Hackathon, Meetups and More

I have been in Orlando the fast couple weeks, here's an update of whats been going on.

Tabs on Tallahassee Hackathon
- this was my first all-day hackathon and I had a great experience. Not knowing what to expect, I showed up in the morning and joined a team. We were given some basic guidelines (which can be found on the link above), put into a room for about nine hours, and asked to come up with something. Two guys on my team held senior positions and took the lead. We decided to use Angular (something I had not used before) and began working on our idea which gave information on your legislator by zip-code, then according to your own political beliefs, compared your representative to a legislator that lined up with your own political view points.

Tabs on Tally Hackathon

We did not get to finish our app but our code is on my github. I contributed to our front end but also spent time watching the back end of our app development, I was very interested in watching the pros thought process. Overall this was a great experience working with a team and I look forward to more events like this.

Ruby Jax Action Cable - my favorite meetup that I attend, this one was back in Jax Beach. Best thing was more reassurance that testing is the path to getting hired. During this meetup Eric Bundy gave a talk and did some live coding on Rails 5 new Action Cable feature.

Jax Tech Meet Up - another cool meetup back in Jax Beach, this one was really great for networking and I received some new contacts that I hope will lead to some freelance work.

WordPress Site Optimization - meetup in downtown Orlando at Envy Labs, pretty cool introduction to wordpress and another great networking experience.

Meetup @ Envy Labs Orlando

 

I also volunteered to give the next talk at Ruby Jax in a couple of weeks. My topic is REST and how it makes Rails awesome.

-John