Any Serious It Developers On The Island?

[mattcodes]

Considering starting a monthly developer beer evening in Samui possibly Chaweng or Bangrak, if interest is sufficient, similar informal open spaces style to Alt.Net and JUG beer meets.

Discussions revolving around development related subject such design patterns, oo principles, persistence, tooling, language features, etc.. geared towards development rather than web design, although this doesn't exclude web designers as in past subjects have included functional programming with javascript, OO with PHP, jquery, HTML5 features, MVC patterns in Ruby and ASP.Net etc...

Edited July 29, 2009 by mattcodes

[stevehaigh]

Considering starting a monthly developer beer evening in Samui possibly Chaweng or Bangrak, if interest is sufficient, similar informal open spaces style to Alt.Net and JUG beer meets.

Discussions revolving around development related subject such design patterns, oo principles, persistence, tooling, language features, etc.. geared towards development rather than web design, although this doesn't exclude web designers as in past subjects have included functional programming with javascript, OO with PHP, jquery, HTML5 features, MVC patterns in Ruby and ASP.Net etc...

holy crap, that's pretty heavy stuff for Samui, usually the deepest thought is 'is that bar girl really a girl?'

do you really think there are that many programmers on Samui and if so, would like to hang with other geeks (no offence, i'm one too) in a bar?

[mattcodes]

It's more an opportunity to learn and discuss, with suitable agenda previous meetings for example in the UK have been pretty interesting and some have had a direct effect on development, i.e. nearly everyone gains technically from them. Still informal in nature, but perhaps if subject is chosen someone each month can lead the discussion, perhaps demo, or present. I mention beer because a pub you neednt hire/rent but open to suggestions if you feel a more healthier venue is appropriate.

See what interest there is as it needs a good size group to work, but just looking in big C free-wifi area it seems samui is an oasis for web designers (and thus maybe some developer in there)..

Edited July 29, 2009 by mattcodes

[PoorSucker]

"Serious It Developers"

Maybe I getting old but for me it's Cobol, Fortran, Simula, C, C++ in that order.

[stevehaigh]

"Serious It Developers"

Maybe I getting old but for me it's Cobol, Fortran, Simula, C, C++ in that order.

no maybe about it

[1927]

Wow .....  heavy sh*t  

[PoorSucker]

Wow .....  heavy sh*t  

Have you tried plum juice?