Last weekend I participated in GiveCamp Memphis, a weekend long event where tech professionals come together to help Memphis non profits solve problems. This year, the event coincided with the AIGA Memphis Chapter’s Design for Good event. This is the fourth year I’ve participated in GiveCamp and, with 20 non profits; 30+ projects completed; over […]
These are the slides and notes from my Command Line Crash Course talk presented at DevMemphis on March 3, 2020 This was the first DevMemphis meetup that was streamed live and recorded but, unfortunately, because of some issues with the recording, the audio was unusable. Outline This month we’ll be talking about leveling up your […]
What’s a Technical User Group? Memphis is home to a thriving tech scene and a welcoming community of technical experts, enthusiasts, and beginners who you can find on any given day of the week at one of the many active technical meetups in town. User group meetings feature conference quality content delivered by members of […]
This past weekend, Feb 23-25, the seventh annual GiveCamp Memphis event was held at the Fedex Institute of Technology on the University of Memphis Campus. “GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals from designers, developers and database administrators to marketers and web strategists donate their time to provide solutions for non-profit organizations” A dozen […]
This past weekend, the memphis tech community got together at the Fedex Institute of technology on the University of Memphis campus for the fifth annual HackMemphis event. HackMemphis, organized by the Memphis Technology Foundation, is a different kind of hackathon where there’s no pressure and teams are free to work on whatever they want. Some […]
Today marked the first annual Memphis NodeBots event. “NodeBots Day is world wide event where people learn how to control the physical world with JavaScript.” – nodebots.io Sponsored by HackMemphis, Memphis NodeBots day was a sold out event where attendees built a robot from scratch and programmed it with javascript. This event has been several […]
Finding my local tech community and participating in various open source communities has been my single most valuable privilege in the context of my career and fueling my passion for web development. If I had to choose between a master’s degree or all of the wisdom I’ve found and friends I’ve made from talking to […]
GiveCamp Memphis is a weekend-long event where local developers and designers get together to build software for non-profit organizations. Give Camp 2017 was held on February 17th, 18th, and 19th at The Fedex Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis. This was a new location for the event, now on its seventh year , thanks to […]
This past weekend, I rode to Nashville with some friends from the Memphis user group community to attend Py Tennessee 2017. This was my first year attending the conference and I’d hardly call myself a Python developer but I had a great time, learned a lot from the talks, and met some really cool people […]