Episode 53: Alex Taylor and Jade Tong

Episode 53: Alex Taylor and Jade Tong

Alex and Drew open the show talking about technical meetups, troubleshooting, the inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup, and discuss progress with the open-contribution company concept. Then go over highlights of the previous week's meetups and upcoming week of Meetups Around Town.

Our guests this week are Alex Taylor and Jade Tong. Alex and Jade completed the Developer Bootcamp at CodeCore and were on the show one year ago when they were in their 6th week of the bootcamp. Drew and I check in with Alex and Jade to see how their experience was with CodeCore and see what they're up to now!

##Meetups for the week of November 21st

###Monday 21st

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


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


• Vancouver Hack Space (#104 - 1715 Cook St.) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM *meet-up full, for information only


• Polyglot Vancouver Reading Group (#PapersWeLoveYVR):
  
  Category Theory: Functoriality & Function Types (Stage 3 Systems, 220-750 Hamilton St.) 6:00 PM


• VanLUG General Tech Meeting (SFU Downtown, 515 West Hastings St., Xerox Conference Rm. TBD, see the board at the front door to confirm) 7:00 PM

###Tuesday 22nd

• VPC - Open Coffee (Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall) 8:00 AM


• Tech Talent Meetup (887 Great Northern Way) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM


• Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Networking Group (St. Regis, 608 Dunsmuir St) 6:00 PM


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

###Wednesday 23rd

• 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


• Vancouver Windows Platform Developers Group
  
  Developing for Augmented Reality (Hololens) (Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre, 7th floor - 725 Granville St.) 6:00 PM


• Learn Data Science [Advanced] Data Science Reading Group - Multifaceted Feature Visualization (SFU VentureLabs Harbour Centre, 555 W Hastings St #1200) 6:00 PM


• Full Indie: November Full Indie (The Butcher and Bullock, 911 West Pender St.) 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Digital Project Managers: In Service to the Team: A modern approach to team management (Invoke HQ, 322 Water St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Network Admin and Support Professional (BCIT Downtown, 555 Seymour St) 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Growth Hackers (Unbounce #400 - 401 W. Georgia St.) 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM


• Vancouver Hack Space: Soldering workshop (#104 - 1715 Cook St.) 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

###Thursday 24th

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


• Sophos Network Security Meetup - Western Canada (Sophos, 580 granville) 4:00 PM


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


• Vancouver Salesforce Developer Group (location shown to members) 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM


• VPC Startup Drinks Vancouver (131 Water St. @ Kitchen & Bar - Upstairs) 6:00 PM


• VanQ (TBD Downtown Vancouver) 6:00 PM


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


• Distributed Systems Vancouver (STAT Search Analytics, 704 Alexander St.) 6:30 PM


• Vancouver Drupal Users Group (The Network Hub, 3rd Floor, 422 Richards) 6:30 PM


• VanDev: Vancouver's Software Developers Network (UBC Robson Square C550 - 800 Robson St.) 6:45 PM to 9:30 PM

###Friday 25th

• BC Tech Grub in the Hub (887 Great Northern Way) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM


• 9CAT.NET Tech & Startup Weekly (950 - 777 Hornby St.) 6:30 PM


• From C to C (needs a location) 7:00 PM

###Saturday 26th

• VPC Weekend Survival Workshop (1000 Rocks ln., Squamish) 10:00 AM

###Sunday, December 4th

• Holiday special - baking edition (Seattle) 12:00 PM

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

Credit for audio engineering to Anthony Morris

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