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Online conferences for tomorrow, Thursday, May 7, 2020

All Day Hey!

All Day Hey! happens tomorrow 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight Eastern (it’s happening in the UK). It’s a livestreamed conference for designers and front-end developers. The talks are:

The cost for a standard ticket works out to around US$31.

General Assembly: Growing a family while growing a career

This one’s free and happening tomorrow from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.:

Being a working mom and starting your own business are arguably two of the most stressful and rewarding accomplishments of a woman’s life. Combine the two and you’ve got a whole new set of emotions on hand, one of which is likely to be “mommy guilt.” Yep, that overwhelming feeling when you are working extremely hard to start your business and you feel like you’re neglecting your responsibilities as a mom.

We’re excited to bring together Mother leaders for a conversation spanning from freelance to full-time professionals, across industries. These creative and inspirational women will share their stories on how they got to where they are today and share their insights into being a mother in business.

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Current Events Reading Material

I’ve finished revising the book!

I just put the last chapter of my revisions to iOS Apprentice, 8th edition to bed. It’s in the editors’ and layout’s hands now.

To me, this isn’t just any book. I learned iOS programming from an earlier edition, and from there, became a regular reader of the site that publishes the book, raywenderlich.com. When the opportunity to write an article for them, I took it, and I gladly switched gears to Android, learned Google’s Face API, and the result was the highly rated Augmented Reality in Android with Google’s Face API.

From there, it led to all sorts of things, including not one, but two speaker sessions at their annual RWDevCon conference, where I did presentations on building iOS augmented reality apps — a two-hour intro session and a four-hour workshop. They were the highest-rated sessions of the entire conference. Here’s the two-hour version…

…and you can watch the four-hour version on raywenderlich.com.

I also have a raywenderlich.com video series on developing ARKit apps. Here are some samples:

I was also a technical editor on the book ARKit by Tutorials, author of the Android articles Kotlin Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference and What’s New in Kotlin 1.3.

Now that I’ve finished writing the revision for the book, it’s time to look for my next gig. My last one — mobile developer at Lilypad — evaporated in the COVID-19 economic downturn. In the meantime, I’ll be keeping busy as I continue to sharpen my development skills, write this blog, and do what I can for the Tampa tech community.

Are you looking for someone with both strong development and “soft” skills? Someone who’s comfortable either being in a team of developers or leading one? Someone who can handle code, coders, and customers? Someone who can clearly communicate with both humans and technology? Someone who literally wrote the book on iPhone development? The first step in finding this person is to check out my LinkedIn profile.

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Current Events Tampa Bay

What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 4, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 6 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. While it appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” with online events, this coming weekend’s looking a little quiet. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

To stay on top of the latest Tampa Bay events as well as all sorts of interesting tech articles, be sure to check out Global Nerdy (globalnerdy.com) regularly!

Monday, May 4

Tuesday, May 5

Wednesday, May 6

Thursday, May 7

Friday, May 8

Saturday, May 9

Sunday, May 10

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

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Career Current Events Tampa Bay

Career Compass Group’s “Job Beat”, a techie hiring/job-seeking newsletter

It’s a crazy time in the tech job market right now (believe me, I know), and we need all the help we can get! That’s why it’s good to see things like Career Compass Group’s “Job Beat”, a digital hiring magazine created by Steve Rosen to help people hiring managers and techies looking for jobs find each other.

There’s lots of useful information on their site, including their Dear Recruiter, Help! series of short (10 minutes or less) podcasts, which alternate between being aimed at hiring managers and job-seekers:

There’s also a blog, hiring FAQs, and information about their workshops. Check them out!

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Current Events Tampa Bay

Even more online events this week!

In addition to my weekly listing of events in Tampa Bay, here are even more online events aimed at techies taking place this week from all over the world, and most of them are free! Thanks to Diversify Tech for the finds.

Monday, April 27

  • ThoughtWorks — Infrastructure Webconf @ 1:00 PM (FREE!)
    Our Infrastructure WebConf allows technologists interested in DevOps to listen and ask questions to Infrastructure specialists Marion Bruns and Max Griffiths. Our ThoughtWorks’ subject matter experts will explore best practices and thought-provoking learnings on the state of Infrastructure, testing and workflows for Infrastructure teams.
  • General Assembly — Inside the Design Studio @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT (FREE!)
    This inspiring panel event series invites key players in New York City’s design community to offer a rare insider’s look at how they work and create. From branding to user experience to city planning, panelists will discuss how they approach projects from a design point of view, how design thinking methods help with problem-solving, and much more. Plus, they’ll cover opportunities within the field and their vision for the future of the industry.

Tuesday, April 28

Wednesday, April 29

  • Red Hat Summit, Day 2 (FREE!)
    Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event for thousands of IT professionals to innovate and focus on high-performing Linux, cloud, automation and management, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
  • Candor — Free resume workshop — honest advice on getting your resume in front of recruiters @ 1:00 PM EDT (FREE!)
    In this session, Candor cofounder Niya Dragova will share insider tips on nailing your resume.
  • IBM Developer — Hands on Introduction to NLP @ 12:30 – 2:00 PM EDT (FREE!)This workshop introduces Natural Language Processing in Python. Attendees learn how to process text with NLTK and Gensim to derive useful insights. Foundational concepts like tokenization and part of speech tagging and complex topics like Word2Vec, sentiment analysis and topic modeling are covered.How can computers interpret something so human like language? Can they actually understand what we are saying or are they hiding behind a façade of rules and algorithms? How do these systems of zeroes and ones make sense of words? This workshop introduces Natural Language Processing in Python and sheds light on how computers interpret our language. Attendees are introduced to NLTK and Gensim that help them tokenise, process and represent textual data. We will see how data is distilled into different linguistic features that power Machine Learning applications like text classifier, sentiment analyzer and topic modeler.

Thursday, April 30

  • Deserted Island DevOps @ 10:00 AM EDT (FREE!)
    Join us April 30th for a free one-day event celebrating DevOps and Animal Crossing, streaming live on twitch.tv!
  • QuarantineCon Virtual Career Fair @ 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT (FREE!)
    Spring has come into full swing, and so has fresh conversation surrounding career and professional development. As a continued response to remain safe through social distancing, shelter in place, quarantine, etc., and still build community, Jopwell and QuarantineCon are partnering to bring together industry experts with a virtual career fair! We are creating space to discuss several career-centred topics, including “Navigating Today’s Job Market” and “Cold Outreach 101.” Featured speakers include Carla Harris, Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley, and Nadia Abouzaid, Head of Recruitment at Jopwell.
  • Activate Conference — Accessibility talk: How to be an A11y @ 7:00 PM EDT (FREE!)
    Featuring Aisha Blake, software engineer at Gatsby.js

Friday, May 1

  • Byteconf React 2020 @ Friday through Sunday (FREE!)
    Byteconf React is a 100% free single-day conference with the best React speakers and teachers in the world. Conferences are great, but flights, hotels, and tickets are expensive, so not everyone can go. Byteconf is streamed on YouTube, for free, so anyone and everyone can attend. RSVP to receive your free ticket, and we’ll enter you in our free monthly giveaway, with a chance to receive a free 45+ hour React course from Udemy. See you on May 1st!

 

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Current Events Tampa Bay

What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 27, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 5 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. While it appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” with online events, this coming weekend’s looking a little quiet. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

To stay on top of the latest Tampa Bay events as well as all sorts of interesting tech articles, be sure to check out Global Nerdy (globalnerdy.com) regularly!

Monday, April 27

Tuesday, April 28

Wednesday, April 29

Thursday, April 30

Friday, May 1

Saturday, May 2

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Sunday, May 3

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!

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Current Events Design

Pendo’s ProductCraft Virtual Conference is FREE to attend on Thursday, May 7

Product owners and managers: Pendo’s ProductCraft conference on May 7, 2020 is virtual and free! Here’s their summary of the event:

The ProductCraft Virtual Conference offers the same high-quality session content as our in-person events, just via a 100% online format. Our speakers are product leaders at some of tech’s fastest-growing companies, and will be sharing their best practices, unique perspectives, and experiences of what it means to work in product.

And as always, we’ll be putting a different spin on the traditional product conference format, with plenty of opportunities for networking.

Here’s the agenda:

Time Session
11:00 am – 11:35 am EDT BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING PRODUCTS WITH A FULLY REMOTE TEAM
Holly Kennedy, VP of Design, 15Five, Dianne Frommelt, VP of Product, 15Five
11:35 am – 12:05 pm EDT DO THIS, NOT THAT: GUIDING DECISION-MAKING WITH PRODUCT PRINCIPLES
Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer, Box
12:05 pm – 12:35 pm EDT YOUR PRODUCT IS NEVER GOING TO BE READY
Karen Rubin, Chief Revenue Officer, Owl Labs
12:35 pm – 1:05 am EDT INNOVATION SYSTEMS FOR COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS
Brian Crofts, Chief Product Officer, Pendo
1:05 pm – 1:35 pm EDT BUILDING RELEVANT AND IMPACTFUL INNOVATIONS AMID UNCERTAIN TIMES
Shravan Goli, CPO and Head of Consumer Business, Coursera

The stream starts on Thursday, May 7 at 11:00 AM EDT. If you can’t catch it live because you’re one of the fortunate ones still with a job, it’s being recorded and will be sent to you after the event.