Amsterdam Hack Night

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We're starting a monthly hack night! Every last Thursday evening of the month our office will be open for people who want to learn programming, bootstrap a project, hack on open-source or work on a hardware project.

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ArrrrCamp, October 7

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On October 7, Roy will be giving a presentation on front-end meta languages and the Rails 3.1 asset pipeline at ArrrrCamp in Ghent.

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80beans startup program

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We're starting a little investment program for startups. This year we'll be selecting one or two startups which will get the opportunity to use our agile design and development services at a heavily discounted rate. We will also act as sparring partners on the business end. In return you'll hand over options or shares in your startup. The terms are negotiable based on the scope of the to be developed product and the business.

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Fronteers at 80beans, March 3

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On March 3, Fronteers, the Dutch association of professional front-end developers, will visit 80beans for an evening of talks and drinks. Entrance is free, but you do need to register.

Vasilis van Gemert (Mirabeau) will speak about adaptive development and our own Roy Tomeij about front-end meta languages (talks will be in Dutch).

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Amsterdam.rb New Years event

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We're hosting the Amsterdam.rb New Years event this year. Well, actually this is the first time it will take place but we're hoping to start a tradition.

We will kick off the evening with a few short presentations. We will do two ourselves; Jeff will give a presentation on a subject he has yet to determine :-). Roy will give one on making front-end less painful for back-end developers (update: this presentation has been replaced). If you want to give a presentation, please send me an e-mail at thijs at 80beans.com.

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