Pictures from the August 2010 Tech Events in Chicago

I was on a bit of a vacation in July so I forgot to post August events before the month started.

Chicago Ruby Meetup on August 3, 2010
Presentations on: Agile with Pivotal Tracker and jQuery and Rails 3.0

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Chicago Alt.net on August 11, 2010
Fawad Halim gave a presentation on Python for .Net Developers.

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Spiked Cocoa Event on August 19, 2010
Fading Red hosted a Spiked Cocoa event.  It was pretty interesting as this was the first time I went to an event that comprised mostly of Apple enthusiasts/developers.  I must say it was a different crowd than Microsoft/.Net, Android/Java, and the Ruby guys.  Which is a good thing.  In attendance with me were: @escoz, @bwilken, and @klmcmahon.

Presentations (lightning talks as they called it) from the website:

• @rentzsch on Core Data
• @mccarron on Converting Apps from iPhone to iPad
• @hammerdr on Cappucinno

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Software Craftsman that happen to like whiskey on August 31, 2010
@bwilken put together a meetup at The Boiler Room at 2210 North California Avenue, Chicago.  It was a very casual and laid back event for software craftsman.  The PB&J was awesome too.  PB&J = Pizza, Beer, & Jameson.

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September 2010 Tech Events in Chicago

NerdDinner Chicago - .NET Enthusiasts Unite !!!!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 6:15 PM (CT)

Chicago Ruby
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)
There will be a meetup on Mongoid & Rails 3.

Chicago Alt.net
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CT)
Should be a talk about Selenium by @bwilken.

Chicago Ruby Hack Night
Thursday, September 9, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)

Windy City Rails
Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM (CT)
Unfortunately I won't be able to attend this event as I'll be at Tech in the Middle event.  I'd like to be able to attend this event on the same day, but the ticket prices are a bit high for me.

Tech in the Middle 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CT)
I will be attending this event.  I haven't planned my schedule for the day yet, but I'm looking forward to this event.  I'll be sure to bring my camera there too.
This event has been postponed to Spring 2011!

Chicago Agile Project Management Meetup Group Monthly Meetup
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM (CT)

Chicago Android training by Mark Murphy #2
Saturday, September 25, 2010 from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CT)

Note: Of course I'll add more events as I find out about them.

Pictures from the July 2010 Tech Events in Chicago

I made sure to take a lot of photos this month.

Tuesday July 6, 2010
Chicago Ruby had a meeting over at ThoughtWorks.  Snapped a few photos there.  Very cool talks.  And of course, pizza.  You can sign up for these meetings at: Chicago Ruby Meetup.  There was a Hack Night on Thursday of the week, but I did not take any photos.

Presentations by @chrisjpowers and @blakesmith.

Wednesday July 14, 2010


Here are the pictures from the MongoDB 101 presentation by JC Grubbs (@thegrubbsian).  It was quite a large group that attended.  Also the first time that I snapped up photos with my Canon Rebel XT.

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After the meeting, went out to Elephant & Castle for some GeekBeer with @thegrubbsian, @veezus, @escoz, @DavidSilvaSmith, @bwilken, @dugan, and @delitescere. As you can see from the picture, it wasn't long into our beers and tech talks before someone whipped out their macbook for some code sharing action.  Actually, I think the argument was about how much more productive Vim was over the Visual Studio IDE.

Tuesday July 20, 2010


Pictures from @geekfest.  Thanks to Mike Hall (@just3ws) for the invite!  Hosted at Obtiva.

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July 2010 Tech Events in Chicago

Plenty of events to attend for the month of July!  This will be the first time I'm attending a Ruby event, so I'm pretty excited.  Sadly, things may be a bit over my head since I just started doing Ruby.

Tuesday July 6, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT)
ChicagoRuby: Downtown- Two Talks: HTML5 WebSockets & Contributing to Open Source

Thursday July 8, 2010 at 5:30 PM (CT)
Chicago Ruby Hack Night

Monday July 12, 2010 at 5:30 PM (CT)
Chicago Agile Project Management Meetup Group Monthly Meetup (Postponed to August)

Wednesday July 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT)
Chicago Alt.net: MongoDB 101

Saturday July 17, 2010 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CT)
Android training by Mark Murphy author of the "Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development" (Eventbrite link)

Tuesday July 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM (CT)
The Chicago Agile Methodology Group Meetup

Weekly Events:
Every Wednesday (July 7, 14, 21,  and 28 2010) at 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM (CT)
Chicago Android Wednesday training (Eventbrite link)

Of course I'll append more events as I find out about them.

Chicago Code Camp 2 Pictures

I'm going to start posting pictures I take from various Tech Events I attend.  One, I'm doing it because I want to share visually, what the Tech community looks like.  And two, because I'm picking up photography as a hobby now.

The pictures below are from Chicago Code Camp, which took place May 1st, 2010 at the Stuart Building at IIT.  They were taken by me with my Google Nexus One.

June 2010 Tech Events in Chicago

A decent amount of Tech events for the month of June here in Chicago:

Wednesday, June 02, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)
MVVM with Damon Payne
The Chicago Silverlight User Group (Eventbrite link)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 from 5:30PM - 7:30PM (CT)
Chicago Agile Project Management Meetup Group

Wednesday, June 09, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CT)
Well Behaved JavaScript With Screw.Unit
Chicago Alt.net (Eventbrite link)

Friday, June 11, 2010 from 8:15 AM - 6:00 PM (CT)
Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 8:15 AM - 8:00 PM (CT)
Microsoft Web Camps

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)
Visual Studio User Group Presents: A first look at Microsoft’s Scrum Process template with Richard Hundhausen

Thursday, June 24, 2010 from 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (CT)
Mobile TECH cocktail Chicago 2 presented by Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (Eventbrite link)

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at 6:00 PM (CT
Performance and Automation Testing Meetup (Meetup link)

Note: I'll be sure to add more events as I find them.

May 2010 Tech Events in Chicago

The month of May looks to be an exciting month in Chicago for Tech Events!

Saturday, May 1st 2010 from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM (CT)
Chicago Code Camp 2 will actually be held in Chicago's IIT campus this year!  Speakers, presentations, and the agenda have all been posted now.

Here is my tentative schedule that I plan to attend:

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Use Git Like a Boss by Kevin Gisi (Ruby)
10:15 - 11:15 - Habits of Highly Effective MVC Developers by Curtis Mitchell (C#)
1:00 - 2:00 - The Technical Debt Trap by Michael Norton
2:15 - 3:15 - CSLA .NET 4.0 by Rocky Lhotka (C#, VB)
3:30 - 4:30 - What can I do w/MEF? by Damon Payne (C#)

IIT- Stuart Building
10 West 31st
Chicago, IL 60616
Twitter: @chicagocodecamp
http://chicagocodecamp.eventbrite.com

Thursday, May 06, 2010 from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)
The Chicago Silverlight Users Group (Eventbrite link)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)
Chicago Agile Project Management Meetup Group (Meetup.com link)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CT)

From Zero to Automated Build in a matter of moments, not days! (Eventbrite link)

by Chicago Alt.net

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (CT)
Chicago ACM - What Ever Happened to Software Quality? by Conrad Weisert

Thursday, May 13, 2010 from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)
TechCocktail 13 (Eventbrite link)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010 from 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM (CT)
CodeMastery.com (direct link)