Attendees can stay after the session to code for fun or help others.
For this meeting Paul Muston from Musoft will give a talk on how useful Python is for getting stuff done. For anything from a quick script, through to production automation, including big data analytics, to production websites include SaaS. It is also great for learning aspects of computing, either imperative or declarative, object oriented or functional programming.
The Python language has just 33 keywords, but is extremely expressive. There are currently 95000+ packages available on PyPI, which are just a “pip install” away. Utility packages range from fuzzy date parsing utilities to web frameworks used by the likes of Pinterest and Instagram. It also has package that excel in the fields of data processing and machine learning.
Paul will give 4 concrete examples to show how by using Python’s extensive library of modules you can do really useful things in 20ish lines of code or less, thus making Python an excellent choice for rapidly and easily bending the will of the computer to do your bidding, rather than the other way around!
Rob Allen: Deployment within a Traditional IT Environment
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The January 5th meet up is going to be presented by Rob Allen (@akrabat)
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Recently, I have delivered web applications that are deployed to Windows IIS and IBM i environments and will share the challenges and solutions we came up with in order to use modern development practices in environments that are less commonly used for web apps. Automating your deployment brings many benefits, the largest one being repeatability. In this talk, I'll share some of the issues and solutions required to ensure that your app can be automatically deployed. I'll talk about the options for automated deployment solutions and also look at some of the challenges in terms of both organisational and technical aspects when the IT department is not used to developers having a say.
Before/After the meetup:
A few members will likely be in The Font beforehand for a drink and a bite to eat, and afterwards there'll be a group heading to Soar Point (or somewhere else nearby) for a social catch up.
Parking:
Deacon Street car park is where people usually park, the postcode is LE2 7DP. (There's also spots on the street directly outside the gateway building but they're usually all taken up!) Deacon Street is available from 6pm onwards as we have permission from the University to use the car park.
Google Maps Link - Note the car-park is on Havelock Street (Despite being called the "Deacon Street car park" - we know...)
If you have any trouble parking / finding us, drop us a tweet @PHPem and we'll get you sorted.
Antonios Pavlakis: Climbing out of the legacy quicksand
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The December 1st meet up is going to be presented by Antonios Pavlakis (@Pavlakis)
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Are you working with a legacy application? Whether you inherited it or if the project just grew out of proportion over the years it can be daunting. The thought of making changes or bug fixing can be enough to give you nightmares. No fear you can take a sigh of relief. All is not lost.
A few years ago I found myself working on a legacy project. It wasn't pretty. It was very challenging but I made it through.
And when the next project and the next one and the next and the one after that were also legacy systems, I soon found it much easier to work on them by being more methodical.
In this talk, I will share those experiences and I'll be going over the approach I now (mostly) take when working on legacy systems. We'll look at many of the tools I've used, as well as some quick wins and practical examples. By the end of the talk I hope you will be better prepared to face legacy code.
Before/After the meetup:
A few members will likely be in The Font beforehand for a drink and a bite to eat, and afterwards there'll be a group heading to Soar Point (or somewhere else nearby) for a social catch up.
Parking:
Deacon Street car park is where people usually park, the postcode is LE2 7DP. (There's also spots on the street directly outside the gateway building but they're usually all taken up!) Deacon Street is available from 6pm onwards as we have permission from the University to use the car park.
Google Maps Link - Note the car-park is on Havelock Street (Despite being called the "Deacon Street car park" - we know...)
If you have any trouble parking / finding us, drop us a tweet @PHPem and we'll get you sorted.
See the website for full details and tickets (http://phpem.uk/events/unconference-2016)
NOTE: Sign up is not through meetup.com - tickets will be required through the phpem.uk site (handled by Eventbrite) - SIGN UP USING THE LINK ABOVE.
You may have seen on twitter, and at our meetups, and a few other local events you've been at... It's that time of the year again when a monthly meetup is just not enough geekery, the time of year where we need to have a day of talks on a wide range of topics given by the best speakers... you!
So join us for a day filled with great talks, food, great company and good conversations.
What is an Un-conference ?
Think of an unconference like any other conference except the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the day.
Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a time and a space from the grid of available talk slots. Unconferences can have talks, panels or discussions the format is up to the person claiming the slot. If you want to raise a talk topic before hand feel free drop into slack, or send an email to [masked] and suggest something.
The talks themselves are in groups of a maximum of about 30 people, a small unintimiadating audience, everyone is welcome to speak. If you want to just listen, that's fine too, come along and mingle with people just like you!
Lunch is included within the ticket price.
For more information, don't hesitate to contact us on Twitter (@PHPem).
Schedule
• 9AM Doors open for Registration
• 10AM Conference starts with an Introduction to PHP East Midlands and an opening talk
• 1PM Lunch
• 2PM Conference Resumes
• 4PM Closing talk and thanks
• 4:30PM Event close and head off to optional social event in town
About it: Leicester Coders Night (LCN) is an evening like no other, dedicated to coders. Open to programmers & friends, LCN is all about improving your old skills,making some new skills and introducing yourself to a whole other world, the world of computing.During coders evening, participants will get the opportunity to talk to other coders/developers/programmers and peer learners.
LCN is not a hackathon - whether you come to learn, code, or to network, everyone will walk away with new friends and a great experience. The event is a great team-building exercise, a great way to support your friends, and a great way for you to show off your coding skills.
**What is on offer**
An opportunity to learn …… more about programming….other programming languages and a great opportunity for all those geniuses out there.
Three PARTS:
This event comprises of three parts:
Introductions
Introduce your-self, your job/role, your organisation or ideas you want to share. This is an opportunity for coders to get to know each other. You are welcome to use the provided AV facilities to run a small presentation if you want.
Learning Session A presentation session will be held to get you started in coding or improving with the help of a developer. If your ever stuck,ask questions and peers will happily help. So come along and experience a fun time full of coding.
Attendees can stay after the session to code for fun or help others.
About it: Leicester Coders Night (LCN) is an evening like no other, dedicated to coders. Open to programmers & friends, LCN is all about improving your old skills,making some new skills and introducing yourself to a whole other world, the world of computing.During coders evening, participants will get the opportunity to talk to other coders/developers/programmers and peer learners.
LCN is not a hackathon - whether you come to learn, code, or to network, everyone will walk away with new friends and a great experience. The event is a great team-building exercise, a great way to support your friends, and a great way for you to show off your coding skills.
**What is on offer**
An opportunity to learn …… more about programming….other programming languages and a great opportunity for all those geniuses out there.
Three PARTS:
This event comprises of three parts:
Introductions
Introduce your-self, your job/role, your organisation or ideas you want to share. This is an opportunity for coders to get to know each other. You are welcome to use the provided AV facilities to run a small presentation if you want.
Learning Session A presentation session will be held to get you started in coding or improving with the help of a developer. If your ever stuck,ask questions and peers will happily help. So come along and experience a fun time full of coding.
Attendees can stay after the session to code for fun or help others.
This week will be themed: Dockers for Deploying Apps
About it: Leicester Coders Night (LCN) is an evening like no other, dedicated to coders. Open to programmers & friends, LCN is all about improving your old skills,making some new skills and introducing yourself to a whole other world, the world of computing.During coders evening, participants will get the opportunity to talk to other coders/developers/programmers and peer learners.
LCN is not a hackathon - whether you come to learn, code, or to network, everyone will walk away with new friends and a great experience. The event is a great team-building exercise, a great way to support your friends, and a great way for you to show off your coding skills.
**What is on offer**
An opportunity to learn …… more about programming….other programming languages and a great opportunity for all those geniuses out there.
Three PARTS:
This event comprises of three parts:
Introductions
Introduce your-self, your job/role, your organisation or ideas you want to share. This is an opportunity for coders to get to know each other. You are welcome to use the provided AV facilities to run a small presentation if you want.
Learning Session A presentation session will be held to get you started in coding or improving with the help of a developer. If your ever stuck,ask questions and peers will happily help. So come along and experience a fun time full of coding.
Attendees can stay after the session to code for fun or help others.
For our June 4th meetup, we welcome Mike Preston (@darkflib) for a talk on:
Using websockets with PHP
"Every time you hear people say they are using Websockets you hear the same languages repeated over and over: Node.js, python, go etc. Seldom do you hear PHP.
In this talk I will show you two PHP websocket solutions and how to build an simple app."
You may have heard of Gulp - it’s a task runner and build tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks for your app. Compiling SASS/LESS etc, minifying and concatenating files to reduce the number and size of requests on a page.
This workshop will be more front-end focused than PHP focused (but there are some PHP things you can do with Gulp!). How we can get gulp working with SASS / JS, eventually moving onto using Bower to pull in some components we may need for a project and covering some modular SASS / CSS & frontend concepts
Plan for the day:
• 9:30 Arrive / doors open
• 10:00 Intro talk on Gulp
• 10:30 Make sure everyone setup & working correctly
• 11:00 Start coding
• 12:30 Lunch (provided for you at the event)
• 13:30 Back to code
• 15:30 Wrap up / questions
• 16:00 Finish (pub, drinks? Bite to eat?)
There will be starter code posted on Github (with a working Vagrant box) for this event posted sometime before the event.
You may have heard of Gulp - it’s a task runner and build tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks for your app. Compiling SASS/LESS etc, minifying and concatenating files to reduce the number and size of requests on a page.
This workshop will be more front-end focused than PHP focused (but there are some PHP things you can do with Gulp!). How we can get gulp working with SASS / JS, eventually moving onto using Bower to pull in some components we may need for a project.
Plan for the day:
• 9:30 Arrive / doors open
• 10:00 Intro talk on Gulp
• 10:30 Make sure everyone setup & working correctly
• 11:00 Start coding
• 12:30 Lunch (provided for you at the event)
• 13:30 Back to code
• 15:30 Wrap up / questions
• 16:00 Finish (pub, drinks? Bite to eat?)
There will be starter code posted on Github (with a working Vagrant box) for this event posted sometime before the event.
Matt Brunt (@TheMattBrunt) will be doing a talk on "Intro to Gulp"
Abstract: You may have heard of Gulp - it’s a task runner and build tool that allows you to automate repetitive tasks for your app. Compiling SASS/LESS etc, minifying and concatenating files to reduce the number and size of requests on a page. But it also has uses for the PHP world too.
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