Episode 48: Android Meetup

Drew and Guest Co-Host Alex talk about project management, event storming, learning to code, meetups around town, then interview Ian and Mike from the Android Vancouver Meetup group.

Alex and Drew talk about Adaptech Solutions, and their approach to DDD, CQRS, and Event Sourcing, as well as what Event Storming is and how it can help software businesses.

Our guests this week are Ian Sim and Mike Klemarewski, who run the Android Vancouver Developers meetup.

The interview covers topics from gender diversity in tech to event organization to Xamarin vs native mobile app development.

Show Links

• Adaptech Solutions

Interview Links

• Codewars


• ViDIA meetup


• Vancouver Android Developers

Meetups for the week of October 17th

Monday 17th

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


• Vancouver Rust (DCTL, 436 w Pender) 5:30 PM


• Vancouver Hack Space (#104 - 1715 Cook St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Machine Learning Meetup / [Data Science] / Learn Data Science (Unbounce, 400, 401 W Georgia) 6:30 PM


• VanLUG (SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St) 7:00 PM

Tuesday 18th

• PHP Vancouver (Red Academy, 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM


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


• Canada Futurists - Vancouver (Creative Coworkers, 343 Railway St. Unit 10) 6:30 PM

Wednesday 19th

• Vancouver Linux Desktop (Decentral, 436 W Pender) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• Pluralsight Study Group (PNI 100 - 425 Carrall St) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Thursday 20th

• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (DCTRL Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM


• Analytics Club Vancouver (Needs a Location) 5:00 PM


• Learn Data Science (needs a location) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Vancouver Web Design (Needs a Location) 6:30 PM

Saturday 22nd

• Windows Platform Developer Group (725 Granville St) 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (waiting list)


• Full Indie Summit (Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton St600 Hamilton St600 Hamilton St) 9:30 AM to 10:00 PM

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