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Geek ‘n’ Eat XII: Aftermath

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 [...]

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII Reminder: Noon, Pacific Seafood Buffet

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…

High Performance MySQL
Understanding MySQL Internals
iPhone: The Missing Manual (2nd ed., covers the iPhone 3G)

Map: http://tinyurl.com/5f5jfj
Venue: http://www.pacificseafoodbuffet.net/
Sit Next To: Someone you don’t know!

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII: Friday, August 29th, 2008

 

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, [...]

Hiring Phoenix Ruby/Rails Developers

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 [...]

Free Monitor Color Calibration Event For Graphics Geeks

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 [...]

Phoenix iPhone Developer Group Meeting

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 [...]