Multipack

A Community of Web Developers & Designers in Birmingham

A quick newsletter this month, as we’re all off on holiday or preparing for events. Alternatively, like me, you’re working madly to get projects done before the end of the summer…

August Newsletter

Geek in the Park

Our annual out of Brum event, featuring a daytime picnic and an evening of talks. Bring food and drink and Frisbee for the day in Jephson Gardens. Family also welcome.

The Evening features talks by Simon Collison on “Nailing your own projects” and Remi Sharp on “HTML 5 & Friends”. Saturday 15th August, 12pm-11pm

This free event is kindly sponsored by Campaign Monitor, Friendbinder, The Design Frontier and Phurix.

More on the Geek in the Park website.

For a Beautiful Web - Birmingham Workshop

Andy Clarke comes to Brum to teach you all kinds of funky new tricks with the newest CSS. All day event on the 25th September. Owen has some promo codes for the event, e-mail him at fabweb.promo (at) fullcreammilk.co.uk and he’ll send you details.

PHP West Midlands

We’re not the only geeks meeting in pubs. If you’re interested in PHP, PHP West Midlands are having a meetup. Topics probably covered: php5.3, employing/getting employed as a php developer, testing: Shakespeare Pub, 7.30, 11th August 2009.

The Developer Evangelism Handbook

The fine art of getting developers and other alpha adopter folks interested in you product, nailed down on virtual paper by Chris Heilmann

Fonts on Tees

Show your typographic allegiance with these T-Shirts with a sample and attribution. Real type geeks will of course argue that DIN was not designed in 1995, but only redrawn…