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This week: finally learn to code [Event Highlights]

This is a special development edition of Event Highlights. If you made it your New Year’s Resolution to learn how to code, this week brings three opportunities to learn three different languages.

This week: learn Python, learn how to develop on a Windows phone and then put your Ruby to the test.


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Girl Develop It, TP Groups and PSL’s new prez [Event Highlights]

Hello Philadelphia. It’s actually Winter out there now.

You can stay warm with hot chocolate or that new coat you purchased, but nothing warms the soul like hanging with your local tech community. Lucky for you, we have a packed event calendar.

Our picks this week: get happy with Girl Develop It, get familiar with Philly Startup Leaders and mingle with the city’s user groups.

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Founder’s Factory, Social Media Plus and video games this week [Event Highlights]

We hope you had a great weekend, Philadelphia. One that nothing disappointing happened to you. A weekend that you did not oversleep and miss an important meeting. A weekend that didn’t crush what little hope you had left for February. A weekend where … you know what? This could go on for a while. We better get to the events.

This week: PSL’s Founders Factory returns, find your next co-founder and play some games.


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Piano concerts, venture fairs and Philly Tech Meetup [Event Highlights]

We hope you’ve recovered from BarCamp Philadelphia. And for those of you who ventured to attend Startup Weekend and BarCamp Philadelphia during the past two weekends, you’re a trooper.

But it’s not time for rest, there are plenty worthy tech events on our calendar.

This week: get serenaded, get social and then get pitched.


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Startup Weekend is this week [Event Highlights]

For sports fans, it was a rough weekend. Our beloved Phillies let us down for the third straight year, leaving us a long offseason of second guessing.

However unlike a clutch Ryan Howard at-bat, Event Highlights always delivers. This week, create a startup, create a a new IP policy and then create a jQuery app.

And a reminder, you can get these event highlights delivered straight to your inbox every Monday at noon.


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Girl Geek Dinner, PodCamp and DreamIt Ventures speaker series

We hope you had a fantastic weekend, Philadelphia.

As three Temple grads, we’re still feeling excited about our historically terrible football team’s sudden offensive surge. However, Bernard Peirce has nothing on a calendar full of technology events.

This week, drink with Girl Geeks, go camping and become the next great CTO.


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Events this week: Indie Publishers blowout, Philly Tech Meetup drinks and more

Well, Philadelphia that just about does it. Summer is unofficially over. Take the kids back to school and put away the swim trunks.

But your tan line’s loss is your inner techie’s gain, as Fall typically marks an uptick in local technology events. Don’t believe us? This week: DreamIt Ventures kicks off its Fall class, Philly Tech Meetup kicks off happy hour and indie publishers just kick it.


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Event Highlights: June 20th – 26th, 2011

We hope you had a happy Father’s Day, Philadelphia.

Whether you paid a visit to pops, or are a dad yourself Technically Philly offers a belated happy Fathers Day to you and yours. And if your dad didn’t like the tie you gave him, perhaps he’d like a subscription to one of our many Technically Philly newsletters?

This week, learn SEO from the master, mingle with the city’s most prominent business incubator and explore the unbreakable tie between programming and beer.


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Event Highlights: May 31 – June 4, 2011

Happy Memorial Day Philadelphia.

We hope you are lucky enough to take this day off and enjoy doing summer things. However, your Technically Philly event highlights never take a week off as there are always amazing tech events happening in our fair city. This week, Technically Philly is especially excited to co-sponsoring Random Hacks of Kindness, a weekend-long hackathon at Drexel University.

Elsewhere: Gamers gather and the Philly WordPress Meetup digs in to 3.2.


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Event Highlights: May 16 – 22, 2011

It’s a beautiful time to be in Philadelphia during the precious few weeks sandwiched between a rainy Spring and the inevitable Summer heatwave. Thanks to Mother Nature it should be especially easy to take an after-work stroll to our events this week.

Up this week: Bring your “A” game to the SEO Pot Luck, grab some pizza and Python and get the low down on Philly’s own OC.

Note: Event Highlights finally has an email newsletter. Get all of the week’s events emailed to your inbox every Monday morning at 11 a.m by signing up here. It makes for wonderful lunch time reading.


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