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MondayFeb 6 2012PDX TechCoffee6:30–9am
Southeast GrindWebsiteSeason 6, episode 2
Get up early and work on your side projects with some like-minded geeks!
TechCoffee is part running club, part knitting bee, and part hackathon. It's hard to work on all of your amazing ideas after a long workday, so instead we get up early. And we get together, so we have the reinforcement of other people up early, too. A couple hours a week can make a big difference.
So bring your laptops and your work ethic to PDX TechCoffee. Or, if you can't be there in person, join us on IRC at #techcoffee on FreeNode. One commit a week is all we ask.
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Galois Tech Talk: Efficient Implementation of Property Directed Reachability10–11am
Galois, IncWebsitePresented by Alan Mishchenko.
Last spring, in March 2010, Aaron Bradley published the first truly new bit-level symbolic model checking algorithm since Ken McMillan’s interpolation based model checking procedure introduced in 2003. Our experience with the algorithm suggests that it is stronger than interpolation on industrial problems, and that it is an important algorithm to study further. In this paper, we present a simplified and faster implementation of Bradley’s procedure, and discuss our successful and unsuccessful attempts to improve it.
Tomorrow
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TuesdayFeb 7 2012Agile Open Northwest 2012 - "Agile For Real"8am through Wednesday, February 8 at 5pm
Seattle Center - Northwest RoomsWebsiteAnnouncing Agile Open Northwest 2012! This Agile Open Space event will be held February 7th and 8th, 2012, in the Northwest Rooms of Seattle Center in Seattle. Spaces at this event fill up fast! So register today to make sure you get a space. For registration and further details go to :
www.agileopennorthwest.org
This will be our sixth annual Agile Open Northwest conference. Alternating each year between Portland and Seattle, AONW conferences bring together practicing members of the Northwest Agile communities to explore the latest developments in agile software development. We held our fifth annual event last year in Portland and enjoyed another great success. Registration is $150.00 for both days, including light breakfast and lunch. This low-cost regional conference is a great opportunity to connect with the local agile community, experts and novices alike.
Please join us this year as we host 125 experienced, collaborative, committed agile practitioners from the Northwest U.S. (and beyond) in tackling the issues around our recurring theme "Agile for Real." As in past years, attendance is limited to a predetermined number in order retain the many advantages a small conference has to offer.
Here is a comment from a previous attendee:
"These two-day Agile Open Northwest conferences are an extremely good value. ..[Y]ou learn directly from practitioners in the agile community what works and what doesn't. I attended the first two of these conferences, they were stunningly good... loads of practical, useful stuff and stimulating discussions." -- Ian Savage, PNSQC Program Chair
More information can be found at www.agileopennorthwest.org. We look forward to seeing you there!
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PADNUG February Meeting6–8:30pm
Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) CampusWebsitePlease join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG February meet-up!
This month, Adron Hall will be presenting on Amazon Web Services development with Visual Studio.
WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: binged.it/IntelHF3Map
WHEN: Tuesday 2/7/2012 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill
WHO: Adron Hall is CTO of Three Step Solutions, working with startups and small businesses to get the right architecture, build and deployed product into place. He is one of the Node PDX organizers (RSVP now - it is next weekend!) In his day job Adron works on enterprise systems for Russell Investments. Adron's blog is at compositecode.com/, and his Twitter handle is @adron.
TOPIC: In this presentation we jump straight into the middle of web development using VS 2010 with AWS Toolkit as our primary deployment tooling. The tooling enables single step deployment to one, or 5,000 instances, in various ways, with multitudes of networking options, traffic distributions, etc. At the end I demo a sample application, using several of the Enterprise Tools & Open Source Tools many .NET Developers use, I deploy an application live.
Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
azad, inc. Technology Consulting | Engineering | Project Management www.azad.com/
Cinetopia Why watch a movie in coach when you can see it in first class? www.cinetopia.com/
CompuCom The leading IT outsourcing specialist www.compucom.com
Infragistics Design / Develop / Experience www.infragistics.com/
Microsoft www.microsoft.com/
Orcsweb www.orcsweb.com/
O'Reilly Spreading the knowledge of innovators. www.oreilly.com/
Telerik Deliver more than expected www.telerik.com/
VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc. VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers. www.vanderhouwen.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator
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Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting7–9pm
Robert Half Technology, 2nd Floor Conference RoomWebsiteABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland Oregon area. Join other developers for presentations and discussions about Ruby, libraries, tools and techniques. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday".
Next two weeks
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WednesdayFeb 8 2012FREE YOGA at AboutUs11:45am–12:45pm
AboutUsWebsiteIf you use a computer all day - that includes laptops, iPads, whatever - your shoulders, upper back and lower back are probably pretty tight. Loosen them up and build strength in every part of your body, with expert guidance from veteran Portland yoga teacher Rebecca Blain.
Rebecca welcomes students of all ability levels to our weekly Wednesday class, and we'd love to see you, too. Bring your own mat, or use one of ours. Changing facilities available.
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OEN PubTalk™ - Life in an Incubator5–7pm
BackspaceWebsiteIncubators. That word seems to be all the rage right now, but what really happens within these start up incubators? Do they help companies become successful or at least get over certain challenges? What type of companies and people find the incubator experience to be a positive? Are there downfalls to going through the experience?
Come to OEN's February PubTalk and hear from the companies that have just completed the local incubator sessions at PIE (www.piepdx.com), OTBC (otbc.org) and the Portland Seed Fund (portlandseedfund.com). It is sure to be an engaging evening filled with Q&A with the panelists.
Moderator Pinky Gonzales -Bio:www.linkedin.com/in/pinkygonzales
Panelist PDX Seed Fund Company - Viziify - Todd Silverstein, CEO and Cofounder Vizify showcases the best of you by creating a highly visual, interactive profile based on the sites and services you already use. vizify.com/
OTBC - SheerID - CEO Jake Weatherly For companies who currently offer or would like to offer discounts to groups like college students, association members, active-duty and veteran military personnel, government employees, etc., SheerID instantly establishes that your customer qualifies for the discount they are attempting to redeem. The SheerID verification platform ensures that your exclusive offers are only used by a verified member of the targeted group. It all happens instantly, quietly and without fraud. This means that you can freely offer any type of special promotions or discounts to your target market and it will be protected while keeping your customer experience seamless in your online shopping cart. For more information, go to www.sheerid.com.
PIE - Revisu - CEO Brad Heller Revisu allows designers to effortlessly share Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design files for their clients to review, comment, and approve--whether they have the right software or not. revisu.com
5 Minute Pitch Companies - Both from the Portland State Business Accelerator
Tellagence - Matt Hixson - Co-founder and CEO Tellagence develops and markets predictive social analytics software that gives companies insights on behaviors such as how people will share a message across a community or how individuals within the community will respond to a call to action. Understanding these behaviors are critical to any organization being able to optimize and measure their use of social networks for business objectives such as shaping brand perception, increasing awareness or lead generation.
Sight Line Applications - Jordan Holt - CTO SightLine Applications, LLC produces embedded video stabilization, object tracking, and image enhancement systems well-suited for airborne and ground video applications which demand high performance in a small, light, low-power package. SightLine systems reduce operator workload and increase situational awareness in surveillance and security applications. They are designed specifically to work on unmanned vehicles where low latency feedback to a camera gimbal system is critical. www.sightlineapplications.com
Member Special: Pre-Register and Save OEN members can save by pre-registering online. Online registration for this event closes Wednesday, February 8th at 2:00 pm. Please register at the door after that time, no discounts will be applied.
Become a 5-Minute Pitch Company PubTalk is a lively forum where very early-stage entrepreneurs from any industry get a chance to test their company pitch in front of an audience of their peers. Presenters and attendees alike, learn from the challenging questions, which test the presenting entrepreneur’s business model. Companies who would like to apply to present at an upcoming PubTalk can apply here: www.oen.org/5minutepitch.aspx
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SIM Monthly Meeting5:30–8pm
Embassy Suites Portland--DowntownWebsitePresentation by Robert Strictland of Stickland Consulting LLC., on the realities of Mobility and its use as the optimal distribution endpoint for Big Data.
Explore why mobility solutions are challenged by interrelated decisions that cross applications development, infrastructure, security, and risk management. Gain a perspective on why mobility is an Enterprise issue and as IT leaders we need to focus on creating blueprints, business driven policies, and BYOD programs that help build high value mobile Enterprises.
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Oregon SQL Monthly Meeting6–9pm
KOIN Tower, 2nd floor Conference RoomWebsiteMonthly meeting of the Oregon SQL -developers user group, where the topic is always SQL Server, but from a developers perspective. Check the website for the next meeting details.
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CHIFOO Presents: Missing the Point: The Expanding World of Gestural Interaction6:30–9pm
ISITE DesignWebsiteThe paradigm of physical computing is well and truly here—sensors and microcontrollers are getting cheaper and more robust, and they are easily programmable. Long associated with gaming, these sensors are making their way into our everyday ‘utility’ devices. For example, think about the average smart phone: it likely contains a proximity sensor, an accelerometer/orientation sensor, an ambient light sensor, a gyroscopic sensor, and a moisture sensor. Cameras can recognize head motion and facial gestures; they can track body movements and compare them to motion models.
As these sensors become part of everyday interactive devices, we are ushering in new forms of gestural interaction, which is changing how we interact with digital experiences and data, and changing the nature of our computer-mediated communications. In this talk, Elizabeth will offer some observations and speculations on how the world of physical computing, broadly construed, is changing the way in which we interact with our devices, each other, and interactive digital experiences.
About the Speaker
Dr. Elizabeth Churchill is a Principal Research Scientist and manager of the Internet Experiences group at Yahoo! Research. Originally a psychologist by training, Elizabeth has focused throughout her career on understanding the ways in which people interact—whether their interactions are primarily face-to-face or are technologically mediated. She has published within the areas of theoretical and applied psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported cooperative work. Elizabeth has a BSc in Experimental Psychology and a MSc in Knowledge Based Systems, both from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Cambridge. She regularly teaches at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information. In 2010, she was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery. She is the current Vice President of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SigCHI).
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Ignite Planning Meeting7–8:30pm
Lucky Labrador Overlook Tap RoomWebsiteContinuing to work on planning for IgnitePortland 10.
Come join us!
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ThursdayFeb 9 2012SE Portland Coders Night (SEPoCoNi)6–10pm
Side DoorAlternative to PDX Weekly Hackathon.
Come hang out and write code is a quieter less crowded environment with your fellow nerds.
The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome!
The place is smaller so finding the nerd herd shouldn't be too difficult.
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Portland Commodore Users Group6–9pm
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (Station 61)WebsiteOur group specializes in Commodore 64, SX-64, Commodore Vic-20, Commodore 128 and other Commodore computers. We meet regularly to discuss ideas, code, brainstorm projects, participate in the scene, and play games.
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PDX Weekly Hackathon6:30–10pm
Lucky Labrador Brew PubWebsiteCome do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.
All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.
You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.
Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.
Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.
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HTML5 Canvas - the Flash of the Future6:45pm
WebtrendsWebsiteHTML5 is here. Canvas is here. If you want to use Flash on mobile devices, you're out of luck. But what you can use is Canvas. You may as well know how to use them - because they ain't going away!
Come join is while Aaron presents Animations with HTML5 tech: Canvas and Paper.js
Canvas and other technologies
- How does each fit in the page? (Flash, canvas, CSS3, SVG)
- Which can be independent of JS? (CSS and SVG)
- Which are better for accessability? (SVG and CSS)
- Which is more efficient? (It depends)
Brief review of Canvas libraries
- Pros and Cons of some
- Two basic categories (most fit into either based on Actionscript or not)
Building something with Paper.js
- Building a quick mouse heatmap for your web-page.
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Portland Perl Mongers – Fearless Code Cleanup6:53–8:39pm
Free GeekWebsitespeaker: Chad 'Exodist' Granum
Refactoring is something many developers approach with a great deal of fear. Sometimes you may need to refactor code that you do not understand. Sometimes there are no unit tests. Sometimes things can be scary.
Chad will be showing techniques for cleaning/refactoring code that will help avoid errors, and make things less scary. Ideally people will bring small/medium code samples or modules as examples. If nobody brings anything we may pull something off of cpan.
As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.
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Ignite Portland 107–10pm
Bagdad Theater and PubWebsiteIgnite Portland is an exciting, fast-paced, night of presentations where people can share their passions and burning ideas. The rules are fairly simple: 20 sides x 15 seconds per slide (auto-advancing) = 5 minutes of awesome. Presentations can be on nearly any topic, so long as they can teach, enlighten, or inspire us.
Doors at 5PM with donation for the Oregon Food Bank
Doors at 5:45 without donation
For more details: igniteportland.org/2012/01/30/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-ignite-portland-10-with-oregon-food-bank/
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SaturdayFeb 11 2012nodePDX 20129am through Sunday, February 12 at 6pm
NedSpaceWebsitenodePDX is a free two day Node.js conference for the Portland/Pacific Northwest Javascript community. All node, all day. Oh yeah.
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PDX-APL10–11:30pm
Dirty NightclubWebsiteAn opportunity to meet and learn from other APL or array-oriented programmers in Portland.
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MondayFeb 13 2012PDX TechCoffee6:30–9am
Southeast GrindSeason 6, episode 3 (Valentine's edition!)
Get up early and work on your side projects with some like-minded geeks!
TechCoffee is part running club, part knitting bee, and part hackathon. It's hard to work on all of your amazing ideas after a long workday, so instead we