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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 8, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date May 8, 2017

Here’s what’s happening for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area this week…

Monday, May 8

Coffee and Code (The Bunker, 8:30 a.m.)
Tampa Bay Data Science Group — International Finance (Wolters Kluwer, 6:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
Clearwater / St. Pete Unity User Group — Show us what you got, what you really really got (AgileThought, 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, May 9

Tampa Bay Tech — Driving Office 365 Adoption (Microsoft, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.)
BarCamp Sarasota – Brandenton — Network and Learn (Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Tampa Entrepreneurs Network (Doubletree Hotel, Tampa Airport, 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)
WCF IIBA — BAs as Atlassian Users – Overview, Best Practices, +More (KForce, 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
Code Katas (The Iron Yard, 6:15 p.m.)
Tampa eMarketing Groups — Learn About Podcasting and How to Monetize Your Interest! (IHOP Spruce Street, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Web Entrepreneurs (Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — Woodshop safety (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 p.m.)

Wednesday, May 10

Sophos Florida User Group — Central FL: XG Firewall Troubleshooting and What’s new from Partner Conference (3:00 p.m.)
Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Pathways to a Cyber Career: Rethinking the Current Model (Doolittle Institute SOFWERX. 5:30 p.m.)
The Iron Yard’s Admissions Fair (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — Introduction to Fusion 360 (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Bitcoineers (Kahuna’s Bar and Grill, 7:00 p.m.)
The Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Thursday, May 11

Tampa Bay Tech — Complimentary Course 40389A: Windows Server® 2016 First Look Clinic (New Horizons, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Webinar: Building Value to Exit (Online, 10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.)
Game Drive’s Power Up Meetings (John F. Germany Library, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay UX — Design for everyone with Christina Durbin (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Internet of Things Developer Group — TankBot Meeting #6 (Microsoft, 6:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Cocoaheads — DIY Augmented Reality, Part 2 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
THS Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, May 12

Lean Coffee for All Things Agile, Waters Location (Panera Bread on Waters Ave., 7:30 a.m.)
OpenWERX Challenge: Data Science (Doolittle Institute SOFWERX, 6:00 p.m.)
Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, May 13

Girl Develop It — Code and Coffee Tampa (Foundation Coffee, Franklin St., 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

Sunday, May 14

Tampa Drones — Open Fly Day – Fly what you have! (Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 a.m.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 1, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 30, 2017

Here’s what’s happening for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area this week…

Monday, May 1

Sarasota/Bradenton Women Entrepreneurs Meetup — We’re having an “Appy Hour” – Join us to chat helpful apps! (Square 1 Burgers, Sarasota, 11:30 a.m – 1:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay SQL Business Intelligence and Analytics — Monthly Meeting (Microsoft, 6:00 p.m.)
Code for Tampa Bay Monthly Meetup (Hillsborough County ECC, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Brandon eMarketing Groups — Internet Marketing for Business Owners (7:00 p.m.)
Making Parts Not Pasta: 3D Printer Design Tips (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, May 2

TampaDev — Webinar – Azure Medic Tuesday – the Docs are in! (Online, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Tech MacGyver Shares Business Automation Technology Secrets (Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace Annual Meeting and Pot Luck Dinner (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Android Developers Group / GDG Suncoast — Android Wear: Your Own Faces!/Android Studio Tips and Tricks (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
St Pete .NET Meetup — Automate & Integrate for fun and profit: Webjobs and Azure Functions (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, May 3

PMI Florida Suncoast Project Management Meetup — Spring Networking Event (Hollander Hotel, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
Technology Networking (Ulele, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Agile — Developer Role: QA SkillSet Meetup (Grow Financial, 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild (Nielsen, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Free Crash Course: Intro to JavaScript (The Iron Yard, 6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure – Intro (7:00 p.m.)
Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Thursday, May 4

Books & Brews — New Technology And How It Applies To Your Business (Stadium Chilis, 11:50 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Drupal Users Group — Meeting (Panera, Clearwater, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay WordPress — What’s My Role? Membership Sites in WordPress (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
Tampa JavaScript Meetup — First meetup (Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 6:30 p.m.)
PHP as a Social Activity — The Corner Workbench (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
Suncoast.js — Learn You a Elm for Greater Good and NodeJS Microservices (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, May 5

Lean Coffee for All Things Agile – St Petersburg (Panera, Clearwater, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, May 6

Tampa Bay Retro Videogame Swap Meet (Tampa Hackerspace, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)

Sunday, May 7

Cigar City Multirotors — International Drone Day 2017 (A La Carte Event Pavilion, 9:00 a.m.)
Girl Develop It Tampa Bay — Intro to Sass (Tampa Hackerspace, admission $50.00 / person, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, April 24, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 24, 2017

Here’s what’s happening for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area this week…

Monday, April 24

April 2017 StartUp Xchange (St. Pete Brewing Co., 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 25

Tampa Bay Tech — WEBINAR: MicroStrategy Implementation (Online, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.)
Business Process Improvement Professionals Of Tampa Bay — The Voice of the Customer (The Brass Tap, 5:30 p.m.)
DefCon 813 / Tampa Data Science Group — Discussion at the Library: The U.S. Congress Just Sold You Out to Advertisers (Town and Country Library, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
Tampa iOS Meetup — Learn how to make games with Sprite Kit and “Flappy Bird”! (Wolters Kluwer, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Alexa & Lex Developers — Build your first Alexa Skill (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay PHP — Building AV Control Systems (Sourcetoad, 6:30 p.m.)
Code Katas — Let’s get together and do some more advanced code challenges! (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
Entrepreneur Moms – The Emotional Journey (Microsoft Store, 7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 26

ReactJS Tampa Bay — Integrating TypeScript with React & React Experience w/ GoLang (AgileThought, 6:00 p.m.)
The Iron Yard — Free Crash Course – Algorithms not Al Gore’s Rhythm (The Iron Yard, 6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
Tampa JUG — Journey to Microservices (KForce, 6:30 p.m.)
Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (Intro) (7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — Learn to pick locks (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Bitcoineers — Bitcoin Meetup (Kahuna’s Bar and Grill, 7:00 p.m.)
The Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Thursday, April 27

Tampa Bay Tech Events — Geek Breakfast (Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
Bitcoin Funding Team Tampa — Bitcoin Breakfast (IKEA, 10:30 a.m.)
Tampa Bay Technology and Marketing Mastermind — Making an extra $50k a year with your “Night Job” (Online, 5:30 p.m.)
code lkld — #PolkHacks Hackathon Overview by Grady Daniels (Catapult, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Area Software Craftsmanship Meetup — Craftsmanship Group Discussion – TBD (Panera Westshore, 6:30 p.m.)
Suncoast iOS — The iOS technical interview: get your dream job as an iOS developer (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
THS Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 28

Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) (Panera Westshore, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
NASA Space Apps 48-Hour Hackathon (SOFWERX, Friday 6:00 p.m. – Sunday 6:00 p.m.)
Game Drive’s Power Up Meetings (Miller’s Ale House Restaurant, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Weekend Geek — Game night and socializing (Mindy’s house, 7:00 p.m.)
Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, April 29

DaVinci’s Faire and BarCamp Bradenton (Manatee Technical College, 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
Tampa Drones — Meet and Tweak (Barbara S. Ponce Public Library, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — Milling Class 3/3 (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:30 p.m.)
Nerd Night Out — Photo Walk, Brooker Creek Headwaters Nature Preserve, N Tampa (4:30 p.m.)

Sunday, April 30

Tampa Drones Meetup — Open Fly Day – Fly what you have! (Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 a.m.)
Nerd Night Out — Game Night (Dunkin Donuts, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, April 17, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 17, 2017

It’s a busy week for techies in the Tampa Bay area! Here’s what’s happening for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs…

Monday, April 17

Tampa Bay DevOps April Meetup (The Patio Tampa, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace 3D printer orientation (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 18

Techbyte Luncheon – Company Culture Series #3 (Polo Grill and Bar, Bradenton, 11:30 a.m.)
Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Connecting Women Entrepreneurs & CEOs to Encourage, Empathize & Inspire (Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
PMI Florida Suncoast Project Management Meetup — Want to learn Agile through playing some fun games? (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
Girl Develop It — Intro to Git/Github + Command Line Basics (Beginner Level) (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — TREP Talks – Sponsored by Hillsborough County EDi2 (Hillsborough County ECC, 6:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Agile — Architecting for Agility (KForce, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Windows 10 Latest Update with Doc (Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 19

That’s right: this Wednesday, I’ll be giving a presentation for GDG Sun Coast on Google Mobile Vision, the Face API, and using them to create a Snapchat Lens-like augmented reality app! Space is limited, so if you’re interested in this one, register now!

Front End Design Conference (The Palladium Theater, 8:00 a.m.)
ENGAGE – A Network for Evolving Entrepreneurs (8:30 a.m.)
Tampa Bay Wave SOF Leadership Series – Build and Lead Your Team Like a Green Beret (Tampa Bay WaVE, 5:30 p.m.)
Florida IT Professionals — Data Models, DAX & Dashboards: The Journey From Excel to Power BI (Microsoft, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay AWS April Meetup: Happy Hour Social (The Patio Tampa, 6:00 p.m.)
Kick Off Party for the Front End Design Conference (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
The Suncoast Linux Users Group — SLUG Pinellas (Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
The Iron Yard — Free Crash Course – .NET on a Mac (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
GDG Sun Coast — Android and Augmented Reality (Tampa Bay WaVE. 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Florida IT Professionals — Office 365 – Skype for Business Online Calling (Microsoft, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (Intro) (7:00 p.m.)
The Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code – St Petersburg (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Geek Association — Karaoke and Games @ PJ Dolans (Pj Dolan’s Irish Pub & Grille, 8:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.)

Thursday, April 20

Tampa Bay Technology Sales Professionals — Tech Sales Pros April Meeting (New Horizons, 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)
Tampa Bay Tech — Florida IT Apprenticeship Dialogue (SPC EpiCenter Collaborative Labs, Largo, 7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
Tampa Professional Networking Meetup — Happy Hour Networking – Cigars, Fine Wines and Brews (Long Ash Cigar Bar, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Bad Monkey, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
TampaDev — (Monthly) Azure User Group (Wolters Kluwer, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Florida IT Professionals — Tampa PowerShell User Group (Microsoft, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Tampa SEO and Internet Marketing Monthly Meetup with Steve Scott (Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 6:00 p.m.)
Tech on Tap Meetup (Coppertail Brewery, 6:00 p.m.)
WordPress Meetup at The Iron Yard (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay WordPress — Speaking Client: Explaining Tech Stuff to Non-Tech People Pt. 1 (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
DefCon 813 — Cybersecurity WITI (Women in Tech Int’l) Social & Panel Discussion (6:00 p.m.)
Florida IT Professionals — Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service with Michelle Eubanks (Microsoft, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Amazon Sellers in the Tampa Bay Area — Grab Dinner and Talk! (7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Qlikview User Group — Monthly ‘Qlik Pick’ Meeting (7:00 p.m.)
The Tampa Ruby Brigade — Tampa.rb: Tampa Side – Mystery Meetup! (Andy Beverly School, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Python — Big Data Python: Getting Familiar with Numpy and Pandas (Salesforce Tampa, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace — THS Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Cocoaheads — DIY Augmented Reality, Part 1 (ActSoft Inc., 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Geek Association — Geek Social (Ford’s Garage, 8:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 21

Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Brandon/Riverview) (Panera @ Brandon Town Center Mall, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Sarasota Location) (Panera @ Town Center Mall,7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)

Saturday, April 22

Global Azure Bootcamp (Microsoft, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Milling Class 2/3 (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:30 p.m.)
Nerd Night Out — Karaoke Night! (Fat Cat Tavern, 8:30 p.m.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, April 10, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 10, 2017

Here’s what’s happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs this week.

Monday, April 10

Tampa Bay Data Science Group: Data Science in Action (Wolters Kluwer, 6:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
Clearwater/St. Petersburg Unity User Group: Using user feedback to enhance your game (AgiteThought, 6:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 11

Amazon’s AWSome Day (Tampa Convention Center, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Tech: STEM Business Summit (University Student Center – USF St Petersburg, 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Tampa Cloud Foundry Meetup: Event-Driven Microservices w/Kenny Bastani, Spring developer advocate (
Masonite’s Ybor city development center, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
BarCamp Sarasota Network & Learn (Station 2 Innovation Center 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Tampa Drones: Open Fly Day on the Weekday! (R.E. Olds Park, 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace: Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.)
Pinellas Hack Shack weekday improvements (6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.)
Code Katas (The Iron Yard, 6:15 p.m.)
Tampa eMarketing Groups: Learn About Podcasting and How to Monetize Your Interest! (McAlister’s Deli, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup: Web Entrepreneurs (Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 12

Tampa Bay Agile: PO Group: Product Roadmaps – connect strategy w/execution (Healthesystems, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University: Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- April Meeting (St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us Weekly Meetup (Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace: Introduction to Fusion 360 (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
The Suncoast Linux Users Group (HDR, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Bitcoineers (Kahuna’s Bar and Grill, 7:00 p.m.)
Suncoast Developers Guild: Open Code (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Thursday, April 13

DIY SEO for Small-Medium Businesses St. Pete: SEO Lesson 4: WordPress Yoast SEO Plugin (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
Front-End Design Meetup: CSS in JavaScript with Christopher Wallis (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
NodeSchool @ The Iron Yard (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
THS Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 14

Lean Coffee for All Things Agile, Waters Location (Panera Bread, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, April 3, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date April 2, 2017

Here’s what’s happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs this week.

Monday, April 3

Tampa Bay Alexa and Lex Developers — Build Your First Alexa Skill (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:30 p.m.)
Code for Tampa Bay Monthly Meetup (Tampa Bay ECC, 6:30 p.m.)
Brandon Emarketing Groups — Internet Marketing for Business Owners (Sabor a Mexico, Brandon, 7:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, April 4

Tampa Bay Tech — Florida Business Analytics Forum (USF Muma College of Business, 11:00 a.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace Member Meeting (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m.)
SPC IT Career Exploration Networking Event & Job Fair (SPC Seminole Campus Conference Center, Seminole, 6:00 p.m.)
Nerd Night Out — Trivia Night (O’Brien’s Irish Pub, 6:45 p.m.)
St. Pete .NET Meetup — Caching in .NET Core for Fun and Profit with John Callaway (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Android Developers Group/Google Developers Group Sun Coast — Lightning Round Talks (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay WordPress — An Introduction to WordPress (Complete I.T. Computer Repair & Network Solutions, Lutz, 7:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, April 5

PMI Florida Suncoast Project Management Meetup — Professional Development Day: Leadership Success through Managing Projects (St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, Clearwater, 8:30 a.m.)
Technology Networking Meetup (Ulele, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild’s April 2017 Meetup (Vology, 6:00 p.m.)
Iron Yard’s Free Crash Course – Tomorrow’s Javascript, Today (The Iron Yard, 6:15 p.m.)
Open Code (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure Intro (7:00 p.m.)

Thursday, April 6

Tampa# C# and .NET Meetup — Coffee & Code (11:00 a.m.)
Tampa Bay Drupal User Group Meeting (Panera, Clearwater, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay WordPress Meetup — St Pete: Networking & Freeform Working Meeting (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Internet of Things Developer Group (Microsoft Office, 6:30 p.m.)
Florida Salesforce Developer Group — Anatomy of APEX (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
PHP as a Social Activity — The Corner Workbench (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
Tampa Hackerspace Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
Suncoast.js — Becoming an A11y & NodeBots: JavaScript Robotics (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, April 7

Lean Coffee for All Things Agile, St Petersburg (Panera, Clearwater, 7:30 a.m.)
Tampa Bay WaVE — So You Think You Can Mentor? (Tampa Bay WaVE, 12:00 p.m.)
The Iron Yard Open House and Station House REVEAL: Diversity of the Arts (The Iron Yard, 5:00 p.m.)

Saturday, April 8:

Orlando Code Camp 2017 (Seminole State College, Sanford, 8:00 a.m.)
Girl Develop It: Introduction to HTML + CSS (The Iron Yard, 9:00 a.m.)

Sunday, April 9:

Kid’s Open Make Day (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m.)
Cosplay Workshop (Tampa Hackerspace, 4:30 p.m.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, March 27, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date March 26, 2017

Here’s what’s happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs this week.

Monday, March 27

Amateur Radio Technician Classes (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
DefCon 813 — Social & DC813 Gear

Tuesday, March 28

Tampa iOS Meetup is my Meetup group aimed at people new to software development or new to iOS development. Rather than study just a single aspect of iOS development, each Tampa iOS Meetup session is devoted to developing a complete app, and learning various things along the way.

On Tuesday, we’ll build a relaxation/mindfulness app at Tampa iOS Meetup, and in the process, learn about:

Error handling in Swift: responding to errors gracefully rather than having the app come to a crashing halt and annoying the user.
Playing sounds: Playing both short sound cues and effects, as well as longer recordings.
Auto layout: Building user interfaces that adjust themselves to the screen size, from the (relatively) tiny iPhone 4S all the way to the large iPad Pro.

Join me, next Tuesday, March 28th at 6:30 p.m. at the Wolters Kluwer office (1410 N Westshore Blvd, Tampa) in Westshore for Tampa iOS Meetup’s session on building a guided meditation audio app! We’ll provide food and drink — bring your Mac laptop, and be ready to code!

To register for this event, visit the event page. Registration is free! Please register by Monday, March 27th at 12 noon so that we can determine how much food and drink we’ll need.

Tuesday’s events:

BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton Network & Learn (Station 2 Innovation, Bradenton, 11:30 a.m.)
Code Katas — Let’s get together and do some more advanced code challenges! (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
Functional Ybor — Building a React/Redux-like Architecture w/ Inferno, Most, & FP Tools/Techniques (Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library, 6:30 p.m.)
Microsoft IoT Bootcamp, enterprise track (Tampa Hackerspace, 10:30 a.m.)
Tampa Bay Agile — “Stranger In a Strange Land: An Agilists Tragedy of Working in a Waterfall Shop” (Valpak, 6:30 p.m.)
Tampa JUG — Trends in Middleware Platform(J2EE) Monitoring Automation (Citigroup Center, 6:30 p.m.)
Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, March 29

Microsoft is hosting virtual bootcamps on building IoT solutions this week, where they’ll talk about Windows 10, Azure, and how they fit with IoT, complete with presentations and hands-on labs led by Microsoft presenters as well as these IoT industry speakers:

You can catch these bootcamps in the company of other Tampa Bay area people interested in IoT at Tampa Hackerspace — check out their events, which are taking place Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Wednesday’s events:

Microsoft IoT Bootcamp, commercial makers track (Tampa Hackerspace, 10:30 a.m.)
Open Code (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
ReactJS Tampa Bay — Building a React/Redux-like Architecture w/ Inferno, Most, & FP Tools/Techniques (AgileThought, 6:00 p.m.)
Tampa Bay Geek Association — Geek Social (The Lucky Dill in Palm Harbor, 8:00 p.m.)

Thursday, March 30

Google has reached out to the TampaDev Meetup group and offered a free half-day seminar on the Google Cloud Platform. They’ll talk about the platform, Compute Engine, Kubernetes, Google data storage and data warehousing. This event will take place on Thursday morning and include breakfast.

Thursday’s events: