Last night I went along as a +1 to Oxford Girl geek dinners, an event organised in order to encourage more women to get involved in technology.

It’s an informal gathering with some presentations and lots of opportunity for networking. Men are permitted, but only if accompanied by a girl geek.

From the central website:

The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside.

We started off at the White October offices with coffee and some presentations, before relocating to the Oxford Blue for some serious networking.

Good fun and both myself and Kelly thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, more please!

Over on GitHub I have just open sourced a PHP web and web services framework which I’ve been making use of to build a lot of projects recently.

Initially, it was built for a single project but I’ve ended up using it for many other things, and I thought it might be useful to the Open Source community.

Features

• Pluggable
• Light weight
• Sophisticated events system
• Abstracted database layer
• MVC architecture
• Virtual pages
• Object/Metadata based data model

Its designed to have much of its functionality carried in plugins, many of which I will release a little bit later just as soon I’ve had the time to tidy them up a bit!

Anywho, its available under the MIT licence and hopefully it’ll be useful to you!

» Github Project Page (Core Plugins, Extra Plugins)

Right! October’s Oxford Band Practice will be at our usual venue on the 25th October.

We will be doing the following three two songs to start with, and as ever we have the option to revisit old favourites!

Here are the songs, as usual TAB can be found on our songs page.

I hope to see y’all there!

“Johnny B Goode” by Chuck Berry

“Like a Hurricane” by Neil Young

UPDATED: Because “Green Machine” is using a non-standard tuning, we’re opting to drop this song for now.