As part of welcoming the new team members we all trekked down to Namco Station on the south bank for beers and games. My personal favourite is always the dodgems. Much recommended.
Lots of thanks go to Steve for taking some decent photos. I just had the phone on my HTC which while convenient takes pretty rubbish photos in this sort of dim light. This also explains why Steve isn’t in any of the shots.
Marisa showed her american colours here with a game that was all about shooting cute animals in the head. Slightly worrying.
Bogdan enjoying staring into space. And the beer. Probably.
The men discussing important things. Or possibly just talking rubbish.
Leonard and Marisa dancing the night away
Marisa and Begona competing on the dance game
Last month we sponsored the June DevTank meetup at the wonderful office of moo.com. As is normal on such occasions I massively overestimated how much people would drink. The result being that we have approximately 120 bottles of lager left over.
So this month we’re sponsoring again with the aforementioned leftovers. And some proper beer. And some pizza. And some fruit type alcoholic drink thingies. And some more pizza. Did I mention the pizza?
The lovely Huddlers have arranged some great speakers again. The PR one is definitely of interest as Huddle seemed to have nailed that one pretty well. Looking forward to it.
The agenda will be as follows:
6.30 – 7.00 Arrive and grab a beer
7.00 – 7.45 Ovid, “Why Ruby, BETA, Java, C#, Eiffel, Dylan, CLOS, and Python FAIL at inheritance”
7.45 – 8.30 Beer, pizza and chat
8.30 – 9.15 Lucy Wimmer, “Making your startup newsworthy”
9.30 onwards adjourn to the pub
You can see full details and sign up on the meetup page. There are still a few spots left.
We’re pleased to announce that we will be co-sponsoring this months DevTank meeting with the lovely people at Huddle and Moo.
Wahanda will be providing Beer and Pizza.
The agenda will be as follows:
6.30 – 7.00 Arrive and grab a beer
7.00 – 7.45 Alastair Mitchell, CEO Huddle.net, “Raising money – what the VCs don’t tell you”
7.45 – 8.30 Beer, pizza and catch
8.30 – 9.15 Bill Ray, “Google App Engine with Python and Java”
9.30 onwards adjourn to the pub
You can see full details and sign up on the meetup page.
It seems we’ve been posting a lot of social type activities to the techblog recently. We must be having too much fun in the sun. We promise to get some new functionality built as well.
The latest excursion was the attendance at this years London JPMorgan Corporate Challenge. This is a fairly crowded 5.6km trot around Battersea Park for charity.
The tech team before the race.
Lopo - Ready to race
We all put in good overall times, with everyone achieving a time below 30 minutes. Not bad given how crowded the course was. There were quite a few places where the route was so jammed we were simply standing around waiting to get going again.
Oli and Chris Post Race
Julian Post Race
If any of the organisers are reading this lots of thanks again for putting in so much hard work to make the event a success. It would be nice to limit the numbers a little bit or re-route around the most obvious choke points.
Bogdan Post Race
Lopo Post Race
After the race we all retired to the Admiral Codrington for some well deserved drinks with only a splash of greasy bar food to ruin all the good work put in up to that point.
We’ll be back next year for sure.
Hopefully we’ll get the some more of the Wahanda team to join us!