Memtech

GiveCamp Memphis 2020

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

2020-03-05

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Introducing DevMemphis, A new Technical Meetup for Memphis Software Developers

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.

2018-08-23

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GiveCamp Memphis 2018

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 nonprofits and more than 80 volunteers made this the largest GiveCamp Memphis yet.

2018-02-28

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Better JavaScript with ESlint, Airbnb, & Prettier

Add ESlint, Airbnb’s Style Guides, & Prettier to Create-React-App without Ejecting. Integrate ESlint with your editor.

2017-10-04

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HackMemphis 2017

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 of the city’s best developers, designers, makers, and tech leaders get together for a weekend to hang out and work on fun projects.

2017-09-14

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Memphis NodeBots Day 2017

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

2017-07-29

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Py Tennessee 2017

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 from all over the country.

2017-02-07

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Talk: Beyond SEO – What your web developer wants you to know about the web

Here are the slides for the talk I gave at [Techcamp Memphis](http://www.techcampmemphis.org/sessions/beyond-seo-what-your-web-

developer-wants-you-to-know-about-web-content/) on November 5, 2016

2016-11-05

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Talk: Accessibility 101 – The Technical Stuff

![Accessibility slides preview](https://georgespake.com/wp-

content/uploads/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-16-at-2.30.06-PM-1024x663.png)

Here are the slides for a talk on A11Y at Memphis Tech Talks hosted by FIT & MTF

2016-06-16

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Talk: Building a [Not So] Simple Navigation System

[Memphis Web Workers User Group - May, 10 2016](http://www.meetup.com/memphis-

technology-user-groups/events/229681033/)
University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology

As part of a complete redesign, we developed our navigation menus from scratch and ran in to quite a few challenges along the way.

2016-05-11

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