Since we’re still deep in a pandemic and the unemployment scenario that comes with it, the job market is even tougher to navigate than usual. Finding a job these days isn’t just about doing the right things, but also about not doing the wrong things.
If you’re having trouble landing a new job, or are just feeling frustrated about how your job search is going, you might want to attend Computer Coach’s free online workshop tomorrow: 12 Things You May Be Doing Wrong in Your Job Search. They’ll cover 12 common mistakes people make in their job search and how to start doing them right.
Saying that Computer Coach are a Tampa Bay tech training school doesn’t do them justice. They’re also active participants and sponsors at local events, regular tech meetup organizers, and part of what makes the Tampa Bay tech scene special.
Computer Coach have been doing so much for the local tech scene during the pandemic. They’ve helped connect Tampa Bay locals with not just tech training, but funding for it as well.
Over the past summer and fall, they quickly spun up all sorts of tech courses so that students could complete them before the end of the 2020 calendar year in order to qualify for education grants. I should know; I taught a couple of their Python and JavaScript courses, which helped both the students (who were looking to skill up) and me (I was looking for work at the time, and the pay and experience were helpful).
Welcome to the final week of January 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, January 25 through Sunday, January 31, 2020.
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.
For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…
1 in 13 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (25 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1 million more than last week).
1 in 787 Americans has died from COVID-19 (417,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 24,000 more than last week).
…and we’re still experiencing a post-holiday spike that has a number of ICUs across the country running at maximum capacity.
We live in the age of broadband and ubiquitous computing — make the best use of it. Stay safe, stay connected, skill up, and #MakeItTampaBay!
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If you want the most up-to-date overview of Tampa Bay’s startup scene, you’ll want to check out Startup Guide: Tampa Bay.
Dan Holahan, member Experience Manager at Embarc Collective.
It was just published yesterday, and it’s written by Dan Holahan of Embarc Collective, a startup accelerator/incubator/coworking space located near downtown Tampa.
Dan’s writeup covers:
A quick summary of “The Other Bay Area”
Tampa Bay’s capital landscape
Notable Tampa Bay startup fundraising deals that took place in the last six months
The Latest on Tampa’s Tech Scene was published in October 2020 and features a number of Tampa Bay-based entrepreneurs, organizations, and activities, including:
You need two key ingredients to build a startup scene: nerds and rich people. I’ve pointed you to articles about the nerds, so here’s one about the rich people who’ll fund the nerdery:
Welcome to the third week of 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for the Tampa Bay area for the week of Monday, January 18 through Sunday, January 24, 2020.
“Tampa Bay area” means “Within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa”
By “Tampa Bay”, 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 list is sticking to online events for now
For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…
1 in 14 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (23.6 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1 million more than last week).
1 in 835 Americans has died from COVID-19 (393,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 20,000 more than last week).
…and we’re still experiencing a post-holiday spike that has a number of ICUs across the country running at maximum capacity.
We live in the age of broadband and ubiquitous computing — make the best use of it. Stay safe, stay connected, skill up, and #MakeItTampaBay!
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!
Of the podcasts in this roundup, Thunder Nerds — “A conversation with the people behind the technology, that love what they do… and do tech good” — has been around the longest, with 274 episodes over five seasons to date. You’ve probably seen the hosts at local meetups and conferences; they’re Sarrah Vesselov, Frederick Philip Von Weiss, and Brian Hinton.
274 – 🧑🏽🍳 Learn to Cook Code at Hackathons with Vincent Tang
In this episode, we get to speak with fullstack developer, tech educator, and speaker, Vincent Tang. We discuss the value of learning from hackathons, and how to get started in the tech industry. We also discuss Vincent’s new podcast Code Chefs.
…a show dedicated to helping developers to grow their career. Topics include Test Driven Development, Clean Code, Professionalism, Entrepreneurship, as well as the latest and greatest programming languages and concepts.
178 – Identity with Christos Matskas
Microsoft Identity for developers and Security in the Cloud! Christos is a developer, speaker, writer, and Microsoft Program Manager for Microsoft Identity, doing advocacy at scale.
177 – F# and FP with Phillip Carter
Phillip Carter joins us on the latest episode of The 6 Figure Developer Podcast to talk F# and Functional Programming. Phillip is a software person by trade. He currently works for Microsoft, focusing on .NET languages and compilers and tooling, with a heavy emphasis on F#. He likes doing other things too, like riding snowboards and bikes.
176 – REST APIs with Irina Scurtu
Irina is a Software Architect, a Microsoft MVP, and .NET Group Community Lead at Endava. She’s also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and founder of dotnetdays Romania.
175 – Dave Glick: Statiq Sites and Open Source
Dave has been professionally developing software for almost two decades. He is passionate about open source, .NET, and the intersection of the two.
174 – DevOps Engineering with Ken Mugrage
Ken is Tech Principal for the Office of the CTO @ThoughtWorks. He’s passionate about #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps. He’s now focused on future tech.
173 – bUnit: A Blazor Testing Lib w/ Egil Hansen
Principal Developer at Delegate. A Microsoft MVP & .NET Foundation member. Creator of the Blazor Testing Library #bUnit. Egil joins us to talk all about bUnit – a Testing Library for Blazor Components.
172 – Rob Richardson: .NET 5, Pipelines, & Testing
Rob is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development.
171 – Jeremy Sinclair: Win Insider, .NET on ARM
Jeremy is an enthusiastic developer with over 10 years of development experience. He’s also part of the #WindowsInsiders community and a Windows Insider MVP.
170 – Michael Jolley on JavaScript, TS, Blazor, etc.
From his early days with lincoln logs to building custom ERP systems, Michael has always been a builder. With nearly 20 years experience designing & developing software, he loves sharing his knowledge with others and watching them excel. While still building custom applications for clients today, Michael has been spending considerable time pouring into others via his live-coding sessions on Twitch and talks at conferences & meet-ups. When not in full-geek mode, Michael is a husband of nearly 20 years, father to three awesome kids, musician, and football fanatic.
169 – Welcome Back Ash! Self Care in Covid Times
We’re so happy to have Jon Ash back! Ash was taking some time for self care, family, and personal projects. In this episode we welcome him back and hear all about what he’s been working on.
168 – Oqtane and OSS with Shaun Walker
Shaun Walker is the original creator of Oqtane and DotNetNuke, web application frameworks which have the earned the recognition of being among the largest, most successful, pioneering Open Source projects native to the Microsoft platform. He has 25+ years professional experience in architecting and implementing enterprise software solutions for private and public organizations. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) as well as an ASPInsider for over 10 consecutive years. He was recognized by Business In Vancouver in 2011 as a leading entrepreneur in their Forty Under 40 business awards, and is currently the Chair of the Project Committee for the .NET Foundation. Shaun is currently a Technical Director and Enterprise Guildmaster at Cognizant Softvision. Shaun joined us to talk about his newest project, Oqtane, a Modular Application Framework for Blazor, as well as Open Source Software, and The .NET Foundation!
167 – Manage Cloud Cost with Omry Hay
Omry is Co-Founder and CTO at env0, the first self-service cloud management platform for infrastructure as code (IaC) architecture.
166 – The State of Python with Michael Kennedy
Michael is the founder and host of Talk Python To Me, a weekly podcast about Python and related software developer topics. He is a the founder and chief author at Talk Python Training where many leading Python developer courses are available online. Michael is an entrepreneur, a father of three girls, a husband, a student, and a teacher. You can find him in his hometown of Portland, OR.
165 – Kode Vicious, George Neville-Neil
Writing as Kode Vicious, George has spent more than 15 years sharing advice and insights as a “coder with attitude” in ACM’s Queue magazine. He is a software engineer, author and security nerd with other varied interests who speaks several languages including Japanese.
164 – .NET MAUI with Auri Rahimzadeh
Auri joins us to talk about .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). Auri A. Rahimzadeh is an accomplished technophile writer and author. He has written three books: Hacking the PSP, Geek My Ride, and co-authored Hacking Digital Cameras. Rahimzadeh has contributed to many digital entertainment technology standards, including HDTV and DVD, and is former west coast research director at The Envisioneering Group, a prominent consumer electronics research firm. Having taught side by side with Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, Auri continues to share a passion for technology education for children and teens. Currently Mr. Rahimzadeh is owner of Auri’s Ideas in Fishers, Indiana, and an instructor at Eleven Fifty Academy, a non-for-profit technology education bootcamp.
The Mike Dominick Show is the second-newest of the podcasts in this list, and it has an open source focus.
40 – Monica Ayhens-Madon
Mike sits down with Monica Ayhens-Madon to discuss the People Powered Book Club, fostering open-source and their eclectic educational backgrounds. This is an amazingly varied and fun chat!
Friends that Code is the newest podcast on this list, and it’s hosted by Mike Traverso, whom locals may know from the Tampa Bay Google Developers Group meetup and other Google-y events. In this podcast, he showcases…
…some amazing people I know that just happen to write code for a living. Whether they started off intending to code or just happened into it, we get to hear about the types of people you’ll meet, things you’ll get to do, jobs you’ll have along the way, and advice from some awesome coders along the way!
26 – Imposter Syndrome: You Do Belong Here & other affirmations and ways to beat imposter syndrome
25 – I owe a world famous video game designer 70 cents with Graeme Devine Video game lover, developer, designer, producer, Godfather of games on CD-Roms, and man partly responsible for a Christmas shortage of gold Zelda cartridges. Ladies and gentlemen, todays guest is Graeme Devine!
24 – Preparing for better opportunities. Oh! and pinball too with Stacy Devino Developer, Google Developer Expert, Community Organizer, Conference Speaker, Mentor, Sneaker fan and Mistress of Android. Ladies and Gentlemen, todays guest is Stacy Devino!
23 – Having every job imaginable in technology with Joey deVilla
Developer, former Evangelist, former CTO, Author, Community Organizer, Conference Speaker, Accordion Guy and Developer again. Ladies and gentlemen, today’s guest is Joey deVilla!
22 – Coding a secure, community driven, open sourced Smash Bros moves app with Kento Kawakami
Nintendo enthusiast, Video game lover, graphic designer, photographer, App developer and spanking new software developer. Ladies and gentlemen, todays guest is Kento Kawakami!
21 – Mentoring developers & fostering the community with Maggie Negm
Software developer, volunteer, and mentor to newer software developers and all around good person. Ladies and gentlemen, todays guest is Maggie Negm!
20 – Dialoging with an Android Developer with Huyen Tue Dao
Developer, Architect, Fantastic Conference Speaker, Google Developer Expert in Android & Kotlin, YouTube Producer and On-Air Talent… Ladies and gentlemen, today’s guest is Huyen Tue Dao!
19 – Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready with Jerome Hardaway
Developer, Air Force Veteran, Tech Evangelist, Founder and Executive Director at Vets Who Code and Captain America of web development! Ladies and gentlemen, today’s guest is Jerome Hardaway!
18 – Development is just another creative outlet with David Khourshid
Developer, Conference Speaker, Author, Javascript framework creator, Twitch streamer and moonlighting piano player. Ladies and gentlemen, todays guest is David Khourshid!
17 – Creating creativity, turning static into fantastic with Erica Jacobs
Designer, Illustrator, Volunteer, Celebrator of women in the design and tech community, Creator of the Neon Swan Awards and Creative Mind extraordinaire. Ladies and gentlemen, todays guest is Erica Jacobs!
16 – ABC’s of success: Authenticity, Balance and Communication with Bill Conyea
Developer, CTO, Investor, Technology Staffer and Entrepreneur. Ladies and gentlemen, today’s guest is Bill Conyea!
Looking for an interesting online meetup to attend tonight? I’ll be checking out Tampa bay Product Owner Group’s meetup, which has an intriguing title: Stakeholder Management — Tips from FBI Hostage Negotiators. It happens tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Zoom.
Product Management IS Stakeholder Management. Influencing and Negotiating is a big part of the role.
In this session, you will learn modern negotiation techniques applied to Stakeholder Management. This is a fun spin on Stakeholder management using the negotiation techniques Chris Voss outlines in “Never Split the Difference.” We explore modern negotiation techniques, then apply them to real-life scenarios.
We examine Mirroring, Labeling, Getting to Yes, and Open-Ended Questions in realistic Product and Stakeholder scenarios. We think we learn by applying, so this will have an interactive element to it!
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Saying that Computer Coach are a Tampa Bay tech training school doesn’t do them justice. They’re also active participants and sponsors at local events, regular tech meetup organizers, and part of what makes the Tampa Bay tech scene special.
For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…
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