I think it was back at the start of this year that my then work colleague Matthew Rathbone (@rathboma) thought we could be spending our lunch times in a more productive way. Rather than sitting at our desks eating our lunch flicking through our RSS feeds, mindlessly surffing the web, or getting roped into various work related issues just because you were at your desk, he decided that he would book out a meeting room, complete with projector and speakers, pick a selection of screencasts from the amazing amount of awesome material that there is out there on the web, let the rest of us vote on what we wanted to see, then spend an hour watching some cool tech stuff, and having a post chat about what we'd seen.

Fantastic.

Matt organised this right up until his departure from the UK to his new home in New York, Matt, you're sorely missed mate.

I took over the role of the developer screencast organiser (no one else here has the passion to) and have been running them every week for the past 3 months or so here at work with some very good feedback. I book out the meeting room for an hour and a half (extra sneaky half an hour for lunch), spend an hour watching, then the rest of the time chatting about it.

I've been tweeting about this ever since I started it and people have shown a fair amount of interest, but being an in house thing I couldn't open it up to the local dev community. I have tried, but all my emails to the powers that be have been met with silence. Where is the community spirit in that?!

So last night me and Neil Robbins (@NeilRobbins), who has also set up a developer screencast at his place of work, were chatting and decided that we should try doing a public one. Toby Henderson (@holytshirt) found an great meeting room out through the back of the kitchen in a Costa coffee shop in London, where we hold our bi-weekly developer book club meet ups (#devbookclub), which can hold about 10 people and amazingly has a projector.

And so the Developer Screencast is now born!, with our first screening showing Dan North's (@tastapod) InfoQ presentation on BDD & DDD (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/bdd-and-ddd) next Wednesday the 16th of December, in the meeting room through the kitchen of the Costa Coffee Shop on 9 Eldon St, close to Moorgate Underground Station (http://bit.ly/1RIKYC), then heading to the Lord Aberconway pub (http://bit.ly/7xoGA4) round the corner for beers and a chat.

So...

What: BDD & DDD - Dan North
When: Wed 16th Dec 1730-1900
Where: Costa, 9 Eldon St, London.
Signup: http://devscreencast.eventbrite.com/

Space is very limited, there are only 10 spots available, first come first served...

See you there