Hack the Tower - April 2013

Another chance to hack with the London Scala user group (http://blog.jr0cket.co.uk/2012/10/london-scala-hackathon-powered-by-heroku.html) and the wider software development community.

Read about the HackTheTower event in February (http://blog.jr0cket.co.uk/2013/02/hack-tower-february-2013.html) to get a feel for the event.

Come along and create new apps or work on existing projects with other developers. Discover functional programming and other new stuff such as Play 2 framework, MongoDB, Travis-CI, Neo4j Heroku & Forcedotcom and get creative.

LSug members have been building a new website (http://lsug.org/) to manage their community, so you can either join in with that project or build your own web application or service.

We are inviting members from outside the London Scala community as many technical challenges and techniques are common regardless of language (github pull requests, using MongoDB, managing deployment, etc).

Rough Schedule
10.00am - Find the Salesforce office in Tower42, refreshments after your adventure
10.15am - Discuss your application ideas & how to build them.
10.45am - Split into groups and get going
12.30pm - Lunch time (sandwiches and drinks provided)
01.00pm - Keep on hacking until you have had enough

In total, there is space for around 50 developers on the day. Food & drink will be provided, thanks to Salesforce.com (http://developer.force.com/)

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/0/a/c/event_198041132.jpeg (http://developer.force.com/)

Important: Access details

Please ensure your full name is used when registering as this is needed by building security to let you in.

Finding the office in Tower42

As you enter Tower42, go to the front desk and give your name to receive a visitor pass for the building.

Go up the escalators to security, your bag will be quickly scanned and you pass through a metal detector.

Once through security, take the escalators immediately to your left - following the blue path. Walk all the way round to lifts and take the lift to the 24th floor.

At the 24th floor, get out of the lift and cross the hallway. Take the blue lifts to the 27th floor. Exiting the lift to your left you will find the Salesforce office