All About It's Tech Up North

For this It's Tech Up North blog, I don my author's hat and meditate upon matters mostly methodological.

Heading up the technical side of Tech Up North Ltd, I have many hats ― Agilist, Engineer, Technologist, Analyst, Co-Founder, Shareholder, Director and so on. In my Apache days, we considered hats a lot and ― like many ideas from those times ― this one stuck with me.

The hat as a perspective, as a viewpoint, a way of thinking. Separating concerns. Opinions but loosely held. A hat to be be put on and taken off again, enhancing rather than defining.

It's Tech Up North is a Tech Up North blog but has my personal voice, expressing my personal opinions. Here I wear my author's hat.

Tech Up North Ltd

Last post back in 2012.

Been a bit of a roller coaster ride for me in those five years. Maybe I'll share some observations about those years a little later.

Today — though — in this new year of 2018 I'd like to talk about the future.

Tech Up North Ltd — the micro-company I co-founded —is just over a year old and I'll be rebooting this blog with similar content but owned and operated under the Company banner.

Hope you'll continue to find my words of interest.

Thanks for reading,
Robert Burrell Donkin
Director, Tech Up North Ltd

Tech Up North Ltd 

Train • Engineer • Develop 

Registered in England and Wales 

Company Number 10340164 

Registered Office Windsor House LE4 9HA

16th June Manchester Free Software Talk - Jon Spriggs, Introducing Microblogging (Identi.ca, Open Microblogging, Laconica and even Twitter!)

Manchester Free software's next meeting will be on Tuesday 16th June 2009.

*Please note the change of venue*

Talk
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This month’s talk will be given by Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs. He will
be talking about Microblogging (uBlogging), specifically citing
Identi.ca and Twitter, some of the conventions used in microblogging,
microblogging services and how you can use microblogging in your
projects and social networks. He'll then open the floor to questions.

Jon can be found on identi.ca at http://identi.ca/jontheniceguy, so
feel free say 'hello' to him!

Location
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The meeting will take place at the usual time, 7pm, at the Lass O'
Gowrie pub on Charles Street in Central Manchester. We will be located
in the Salmon Room upstairs, although there will be people
around a little earlier downstairs(probably sampling the food and drinks on
offer). Just ask at the bar if you can't find us. Their website[1] has
full details of how to get there and the
fine selection of food and drink available. The venue also provides wifi.

General information about Manchester Free Software meetings can be
found on our website[2].

If you would like five minutes to tell us about something, please
contact us at .

[1]: http://www.thelass.co.uk/
[2]: http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/meetings/