I'm pleased to announced that we've formed an ALT.NET pub club style group in Pittsburgh. If you're not familiar with ALT.NET, you can find more about it here...
I hacked my iPhone and it can now run 3rd party applications. I am looking to create a small application for the phone do go out and retreive some xml and then...
... It does appear to be so. ... For now, Google around for combinations of iphone, jailbreak, app, compiler, etc. In theory Apple is also working on an SDK. ...
They have released the fact they are coming out with an API but i believe that is feb or march. That's assuming things come out on time. ... -- Adam...
Sorry for the wide distribution. Simple Design and Testing Conference is a 2 day regional conference in Penn State York Campus. I attended that last year, with...
... Thanks Andrew. This is a great conference (you can't beat the price). I'd go again this year if it wasn't for a critical deadline at work. -- Greg Akins ...
Double Entry Book keeping (Just in time for the Xmas shopping season ;-) Our December 13th meeting will focus on the programming challenges around implementing...
Pittsburgh Perl Mongers are meeting for their "Social Hour" at Church Brew Works after their meeting on Thursday. We're welcome to attend and socialize with...
This reminded me of a video I saw, created by some guy who goes to CMU. It shows you how to use a wiimote, from the nintendo wii, plus a few cheap parts around...
My company, ChemImage, is looking for a C# .NET Developer. It is a good company to work for with a competitive compensation package. The official blurb for the...
I found this article today on Slashdot. Figured i'd pass this on to the group. Considering you are reading this, you should toss yourself, most likely, into...
DevHouse Pittsburgh is back for 2008! Our second event will be held on Saturday, January 26th at the Creative TreeHouse in Bellevue. In true DevHouse style,...
For the January meeting, Steve, Faisal and I have been working through some "concepts" for delivering a challenge centered around exploring language abilities...
I'm putting in the pizza order around 1:00PM. Will anyone who is expecting to come, drop me an email before then, so I can get a count? Thanks! -- Greg Akins ...
Greg, I will be attending tonight as well as bringing someone (Chris Scott). Please include the 2 of us in your count. (what is the cost?) Thanks, Justin Fiore...
... I figured you were waiting for us to beg. I checked the Wiki, to no avail, but now you've updated that too. Now we need a topic. -- Steven E. Harris...
... I liked Justin's suggestion of going to TopCoder; but I've never tried one of their challenges. But that's one thing we could look into. Also, doing some...
... One angle there is to consider what kinds of problems are amenable to such a system. Actually implementing a MapReduce-like system is likely beyond the...
I just got an email from a friend whose company is hiring Electronic Design Engineers Embedded Software Engineers If anyone is interested, drop me a note and...
The Pittsburgh Coding Dojo will be meeting Thursday February 28th, 6:00PM at the Pittsburgh Technology Council. We'll be working on Dave Thomas' Kata 15 this...
If anyone is interested in grabbing a drink after the Dojo, I'd be up for heading out for a bit. See you all tonight -- Greg Akins Software Development Manager...
