RAnDOM

GitHub repo up for Pub Crawl App

2010-08-29T03:23:16Z

I’ve setup a repo on GitHub for the pub crawl project to get us started. No code as of yet, but I’ve created an organization and a team called Developers that I can add anyone to that would like to work on the app. If you don’t have an account with GitHub, it’s free to create and will allow you to access the project. If you haven’t used Git before, I suggest checking out GitHub’s help section which has some great guides and tutorials linked for learning Git. If you’re not comfortable with the command line interface for Git, download SmartGit or TortoiseGit, which are nice, simple UIs for working with Git repositories and has great GitHub integration.

If anyone needs help getting setup, just let the group know. See y’all next month.

August Meeting Wrap-up

2010-08-25T17:45:53Z

Thanks to Sebastian, Darryl, Sarah, and Chris for making it out last night to the August meeting. Over the course of the evening we had some great discussions about HTML5, the new Google Maps API, Rails 3, Flex, tablets, and other fun topics. Congrats to Darryl for winning the channel developer contest with Litl and on his trip out to FITC 2010. He gave us a demo of his how the Litl development environment worked and the sign language channel he’s developed which very cool to see.

At the close of the meeting, we came to the consensus that we’d like to start building an application as a group. I shared my idea for a pub crawling application using HTML5, Google Maps and Geo-location, LawnChair, CouchDB, jQuery, and an assortment of other fun libraries that everyone seems to be into. Each meeting we’ll try to building a piece of the puzzle and see how it goes. If anyone has any suggestions or requests for features or technologies they’d like to use, come out to the next meeting and let’s dig in.

Our next meeting will be on September 21th, 2010 @ 6:00 PM at the Suntree/Viera Library, since the venue seemed to work out pretty well this month. See you then!

Reminder: August 2010 Meeting Tomorrow Night

2010-08-23T17:05:34Z

Just a friendly reminder that our August 2010 meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 24th @ 6:00 PM at the Suntree/Viera Library. Bring some ideas regarding APIs you want to check out or specs you’re interested in learning more about. No food or drinks please, per the library guidelines, but if anyone has time, we can always swing by C&J’s next door for a beer afterwards.

The conference room we’ll be using is located to the left of the entrance next to the reference desk and computer station. See you tomorrow night.

New Venue: Suntree/Viera Library

2010-08-16T14:13:51Z

This morning I stopped by the Suntree/Viera library and checked on the availability for a meeting room per Chris, Sarah, and Sebastian’s advice. They have a ~10 person conference room that has a large white board, plenty of outlets, and a large meeting room table. They can’t furnish us with a projector and don’t allow food and drink, but they do have free WiFi available. Based on their schedule, the 3rd Tuesday of each month is available if we’d like to use the room; Monday’s were completely booked. I went ahead and took the slot for 6:00 PM to 7:45PM on the 3rd Tuesday of the month; the library closes at 8:00 PM, so we have to end 15 minutes prior to close.

For this month, I grabbed the Tuesday slot (same time) on 08/24, since the 3rd Tuesday would be tomorrow and I’d like to give more notice to the group. There are only a few of us, so if this date is absolutely terrible for anyone, let me know and we can look into changing some dates around. Also, since there is no food/drink allowed in the library and since we’re meeting earlier in the evening, I figure we can grab a beer at Charlie and Jake’s next door afterwards for anyone who is interested.

I’ll update the blog, but let know what y’all think.

FAMiLab and the Greater Orlando Hackerspace

2010-08-16T02:59:41Z

Max passed along some information about an electronics hacking group in the Central Florida area that I thought I’d share. FAMiLab is located in Altamonte Springs and has Microcontroller Mondays weekly @ 7:00 PM where they invite the community into the lab to learn and play with assorted electronics hardware and software. For those of you who remember Matt showing us his work on the Barduino, you’ve already gotten a glimpse as to how much fun this kind of stuff can be; check out Max’s latest endeavor as well for another cool example.

According to one of the guys running the show, they’re in the process of restructuring their website and such, but if you’d like to get in touch for more information (i.e. – the gate code to get in), you can email them @ familab.4am at gmail dot com or jump on their discuss mailing list @ http://familab.org/mailman/listinfo for some active conversation. If anyone decides to go, let the group know so people can possibly carpool into Orlando.

Venue updates and possible start date

2010-08-13T02:12:01Z

Over the last couple weeks I’ve looked into having meetings at BCC and Sarah has looked into possibly getting some space at her office building. Both options did not pan out for one reason or another, so we’re still in need of a venue for our meetings. Does anyone know of any spaces we could use for our monthly meetings or have any suggestions that I could look into?

We may have to give Indian River Coffee another shot until something comes up. Zach and Darryl, can we use your projector and screen again if this is the case? If so, how does August 23rd @ 7:00 PM for our next meeting sound to everyone? I was hoping to give Monday’s a try this year, what do y’all think?

Microsoft C# Mid and Sr. Level Developer Position Available

2010-07-12T14:21:56Z

Rick Johnson from Kirkman Consulting is looking for candidates for a client who’s recently opened a development center in Melbourne. The company is an outsourcing company who is looking to compete with off-shoring companies and is in desperate need for “.NET and Biztalk developers”. I’ve posted the job description below:

Microsoft C# Mid and Sr. Level Developer

Job Description

Work with the functional analysis team to understand the business requirements and help to translate these into technical specifications and work items.
Work with the other Developers to build a highly scalable, and reusable architecture within the .NET Framework.
Create simple technical documents for use in translating the edge-point requirements to other technical developers in adjacent teams.
Develop user interface applications, backend services and data access layers within the .Net Framework.
Understand the design and have a strong working knowledge of development within Microsoft SQL Server object development.
Understand and have a strong working knowledge of MVC and JQuery.
Understand the Visual Studio 2008 IDE including the ability to create service references and work with Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Create unit tests within Visual Studio and demonstrate TDD development.
Report and correct defects as well as confirming the defect corrections of others on the team
Participate in Agile Methodology sessions and understand the basics of the Agile SDLC.
Work well in a small team environment, be a self-starter and mentor other team members.
Understand the basics of business object development including the ability to work with Design Patterns, WCF and Linq-to-Objects.

Job Experience

The ideal candidate will have:

Minimum (3-5 years Mid) (5+ years Senior) experience in application design, development and testing in .NET Framework/C#.
Minimum 3-5 years experience with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, C#, SQL Server 2005,
Understanding of databases and database concepts such as SQL and relational database design.
Understanding of software development concepts including programming languages (C# and XML), Object oriented analysis and design, and design specifications.
Experience in development of backend Windows based applications. Knowledge of CSLA, XSLT, and serializers are helpful but not absolutely necessary.
Experience with development tools such as Visio UML Diagrams and Visual Studio 2008.
Should have specific knowledge of some the following areas: Command, Abstract Factory, Singleton and Façade Design Patterns.
WCF services, including the ability to define endpoints, create data contracts, message contracts and work with configuration files.
Create and work with SQL Server 2005 tables, triggers, and stored procedures.
Create and deploy reports with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Must have good analytical skills and a solid understanding of cross-cutting concerns.
Must enjoy programming and be excited about the opportunity to exercise the skills.
Must pay attention to detail and have tenacity
Must have a solid understanding of common software failures exceptions and how to deal with them in a programming environment.
Should be able to get along with other team members.

I do have to apologize, Rick sent me this posting in June, and I’ve just gotten to posting it now. Anyone interested in the position should contact Rick directly at rjohnson@kirkwoodIT.com.

Free JQuery Book — Today (7/12/2010) only!

2010-07-12T13:44:29Z

Since Spain has won the World Cup, SitePoint is giving away their JQuery: Novice to Ninja Book for free! The deal is only effective today, 07/12/2010, so make your way over now and grab a copy before it’s too late.

Let’s give it another try!

2010-07-09T05:39:02Z

This evening (morning) I renewed the domain for the group (itsrandom.info) with my host. After seeing an interest on the blog and speaking with Zach and Sebastian, I think it’s still worth keeping the group going. I’m split pretty thin between the office and my OSS work, so I’d like to switch the meeting format to an open one in which we just meet and decide what we’d like to learn/mess with/etc. Basically, I’m advocating no planned topics for meetings with the intention of just hacking at APIs based on the interests of those in attendance at the meetings. I’ve been wanting to mess with HTML 5 a lot more, so there are plenty of things we can dig into. Mobile is really hot right now too, so I’m sure we can find something in that arena or combination of the two. Really any topic is on the table.

All this being said, to accomplish this open format, it’s my opinion, we’re going to need to find a venue that has a space to setup the projector and is a bit quieter than our normal spots; the coffee shop isn’t cutting it. I’m going to need help to find a new place to meet though. We basically need somewhere that is open until about 9:00 PM, that potentially has a projector/screen, can hold about 10 people, and is quiet. I was thinking maybe the BCC library, but I think we need a student to book the room. Any suggestions? If we can find a new spot to meet, I’d like to start back up in August/September (2010 ). We’re only a few people right now, so I’m open to suggestions for the day of the week, and will throw out Monday to start.

I’d also like to rename the group to something more generic, so I’m open to any ideas. Thanks to everyone for their interest. Let’s try to get something organized for August/September and see how it goes.

Any interest out there still?

2010-03-31T14:35:47Z

As you can probably tell from the contents of this blog over the last months, RAnDOM has been pretty inactive with its last meeting in August 2009. Myself, Sebastian, and Zach were helping to organize the group, but slowly, we began to realize that we didn’t have as much time to contribute. We all still like the idea of getting together on a monthly basis, but we’re curious if there is still any interest in the community for us getting together? The domain name for this blog is coming up for renewal in July 2010, so it seemed like a good motivator to get some feedback.

What do y’all say? Anyone up for giving it another try?

RAnDOM

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