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A three-day course on the live music industry sector taking place over three consecutive Tuesdays...29th Jan, 5th & 12th Feb 2013 (10am-5pm).

Join us at Skills Matter to discuss some of the basic concepts of 0MQ , use cases, and get hands on with some C# code.

The creator of Lua, Roberto Ierusalimschy, is going to be visiting London this month, so the London Lua meetup group are having a special meetup in his honour! They are going to have two short talks, plus a Q&A about Lua with Roberto. They will be giving away a (signed!) copy of the newly released edition of Programming in Lua, hot off the press.

IC tomorrow, in association with Robot Corp, is excited to bring you a speed-networking event that will offer digital startups the opportunity to meet the UK’s leaders in the TV industry. The event will take place on Weds 20 Feb at 5pm at The Hospital Club, and will focus on connecting leading TV companies with talented digital innovators.

Join us for a live coding session working on a project to create a RoboWars like bot arena

Seedcamp's Seedhack hackathon returns to disrupt fashion and online retail on the 8th, 9th, 10th of February at Google Campus. It will be a whirlwind weekend of brainstorming, hacking and product creation. We’ll be bringing together hackers, companies and API experts with the aim of solving real world problems to create real companies.

Yet again The Groovy & Grails User Group, we will be doing some Groovy coding practice and looking at ways to solve different programming problems. This is a great way to learn new techniques, library methods, and tools.

A series of evening events led by respected and influential speakers including Dave Trott, Jonathan Saipe, Allister Frost and Dr Mariann Hardy.

Open Data: devaluing or driving music business models? An increasing number of businesses are built on other businesses’ open data. Re-using data-sets to create new business opportunities is sensible business strategy, but what about making money ‘for free’ from other businesses available data?

TechPitch 4.5 brings together tech startups, investors and entrepreneurs for an evening of business idea pitching by startups and productive feedback from experts. Eight tech startups will present their business ideas and revenue models during a three-minute pitch followed by a five minute Q&A by a panel of judges.

The Tech Business Mini MBA #8: Effective Software Development Management presented by Peter Brownell, co-founder of start-up schoolofeverything.com, the UK branch of the Drupal Open Source Developer community (drupal.org), and Director of one of the UK's most established Drupal consultancies (codepositive.com).

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