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Saturday House

Saturday, October 27th
1952 1st Ave. S, Suite 5 (SoDo)

Saturday House is hard to describe in a single sentence. It’s based loosely on the concepts behind the Sudbury Schools, but in an adult setting. People come together for a whole Saturday every week, working on projects together or by themselves, having conversations, or just working. Saturday House is not a geek event, per se, though it was founded by geeks, and get rather geek-centric (lots of laptops, Python, board games, etc). The group has been gathering in some form for almost 6 months now, rotating among people’s homes (including my own). But now they’ve found a quasi-permanent space down in SoDo, and are thinking about using it to explore some concepts around co-working. Come down, poke around, check it out. Or sign up on the mailing list to learn more.

Refresh Seattle

Wednesday, October 24th & Tuesday, October 30th @ 6pm
Ballard Library
5614 22nd Ave. NW (Ballard)

Almost everyone in IT has stories of costly and complex system migrations. This Wednesday, Walker Hamilton will be talking to the folks at Refresh Seattle about migrating the vast Content Management System at Digial Web Magazine. He’ll be covering a lot of the technical issues like databases, php, and Cake as well as the general issues and gotchas that cropped up in the process.

The following Tuesday (October 30th), Jeff Croft will be talking about the different “layers” of web development: structure (html), presentation (css), and behavior (javascript). Both events will be followed by drinks and merriment at The Bal Mar, across the street from the library.