So, I heard about this thing called Co-working (in a tweet by @NathanBowers) and I went online to check it out. Turns out there are groups of freelancers that rent an office and all get together and work at the same place. This is a GREAT idea because my and Steven (my cat for those not dedicated) are getting really sick of each other.I found this place called New Work City online. The other day I was in the city, so I peeked in to check it out. The people seemed like they were motivated entrepreneurs, and not at all like muderers. So, today I have stopped in to get some work done. I have the saddest little mini setup, but I love it. You will see an article about it on Datamation next week. The group is playing guitar hero later and going to see Star Trek.... what the heck do I have to lose? (I have been taking this attitude lately a lot, it makes life an adventure).
Richmond Code Camp was AWESOME. I got to meet a lot of twitter faces, the people in the south are so nice (it takes some adjusting before I realize they aren't trying to kidnap me). My talk went OK. It was short, because I took out some coding and had some stuff pre-done. Also, I need to learn to TEACH instead of PLOWING through the material like it is a race to the finish. I guess practice makes perfect. I'm looking forward to next time, I hope the people that came learned SOMETHING.
So, Thursday nights at Infragistics in East Windsor they've been having a pseudo-open-spaces type user group. I have been stopping by (twice so far) and I've been learning a lot. Yesterday I learned about IoC, Functional Programming, and MVVMCVCCC (or whatever model WPF is). I would highly reccomend stopping by. It starts at 6:15.
Awesome...good for you. I just found some local places in Arizona that do the same thing. And yes it is surprising how normal and interesting most enterprising individuals can be.
ReplyDeletebaltimore has a similar co-working space... beehivebaltimore.org. great place to go if you work from home. many of the people that camp out also help organize local meetups for tech and entrepreneur types.
ReplyDeleteSo, about this co-working... do you actually get enough quiet time to work, or is it just a sorry excuse to have a LAN party? :)
ReplyDeleteHey Sara, it was nice meeting you at RCC. I'm glad to hear that NJ/NY has some cool geek groups. I worked across the street from Infragistics a couple of years ago. There was nothing in the area (that I knew about) back then. Keep us posted on the NJ/NY tech community!
ReplyDeleteInfragistics used to host the Princeton Java Users Group up until about two months ago.
ReplyDeleteAre the meetups you go to all .Net only?
@peter - I actually got a TON done on Friday.
ReplyDelete@curtis - nice meeting you as well!!
@gary - they are .NET focused, but cover a lot of topics that bridge the gap. I would say come, there is a lot to talk about.
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