Don’t forget that LinkedIn Local Tampa Bay is on later today — between 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., online! Under normal circumstances, this is a monthly get-together where Tampa professionals can get to know each other, make friends and connections, and even have a drink. They’re still happening, but for the next little while, it’s online — register here.
Category: Current Events

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 8 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, Saturday and Sunday are 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!
Monday, May 18
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Computer Coach Informational Session @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Network & Social – Tampa Networking Events — Tampa Networking Virtual Happy Hour @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps Meetup — TBDevOps monthly meeting: Dive into Spinnaker @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Free Crash Course – Introduction to Accessibility @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Toastmasters District 48 — Become Comfortable on Zoom Sharing Monday Nights with a Fun Group of People! @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Speaker Series | Enhancing Career With Mindfulness @ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Tuesday, May 19
- Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa — User Group Days – Community Event @ Tuesday 8:00 AM to Wednesday 4:30 PM
- Clearwater Renaissance Speakers Toastmasters @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Keystone Mastermind Alliance – KMA Network — ZOOM at NOON – Virtual Meeting @ 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — LinkedIn Local Tampa Bay – May Event @ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace — Online Weekly Open Make Night @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Advanced Gravity Forms Workshop: Ask Me Anything @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Wednesday, May 20
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Smart Edge Technologies / Line Call LLC @ 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — 21 Vision Entertainment LLC (Yaku’s Play Center) / IHOPEE inc @ 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Virtual networking mixer Tonight @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Divi Tampa — Divi Developers VIRTUAL May Merging of Minds at the Fab Lab @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Continuous Improvement Network (CI Net) — PMO Lifecycle @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Your Personal Cloud: OwnCloud on Raspberry Pi @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Defcon813 — CigarCitySec @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings now conducted Online using Zoom @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Games & Grog Night @ Discord.io/nerdbrew Club Chat @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | Intro to Data Science: Python Fundamentals @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Thursday, May 21
- Tampa noSQL — Querying NoSQL with SQL: HAVING Your JSON Cake and SELECTing it too @ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events — Network After Work Virtual Networking @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — HireUp Tampa Bay @ 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- StartUp Xchange — Product Discovery Coffee Chat/Weekly Video Conference @ 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
- PROSPERA: Iniciando mi negocio de la forma correcta @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Clearwater Community Toastmasters @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Apache Kafka® Meetup by Confluent — Interactive Kafka Streams @ 6:20 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Startup Founder 101 — How to Get from 0 to 1 & Build a Remote Team as a Scrappy Founder (Online Event) @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | Learn Product Management With Thinkful @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Friday, May 22
Saturday, May 23
No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!
Sunday, May 24
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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Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 7 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, Friday’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!
Monday, May 11
- Computer Coach Training Center — Monday Morning Coffee Talk @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
- How to do business in the sharing economy — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Thinkers — What will Change After Covid 19? @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Toastmasters District 48 — Presenting High-Energy, Video Presentations with Piazzas Keep Attendees Engaged! @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason — ONLINE: Never-ending Story: Florida’s Love/Hate Relationship–Science Education @ 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | Learn UX/UI Design With Thinkful @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Tuesday, May 12
- Tampa Bay Agile — v-Lean Coffee @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Bootstrappers Breakfast® – Tampa Bay Area — Virtual Bootstrappers Breakfast® @ 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
- Clearwater Renaissance Speakers Toastmasters @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Keystone Mastermind Alliance – KMA Network — ZOOM at NOON – Virtual Meeting @ 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM
- Tampa Bay RPA — [Live Webinar] Using RPA to Solve COVID19 Disruptions in the Healthcare Industry @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace Annual Meeting @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- St. Pete .NET Meetup — Easy Release with Release Flow and Azure DevOps Pipelines with Jon Ash @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Technology Center — Web Entrepreneurs @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | Intro To Data Analysis: Tableau Basics @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Wednesday, May 13
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Nectar / CROOW @ 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center (AMRoC) Fab Lab / CROOW @ 9:00 AM
- Tampa Virtual Job Fair @ Wednesday 10:00 AM – Friday 6:00 PM
- Keystone Mastermind Alliance – KMA Network — Virtual Business Brainstorm @ 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM
- Tampa Bay WaVE — How You Can Generate Revenue for Your Business Now, Even if You’re Closed @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- ACES: Architects, Contractors, Engineers, & Site Developers — ACES: Architects, Contractors, Engineers, & Site Developers -State of the Market @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — AWS Summit Online (Amazon Event) @ 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM
- Tampa Bay IT Leaders – The way forward — First Meeting – Open Topic Discussion @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events — Get More Done with Less: 10X Your Productivity and Build a Powerful Team @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps — License-free Backup and High-Availability Storage for SQL & virtual machines @ 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Virtual Networking Mixer 5pm to7pm @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Virtual Bingo + Networking @ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UX — NEW!! Stop Evangelizing UX – & What To Do Instead w/ special guest Debbie Levitt @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- IIBA Tampa Bay — Upward Mobility in the Product Career: a Panel Discussion @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Tampa Product Owner Group – Upward Mobility in a Product Career: A Panel Talk @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Women Who Code Tampa — Tech Tool Night ⚡ Virtual Meetup to Share Favorite Coding Tips + Tricks @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings now conducted Online using Zoom @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, May 14
- Commercial Real Estate for Startups, facilitated by Kostas Stoilas @ 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
- GDG Suncoast — Google Cloud [Tech Talk] Okay Kelsey, Tell me how! @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Virtual Lean Beer for All Things Agile (St. Petersburg) @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Online: Creating Secure Landing Zones in Azure @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Intro to Web Development @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | Build a Web App with JavaScript & jQuery @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Friday, May 15
No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!
Saturday, May 16
- R-Ladies Tampa — PT 1: Workflow Scripts (via Zoom) @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- WordSmitten Writing Workshop :: Saturday 1 PM – Advanced Class @ 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Women’s Book Club Meetup Group — Online May Book club @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | Free Crash Course: Natural Language Processing @ 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace — ONLINE: Tampa Hackerspace Monthly Board Game Night @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, May 17
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Donate Blood (6+ feet apart, of course) @ 11:40 AM to 12:40 PM
- Suncoast Audiophile Society — May Online Meeting- Mark Your Calendar! @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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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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:
- Vitaly Friedman (Smashing Magazine) – Smart Interface Design Patterns
- Charlotte Dann (Hexatope) – Pixels, IRL
- Eli Schutze Ramirez (Monzo) – What Is the Deal With Internationalisation?
- Simona Cotin (Microsoft Serverless) – Serverless at the End of the Universe
- Asim Hussain (Microsoft Cloud Advocates) – Principles of Green Application Architecture Design
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.
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.

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
- Tampa Bay Agile — FREE WEBINAR: Scrum Values – The Art of Using the FORCE (V. Lee Henson) @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild Demo Day! @ 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters — Presenting High-Energy, Video Presentations with Piazzas Keep Attendees Engaged! @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, May 5
- Tampa Bay Agile — FREE WEBINAR: The 7 Deadly Sins of Technical Debt (V. Lee Henson) @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Clearwater Renaissance Speakers Toastmasters @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay RPA — [Live Webinar] Maximizing the Value of RPA with Process Mining and Optimization @ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — PMI: PMP Certification Exam Prep | Part-time, Remote, Live online
@ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM - WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything: WordPress Support Crowdsourcing Meetup @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay PHP — Laravel Development with Docker presented by Adam Alma @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Sisters in Technology — Sisters Tech Network online @ 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace — THS Annual Member Meeting @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brandon and Seffner area AD&D, Pathfinder, and Starfinder — AD&D 2e Against The Slave Lords Online via Fantasy Grounds @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — NB Online Board Game Night @ 7:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Wednesday, May 6
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Lunchpool / Work Dojo
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — LeapCaller / Line Call LLC @ 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Agile — FREE WEBINAR: The 9 Ways To Keep Your Team Members Motivated (V. Lee Henson) @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Startup Grind Tampa — Do What it Takes to Survive with Arlan Hamilton + Derek Andersen @ 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
- Defcon813 — Virtual CTF on Hacking a Website sponsored by Security Innovation @ 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour- Meet Up — Virtual Networking Tonight! @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Virtual Scrum Masters Guild – How to Keep Your Team Engaged in A Virtual World @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- WordPress Tampa — To be announced: Scheduled Talk @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Design St. Pete — Brand Design (Makeup meetup via Zoom) @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Bitcoin/Blockchain Meetup: [VIRTUAL ONLY] – until further notice @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings now conducted Online using Zoom @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, May 7
- GDG Suncoast — Google Cloud [Tech Talk] Best practices for securing your network and VPN @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — Participate in engaging business conversations @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Python — Virtual Meetup: Building Docs in Python @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Clearwater Community Toastmasters @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Network & Learn @ 6:15 PM to 8:15 PM
- Drupal User Group of Tampa Bay — Drupal Views XML API Demonstration @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Books, Brews & Bags! — May – The Golem and the Jinni @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St Pete Business Builder Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace — Electronics Guild Meetup: Moving Forward on Projects @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Clearwater Writers Meetup Group — Clearwater Writers Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM
Friday, May 8
- Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Virtual Threat Defense Challenge by Trend Micro @ 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Interview Prep Action List – 11 To-Do’s to Rock Their Socks Off @ 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
- IIBA Tampa Bay — Lunch and Learn Series: Part 1 – Dashboards and Robots @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Mars Astronomy Club — Virtual Meeting: Our Active Sun by Professor Dave Feller @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — CCB is not yet available, so Let’s Meet Online – BYOB! @ 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — Virtual Threat Defense Challenge by Trend Micro @ Friday, May 8, 2020, 11:00 PM to Saturday, May 9, 2020, 5:00 PM
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?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
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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:
- Pilot Episode for Hiring Managers
- Candidate Episode on Interviewing
- How do I Stop Hiring the Wrong People?
- Employer Branding to Attract Niche Candidates
- Pilot Episode for Job Seekers
- Hire OR Not To Hire During Covid-19
There’s also a blog, hiring FAQs, and information about their workshops. Check them out!







