[BNM] Farm: Freelancers networking - Wednesday evening

[Paul Silver]

The weekly new media freelancers & small business 'Farm' meet up is
happening at the Belle Vue on Wednesday from 8pm onwards. Anyone who's a
freelancer or in a small / micro business is welcome to turn up for a
chat or to tout themselves about.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/ygva4q (directions below)
More about us: http://www.brightonfarm.com
Upcoming Group: http://upcoming.org/group/2695/

Group spotting help: I'll have Jeremy Keith's book "Bulletproof Ajax" on
the table (cover:
http://www.bulletproofajax.com/images/cover_small.gif )

These are some of the things talked about at last week's meeting:
Learning OO PHP, Amazon and eBay APIs are bloody awkward, Secure
certificates, directories and setups; SSL = TLS, Doing 14 hour days,
Python groups, Dave's hair (reprise), Social networks ranked by
likelihood of getting you a shag, "You wouldn't want to go to lunch with
them, they're Twitter people", QMail, Future of Web Design (negative
reviews), Russian developers, Fibre vs copper, Being busy / working out
workloads vs advertising, Building up to avoid the cyclical nature of
freelancing, Victoria Station is the coolest of London Stations (getting
home), Writing, Flow of money... Government, VC and hedge funds; Trashy
films, Becoming a big fish in a small pond, Web analytics, Google
Checkout, Moving from NTL to Sky


Directions from Brighton Station: come out of the station and turn
right, go across the traffic lights and turn right. Walk up the hill
(Terminus Road) and just around the corner is the Belle Vue, on the
station side of the road. (There's no pavement on the Belle Vue side for
most of the way up the hill.)

Cheers

Paul
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