Episode 50: Windows Platform Developer Group

Episode 50: Windows Platform Developer Group

Alex and Drew open the show talking a bit about reasonable assumptions of how things are versus how they end up being in the real world, whether engineers should follow reasonable assumptions or test everything, how event storming and CQRS help deliver early prototypes quickly, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup and an open-contribution style company, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup and an open-contribution style company, and go over the upcoming week of Meetups Around Town,

Our guest this week is Mark Schramm, organizer of the Vancouver Windows Platform Developer Group. We talk about Microsoft's Surface Studio, intermediate steps in between new tech, some of the cool projects he's working on through his consulting company Fusionware Integration Corp., and some of the mentoring he has done at Microsoft.

##Meetups for the week of October 31st

###Monday 31st

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


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


• Hackernest Vancouver (SKIO Music, 390 Cambie St) 8:00 PM

###Tuesday 1st

• Polyglot Social (St. Regis, downstairs, 608 Dunsmuir St.) 6:00 PM


• VPC Camp Tech (Hive Vancouver, #210 - 128 West Hastings) 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 West Hastings) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM


• Public Cloud Users Group (BCIT Burnaby Campus, 3700 Willingdon) 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM


• Red Academy (Red Academy, 200 -1490 W Broadway) 6:00 PM


• Physics Geeks and Professionals (Science World) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM


• Vancouver Hackspace (104 - 1715 Cook St) 7:30 PM

###Wednesday 2nd

• VPC Lunch & Learn - Corporate Culture for Dummies (Launch Academy, 300-128 W. Hastings St.) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM


• Vancouver Linux Desktop (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM


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


• yvrTesting (Sophos, 580 Granville St) 5:30 PM


• VANUE Vancouver User Experience Awards Demo Day (Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre, 725 Granville St., 7th Floor) 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM

###Thursday 3rd

• Vancouver Lean Coffee (Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall) 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM


• Internet Marketing Think Tank (The Imperial, 319 Main St.) 4:30 PM to 9:30 PM


• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM


• Polyglot Vancouver (Mozilla YVR Offices, 163 West Hastings St.) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM


• Red Academy (Red Academy, 200 - 1490 W Broadway) 6:00 PM


• Startup Founder 101 (The Profile Vancouver, 200 375 Water St.) 6:15 PM to 9:00 PM


• Metro Vancouver FPGA Meetup (Bob Prittie Metrotown Library, 6100 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby) 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM


• Learn Data Science (SFU Harbour Centre - Room 7000, 515 W Hastings St.) 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

###Friday 4th

• Red Academy (200 - 1490 W Broadway) 10:00 AM

###Saturday 5th

• Disrupting HR - the future of work - Vancouver (location shown to members) 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM


• VPC Comedy Hack Day YVR (Launch Academy, 300-128 W. Hastings St.) 9:30 AM


• She Talks Technology (Telus Innovation Centre, 510 West Georgia St.) 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

###Sunday 6th

• She Hacks Vancouver (Telus Innovation Center 510 W Georgia) 9:30 AM

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

Credit for audio engineering to Anthony Morris

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