Episode 25: Softchoice

Drew and James open with a brief chat about the week in review, a little bit about Microsoft naming, as well as some of the side projects they are working on.

The guest this week is Matt Carolan from Softchoice, an experienced group of experts that offers deep expertise and design for the implementation of advanced IT and cloud solutions.

If you are interested in cloud computing, Azure, AWS, and all things server related, then Matt is your man. He is also the founder and organizer of the Vancouver PUG (public cloud user group) meetup.

Interview Links

• Softchoice


• Public Cloud User Group (PUG) Meetup


• Coffee Cloud


• Matt on Twitter

Meetups for the week of May 9th

Monday, May 9th

• Git Help! & 0-Tech (Decentral, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM


• DREW ODDBALL: Life Drawing (#590-1199 West Pender) 5:00 PM

Tuesday, May 10th

• Vancouver Pixel Crafters (Nelson the Seagull 315 Carrall Street) 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM


• Open Data Drinks (Shebeen Whiskey House 212 Carrall Street) 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM


• Vancouver Spark Meetup (Hyatt Regency Hotel 655 Burrard Street) 6:00 PM


• RED Academy (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• RED Academy (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6:00 PM


• VanTUG (BCTIA Innovation HUB, Great Northern Way) 6:00 PM


• BuildDirect Talks (401 West Georgia St, 1900) 6:30 PM


• Vancouver Pixel Crafters (Studio at Creative Coworkers 343 Railway St. Unit 10) 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Wednesday, May 11th

• Vancouver Rust (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W Georgia St) 5:30 to 7:30


• Vancouver Pluralsight (PNI Digital Media Offices 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• Learn Data Science (SFU VentureLabs Harbour Centre 555 W Hastings St #1200) 6:00 PM to 8:00 * PM


• Vancouver Ruby (Brewhouse Software 210 Carrall Street, Suite 303) 6:00 PM


• Lean Agile Vancouver (Unbounce, Suite #400 - 401 W. Georgia St) 6:30


• VanBUG (SFU Habour Centre 515 West Hastings, Suite 400 Conference Room) 7:00 PM

Thursday, May 12th

• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM


• DREW ODDBALL: Vancouver Job Seekers (900 HOWE STREET Unit 100 Corner of Smithe Meeting Room - Granville Station) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM


• Robot Operating System UG (Only Shown to Members) 6:00 PM


• RED Academy (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Ubuntu Vancouver (West End / English Bay) 6:00 PM

Friday, May 13th

• JAMES ODDBALL: Vancouver Unity Games May Meetup (VFS Cafe 390 West Hastings) 6:15 PM

Saturday, May 14th

• Consumer VR (Vancouver Convention Centre East) $65 - $150.00


• PyLadies Code Retreat (Hootsuite 5 E 8th Ave) 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect