Meetup

Wellington.vue: Using Vue.js with a Headless CMS – Wellington – 12 September 2018

What

Vue.js users will be presenting their methods and experiences with using Vue to present data from a “headless CMS”. Different approaches will be discussed: RESTful APIs, GraphQL, custom API controllers and static files.

Speakers include:
– Aaron Carlino, SilverStripe Ltd
– Ed Linklater, Somar Design Studios

This will be a joint meetup with Wellington SilverStripe User/Developer Workshops, but most of the content will be relevant to those using other frameworks such as Laravel, Django or Rails.

Venue, drinks and snacks provided by Somar Design Studios.

When and Where

5pm – 7pm
Wednesday 12 September 2018

Somar Design Studios
Level 9 50 Manners Street,
i-centre building, entrance to the right of Life Pharmacy. Take the lift to Level 9.
Wellington

How Much

Free

Using Vue.js with a Headless CMS meetup page
Wellington.vue Meetup

AKLgamedev Meetup: ‘Guardian’ Launch – Auckland – 12 September 2018

What

Come along and celebrate the release of Metia Interactive’s ‘Guardian’ on Wednesday September 12that the September AKLgamedev Meetup is during Māori Language Week.

The Guardian story is an interactive fiction. The game will showcase our unique cultural identity in New Zealand and highlight beautiful regions of our country in a contemporary and original story across popular platforms.

This is a journey that will take the player into a world of mystery and impending mayhem while discovering the truth behind an ancient secret.

AGENDA
– 6:00p | Doors open
– 6:10p | Welcome
– 6:20p | Guardian: A journey from idea to now.
– The importance and uniqueness of telling Maori stories.
– Using a narrative script engine with Unity.
– Community announcements.
– 7:00 | Meetup ends – Progress Bar

When and Where

Wednesday 12 September 2018
6pm – 7pm

Room TBC
AUT City Campus
St Paul St
Auckland CBD

How Much

Free

Meetup Page for event
The Auckland Game Development Meetup
Guardian

I can code, but what do I specialise as?! – Auckland – 27 August 2018

What

I can code, but what do I specialise as?! : A panel discussion

Join us at the brand new Dev Academy space, where we’ll hear from a panel of speakers from different career tracks in the coding space!

Our awesome panel will have:
– Raghu Kasturi – Frontend dev from Movio
– Morris Nye – Test Automation Engineer from Gentrack
– Duck Lawn – Site Reliability Engineer from Pushpay
– Alistair Bush – Backend Dev from Xero

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Remember to respect our Code of Conduct during all JuniorDev interactions. This is a safe and inclusive space for everyone!

When and Where

Monday, 27 August, 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Enspiral Dev Academy
Level 5, 100 Carlton Gore Rd, Newmarket, Auckland

Schedule
5.45 – 6.15: Networking and pizza
6.15 – 6.20: Welcome and intro the sponsors
6.20 – 7.20: Panel discussion and Q&A
7.20 – 7.30: Audience pitches/requests for help
7.30 – 8.00: Networking

How Much

Free. RSVP here.

A massive thanks to our sponsors for this event:
Enspiral Dev Academy as a venue sponsor!
Xero for catering!

I can code, but what do I specialise as?! : A panel discussion.

JuniorDev Auckland Meetup

Gitting Good with Git – Auckland – 23 August 2018

What

North Shore .NET User Group regularly meets every 3rd or 4th Thursday each month at Massey University Albany Campus.

Regular tech talks focused on Microsoft Technologies and skills relevant to developers working with Microsoft .NET.

Marcus Bristol (a Senior Engineer at Pushpay) will peek under the hood and give us all an idea of how git works under the covers.

This understanding will help us be better equipped to recover when things go wrong.

When and Where

5:45pm – 7:30pm
23 August 2018

MBS 2.15 Flexible Learning Room
Massey University
Albany
Auckland

How Much

Free

North Shore .NET User Group
Gitting Good with Git Meetup

“Gopher vs Ferris [Rust]” and “Performance Considerations in Go” – Auckland – 21 August 2018

What

Auckland based group for anyone interested in Go programming language. We will try to organise regular meetups with talks by members and guests. Depending on interest we can also consider organising Go hacking sessions.

Another amazing lineup this month for us eager Gophers [and Rustaceans alike]. Thanks to Movio again for the venue, drinks and pizza.

First up, Jacky Zhen with ‘Gopher vs Ferris’:

“Both Go and Rust are categorised as a systems programming languages, but both approach it in different paradigms. I’m a big fan of Go’s simplicity and pragmatism, but have times found some of the language features to be lacking.
Recently I’ve been playing around with Rust and have discovered many interesting aspects of the language. In this talk I’d like to share what I find awesome about Rust from the perspective of someone who has worked with Go and some functional languages.
As a keen student of both languages I would like compare and contrast the two languages and talk about what I think they could take from one another.”

Jacky is a prolific full stack engineer on Movio’s Numero team. Jacky is super-cool and squeaky-clean. Funnily enough, the only time I’ve heard Jacky swear was 15 hours deep into a hackathon, fighting with the Rust compiler for the first time. Naturally, he’d tamed it before the day was done.

Second up will be Taco de Wolff, with “Performance optimization in Go”:

“I’ll discuss various ways to optimize Go programs and dive into some of the underlying details. I have been giving introductory talks about Go lately, and I’d like to talk about something more in-depth.”

Taco currently works at the University of Auckland within the bio-engineering institute, where he does modelling on lungs. Previously worked for TixTrack, which is a software development company for ticketing software using Go. He’s also known for github.com/tdewolff/minify, which is a high-performance minifier in Go.

When and Where

Tuesday 21 August 2018
6pm – 8pm

Movio
2.4 / 30 St Benedicts St
Auckland

How Much

Free

Meetup page for 21 August 2018 meet
Go AKL meetup group

Ansible Windows Automation: Myth or Truth? + Ansible Vault Integration – Wellington – 16 August 2018

What

Have you thought about how to automate both Linux and Windows infrastructure using a Centralized tool for ease of management?
If you have, then let’s talk about it.

Mike Calizo will share his interesting journey and how to use Ansible for Windows Automation.

In addition, Tom Eastman will talk about how to incorporate
Hashicorp Vault in Ansible for dynamic secret generation.”

Ansible is a New Zealand Group for bring together people building out automation stacks using Ansible and share learnings, provide training and networking.

When and Where

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday 16 August 2018

Location TBA
Wellington CBD

How Much

Free

Webpage for this Meetup event
Ansible New Zealand meetup group (Wellington)

Postgres window functions in Rails, Thor gem & Android + Turbolinks – Auckland – 23 August 2018

What

Auckland Ruby meetup is a monthly group that explores the use of Ruby. We welcome anyone interested in the language!

We have 3 talks this meetup:

Rebecca Pinheiro from Nectar will talk about Postgres window functions in Rails
Ricky Hurtado from Trineo will show us how to use the Thor gem
James Scott Tayler will build a real world Android app using the Turbolinks Android wrapper with a Rails backend

When and Where

Thursday 23 August 2018
6:30pm to 9:30pm

MYOB Office
Level 5
12 Normanby Rd
Mt Eden
Auckland

How Much

Free

Meetup Page for the event
Ruby Nights: The Auckland Ruby Group

Visual Analytics Meetup: GapMaps, Making Data Meaningful – Auckland – 2 August 2018

What

This Visual Analytics Monthly Meetup is on the 1st Thursday of every month to discuss all things data, and using Visual Analytic tools like Tableau and others to help people understand data.

Its all about spatial, geolocation, seeing your data answer questions with a spatial reference! We’ll have our traditional introduction and a question for you – – then bring on our presentation for the night!

GapMaps – Making Data Meaningful – https://gapmaps.com

We make data meaningful. Using demographic, government and industry data, viewed through a simple to use mapping platform, we impart powerful, cost-effective insights to our clients. We enable them to create revealing market intelligence for fact-based decision-making.

I’m Alex Wardle – a banking professional most of my career, I was accountable for BNZs network investment, customer experience and change programmes for the branch and ATM network. Now I help people in roles like my old one to make sense of big data, to get the competitive edge and de-risk decisions regarding their investment. In NZ we work with great businesses from Briscoes to BP, McDonalds to Hirepool and Childcare to auto servicing.

When and Where

5pm – 7:30pm
Thursday 2 August 2018

Sweat Shop Brew Bar
7 Sale Street
Freeman’s Bay
Auckland

How Much

Free

August 2018 Meetup
Visual Analytics Meetup Page

Code Craft Dunedin: August Meetup – Dunedin – 7 August 2018

What

We are a group of people interested in software development, learning and getting together. The group consists of members of the local IT development and educational community.

The August meeting will be held at the Polytech and we currently have two speakers lined up:

Matt Kraemer: A crash course introduction to machine learning

Matt works with AI and machine learning on a day to day basis and is going to introduce some of the tools and techniques to the group. There has been a lot of interest in these topics within the group so please let anyone you think may be interested know about Matt’s talk.

Thomi Richards: Zapier: What we do, what I do specifically, and how we hire people. Thomi has recently moved virtual companies… something I think is only going to become more common in the IT field and it will be interesting to hear from him on his experiences working for a completely remote organisation.

When and Where

5:30pm to 7pm
Tuesday 7 August 2018

D102
D Block
Otago Polytechnic
Forth Street
Dunedin

How Much

Free

Meetup page for the event
Code Craft Dunedin Meetup Page

Introduction to openHAB and Android Things – Wellington – 26 July 2018

What

Wellington Home Automation Hackers are a meetup group of like minded people who are interested in home automation, whether it’s plugging in off-the-shelf IoT lightbulbs, or soldering your own PCB designs doing BLE – and everything in between!

For our second meetup, we have two exciting presentations lined up.

David Cole is going to do an introduction to openHAB, including comparing some of it’s key differences with Home Assistant (as featured last time).

And Dave McKelvie is going to do an introduction to Android Things, Google’s platform for building smart/IoT devices.

When and Where

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday, 26 July 2018

Schedule
17:30 – 18:00: Casual chat
18:00 – 19:00: Presentations
19:00 – 19:30: Casual chat

Sailthru,
Level 1 14 Blair Street,
Wellington

How Much

Free

More

Meeting Page
Wellington Home Automation Hackers Meetup Group Webpage