After spending the evening in the Old Bar which was mostly empty we thought we’d try and have the next meeting there as well. Far more space and quiet enough to hear everybody. This could have been because people had gone elsewhere to watch the football or were sitting on the benches outside to enjoy the clement weather. The downside was that the food wasn’t as good.

So, for next month, we’ll try and have the meeting at the George Inn and see how it copes with a larger group of people, and for those who turn up early they can go to the Bunch of Grapes for food. There is no point in trying to arrange dinner afterwards because people have got trains to catch.

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The other idea I had was to gather on the embankment outside the London Assembly building. But the weather reports say it might be windy.

This is just a temporary location for a week.

Tomorrow is the third Tuesday of the month, and that means another London Mac developer get together.

See you there.

The meeting is at the usual place at the usual time. There is a table booked upstairs from 7pm. Send me an email or a DM on twitter if you need my phone number or any other details.

As it’s such a nice day, I might turn up early. See you later.

WiFi can be spotty in the pub, so if you want to be sure to find us drop me a message and I’ll let you have my mobile number. There is food available until 9pm if you’re likely to be hungry. Unfortunately, there is a minimum age of 21.

As usual, you don’t have to bring a laptop and code; you can just come and be social.

Finally, at one of last year’s meetings, mention was made of having a Cocoa hackday along the lines of CocoaDevHouse. If you have any ideas for this or have experience in setting up these kinds of events I’d love to talk to you about taking this further.

See you tomorrow.

The London chapter of NSCoder night closed the year in style. More developers than ever attended travelling in to London from as far as Brighton, Cambridge, Reading and Colchester. A very crowded and noisy pub meant that it was more of a social occasion with laptops being brought out only now and again. The picture was taken early on so it doesn’t look that croweded, but we ended up taking over the whole corner. The numbers were also swelled by combining it with the London CocoaHeads group this month.

Thank you to everyone for coming out and making these monthly gatherings a success. We’ll start again in January, just as the wind up to NSConference starts. Keep an eye on the feed and the calendar for up to date information.

Seasons greetings to you all!

There may be some books brought along so people can look through them if they are considering buying them.: Coders At Work, Cocoa Design Patterns, Core Data, Xcode3 book, Head First Design Patterns, Head First Javascript. Please let me know if your interested in any of these; I don’t mind bringing them along, but not just for the sake of it. Particularly the Head First books, which have a unique approach which looks strange to a lot of people, so they are worth a look.

As usual there is no agenda for this meeting; bring a laptop to code or ask questions, or just come for the food and drink and the company.

I’m planning to bring my copy of the Cocoa Design Patterns book and Coders at Work for anyone who wants to have a look through them.

I’ve set up a Google Wave for the meeting. which you can find by searching for:

with:public NSCoderNightLondon

Add yourself, and anyone else you think might be interested to the wave. This is easier than sending me your wave id and me adding you, although that is still an option.

I’ve also pimped this on Upcoming : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4883312

See you there!

I’ve set up a Google Wave for this meeting. Let me know if you want to be added to it. Just let me know what your googlewave id is, drop me an email to abizern at gmail dot com.

See you next week.

The first London NSCoder Night was a success!

Eleven people turned up, travelling from as far as Brighton and Reading to join in the fun. There was a mix of indies, learners, small mac shops and students.

We started off upstairs at the Bunch of Grapes and then moved to the outside area for more room. The tables outside are at a comfortable height for standing around so people were able to move around to different groups. There was a food, drink and talk and the laptops came out a few times as well.

We decided that this is going to be a regular event, held at the same place on the third Tuesday of the month. Next time I’ll book a table upstairs so we can sit down more comfortably. You don’t need to tell me you’re coming, but I’d appreciate an idea of how many people are going to make it so I can reserve approximately the right number of seats.

Thanks everyone for coming out. It was a great night and I hope you all went home with as much enthusiasm for coding as I did.

So, until the next time; follow @NSCoderNightLon on Twitter and subscribe to the iCal calender to stay up to date.