Multipack

A Community of Web Developers & Designers in Birmingham

This month it’s four years since the first Multipack meeting! To celebrate we have an event on Rich Internet Apps, a curry and some birthday cake!

October Newsletter

Multipack Present : Rich Internet Apps

Join us for a presents event looking at the state of rich
internet application platforms. Nick Harewood talks Microsoft
Silverlight and Bruce Lawson gives us the lowdown on HTML 5.

As usual, we’ll meet in the Old Crown in Digbeth beforehand for
a pint and lunch (from about 2pm). Then move on to the offices
of One Black Bear in Fazeley Studios for the presentations.

More about Presents at Upcoming

NOTE: there’s no meeting on the 2nd Saturday (10th) this month!

Curry in Solihull

Leevi Graham was a Multipack regular, until he headed back to his native Australia and http://newism.com.au/

He’s in Europe for the Expression Engine Conference and decided to pop across the channel to catch up. Join us answering the eternal question of how far you’d go for a good curry. 27th October - 7pm onwards

More about the curry at Upcoming

Doing it Yourself

You’ve probably been watching the, er, interesting reaction to the new Birmingham City Council site across the blogsphere. Some enterprising folks got together to build an alternative in a wiki style:

BCC DIY

Dive into HTML 5

Google’s Mark Pilgrim delivers a great (if not yet complete) introduction to HTML 5 on this niftily designed site, following the grand tradition of diveintoaccessibility.org and
 diveintopython.org

8 Bit Adventures in Canvas

Remember those point n click adventures like King’s Quest and Leisure Suit Larry? Now you can play them online through the magic of HTML 5’s Canvas element.