Yep, it's time to put your thinking caps on and come up with a name for the new and shiny Aberdeen web meetup. Post your suggestions for it or email them over to me and i'll get the next stage of this underway in the next couple of days. Be creative.
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3 comments - Posted by mark at 10:11 PM - Categories: Meetup
6pm, Friday 15th August 2008 saw the first "web types" meetup in Aberdeen and we all had a good time. The chat ranged from who everyone was, who they worked for and what they were working on at the moment to normal sort of pub chat that we all know, love and laugh at. This meetup had an attendance of 9 people from mostly different companies which was pretty good and although I had to do a shoot at 8pm, I believe the night went on for several hours afterwards.
I am really pleased that it was well received and that people actually came out for it. I know there are a good few others who couldn't make it for this one but we'll see at the next one...overall a worthwhile meetup.
As always, I am interested in any suggestions people have for these meetups so feel free to reply here or email me direct if you're shy ;)
I forgot to take any pics of the meetup so unfortunately I dont have any to post here but if anyone else took pics, feel free to forward them.
I think we all agreed that the meetup needed a name and blog of it's own so feel free to start discussing that too...would it help if I set up a google group for this? (James B mentioned this previously)
Let me know...and cheers to all who got involved to make this happen.
As a side note, quote of the evening(at least up until the point I left) goes to East Coast Interactives very own Mike Duguid in arguing the case for coldfusion over php (yes...i was as surprised as anyone...Mike's a php developer!) and it went like so:
"Mark lives in Bridge of Don and so how does he go about getting into work in the middle of Aberdeen?....does he buy a car (the commercial solution, in this case coldfusion) or does he buy a box of nuts and bolts and build a car (the open source solution)?"...point made!
what others are saying:
http://www.seandelaney.co.uk/my-blog/31_aberdeen-web-types-meetup/
4 comments - Posted by mark at 10:10 AM - Categories: Meetup
Friday 15th August 2008 at the globe on North Silver Street (next door to Under The Hammer) from 6pm is the finalised date, time and location for this one. Hope to see you there. get in touch with me through my contact form if you need any more info on this.
cheers
mark
0 comments - Posted by mark at 9:11 PM - Categories: Meetup
This week at East Coast Interactive, we have launched our side project in the shape of flashonlinedesigners.com. This website showcases our most popular online design applications built using flash and available as licensed products for a vast array of industries with almost any kind of design requirement.
As more online designers are requested, built, tested and added to the site, they will be announced on the flash online designers blog.
0 comments - Posted by mark at 2:43 PM - Categories: Launches | East Coast Interactive
Today for the first time in 10 years, I got my ink on! I sorted my design and got my apointment booked with my good friends at draconian tattoo. Here is the result, permanently residing on my left inside wrist...i LOVE it!
5 comments - Posted by mark at 8:25 PM - Categories: General
