Upcoming Workshops
Put Your Retirement to Work
2022-03-09
You need to be financially prepared. Taking advantage of your employer-sponsored retirement plan is one way to help prepare for whatever kind of retirement you have ahead.
Hacking the Interview Process
2022-03-11
You want a great job but it is taking more time, effort, and headaches than you'd like. This presentation gives you the upper hand in the interview process and reduces the time needed to make your job a reality.
Simplify Your Spending
2022-03-23
Take control of your financial future. Learn more about the basics of budgeting and the importance of managing credit and debt.
Survey of Frontend Architectures
2022-03-23
In this session, you’ll find a high-level introduction to frontend architecture patterns, learning what approach to take given a set of requirements.
An Illustrated & Hands-On Intro to Containers and Kubernetes on Google Cloud
2022-04-08
This workshop will go over what containers are and why they matter to you as a technologist/developer, and to companies as a key part of running their businesses.
Introduction to Redis
2022-04-14
This session will serve as a practical introduction to Redis, a common distributed in-memory data store.
Continuous Integration With Jenkins
2022-04-27
Come and learn about Jenkins, one of the most popular continuous integration tools. We'll talk about configuration as code and try to provide attendees with the opportunity to play around with the system.
Interviewing is Everyone's Job!
2022-04-28
You might think that interviewing is a distraction from slinging code, but it's important to your company, to your team, and to your career. If you are learn how to interview well then you can make sure the right people join your team, building the kind of team you want to work with.
Concurrency
2022-04-30
We will explore the concepts of concurrency and multithreaded programming, and common patterns that we apply. Using some example code projects, we will learn how to make our code multithreaded in order to safely speed up our programs
Practical Well-being and Self-care
2022-05-11
This session will explore practical well-being and self-care across physical, mental, and emotional dimensions. It will investigate the reasons and motivations behind self-care, cover the components of evidence-based well-being, and review tips on developing a personal practice and building habits. The workshop facilitator has no special credentials and is just a fellow tech industry worker and human who happens to be passionate about self-care and well-being.
Part 1 Advanced Object Oriented Design Patterns
2022-05-12
In this latest addition to the Patterns in Programming workshop series, we'll focus on design patterns, with a focus on object-oriented design. We'll dive into a set of common and useful design patterns outlined in the famous book, Design Patterns, by the Gang of Four (Gamma et al.), which also serve as shorthand terms that engineers use to name and describe their code. This is a 2-part workshop
Part 2 Advanced Object Oriented Design Patterns
2022-05-19
In this latest addition to the Patterns in Programming workshop series, we'll focus on design patterns, with a focus on object-oriented design. We'll dive into a set of common and useful design patterns outlined in the famous book, Design Patterns, by the Gang of Four (Gamma et al.), which also serve as shorthand terms that engineers use to name and describe their code. This is part 2 of a 2-part workshop!
Digital Accessibility for Developers
2022-05-27
Students will gain an introduction to Digital Accessibility, disability in the digital context, and the WCAG standards that govern what is and what is not considered accessible code.
Introduction to TypeScript
2022-05-28
This introductory workshop will get you started writing TypeScript code. You will see the advantages to using static typing to shorten the development cycle, spotting errors earlier in the process.