DevTank July

Get out of the rain, and come to the next DevTank! Big thanks to Forward (http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/) and Wahanda (http://www.wahanda.com/) for sponsoring the beers and pizza.

Here's what we have lined up for you...

Hercules Fisherman - "Confessions of an accidental geek" A journey from art to tech and beyond

In this talk I am going to cover some of my experiences as a Serial entrepreneur and dealing with art, tech and business on my own terms.

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Hercules is an award winning Artist and technical guru, Serial entrepreneur, Investor, mentor and Startup evangelist. Experienced adviser, board member and a regular geek.

He is involved in a number of startup companies at different stages as cofounder, investor or advisor.

Artist in residence at Paradise wildlife park with a string of exhibitions planned for this year.

His linked in profile is http://uk.linkedin.com/in/hfisherman

Phil Trelford - Imperative vs Functional. Fight

Imperative functions have a tendency towards verbosity and may respond differently to the same arguments.
Functional programs tend to be terse and opinionated.
Is one better than the other, or can they co-exist?

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Phil Trelford is a Software Architect at an ISV supplying real-time electronic trading software. His career so far spans over 20 years, with experience in video games, leisure, retail and financial sectors.

Phil’s recent commercial development work has been with F#, C#, C++, C#, JavaScript and SQL.