Save the date! Our next meetup will be on Tuesday, May 12 at 6:00 pm at the Centro de Innovación in San Joaquin. This time we will be discussing start-up technologies. We will have FREE pizza and beers! We would love to see as many of you as possible; it will be a really fun night.
Tech talks (will begin promptly at 7:00 pm):
• Starting Projects Properly with Devin McInnis (English)
What is the best technology may not always be the best solution for the job. Walkthrough the process of building Timeline.com (http://timeline.com) and the problems of thinking too big too soon.
• Sisyphus Or “How to Start Over Again - and Again” with Francisco Díaz (Español)
Why feeling like a bad programmer is amazing for your career. A retrospective on pivoting from Objective-C to Swift in a few months.
• Intro to Node.js with Fabiano Soriani (English)
Learn more about the aspects, ecosystem and use cases of Node.js.
• John Rawls on Hackathons with Raul Pino (Español)
Explore the fact that winning a hackathon might just be a matter of luck, with no guarantee the winning idea is actually good.
Presenters:
• Devin McInnis (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/devinmcinnis) (@DevoAKA (http://twitter.com/DevoAKA) - Toronto, Canada) has become an expert at building front-end user experiences that work beautifully and maintain cross-browser compatibility. As a self-proclaimed "Internet Explorer" (pun most definitely intended), he's passionate about bridging the gap between designers and backend engineers to make complex data available to users.
• Francisco Díaz (https://cl.linkedin.com/in/fdiazmeza) (@fco_diaz (http://twitter.com/fco_diaz) - Valdivia, Chile) is a Software Engineer at Axiom Zen. He loves creating beautiful looking apps that are a pleasure to use. He'd love to hear questions about iOS development: Objective-C, Swift or whatever you'd like!
• Fabiano Soriani (https://cl.linkedin.com/in/flockonus) (@flockonUS (http://twitter.com/flockonUS) - Florianopolis, Brasil) is a two-time entrepreneur who fuses a deep skill set in coding with project management training and expertise. He's an expert at improving metrics visibility and building robust APIs for Axiom Zen. Software engineering has been his primary form of expression: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and node.js have become his mother tongues.
• Raul Pino (https://cl.linkedin.com/in/p1nox/en) (@p1nox (http://twitter.com/p1nox) - Caracas, Venezuela) is a Computer Engineer with 6 years of experience, nowadays a Software Engineer at Axiom Zen, and former Grouponer. Full Stack developer on global scale projects, entrepreneur, and awarded hackathon attendee.
As always, if you have any suggestions or questions, do not hesitate to send Abby (https://www.meetup.com/members/179403842/) a message on Meetup. We love to hear from you!
