Come to Skills Matter for some techie talks, beer, pizza and socialising

Demos and presentations from 6:30 at Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP. Beers will be at The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton St, London, EC1V 0DX, where we have an area reserved for us from 8 o'clock onwards.

For this evening we are delighted to bring you:

David Mytton - MongoDB is web scale
Max Niederhofer - Qwerly: A data API for the social web
Pete Smith - Songkick's Y Combinator summer
Aisha Yusaf - Startup superfoods
Ian Oszwald - SocialTies - Discover interesting people nearby
Andrew Byde - Acunu: Cassandra on Steroids
Tom Blomfield - Agile Web Development or: What we learned from launching a start-up from a bedroom

As with the last event we will do a quick one minute slot, open mic session to give the opportunity to make any announcements such avaialble jobs, help requests / offers etc.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Please register Skills Matter on their event page at http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/lightning-talks-2179/js-1658 (http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fskillsmatter.com%2Fpodcast%2Fhome%2Flightning-talks-2179%2Fjs-1658&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzeKDrc2DHahGehOMQyMej_y9_2BWQ) to ensure they know you are coming and let you in.

Sponsored by:

youDevise, a London financial software house that's hiring now! Commitment to developer learning and quality. Language agnostic. Innovating in automated testing. Fortnightly releases. Visit https://dev.youdevise.com/ and http://www.youdevise.com/careers/developer

Forward is a collection of innovative online brands based in Camden, London. Our success is driven by talented people who are given the freedom to experiment with technology in a low ceremony environment (with lots of perks). Our problem-solving attitude and focus on technology has kept us profitable and made us one of the top 10 fastest growing privately owned technology companies in the UK. We're looking for smart, polyglot hackers that understand the web and are focused on delivery. Read more (and apply) at http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/

Songkick.com is a Y Combinator startup (s2007) making it easy to track your favourite bands so you never miss them live. Some of you may recall some early Hacker News meetups we ran out of our flat in Spitalfields back in 2007-2008 (here are some blurry (http://www.songkick.com/blog/2008/04/24/hacker-meetup-2-photos/) pictures (http://www.songkick.com/blog/2008/09/08/photos-from-hacker-meetup-5/)). We're pleased as punch to be getting involved in Dmitri and Ben's new meetup : it's excellent to have London HN-ers meeting together regularly again..!

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