We have a shiny new phone number here at ThreeFortyNine Coworking that has 349 in it not once, but twice! Call us at 1.855.349.3499 sometime. It’s toll free! Thanks for ThreeFortyNiner Ian Service for hooking us up.

We’re hosting a happy hour tomorrow. While this is mostly for our members to catch up on each other’s projects and our various difficult to explain domain name purchases, it’s also a chance for us to meet you. You being the scary public. Let us know if you’d like to drop by tomorrow, we can be quite nice at times.

We’re very excited to announce that from our humbling beginnings as a Guelph’s newest coworking space, we have been acquired by RIM. While this deal has been in the works for a few long, lawyer filled days, the deal was officially signed today. While RIM has always employed a lot of Guelph residents, this represents RIM’s first physical office space in our city.

For us at ThreeFortyNine, this is a very exciting day. As a loose knit group of homeless freelancers and ‘entrepreneurs’, we can finally return home at the end of the day and tell our wives and/or husbands there’s a T4’d paycheque coming.

“Honestly, I’m just sick of this php crap. I’m excited about getting to work on a solid technology stack rooted in a quality language like java”, said ThreeFortyNine resident Colin DeCarlo. Adding that “I’m not sure what they’ll have me working on, to be honest I think Jim is just looking for a quiet office to get some work done in. Hey, this calls for a new twitter badge!”

“Who the hell is rim?” chimed in a concerned Eric. “I hope someone explained how the keg fund works here, they’d better pay their part”.

“So what just happened?” asked a confused Chris. “Oh wait, I get it, so ThreeFortyNine just gave me a rim job?”

“Hang on a second” said Gord, “I’m just a member here, you’re telling me I now work for rim? Cripes, it never occurred to me to actually read the lease I signed here.”

Our members are getting together this afternoon to have a pint together and scheme on how we get the word out about what we’re up to. We still have people emailing us to ask “could I come work there for the day?” or “do you have dedicated desks that people can rent?”

Postering? Busking? We need to effectively communicate what we’re doing here and it isn’t as simple as copy on a website. How do we get the attention of like minded folks? How do you convey what coworking is to someone who hasn’t heard of it?

If you can contribute to this and help us with ideas to get the word out, let us know or just stop by this afternoon?

So some folks here @ThreeFortyNine have been madly working overtime designing a flyer for us. The intent being to spread the word about what we’re up to here, specifically letting the coffee shop crowd know about us. I thought I’d give you a sneak peek at the early designs to get your feedback??

A few months back I learned some sad news, local tech community guru Cory Fowler had taken his one man show to the big city. Cory started and ran the local peer to peer event Guelph Coffee and Code. His leaving meant the end of C&C events locally.

Over the past few months, I’ve been conspiring behind the scenes with Sean Yo to bring C&C back from near death. Included in that was finding someone who wanted to lead the event. Finding a sponsor to offer space etc was easy as we’d love to host the event here @ThreeFortyNine.

I’m pleased to help spread the word that C&C is back, with it’s reboot event coming up on March 24th. At this point the plans are for this to be a monthly event focused mostly on social coding. While Cory focused primarily on the Microsoft stack, these events will be more technology agnostic than previously. Spread the word and join us March 24th!

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Tonight’s a very cool night here @ThreeFortyNine and hopefully the start of something big. It’s our first members only event. Our members decided that working together all day is ok but it doesn’t quite leave enough time for the fun stuff, our pet projects. Some of our members decided to organize a weekly event where we get together as a group and work on our side projects. It’s the coworking equivalent of 20% projects. Tonight is our first of these events. We’ll try to snap a few photos and let you know how it goes.

Membership does have it’s perqs.

We’re teaming up with The Guelph Seven for some application building and an open house this Saturday Feb 26th. As I’m sure you’re well aware by now, The Guelph Seven will be living here with us starting March 5th for 7 days while they build 7 applications.

This Saturday the team will be doing a dry run here during which they’ll build a small application. We’re going to open the doors to the public from 3pm until 5pm as part of this. This is a chance to meet the Guelph Seven, look them in the eye and ask that question “so why are you doing this?”. It may also give you a chance to whisper in their ear “can you please build me an app that does this”.

Oh, and we can show you what we’re up to as well. So if you’re curious about either ThreeFortyNine of The Guelph Seven then stop by this Saturday! Do us a favour and let us know if you’re thinking of stopping by so we can make sure we’re ready for the masses.

Some of us are planning on watching a PHP webinar this Thursday Feb 24 at noon.

WEBINAR: New SPL Features for PHP 5.3

“The SPL, or Standard PHP Library, is an often overlooked extension in the PHP core. It first came on the scene in PHP 5 and a variety of iterators constituted the majority of its initial offerings. Though the iterator offerings were expanded in PHP 5.3, the particularly interesting additions to the SPL were several specialized data structure classes, the foundational concepts for which originate in the field of computer science. This webinar will provide an overview of these new classes and explain why and when they should be used.”

If you’re interesting in joining us, let us know?