Tag: Programming

Code Camp Christchurch 2018 – Christchurch – 24 November 2018

What

Code Camp Christchurch is back for 2018!

What: Software Development, SharePoint, PowerApps, Business Intelligence, SQL, Azure and more

We are putting together a fantastic line up of presenters for a full day of shared learning.

The Office 365 stream will include our first PowerApp Hackathon and the launch of a new PowerApps User Group.

We will be making more agenda announcements over the next few days.

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Join us for a full day of learning, sharing and networking.

Code Camp Christchurch Team

Steve, Dave and Hamish

When and Where

Saturday 24 November 2018
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Ara (DLECT / K Block)
130 Madras Street, Christchurch.

How Much

Free. Please register here.

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Code Camp Christchurch 2018.

“Cowboys” and Agile – A Project Managers worst nightmare, or is it? – Palmerston North – 29 November 2018

What

Sharon, a seasoned project manager from Massey will be the presenter at the next meetup.

Can Cowboy developers, an Agile methodology and Project Managers all exist in the same sphere? Some would say NO, I say yes.

Does the free-thinking lone developer, who is huddled away in a dark corner never to see the light of day still exist in this new world of Agile projects?

Can Agile bring a “Cowboy” into the 21st Century?

This is the rescheduled talk from September

As usual our hosts Objective will be sponsoring pizza

When and Where

Thursday, November 29 2018
5:30pm – 7:30pm

Objective
114 The Square
Palmerston Noth

How Much

Free

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Meetup page for “Cowboys” and Agile event
Palmerston North Software Development Meetup

Google Developer Groups – Auckland DevFest 2018 – Auckland – 9 November 2018

What

DevFest Auckland is a community run event where developers come together to exchange ideas and amazing things can happen!

DevFest events cover multiple Google product areas such as Android, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform, Google Assistant, Flutter, machine learning with TensorFlow, and Mobile Web.

DevFest Auckland is organised by GDG Auckland. This is Auckland’s Google Developer Group. We meet each month and discuss a variety of content including: Android, IO and other Google related technology.

When and Where

Friday 9 November 2018
9am – 5:30pm

Auckland Conference Centre
12 Nicholls Lane,
Parnell, Auckland

How Much

Standard Ticket $50

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GDG Devfest 2018 website

PHP Doctrine: from skeptic to convert – Wellington – 24 September 2018

What

“Doctrine: from skeptic to convert” by Eric Jacolin

Michael Coleman’s 5min paddle will be about “zsnips – text snippets for your command line”.

Please note that we have moved our meetups to BizDojo Market Lane and this meetup is on the last Monday (not Tuesday) of the month!

The Wellington PHP UserGroup provides a safe community and opportunity to meet smart, fun, and diverse people on the last Tuesday of every month. Attendance is free, caters to all skill levels and is open to anyone with an interest in web development and emergent and Open Source technologies. Whilst PHP is an extremely popular scripting language we regularly invite guest speakers from front end communities, accessibility and legal experts, as well as alternative and complementary .

When and Where

BizDojo Market Lane
3 Market Lane
Wellington

6pm – 8pm
Monday 24 September 2018

How Much

Free

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Meetup Page for the meeting
PHP Usergroup Wellington Meetup page

 

Running things in Go / Go modules fishbowl conversation – Auckland – 18 September 2018

What

GO AKL is a Auckland based meetup 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.

This month we will be having one speaker followed by a ‘fishbowl conversation’.

Dmitry will be speaking to us about ‘running things in Go’ – lessons and advice for running Go apps in production.

Then we will have a fishbowl conversation on [at least one of] the following topics:
* Go modules and dependency management
* Go2 and Generics

Fishbowls are a fun format to conduct a group conversation, and you’re welcome to participate or spectate as you feel. Both these topics are hotly debated in the Go world, and this feels like an interesting time to discuss each one. We’ll vote on a topic and see how far it takes us – we don’t necessarily have to cover both.

This will be our first meetup with this kind of format – naturally we’ll keep things friendly and inclusive, and agree on some ground rules to ensure that everyone feels comfortable.

In the meantime feel free to connect via the Gophers slack community, on the #auckland channel (sign up via https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ ).

When and Where

Tuesday 18 September 2018
6pm – 8pm

Movio
2.4 / 30 St Benedicts St
Eden Tce
Auckland

How Much

Free

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Meetup page for this week’s event
Meetup page for Go AKL

Erlang in Earnest, for Mixed Reality gaming – Auckland – 19 September 2018

What

Using Erlang in earnest – building a Mixed Reality, multiplayer, game engine embodying digital Agents – a beginner’s guide

Description: We have built a Mixed Reality game engine in .Net running in Azure. It works well, but scaling and cost mean it is not tenable as the business grows. We needed to build something that could be massively parallel, and scale without limit. We tried NodeJS. We rethought things, did some more research, and came up with Erlang. It took us a couple of years to find a way into the language, but once we found the right tools, getting started with Erlang took about two weeks. This talk will attempt to help you avoid a similar two-year trial period. With examples.

Short Bio: Dr Roy Davies is a computer scientist who went to the dark side and became interested in the human side of the cursor. Studying cognitive science and psychology prepared him for doing research in Mixed Reality in the 90s when it was still a new and amazing thing. Over the years, he has worked in academia and business, with a stint as a consultant, in both Sweden and New Zealand. His first introduction to ‘interesting’ languages was programming in Prolog, and building hard-wired computers to control robots for people with disabilities. Roy is currently the CTO of Imersia, but still gets his hand dirty by cutting code – leading by example.

Functional Programming Auckland

Come learn, teach, play with all things FP. We’ll see what people are into including some presentations and hack nights to try other cool languages etc. Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Lisp, ML, OCaml, Javascript, Erlang and all the others…

When and Where

Wednesday 19 September 2018
6pm – 8pm

Movio HQ
2.4 – 30 St Benedicts St
Eden Tce
Auckland

How Much

Free

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Using Erlang in earnest – building a Mixed Reality
Functional Programming Auckland Meetup Group

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

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

More

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

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Meetup page for 21 August 2018 meet
Go AKL meetup group

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

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