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Play.com Tech event - Wanna come along?

As you may know I work@play.com

Next Thursday sees us hosting our inaugural Technology event at our Cambridge offices - Histon:

“IT Architecture in the iPad Age”

There will be  a chance to:

  • Learn how leading companies are embracing service oriented architecture for multi-channel delivery
  • Listen and talk to Charles Vivian, CEO, Qedis and Simon Ince, Senior Application Development Manager, Microsoft Services
  • Network with your peers as well as Play.com staff

We’ve also been promised Pizza (yay!)

Event details here:

http://www.camtechnet.info/news/view/90

or in the document below

Interested in attending? Drop me a line at work (al.napp@play.com) and I’ll get you on the list

Click here to download:
play.com_invitation.pdf (241 KB)
(download)

 

 

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I rarely get excited or enraged by spam, but this is a stand out piece
for me, the scrambled name, and obfuscated language and vagueness in
this piece made me laugh, so posted for posterity


---------- Forwarded message ----------
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Date: 20 January 2011 11:34
Subject: napp al
To: Al@alnapp.com


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