Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!
Last week I wrapped up my journey into UX Design. I didn’t finish my journey, I just wrapped it up for now. It’s a much bigger subject than I realized and I have a new respect for those that do it as a profession. On Wednesday, I picked up the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book. I spent all day Sunday troubleshooting tools that I only halfway understand so I could learn and develop with Ruby on Rails. Self-directed learning is a lot like the TARDIS, it doesn’t always take me where I mean to go, but it takes me to where I need to be.
I hope you check out Open World Learning’s request for volunteers. Few things are more fun than helping kids get excited about technology. I will get to do just that tomorrow as I am hosting a Hour of Hardware event at my daughter’s elementary school to compliment the Hour of Code event we hosted in the fall. Wish me luck!
Top News
- 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Congress (3DCIC) announces final speaker lineup for three-day Colorado Springs gathering in May [InnovatioNews]
- Rocky Mountain Innosphere in Fort Collins adds first 2014 group of six new client startup companies [InnovatioNews]
- Denver-based PQCareers works to humanize the recruiting process [W3W3]
- Open World Learning’s 5th Annual TechFair Competition Needs Your Help! [CTA]
- Boulder-based FreeWave unveils WavePoint M2M platform for industry and government applications [InnovatioNews]
- From Techstars to Galvanize, Denver’s GoSpotCheck now heads to Google HQ for inaugural Demo Day [BuiltinColorado]
- Denver-based Ping Identity ups its mobile security hold with acquisition of Accells Technologies [BuiltinColorado]
- Colorado Legislature declares Colorado Aerospace Day; criticizes feds for NASA cuts [DBJ]
- This would be huge! Dish Network’s Ergen talks merger with DirecTV CEO, says report (Video) [DBJ]
- ShowMobile, a media app based in Denver, meets kids where they live — on their phones [DBJ]
Upcoming Events
- 4/2 – Analyze Boulder – April Meetup: Ladies’ Night
- 4/2 – Galvanize – Google Demo Day Streaming Live in Gather Café
- 4/2 – Colorado Cassandra Meetup – Apache Cassandra with Jason Atlas
- 4/2 – DTC Ruby User Group – Initial commit: The first meeting of DTC Ruby User Group
- 4/2 – The IT Summit – 2014 IT Summit: Denver
- 4/3 – Sovrn – Recruitment Happy Hour
- 4/3 – Colorado Code for Communities – Happy Hour With City Of Denver Web Team
- 4/3 – CIGDA – Getting Your Game Noticed
- 4/8 – BDNT – New Tech Fort Collins
- 4/8 – Cloud Elements – Scalable Logging and Analytics with LogStash
- 4/8 – Reactive Programming Enthusiasts Denver – Scala and Akka support concurrent programming and why you need to use it
- 4/8 – Colorado Code for Communities – Denver Civic Hack Night
- 4/8 – Denver.rb – April Meetup
- 4/8 – CIGDA – IGDA April Meeting
- 4/8 – Aetna – 2014 Digital Health Summit
- 4/8 – CTA – Insights Series in partnership with Forrester Research sponsored by EY
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