Multipack

A Community of Web Developers & Designers in Birmingham

It’s summertime, and the office is baking. I blame all those Macbook fans working overtime. This month we have an event called Coding Standards and a great new site to help you keep track of the web scene in Brum. It’s also over a year since we started sending out monthly newsletters. I’d really like to know what people think and what could be improved. Drop comments on the blog or in the forum.

Newsletter: June

June Event : Multipack Presents - Coding Standards

13th June 4pm at the offices of One Black Bear.

This month’s presents is on coding standards, with a hint of ASP.NET. Looking at how to get decent standards-based markup with Microsoft’s tools and the dark art of bringing standards to a .Net team.

We’ll also have a sneak peak at the PHP WAX framework.

As always, meet beforehand in the Old Crown in Digbeth for a swift half.

More details on upcoming.

Digital Brum

Following hot on the heels of discussion about Birmingham as a digital City, Josh Hart has put together Digitalbrum a wonderful aggregator of all things web going on in Birmingham.

From Social Media Cafe to the Multipack itself, it’s all here! It’s also HTML 5 and based on the same framework as the more general Livebrum listings site. Full of good stuff from your web geek calendar!

Flash in Brum

If you’re into Adobe plugin shenanigans, then this free event on the 16th of June will be right up your street. A variety of speakers on Flash and Flex. Flashcamp.

What not to do?

The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design is a fun site where you can submit links to articles on web design do’s and don’ts. Then everybody else can rank them.

TEDx Birmingham

We’ve all enjoyed videos from TED on a variety of fascinating topics on “Ideas worth spreading”. But TED has now franchised out small local events, and there’s one being organised in Birmingham. Still early days, but definitely one to watch.

The Best USB Drive?

And finally, too good not to share with any child of the 80s (although a bit pricy). A transformers USB Drive