As many of you know, because we have some new things coming up, the 8th Anniversary Bash was to be our last party for a while. I want to give a special thanks to RefreshAustin and the Austin Electronic Music Grid for co-hosting the party. Extra special thanks to Michelle Greer for introducing me to Union Park. This club keeps getting better and better.
Tech Diva Kimberlie Dykeman and Paul Walhus were doing interviews on the roof in between musical acts. Among the folks interviewed were Michael Witbrock of Cycorp (interview), Chris Lamprecht, Lead Architect of Indeed.com (interview), and Mauricio Piña of tseg.com (interview)
Watch GeekAustin 07 - Michael Witbrock - Cycorp in News Online
De facto chronicler of Austin tech events, Eugene Hsu, dropped by to photograph the party. You can see his photo sets on facebook (photo set 1, photo set 2). I have been hosting parties for about 17 years now, and I have to tell you Eugene is one of the best. The Austin tech scene is fortunate to have this guy shooting the parties. When you see him, buy him a drink.
Kristen Sobieray, April Kyle, Eugene Hsu
Erica O’Grady, Michelle Greer, and Sara Dornsife are here. Now the party can get started!
One of my favorite parts of the party was the music provided by the artists of the Austin Electronic Music Grid. At several points later in the evening, we had 3 different artists in three different rooms. (I hope you knew that the party was going on in 4 spaces.) Dubnautica started at 7:30 in the BoomBoom Room Refresh Lounge.
At 8:30, Carbon Theory played in the main room.
At 10:00, Happy Panjoma did a great set on the roof, followed by Rage Ranger.
I hope to do more things with the Grid in the future. These are really a great bunch of folks.
How many of you new about the new bed on the back upstairs patio? What a perfect place to cap off the evening!
After a few last glances at the skyline from the Union Park patio, it’s time to go home. Thanks to everyone for a great party.
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Vito writes: Maybe I just don’t know where to look, but I’ve been utterly unable to find a working, clean Apple IIe in town. Goodwill Computerworks doesn’t have any. Craigslist hasn’t had any for as long as I’ve been looking. eBay is getting increasingly expensive, particularly when you factor in shipping.
I’m looking for one to buy to install a rare SwyftCard (Jef Raskin, Canon Cat, etc.) into as part of a class project at UT, if that makes any difference for anyone. I already have the SwyftCard, just need the Apple.
Anyone have one they’re looking to get rid of? Or know where to look for one? Ideally it’d be a platinum (the one with the extended keyboard), have at least one floppy drive and a serial card. 80 column card, speech synth, additional RAM, printer or monitor optional, but I’d be interested in any of them. (vito_geekaustin at perilith dot com)
csimoes writes: “Looks like IBM is cutting Austin jobs again. Yet everyone I talk to says the Austin job market is going great. I guess this should make it easier for these people to find jobs. What do you think, is the Austin job market much improved from 1 or 2 years ago?”
davidday writes: The first topic is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
I’m using O’Reilly “Web Database Application with PHP and MySQL”, 2nd
Edition, ISBN: 0596000413, but lets see which (if any) text the group
prefers when we meet.
Meetings are at KPI Consulting (2900 Jazz St, Round Rock) each Saturday at noon.
First meeting is 9/24/06. Duration is based on pace and scope
established by the group. Some have suggested adding Ruby on Rails, and if we do this will extend the length.
Legal stuff:
You don’t have to: be affiliated with CTLUG, pay fees, attend all
meetings, already be an expert. And noobs are encouraged to attend (I
don’t want to be the only one).”
This just in from Jeff Smith: On behalf of the Austin area chapter of the Association of IT Professionals (or AITP) and the InnoTech CIO Summit, I would like to invite you to nominate the senior IT executive, technology executive, or both for the 2006 IT Executive of the Year Awards from your company or another firm you feel deserves recognition (such as a client, colleague in the field, etc.).
This is the 9th annual IT Executive Awards. Prior winners have included executives from DejaNews/Google [GOOG], Dell [DELL], Hoover’s/Dun & Bradstreet [DNB], Vignette [VIGN], Whole Security/Symantec [SYMC], Activant, Austin-Bergstrom Airport, Collective Technologies, the City of Austin, the State of Texas, Texas Mutual Insurance, Texas Medical Liability Trust, Triactive, Travis County, and United Devices,
Finalists and award recipients will be recognized at a CIO Summit reception at the InnoTech conference on November 2, at the Austin convention center. Nominations are open for: CTO of the Year, Public sector IT Executive / CIO of the Year (for local, state, or other public agencies), Private sector IT Executive / CIO of the Year (both private and publicly traded companies are eligible). Nomination forms and additional information are available here
NOMINATIONS close on September 30, so please act soon. If you have any questions regarding the event, the selection process, or other issues, contact: Steve Guengerich,Chairman at 512/507-4646, mobile or 512/437-7912, direct
If you’re looking for an excellent programming gig, Academic Superstore is hiring. Be experienced with the LAMP stack; have OOP skills, know some SQL tricks, and have at least a passing familiarity with DHTML, AJAX, and/or jQuery.
Academic Superstore is located near I-35 and Ben White, and we offer a full suite of benefits along with a competitive salary.
Interested? Please email Tom w/ a special subject line: “G: PHP Developer”. Include your resume in any reasonable non-MS format (plaintext preferred).
Apogee Search is currently seeking a php developer and IT Specialist. They also have other open positions. Visit Apogee Search for more details.
Highly successful Austin start up has new openings for object-oriented software developers with strong development skills in either Mac OS X and/or Windows environment. Ideally, individuals will have cross-platform development experience in both. Object-oriented development using C++ is required.
Additional experience in any of the following areas are a plus:
Client level experience with Win32 - Familiarity with MFC, DHTML, OS X application development, and installers - Experience in WiFi programming, network protocols and security, and SVN.
Our client provides next-generation software solutions that make wireless and broadband networking easy, reliable, and secure. Our client offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, small team setting where you will work with dedicated individuals with a drive to provide the best software possible. Recent explosive growth in demand has created an immediate need for an experienced developer with a passion for producing software of the highest quality.
Will be a key contributor to the technology team and will initially help drive the customization and release of their flagship product to multiple key customers, and growing your skill set on the way. You will work in a highly collaborative team of experienced, committed professionals in a rapidly growing company.
Located in NW Austin. US Citezenship and Austin residence is required. Send resume and cover letter to Dee Dee Dial at
dddial@pedley-richard.com
Bulldog Solutions is seeking a Systems Analyst fot their IT Team. The Systems Analyst will be the primary liaison between the internal business units and the internal development team and/or 3rd party ASP software vendors. This position will be responsible for becoming the expert of all deployed software platforms, developing/supporting new ideas, and creating efficiencies. This is a full-time salaried position.
Read More for details:
Gearbox Software is hiring Gameplay and Tools Programmers. Please go to their website for more information. If you are interested in an opportunity, please send your resume to gamejobs@gearboxsoftware.com.
Veriseo is in its third year as a staffing agency focused on semiconductor careers. The company started in Austin and recently went nationwide opening offices in RTP, Sunnyvale and Dallas.
The company has more than forty open positions. Open positions range from the usual semiconductor design and verification positions to sales, FAE’s and even some management positions. Positions are posted and pulled on a daily basis. To view positions or submit your resume, visit www.veriseo.com
When I growing up in Detroit, there was this store called Allied Radio. It was about the twice the size of a Walgreen’s store, and it was all electronics gear. They had aisles of resistors, capacitors, TTL (and later, CMOS) chips, vacuum tubes, Heathkit parts, soldering irons, oscilliscopes, and a bunch of other stuff for which I didn’t yet know the name. On Saturdays, I would ride my bike there, with a fresh schematic from Popular Electronics magazine, and make whatever the thing of the month was. Sometimes I was successful, sometimes I wasn’t. I remember blowing the fuse to the basement multiple times, blowing out perfectly working electronic devices, and even starting a small fire in a radio that my father gave me for Christmas. I sure did have a lot of fun. In the process, I learned about all sorts of nifty things like impedance, which came in handy when I was trying to tweak the reverb and preamp circuits on my guitar amp — or when I lived in the Ambassador and was trying to figure out how to bridge my neighbor’s circuit to get more amperage.
In the mid seventies,I bought a Yamaha mixing console. When it broke, I discovered that the whole mixer was on a single IC chip. Nothing to fix. You take it to the Yamaha repair shop, and the replace the chip. I began to notice that more and more of the objects I bought were built the same way. It breaks, you throw it away. The opportunities to take something apart, learn how it worked, fix it, or maybe just make it better were becoming less frequent.
When I first saw Make magazine, I knew something was afoot. If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. Yeah, that’s exactly what I felt.
With the emergance of the first Dorkbot events, it’s appears that this philosphy is becoming a movement. I couldn’t be happier. For those of you in Austin, we have some of the biggest dorkbot events right here.
The next one is Saturday, March 10th. If you’re downtown (and you should be), and need a break from Barcamp, you’ve got to check out the Dorkbot event in Brush Park.
Dorkbot
Saturday, March 10, 2007
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Brush Square Park
5th and Neches
Austin, Texas
SitePen, Inc., a web application development firm, is looking
for an experienced and motivated open source software technologist
for a full time position in server operations. You will enjoy
working with: beautiful and elegant web applications, built using the Dojo Toolkit (AJAX + comet, too) * leading edge open source technology, a geographically distributed * laid-back and intense group of colleagues * a geographically distributed set of systems * flexible hours and full benefits.
For more info, visit: SitePen
“Cool, hip, and progressive” company that is totally “AUSTIN” is looking for a talented Perl Developer/ Programmer. The company is located downtown and offers an AMAZING work enviornment. Can you imagine a company that has: happy hours frequently * breakfast tacos every friday* monthly social outings * fully stocked breakroom = FOOD!!* FREE gym (it’s almost summer and time to work on that “Geek body” * A beautiful OUTSIDE work patio * Happy hours on that patio * Flex schedule * 12 hrs/ month PTO * 90% paid beneifts * an awesome 401K* and the company culture that you are looking for!!!
Along with having a great personality and attitude, the qualified candidate should have:
* 3-5 years programming experience with emphasis on web based applications
*Strong Perl and Javascript experience
*Familiarity with Unix/ Linux and SQL
* Knowledge of XML languages/ technologies
*Knowledge of client technologies including XHTML/ CSS
* Experience with Apache/Tomcat, mod_perl, CVS, AJAX
* Project lead experience highly desired
Please send your resume to eemmett@5pointservices.com
