I’m ready to starting holding sessions of Tampa Bay Apple Coding Meetup, but I’m missing one thing: a place to hold them!
Prior to the pandemic, I’d been doing monthly meetups where I’d walk Tampa Bay’s developers through “code along with me” tutorials where I’d show them how to write native iOS apps in Swift such as:
A simple text editor
Pomodoro timer
“Magic 8-ball”
Weather app with geolocation
“Frogger” / “Crossy Road”-style game
An augmented reality app similar to the IKEA furniture app
A machine learning app that can identify specific images
It’s time to bring these meetups back!
I need a place in the Tampa Bay area where I can lead a group through an exercise where we get together and build an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or augmented reality app together. If you’d like to host such an event or know someone or some organization that would be willing to do this, please let me know via email.
Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the first week of 2023: Monday, January 2 through the Sunday, January 8, 2023. Happy new year!
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
Tech project management / agile processes
Video, board, and role-playing games
Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Keep these two things in mind for the next couple of weeks:
The first week of January is usually a slow time for meetups.
A number of organizers schedule their events using Meetup.com’s “autopilot” feature, using an option like “1st Monday of every month,” and it doesn’t account for things like New Year’s Day or the day after, which is a day off for many people.
Double-check with the organizers before attending an event!
Monday, January 2
Group
Event Name
Time
Recruiting Web Dev and Smart Contract For Crypto Start Up
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Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the last week of 2022: Monday, December 26 through the first day of the new year, Sunday, January 1, 2023!
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
Tech project management / agile processes
Video, board, and role-playing games
Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Keep these two things in mind for the next couple of weeks:
The end of December is usually a slow time for meetups.
A number of organizers schedule their events using Meetup.com’s “autopilot” feature, using an option like “2nd Tuesday of every month,” and it doesn’t account for the general slow-down during the last two weeks of December.
The closer an event is to Christmas or New Year’s Day, both of which falls on a Sunday this year, the more likely it is to be cancelled. Double-check with the organizers before attending an event!
Monday, December 26
Group
Event Name
Time
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!
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I’m bringing back the Tampa iOS Meetup in 2023 under a new name: Tampa Bay Apple Coding Meetup. If you’re in the Tampa Bay area and want to learn how to program Apple devices in Swift, this meetup will be for you!
I’ve got a fair bit of experience showing people how to build applications for Apple devices and technologies, from doing presentations on coding augmented reality apps for the iPhone…
…to co-authoring the book on iOS development…
…to writing all sorts of apps:
These meetups will follow my usual modus operandi:
We’ll define a simple app that we want to make for the iPhone/iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, or other Apple device.
Then we’ll look at the tools and techniques that will allow us to create that app.
And finally, you’ll code along with me as we build the app together. You’ll leave the meetup with either a complete app, or at least a part of the app that you can continue working on.
The goal is to help you learn coding or sharpen your skills by building apps for the preferred devices of the digerati!
I’m currently working on getting a space for the first meetup of Tampa Bay Apple Coding in January — watch this space for announcements!
Winter Village and Curtis Hixon Christmas Lights by Matthew Paulson. Click to view the source.
Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 19 through Sunday, December 25, 2022. That’s right — this is the week leading up to Christmas!
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
Tech project management / agile processes
Video, board, and role-playing games
Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Keep these two things in mind for the next couple of weeks:
The end of December is usually a slow time for meetups.
A number of organizers schedule their events using Meetup.com’s “autopilot” feature, using an option like “2nd Tuesday of every month,” and it doesn’t account for holidays with lengthier downtimes, like Christmas.
The closer an event is to Christmas, which falls on Sunday this year, the more likely it is to be cancelled. Double-check with the organizers before attending an event!
Monday, December 19
Group
Event Name
Time
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!
🎄Keep in mind that a number of people schedule their LinkedIn events on “autopilot” and set the for “every 3rd Friday of the month,” or something similar. They often forget to account for holidays. Check with the organizers that an event is actually happening before going!
🎄 Christmas Eve alert: These events are scheduled on LinkedIn and Eventbrite, but there’s no guarantee that they’re actually happening this day. Check with the organizers!
🎄 Merry Christmas! Take all of the events listed below with a grain of salt and a big cup of eggnog — they may not actually be happening! Check with the organizers before you go.
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To attend the event, you need to bring either an unwrapped gift or make a minimum $10 cash donation for the local toy drive. Register for the event here!
I’m going to mask up at this event. Yes, I’ll have to pop it off to have a drink or have some of the snacks they’ll be serving, but I’ll be masked most of the time.
You shouldn’t feel weird about masking up when many people around you choose not to. I don’t — but mind you, I’m often seen walking around with an accordion — but if you want to mask up and feel weird about doing so, come find me at the party and we’ll hang out together.
Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 12 through Sunday, December 18, 2022.
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
Tech project management / agile processes
Video, board, and role-playing games
Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
If you’d like to get this list in your email inbox every week, enter your email address below. You’ll only be emailed once a week, and the email will contain this list, plus links to any interesting news, upcoming events, and tech articles.
Join the Tampa Bay Tech Events list and always be informed of what’s coming up in Tampa Bay!
