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Tips and Tricks

Joomla Day UK – 2017 – Home

JoomlaDay UK 2017 will be at the Ilec Conference Centre in Fulham, London on Saturday the 8th of July.

The full programme is available here. Tickets cost from £50.

Some highlights from the programme:

  • High Traffic websites with Joomla!
  • Communicating with the Internet of Things (IoT)
  • How to sell Joomla! to your clients
  • Advanced SEO in Joomla!

JoomlaDays are a great way to meet community members and learn new skills, there is a huge a range of sessions and workshops to suit all skill levels.
You can find out more at www.joomla-day.uk

Source: Joomla Day UK – 2017 – Home

Technical

Tech Events 2012

a nerdy guy
Release your inner geek at a tech conference this year

Here are some of the tech events taking place in 2012

  • NEXT Elevator, Germany (May 8-9). The NEXT Elevator is renowned for creating platforms for new ideas and giving startup founders an opportunity to pitch before investors and opinion leaders. elevator.nextconf.eu
  • Thinking Digital, UK (May 29-31). 3 day event built for people who believe in the power of innovation and creativity to create positive change in their work, organisations and communities. thinkingdigital.co.uk
  • Digital Shoreditch, UK (May 21-June 2). A festival celebrating the outstanding creative,  technical and entrepreneurial talent of East London and Tech City. digitalshoreditch.com
  • Over the Air, UK (June 1-2).  Over the Air is a unique tech-agnostic event for and by the developer community, featuring technical workshops where attendees can roll up their sleeves and tinker with new platforms, operating systems, APIs & SDKs; and tutorial sessions that feature real business cases & new insights. overtheair.org
  • Picnic, Amsterdam (September 17-18). A leading creativity and innovation platform. It functions as an incubator and accelerator for game-changing ideas, concepts, products and services. picnicnetwork.org
  • MADE: The Entrepreneur Festival, UK (September 19-21). Whether you’re a startup, a high growth business or a well established business looking for inspiration and idea, MADE is for you. madefestival.com
  • Wired 2012, UK (October 25-26). WIRED’s first conference in October last year was a compelling event that was sold out and attended by more than 440 delegates. This years event will be jam-packed with stimulating content, networking and inspiring talks from people reshaping our world. wiredevent.co.uk

WIRED Magazine (UK) is currently offering discounts and the chance to win tickes to some of these events – email tilly.bull@condenast.co.uk if you are interested.

Opinion

Events

We’ve searched out the UK events for some of the hosting technologies we offer. Hope to see you there!

CiviCon London 2011

CiviCRM logoCiviCon London is only a few weeks away and covers all things CiviCRM, the free CRM system designed with non-profits in mind. If you’re still on the fence about attending, check out the interesting slate of sessions, including “Raising millions for charity with CiviContribute”, “CiviCampaign and CiviEngage in the wild”, “CiviCRM and human rights work”, and more:

Register at:  http://london2011.civicrm.org/

More about CiviCRM: http://www.2020media.com/civicrm

 

DrupalCon

drupal logoDrupalCon London takes place August 22 -26, 2011.

DRUPALCON LONDON HAS SOLD OUT – But you can sign up for the waiting list.

Keynote speaker Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. 2020Media is a strong supporter of Drupal, and recently became a Silver supporter of the Drupal organisation – helping to promote and support development of future versions.

Registration: http://london2011.drupal.org/

More about Drupal: www.2020media.com/drupal

 

How to Open your Conference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc

 

WordPress Meetup

wordpress logoWordCamp was held in Portsmouth UK on 16-17 July 2011 at the University of Portsmouth.

http://2011.portsmouth.wordcampuk.org/

Presentations: http://wiki.wordcampuk.org/2011_event_reports

Most useful: http://www.slideshare.net/nickgarner/worodcamp-uk-porstmouth-advanced-seo-for-wordpress – a really cool report on advanced SEO.

More about WordPress: www.2020media.com/wordpress

 

 

Joomla!Day UK 2011

joomladayThe 3rd JoomlaDay in the UK takes place on Saturday 24th September 2011 and Sunday 25th September and will be hosted at the Microsoft Conference Centre, Cardinal Place, Victoria, London.

The first day is the formal conference and is split into 4 streams: Newcomers, Administrator, Designer, Developer

Register at: http://www.joomladayuk2011.org

More about Joomla: www.2020media.com/joomla

 

Java/Tomcat?

Tomcat logoWe can’t find one in the UK this year. There are plenty of local groups having regular meetups though. See http://java.meetup.com/ to find a local group. If there’s nothing close to where you live, why not start one!

Spring: http://skillsmatter.com/user-group/home/london-spring-user-group

More about Java Tomcat: www.2020media.com/java

 

 

ColdFusion

a box of coldfusionThe annual ColdFusion event is called Scotch on the Rocks. This took place 3-4 March 2011 in Edinburgh, and was a sell out event. Booking early for next year will be essential. To find out what happened, see

http://www.scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk/blog/

Keep an eye on: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/events/

Usergroup: http://www.ukcfug.org/

More groups here: http://groups.adobe.com/

More about ColdFusion: www.2020media.com/coldfusion

 

In Summary

Not everyone has the time, money or inclination to go to a conference – but they are definitely worthwhile. If you’ve never been to a technical conference you may be surprised – they tend to be more casual, relaxed places than you might expect.