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Software Sith Lord says…

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 11, 2019

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Software Sith Lord says…

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 10, 2019

Status of Darth Vader with the caption behind him written on whiteboard: 'I have altered the feature set. Pray I do not alter it any further.'

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Here’s the scene it references…

…and here’s the mandatory Robot Chicken parody:

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A Sith Lord at Sourcetoad [updated]

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 8, 2019

Now witness the power of this fully-operational Darth Vader statue
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Someone gave an old Darth Vader statue to one of my co-workers’ toddlers, and it didn’t work out so well. That’s how it came into my possession, and I plan to make the most of it. It’s now standing proudly beside my desk at the Sourcetoad office, awaiting amusing photo opportunities.

Update: Banana for scale

George “@gortok” Stocker suggested that I include a banana in the photo for scale, and I’m more than happy to oblige:

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Tonight: Chatting live with the Thunder Nerds about DevFest Florida!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 7, 2019

I’m chatting live tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube with the folks from the Thunder Nerds podcast about the upcoming DevFest Florida conference, which takes place on Saturday, January 19th at the Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World.

You can watch it below:

The Thunder Nerds describe their podcast as “A conversation with the people behind the technology, that love what they do… and do tech good.” I had the privilege of doing an interview with them at last year’s DevFest Florida…

…and I’m looking forward to chatting with them both tonight and at this year’s conference.

The Thunder Nerds, who have over 160 podcasts under their collective belt, are Jenell Pizarro:

…Brian Hinton:

…and Frederick Philip von Weiss:

They’ll be talking with a number of people who’ll be speaking at DevFest Florida 2019, including Yours Truly, who’ll be presenting to attendees who want to get in on one of the hottest fields’ (data science) hottest tools (Jupyter notebooks)…

…Betty Pierce, who’ll talk about React Native Up and Running:

…Eva Sofianos, who will present Nailing the Tech Interview:

…Michael Prentice, whose presentation will be Composing Accessible UIs With Angular Material Components,

…Santosh Hari, whose talk will be Intro to NoSQL and how to pick a cloud based NoSQL provider:

…and Siva Kumar, whose presentation will be AI Adventures with AutoML:

If you want to find out more about DevFest Florida, or if you simply want to see what’s new in the tech world, tune in tonight to this live chat!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 7, 2019)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 6, 2019

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week (especially Wednesday, which has a whopping 22 events), and here they are!

This weekly list is posted as a voluntary service to the Tampa tech community. With the notable exception of Tampa iOS Meetup, which I run, most of this information comes from Meetup.com, EventBrite, and other local event announcement sites. I can’t guarantee the accuracy of the dates and times listed here; if you want to be absolutely sure that the event you’re interested in is actually taking place, please contact the organizers!

Monday, January 7

Tuesday, January 8

Wednesday, January 9

Thursday, January 10

Friday, January 11

Saturday, January 12

Sunday, January 13

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 31, 2018)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 30, 2018

Tampa Bay Tech Events / Monday, Dec. 31 2018 — Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 / #MakeItTampaBay

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. The week starts with New Year’s Eve, so while events may be sparse at its start, thing pick up pretty quickly!

Monday, December 31

Tuesday, January 1

Wednesday, January 2

Thursday, January 3

Friday, January 4

Saturday, January 5

Sunday, January 6

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 24, 2018)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 23, 2018

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. It’s the holidays, so there aren’t as many ones this week, but there are still some happening!

Before you decide to attend an event on this list, it might be a good idea to double-check with the organizers that it’s actually happening. Event announcement systems like Meetup get a little ambitious, and once they notice a pattern in an event’s schedule (say, the last Tuesday of every month), they get a little ambitious and try to pre-schedule events.

Update: Banana for scale

Monday, January 7

Tuesday, January 8

Wednesday, January 9

Thursday, January 10

Friday, January 11

Saturday, January 12

Sunday, January 13

Monday, December 31

Tuesday, January 1

Wednesday, January 2

Thursday, January 3

Friday, January 4

Saturday, January 5

Sunday, January 6

Monday, December 24

Tuesday, December 25

Wednesday, December 26

Thursday, December 27

Friday, December 28

Saturday, December 29

Sunday, December 30