Just a reminder that Desert Code Camp is this Saturday, June 13th, at the DeVry University Phoenix campus. It’s 100% free and has content for pretty much all your popular languages, so developers and students don’t have much of an excuse not to go. You’ll want to register now and pick your sessions to make sure there’s enough space.
“Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community…Code Camps are always free for attendees…The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.”
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What: Geek ‘n’ Eat XIV
When: Friday, February 27th, Noon-1pm.
Where: Chino Bandito, Chandler
Who: All hungry geeks!
[Restaurant Website] [Google Street View Map] [Aerial View] [Google Group] [GnE Website]
As a part-time Asian living in Arizona, Chino’s holds a special place in my heart for successfully blending Americanized Eastern favorites with Mexican classics. (Jerk chicken quesadillas, egg fu yung burritos.. crazy delicious stuff.) Come get your geek on with some awesome unique eats! I’m sure we’ll find some give-a-ways, too.
Note that this is at the CHANDLER location, which happens to have the worst restaurant real estate ever. It’s on the Southeast corner of Chandler and Dobson *behind* the strip mall. (See aerial pic.)
Mark your calendar now. (I’ll wait.) No reservation required, but notes appreciated on the Geek ‘n’ Eat Google Group! Reservation held for 20.
Chino Bandido Takee-Outee was founded in November 1990 by Frank and Eve Collins, husband and wife. The blend of Mexican and Asian cooking styles and flavors came about from Eve’s Chinese background and both Frank and Eve being native Arizonans. The original store was only 1000 square feet, seated 16, and was modeled after those “hole-in-the-wall” restaurants that Frank and Eve love. As soon as they realized that people wanted to stay in to eat, as opposed to taking it out, they expanded the restaurant year by year, until the restaurant grew to over 5,000 square feet, seating about 150.
In June 2005, we finally opened the Chandler location. It is tucked into the corner of San Marcos Square (behind the Walgreen’s) on the southeast corner of Dobson and Chandler Blvd. With 6,000 square feet and an outside patio, we have tried to create a spacious, comfortable dining area. Most of the parking is on the east side of the building, so be sure to drive around back for the closest entrance!
In the fall of 2005, New Times awarded Chino’s Best of Phoenix for “Local Eatery We Wish Were a Chain.” On January 29, 2007, AOL users voted Chino’s in First Place for Best of Phoenix “Cheap Eats” category.
Chino’s is also one of few restaurants that gives you a tutorial in how to place an order. Mark your calendar now. (I’ll wait.)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
John De Santiago
Business Development Manager, OpenRain, LLC
Desk: 1 (623) 691-7869 x6426
Fax: 1 (602) 680-5780
john.desantiago [at] openrain dot com
http://openrain.com
New Phoenix Development Community For Google’s Phone Platform
OpenRain Elite Web Software in Mesa is organizing and hosting an ongoing series of free community events for software developers interested in creating applications for Android-based mobile devices: a competitor of Apple’s iPhone. Android is an open source operating system developed by Google that powers the T-Mobile G1 phone. Previous meetings have featured a speech by a current developer of the Android platform, and tutorials on how to get started writing custom applications.
Interested software developers should join the Phoenix Android mailing list at the URL below or call OpenRain at (623) 691-7869 for details. Meetings are held monthly.
http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-android
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About OpenRain – OpenRain was founded by local ASU computer scientists in 2006 to address business web development needs using fast-paced software engineering methodologies and rapid prototyping concepts. The company achieved over 100% growth in the first fully operational year, is minority owned and operated, and strengthens Phoenix by hosting technical group meetings, providing speakers to software events and contributing to the local Chamber of Commerce.
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Put the word out! The first Phoenix Android Developers meeting will be held this Thursday…
When: Thursday, November 13th, 2008, 6pm.
Where: OpenRain HQ, 2220 South Country Club Drive, Suite #107, 85210
[Google Group] [Map] [iCal Event Feed]
Pizza and drinks will be served. RSVP requested via the Google Group so the appropriate amount of food can be ordered. During this first meeting, both Remi Taylor and Marc Chung will walk through the development of a Hello World Android application. Lots of things to share, but expect to learn about the development environment, bits and pieces of the API, and actually getting the app on to your phone, followed by general discussion of thoughts and experiences with the group!
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If
Marc’s gauge of using laughter levels as a measure of event successfulness holds any truth, I’d declare it extremely successful!
Major überthanks to…
- O’Reilly Media for over $500 of book sponsorships that we’ll continue to distribute to the group for review at future events. If you want to see more awesome O’Reilly stuff, post a review with your thoughts of the book to Amazon, Slashdot, or your blog. (No, twitter doesn’t count… *stares at Sunny accusingly*.)
- JumpBox for graciously covering the tab for the entire group and congratulations on your continued success!
- All y’all geeky food addicts for showing the love.
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Noon, Pacific Seafood Buffet. Bring $10 for all-you-can-eat sushi and other great buffet eats. (There’s much more than seafood, and veggie stuff too.) Table reserved under “Lee”. Give-a-ways provided by O’Reilly Media…
Map: http://tinyurl.com/5f5jfj
Venue: http://www.pacificseafoodbuffet.net/
Sit Next To: Someone you don’t know!
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Geek ‘n’ Eat is a cross-technology discussion and networking luncheon held every couple months. We’ll be at a buffet this month, so skip that breakfast bar and pack it in!
- What: Geek ‘n’ Eat (Phoenix) VII
- Where: Pacific Seafood Buffet, Chandler. [map]
- When: Friday, August 29th, 2008. Noon – 1:30PM.
- Who: Computer geeks, dorks, nerds, wizards and wannabes.
- Why: Geekery, networking, and, of course, food!
Agenda
- Geek
- Eat
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Phoenix is home to many closet-Rubyists doing .NET, Java or C++ during the day, ripe for a change to something more… productive. The difficult part is that Ruby as a profession is a growing marking. Enterprise CxOs aren’t yet clamboring to migrate internal applications to Ruby-based stacks, but are starting to take notice because their developers are drinking the Kool-Aid.
Don’t miss the early years and get your feet wet on real projects. Send us a note and take those mad Ruby development skills you’re keeping hidden for a ride!
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On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we’re hosting a free event at OpenRain HQ with Refocus Phoenix to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you’re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is a must-do process. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We ran a tiny experiment to see if people found our internal profiles valuable and the feedback has been tremendously positive, so it’s time to take it up a notch. The process is..
- Bring in your monitor. Laptops and personal machines are more than welcome, too, but you’ll need to install the software component of the calibration tool. (I doubt it’ll run on Linux, sorry.)
- We strap on a hardware colorimeter and run some software. (Takes ~20 minutes, depending on the tweakability of your monitor.)
- An .icc color profile is generated with which you keep, use and immediately benefit. OpenRain uses and recommends OS X for graphics work, in which we have had no issues with custom .icc files.
There’s no substitute for having a profile created for your specific monitor, and it’s happening here for free in August!
To design out any issues with unattended hardware, we’ll provide pizza, soda and water so you can stay close to your beloved monitor at all times.
OpenRain HQ
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
6:30 – 8:30ish
Food will be hot at 6:30.
Please post any questions to this thread and/or the Refocus Google Group.
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As soon as potential legal gotchas with Apple are cleared up, we’ll be hosting the first ever Phoenix iPhone Developer Group (Pi) meeting, hopefully this month. We’ll be providing food and potentially other sponsorship, so grab the latest SDK build from the Apple Developer Connection and get ready! (We’ll post an announcement with the details as soon as the meeting is scheduled.)
In the meantime, join the Google Group.
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