Colorado Tech Weekly #87: Why Colorado Tech Weekly Exists and Everybody Wants to Be Here

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 was featured in the below article from BuiltinColorado as someone you should follow in Twitter. It feels great to get noticed. It also makes me wonder if I am portraying the person I want to be online.

I started Colorado Tech Weekly because I wanted to stay informed about the Colorado technology industry. I want to stay informed so that when I am ready to apply for software development jobs, I know where I want to apply. I realized that I’m not the only person that can benefit from this information, so I started Colorado Tech Weekly 87 weeks ago to share this information. I’m glad I get to continue this newsletter and I’m thrilled whenever I find out that people get value from these posts.

Top Colorado Technology News

50 Colorado tech CEOs, founders, designers & hackers you should follow on Twitter (Including me!) [BuiltinColorado]
Some of the best places to learn programming in Colorado [CTA]
Colorado tech roundup: Tendril grabs $7.2M, Peak changes its name, Mergelane announces its first class and more [BuiltinColorado]
Digital Workshop Center in Fort Collins innovates to bring technical skills to those entering digital world [InnovatioNews]
Broomfield-based Level 3 has 1st full-year profit in 16 years; Q4 earnings beat analysts’ view [DBJ]
Galvanize partners with Women Who Code to give a full scholarship to a woman in tech [Galvanize]
The perks of interning at a startup [Windward]
Fort Collins and Boulder earn No. 8 and No. 9 spots on Top 10 cities to find a job in America [InnovatioNews]
Denver a top 10 destination for people relocating [DBJ]
C-Level @ A Mile High connects solution providers with tech executives in a one-of-a-kind market [CTA]

Upcoming Events

2/11 – CTA – 101 Luncheon
2/11 – DJUG – Frederic Jean: Browser Based Storage
2/12 – Boulder/Denver Mongo – SlamData: Understand Your MongoDB Data
2/12 – gSchool Boulder – Panel Discussion and Open House
2/12 – WWC – (Denver) JavaScript Study Group
2/16 – Denver WordPress – Creating Child Themes & Custom Theme Development /w Rafi
2/16 – HTML5 Denver – “How to ReactJS” and “Tooling is Awesome”
2/17 – Denver iPhone – Kevin Teman: Creating a Reusable Module
2/17 – GDI Boulder – Introduction to Docker
2/17-2/18 – RMOUG – Annual RMOUG Oracle Training Days 2015 Conference!

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Colorado Tech Weekly #56: Anything that can happen in tech is happening in Colorado

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

If you want to geek out about software development with me, check out my new Dev News Weekly that will be posted every Tuesday morning!

When I write these posts, I usually create the list of headlines first, then I look for a theme or something that stands out so I can ramble before the headlines. Today I stared at my headlines… and stared… and stared. I could not come up with a theme! Then I realized that IS my theme!

If it has to do with creating, moving, studying or making money off of ones and zeros, it’s happening here in Colorado. Hardware? Yep. Devices? Definitely. Services? You know it. Networking? Uh-huh. Software? Absolutely. I’m running out of ways to say “Yes” so just know that it’s all happening here and that’s pretty cool.

Top Colorado Technology News

Sprint 4G LTE in Denver by end of June? Didn’t happen. Sprint mum on plans. [TechKnowBytes]
Boulder-based Zayo Group files to go public, seeks to raise $100M [DBJ]
Colorado State scientists develop algorithms to crunch data from new NASA climate satellite [InnovatioNews]
An additional $2 million gets Denver’s Peak more data centers, more partnerships [BuiltinColorado]
Denver software companies urge the city to change its tax stance [CTA]
IdeaLAB in Denver helps girls prepare for tech jobs of the future [YourHub]
Colorado Technology Associaton’s APEX Awards nominations due by Aug. 15 [InnovatioNews]
Littleton-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems grows with software company acquisition [DBJ]
NoCo Mini Maker Faire Call for Makers is now OPEN [DenverMiniMakerFaire]
Bluemile’s $15 million acquisition by Englewood-based Wow results in several lawsuits [DBJ]

Upcoming Events

7/9 – Refresh Denver – Frank Bushell, Designer/Front-End Developer at Cirro
7/9 – Meteor Denver – How to create a mini router and lessons learned
7/9 – GDI Boulder – Code & Cocktails
7/9 – Denver Droids – Samsung Gear
7/9 – DJUG – Building a Complete HTML5/PhoneGap App with the Appery.io Cloud Platform
7/9 – CTA – CTA 101 Luncheon
7/10 – VET-preneurs – Third VET-preneurs Meetup with Major General Jay Lindell
7/10 – Rocky Mountain Adobe Users Group – Creative Cloud Event Denver
7/10 – The Denver Web Technologies Meetup Group – Monthly Meetup
7/10 – CTA – APEX Award Nominations Webinar
7/14 – Node.js Denver/Boulder – Zones: A Next Generation Async Flow Control Library for Node.js

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Colorado Tech Weekly #48: Let’s Keep the Net Neutral and Colorado in Drive

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning!

If you use the internet, create things for the internet or just giggle at Lolcats on the internet in Colorado there are some things going on at the state and federal level that you should be aware of. Andy Vuong’s TechKnowBytes post about Level 3 is a good place to start if you are concerned about what FCC director Tom Wheeler has proposed in regards to net neutrality (You should be concerned). Meanwhile the Denver Business Journal article about telecom reform is great news for the expanse of high-speed internet in Colorado. Happy Monday!

Top Colorado Technology News

Douglas County-based Dish Network to start streaming video service by early 2015; Ergen reveals plans [DBJ]
Telecom reform, ride-sharing app rules emerge from Colorado Legislature [DBJ]
University of Denver to break ground on $41M STEM facility [DBJ]
Denver-based Peak gets another $4 million for its innovative approach to cloud technology [BuiltInColorado]
What 5 Startup Crawl host companies have up their sleeves for Boulder Startup Week [BuiltInColorado]
Scaling SendGrid: Interview With Jim Franklin [BuiltInColorado]
Broomfield’s Level 3 accuses five U.S. ISPs of throttling traffic [TechKnowBytes]
Loveland-based Aleph Objects releases LulzBot TAZ 4, the company’s most robust and capable 3D printer [InnovatioNews]
Boulder’s Orbotix Raises $15.5 M to Develop Next Generation of Toys [Xconomy]
A review of the Energy & Tech Mashup at Galvanize in Denver: Novel format designed for momentum [BuiltInColorado]

Upcoming Events

5/14 – CTA – CTA 101 Luncheon
5/15 – Techstars – Techstars for a (Half) Day
5/15 – BDNT – New Tech Denver
5/16 – CIGDA – Monthly Norside Casual
5/17-5/18 – Google – Google Government Transformer Challenge
5/19 – WWC Boulder/Denver – March Java Study Group
5/19-5/21 – CTA – Sector Summit II: Growing the Talent Pipeline
5/20-5/25 – CTA – Fort Collins Startup Week
5/20 – Cloud Elements – “Developing applications with a micro-service architecture” with Chris Richardson, founder of the original Cloud Foundry

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Colorado Tech Weekly #31: Do whatever you need wherever you want

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

I felt like I could’ve easily posted 20 stories, but part of the fun of these posts is narrowing it down to the 10 most interesting stories of the week. I’m really curious about the trend of the technology industry allowing us to work from anywhere. Whether it’s cloud services, coworking spaces, connected cars or wearable devices we are increasingly allowing (forcing?) us to work from wherever we want.

I am looking forward to my first Built in Brews event this Thursday. Since I like beer and I like smart, ambitious people, it should be a good time.

Local News

CES 2014: Colorado roundup with Logic Integration, Revolv, Dish and EnerPlex [TechKnowBytes]
Boulder-founded Elihuu positions for national expansion [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado coworking spaces create a statewide membership [BuiltinColorado]
Denver-based Wayin acquires Comenta TV to power on-air social media [BuiltinColorado]
Denver-based Cloud Elements makes a developer’s life easier with Documents Hub launch [BuiltinColorado]
Cloud service provider Peak, based in Denver, starts 2014 with $4 million and big goals [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder’s Ball Aerospace trims workforce by 77 jobs [DBJ]
Douglas County-based Dish Network drops out of LightSquared bidding [DBJ]

National News

Google announces Open Automotive Alliance to drive Android Into connected cars [TechCrunch]
CES 2014: Less Is more for smart watches and other wearable gadgets [TechnologyReview]

Upcoming Events

1/15 – Front Range PHP User Group – FRPUG Monthly Meeting
1/16 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews
1/16 – BDNT – New Tech Denver
1/21 – Denver iOS Developer User Group – Dave Batton: Developing Professional Quality iOS Interfaces
1/21 – CTA – Gov in Tech: Big Data Analytics in Government
1/21 – The Boulder Agile Software Meetup Group – Product Flow
1/21 – SIM-Colorado – The Art of the Influencer

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