Colorado Tech Weekly #154: CTA, BSW, Go Code Colorado and Influence

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

I don’t know where to start this week!

Do I start with the Boulder Startup Week highlights from BuiltinColorado? Highlights that do not include Brad Feld in shiny gold shorts as the ring card holder for the Founder Fights? That was my highlight. Or do I start with the news about the Colorado Technology Association’s announcement of their new CEO, Andrea Young? Maybe I should start with being named a top 50 influential person in Colorado tech for the second year in a row? That’s pretty darn cool. Or I could start with being asked to cover the Go Code Colorado Final Event as a blogger? I was part of a winning team last year after all. It’s just all too much. I can’t decide.

This week I will be at ReadyTalk’s FoxDen Launch Party and at the Go Code Colorado Final Event, both of which are on Thursday so let me know if you’ll be there too. I’d love to say “Hi”.

Also if you’re looking for an influential, self-motivated, entry-level software developer, I am looking for a new job so get in touch!

Top Colorado Technology News

Colorado startup Aventeer takes the price tag off of searching for local talent [CTA]
CEO and Co-founder of Boulder-based Amadeus Consulting, Lisa Calkins named Female CEO of the Year by CEO World Awards [AmadeusConsulting]
Colorado Springs software company, Altia Inc., has big plans, starting with interactive dashboard displays [ColoradoSpringsGazette]
Denver’s Choozle Appoints Eric Princen as Vice President of Engineering and Ashley Albrecht as East Coast Sales Director [Choozle]
Behind the scenes: what it’s really like to work on Denver-based ShopAtHome.com’s product team [BuiltinColorado]
You don’t have to start in startups: the past lives of 5 members of Colorado’s tech community [BuiltinColorado]
Andrea Young named Colorado Tech Association’s new CEO [DenverPost]
50 influential people in Colorado tech you should follow on Twitter [BuiltinColorado]
We asked, you answered: Highlights from Boulder Startup Week [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s GoSpotCheck is the #1 Place to Work in Denver! [GoSpotCheck]

Top Upcoming Events

5/25 – AWS DTC Meetup – Serverless Architecture with AWS
5/25 – CTA – Member Anniversary Breakfast
5/25 – DeRailed – Angular2, Mobile First Designs…
5/25 – Turing School – Front-End Engineering Program Open House
5/25-5/26 – GlueCon 2016
5/26 – BDNT – New Tech Colorado Springs
5/26 – Go Code Colorado – Final Event
5/26 – ReadyTalk – FoxDen Launch Party at Great Divide
5/26-5/29 – LambdaConf 2016
5/31 – Boulder iOS – Swift Gems

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Colorado Tech Weekly #153: Podcast Guesting, Linux Learning, DevOps and BSW Watching

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Last Monday I was invited to be a guest on the EleventyTwelve podcast with Jared Ewy and Aaron Templer. It was fun to meet Jared and Aaron and see how another podcast is put together.

We talked a little bit about AirBnB rules and we talked about upcoming tech events and the people and groups that make them happen. Give it a listen and let me know what you think because I can’t listen to it. I tried, but I will just constantly second guess myself and be entirely too hard on myself so the only way I will hear if Jared’s editing magic made me sound smart is to hear it from you.

Last week I also said I would get serious about my job search and I already had my first interview. It was a phone interview for a Jr. DevOps position and the conclusion reached was that I was good on all my skills needed for the job except my Linux knowledge. I have some, but it’s old and rusty. This makes sense though since DevOps is that middle ground between “an IT worker who wants to be a part of the development process” and “a developer that can actually put continuously integrated code into production.” So I decided to brush up on my Linux skills.

Since then I’ve learned that Lynda.com has a great CentOS lesson. I also learned that it was quicker for me to start an Amazon AWS instance than it was to get set up with Docker, how to use Git Bash, and that creating a Linux server in a virtual machine to follow a tutorial is a pain. I’d rather just connect to another computer than try to figure out pretend networking.

My plan is to use AWS instances and virtual machines to get as comfortable as I can with Linux in the next month then see if the position I applied for, or a similar position, is available.

If you have, or know of, a position you think I would fit in check out my resume and my projects page and let me know. I would greatly appreciate it. Have a good week!

Top Colorado Technology News

What 82 technology jobs in the Denver region pay for salaries [Tech+]
4 Colorado companies using tech to tackle mental health challenges [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder tech star SendGrid moving HQ to downtown Denver [DenverPost]
Broomfield-based Webroot jumps into ‘internet of things’ protection [DBJ]
Boulder’s Serenity Forge goes publisher with new title [BentoByte]
Startup Crawl preview: what 11 Boulder startups have in store [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder-based Techtonic Academy recognized by U.S. Dept. of Labor as first tech apprenticeship program in Colorado [CTA]
Denver, Boulder called top places to live for tech pros [BizWest]
25 Colorado women startup founders you should know [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder-based Quick Left’s right turn – to Cognizant [QuickLeft]

Top Upcoming Events

5/18 – Denver Visual Studio User Group – HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners 1 of 2
5/18 – Denver/Boulder Cybersecurity Meetup – Follow the Money! Payment Security w/ Director of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
5/18 – FRPUG – Magento 2 API
5/18 – GDG Denver – Google I/O Extended 2016
5/19 – Boulder Art Cinema – CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap – Startup Week
5/19 – Galvanize – Learn to Code: Intro to JavaScript
5/19 – Node.js Denver/Boulder/Ft. Collins – A Proper API Crash Course
5/20 – Colorado Product – The Birth of BB-8
5/20-5/22 – Startup Weekend Denver | Internet of Things 2.0
5/21 – CiGDA – 2016 Chilifest Colorado Video Games BBQ

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Colorado Tech Weekly #152: Finding Opportunities in Colorado is Easy

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Finding opportunities is easy. Taking advantage of opportunities? That’s the difficult part.

With achievement of my degree within sight and a few projects completed it is time for me to take job searching seriously. Last night I started trying to figure out how to get paid for doing something I love. I looked at a few online job postings but this does not seem like a good strategy considering the network of awesome people I’ve cultivated in the last 152 weeks. Then there’s the question of “What is a good strategy?” Should I put my head down and charge at a dream job or should I keep my eye out for other software developer jobs? My heart wants to go for the dream job but my heart also really wants to get out of this job so I can work as a developer full time as soon as possible!

If you have any job searching advice, I’d love to hear it. If you just have a job offer, I’d love to hear that even more!

Top Colorado Technology News

Denver Tech Center-based cable company, WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone, says it raised $40M [DBJ]
Boulder’s Zayo cuts 21 jobs as growth and and acquisitions created redundancies [DenverPost]
Denver-based Wayin gets new CEO after acquiring UK’s EngageSciences [Tech+]
7 key players in Colorado’s cybersecurity industry [BuiltinColorado]
Break up with your bad job: 7 Colorado companies hiring this month [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado Springs tech storage firm, X-IO Technologies, closes facility, cuts 107 workers [DenverPost]
AT&T’s pledge to hire more veterans for tech jobs in Colorado [Tech+]
Your guide to making the most of Boulder Startup Week [BuiltinColorado]
6 drastic changes some companies are making to lure tech workers [DenverPost]
Bootcamps Vs. Traditional Education: My experience as a new woman in tech [CodeCraft]

Top Upcoming Events

5/11 – CTA – 101 Luncheon
5/11 – Denver Java User Group – Introduction to Reactive
5/11 – Refersh Denver – Eric Martinez: Best Practices That Aren’t and Knowing When to Break the Rules
5/11 – WomenWhoCode – Boulder: Firebase Apps & Twitter Backend Message Processing
5/11-5/12 – The Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference
5/12 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at LogRhythm
5/12 – Galvanize – Learn to Code: Intro to HTML/CSS and Web Basics
5/13-5/14 – iOS Dev Camp Colorado
5/14 – GirlDevelopIt Boulder – Intermediate HTML/CSS & Intro to Responsive
5/16 – BDNT – New Tech Boulder Featuring Techstars 2016 teams

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Podcasts for the Colorado Tech Geek

Last week I decided to stop recording the Colorado Tech Weekly Podcast. It was a fun experiment and I’m glad I tried it. It gave me the confidence to talk more freely about my knowledge and I’m proud that I gave podcasting a try without spending money on all the cool audio toys… although I did make an Amazon wishlist of audio toys.

I decided to stop the podcast because I realized that it was not working towards my goal of becoming a software developer. The whole reason I have this site is to show the work I am doing so I can get that developer job. The whole reason for the Colorado Tech Weekly series is to give people a reason to come to my site to read the news and see my project updates. Therefore the podcast should have been working towards that same goal. It wasn’t. In fact it seemed to be taking up time and effort that I could be spending working on projects and posting project updates on this site.

I also had big, cool ideas for the podcast which would make the podcast cool but would also take away more time from my primary goal. I love the idea of doing interviews and having co-hosts and panel discussions that focused on the Colorado technology community. How cool would it be to hear Tamara Chuang, Greg Avery and Jess Ryan discuss the current tech news on a monthly basis? That would be awesome! But it would take up way more time than I have. The ideas I have for the podcast are great. It could work and it could be awesome. Unfortunately I am not the person to make that happen right now.

Since I am not making a podcast anymore, I figured I would let you in on the podcasts that inspire and entertain me…

5280 Geek – Smurf hosts a mostly weekly podcast with a small group that talk about comics, pop culture, TV, movies, games and cosplay. There are serious opinions, “inappropriate” jokes, euphemisms and interviews. Great all around geekiness.
The Boop Show – Hosted by Scott Johnson. This is another mostly weekly podcast where Scott talks about the latest news in the video game industry. It’s mostly Scott by himself but he does try to incorporate listener feedback.
The Daily Tech News Show – One of my favorite podcasts and the reason I thought I could ever do my own podcast. Tom Merritt hosts the show with different co-hosts every day and talks about tech news from around the world. It’s every thing I wanted the Colorado Tech Weekly Podcast to be.
EleventyTwelve – Hosted by Jared Ewy and Aaron Templar in Jared’s basement in Englewood on a weekly basis. Jared and Aaron take on Colorado stories and interests where each episode is under 30 minutes on purpose. It’s like a good morning radio show if morning radio shows weren’t annoying but weekly and there’s no weather or traffic updates (mostly).
Mostly Harmless with Dammit Damian: A Punk Rock Podcast – Do you like punk rock and comics and nice guys named Damian who live in Denver? If you think you might, give this podcast a listen. In the same way I love showing off how much Coloradans contribute to the tech world, Damian loves showing off local artists, authors and musicians. He also says “Hey buddies!” a lot so it sounds like he’s your nice beer drinking, punk rock loving friend.
Pixels – An internationally hosted podcast about the video game industry recorded about twice a month. It’s hosted by Patrick Beja who is from France but just moved to Japan and includes co-hosts from America and Europe so it truly is international. It’s like the Boop Show but more conversational but still sometimes includes Scott Johnson.
The Avs Hockey Podcast – This podcast is hosted by huge Avalanche fan and ringleader of the #AvsTwitterPsychic twitter game, Jay Vean and the amazingly well traveled and awesome guy, James “Tapeleg” Gralian. It’s recorded every 1-2 months and Jay and James chat about news and interests involving the Colorado Avalanche and NHL hockey since their last recording. The only thing that would make this podcast better would be if they recorded it more often.
The Nerdist – Hosted by the nicest and most popular nerd in America, Chris Hardwick. The podcast is mostly Chris having genuine conversations with is friends and with cool, famous people in movies. It’s awesome. I love Chris. Listening to him makes me feel good about being a fan of anything.
The Sword and Laser – After I started listening to The Nerdist and feeling better about being a fan of nerdy things, I decided to finally give The Sword and Laser a listen. It’s a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont who are just as nice and just as nerdy as Chris Hardwick (and maybe more popular in some circles). The podcast is an extension of the Sword and Laser book club on Goodreads that discusses sci-fi and fantasy books.
These Things Matter Podcast – Another Colorado-based podcast of general geekery. This one is hosted by local stand-up comic, Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda. Every week they have an interesting guest and talk about a pop culture thing and it’s generally just fun to listen to.

I also just subscribed to 5280 Nerd, Denver Business Podcast and Turnpikers for more Colorado specific shows so I don’t know much about them yet.

What podcasts inspire and entertain you?

Colorado Tech Weekly #150: Almost All The Demos

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An amazing week of events coming up for student developers: Demo displays by RefactorU, Turing School and DaVinci Coders, tech fairs from Maker Boulder and Open World Learning and a high school team coding competition by Lockheed Martin. If you like seeing what things new developers are learning and creating, this is a good time for you.

Speaking of being a student it appears my time away from schoolwork is coming to a quicker end than I had realized. After a month off, My Computer Organization/Architecture course starts a week from today, not 2 weeks from today like I had originally thought. I’m looking forward to the course, though. Some might say developers don’t need to know about hardware as much anymore because so much code is built on top of layers of abstraction but I call BS on that. Between the amazing amount of devices already plus the IoT devices hardware is pretty darn important. Also someone still has to write those layers of abstraction so don’t disregard that hardware knowledge.

Just because I wasn’t doing schoolwork for a month doesn’t mean I wasn’t learning. In fact I’m pretty darn proud of my month off. I developed a Ruby on Rails web app for my police department which I will post to GitHub this week to show off. I made a game for Ludum Dare 35 called “Zorg’s Crash Landing.” It’s a very simple puzzle-like game that I did not work on as much as I would have liked, however I actually made a thing so that’s awesome. I also started learning Sphero capabilities with my entirely too long Sphero Android App Reviews post. I just started playing with the Sphero educational apps so look for that soon.

Remember, no more podcast so look for me to post something interesting this week. Looking at how much I’ve typed already I apparently have a lot to say.

Top Colorado Technology News

Know a veteran? No Barriers Warriors, sponsored by Douglas County’s Rise Broadband, offers all-expenses-paid trip [Tech+]
Boulder-based Ajubeo announces Chief Executive Officer, solidifying leadership [CTA]
Denver’s MarketPay acquired by Seattle firm; new owner plans to hire more in Denver [Tech+]
Online reviews site, Trustpilot, to open an offline office in Denver [Tech+]
How a combination of product and passion helped Boulder-based startup Tapinfluence raise $14M [BuiltinColorado]
Behind the scenes: what it’s really like to be a developer for Boulder’s SnapLogic [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado wants to duplicate Israel’s success in cybersecurity [DenverPost]
CodeCraft March Graduates’ Final Portfolio Apps & Demo Videos [CodeCraft]
From social media managers to senior developers, here’s what tech employees in Colorado actually make [BuiltinColorado]
Level 3 named Advanced Partner in Amazon Web Services Network [InnovatioNews]

Top Upcoming Events

4/28 – CodeCraft – Is a Coding Bootcamp Right for You?
4/28 – Denver/Boulder Cybersecurity Meetup – Defending Our Hometown Digital Rights: Meet the Electronic Frontier Alliance
4/28 – RefactorU – Demo Day
4/28 – Turing School – Demo Night: Student Projects
4/30 – DaVinci Coders – Demo Day for DaVinci Coders: Ruby on Rails
4/30 – Lockheed Martin – Code Quest
4/30 – Open World Learning – OWL TECHfair
5/1 – Maker Boulder – 2016 Rocky Mountain STEAM Fest
5/2 – Turing School – Meet & Hire a Developer
5/3 – DOSUG – Dr. Venkat Subramaniam–JavaScript Programming Idioms: Creating Elegant Code

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Colorado Tech Weekly #148: Feedback Needed

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I need your help! The future of Colorado Tech Weekly DEPENDS ON YOU! OK, maybe that’s a little too dramatic but I’m finding out that doing this blog and doing a podcast might be too much. I want to change things up, but I’m not sure how I want to do that. So yesterday I wrote up a post: The Future of Colorado Tech Weekly… with some of my thoughts and ideas. Since I write this blog and do the podcast for you as much as for me I would love to hear your feedback. Thank you for reading and listening!

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Top Colorado Technology News

Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, kicks off CU’s Conference on World Affairs [DenverPost]
10 teams advance in 2016 Go Code Colorado challenge, finals May 26 [InnovatioNews]
Broomfield-based Webroot adds Cloud Harmonics to global distributor network [InnovatioNews]
Revolv becomes history and ends service; Boulder team moves to Nest [Tech+]
Behind the scenes: what it’s really like to be a developer at Apptio in Denver [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s Choozle Announces Partnership with Digital First Media [Choozle]
Never “work” again: 7 Colorado startups hiring this month [BuiltinColorado]
Broadband measures pass, pot doesn’t do so well in Tuesday’s election [DenverPost]
ULA cuts 375 jobs as new commercial space-race heats up [DenverPost]
Whole Foods partners with Boomtown on technology and snacks [Tech+]

Top Upcoming Events

4/13 – CTA – 101 Luncheon
4/13 – CTA – C-Level @ A Mile High Volunteer Party
4/13 – Refresh Denver – Rachel Beisel; VP of Marketing GorillaLogic
4/14 – Commons on Champa – Get Hired: A Better Job Fair
4/14 – CTA – Health IT Cybersecurity Summit
4/14 – WomenWhoCode – JavaScript Study Group
4/16 – RefactorU – Intro to Node.js Workshop
4/18 – HTML5 Denver – “Lightning Talks”
4/19 – BuiltinColorado – Intro to the Colorado Startup Scene
4/19 – WomenWhoCode – (Denver) Java Study Group

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Colorado Tech Weekly #147: Learning Takes Time

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

This week a few of the articles have to do with new developers learning programming. Turing adds a new Front-End development program. Businesses are still worried about talent shortages. And the BuiltinColorado article asking 7 local developers about their learning journey is great!

One of my favorite answers from the BuiltinColorado article is from Joanne Cheng, “It takes a lot of time to learn what you need to know.” It’s difficult as a developer to find out what is important to learn and that’s even before you start learning the important things. Then once you have it figured out, it all changes and you get to start over again!

Podcast Version: No podcast version this week.

Top Colorado Technology News

Durango’s GitPrime featured as 1 of Inc’s 4 cloud startups to watch from Y Combinator [INC]
Section.io puts down Boulder roots, raises new equity round [BizWest]
Denver-based Havenly adds $5.8 million as demand for online design attracts VCs [Tech+]
How 7 Colorado developers learned to code — and what they wish they’d known before [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s Artifact Uprising hires former Photobucket exec Mike Clark [Tech+]
Colorado businesses worry about talent shortage; optimism down from a year ago [DBJ]
Denver-based Regis University competition highlights growing demand for cyber defense skills [YourHub]
Tattoo Tuesdays and custom cakes: Colorado tech’s coolest company perks [BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s Turing School launches new Front-End engineering program for developers [InnovatioNews]
Niwot-based SparkFun, Blynk release SparkFun Blynk Board and IoT Starter Kit [InnovatioNews]

Top Upcoming Events

4/6 – All Things API – Caching and Securing APIs For Enhanced Performance
4/6 – internet of Things Denver – Andrea Perdomo, Vision Activator and Doug Bartlett, CTO of Revolar
4/6 – WomenWhoCode – Denver: C’mon Everybody Let’s Get Swifty in Here: The Workshop w/ Basel Farag
4/7 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Colorado’s Fastest Growing Tech Companies
4/7 – Denver Embedded Systems Meetup – Denver Intel® Edison™
4/7 – WomenWhoCode – Boulder: exercism.io party!
4/8 – Innovation Pavilion – Celebrate International IoT Day
4/12 – Denver WordPress Meetup – WordPress Happiness Hour at the Denver Library
4/12 – Denver.rb – GraphQL and React
4/12 – TechRIoT – Indiegogo featuring Michael Hughes and JP McNeal: The Power of Crowdfunding

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Colorado Tech Weekly #146: Which is Better? Planning or Improvising?

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

The answer to the headline is “Yes.” I know. It’s a trick question and it’s Monday and you’re trying to figure out what it was you ate yesterday that has you feeling a bit off today (maybe the 5 pounds of chocoloate?) and you’re still trying to readjust after the snow storm interrupted your week last week so it’s not nice to give you a trick question and I’m sorry.

Planning is important regardless of what all the shotgun innovators tell you. If you want to do something well, you have to make a plan. Most of the headlines I share every week are the results of people setting a goal, making a plan and spending years going for it. Today I finished my Software Requirements Specification for my app for my police officers. It feels nice to have a plan.

But what about improvising? The best improvisation comes after the plan. It’s like the rescheduled events listed this week. There was a plan but things got changed, so you improvise and continue on. This is the best kind of improvisation.

Plan. Then improvise. Please.

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Top Colorado Technology News

Heck yeah, we’re from Denver: Revolar [Tech+]
Boulder-based TeamSnap hires former Louisville-based NexGen Storage CFO Benner [BizWest]
Denver’s Fruition acquires DS2 Magento Hosting [Fruition]
How 4 Colorado tech leaders are working to empower women in tech [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder’s SendGrid announces availability in Google Cloud Launcher [InnovatioNews]
New dev gigs: 5 software engineering openings in Colorado [BuiltinColorado]
Denver-based Wazee Digital to launch live event services at NAB 2016 [WazeeDigital]
Denver’s FullContact acquires Brewster to broaden product offerings [InnovatioNews]
Fast-growing Houston tech company, Poetic Software, to open Denver office [DBJ]
Denver-based ProtectWise guarding against hackers [DBJ]

Top Upcoming Events

3/30 – RefactorU – RESCHEDULED: Web Development Career Fair
3/31 – CSU – Bonnie Ross talks about Video gaming: Empowering creativity with technology
3/31 – Denver/Boulder Cybersecurity Meetup – NEW DATE: An Introduction to Health IT Cybersecurity
3/31 – Galvanize – FIRST EVER Fort Collins Full Stack Hiring Day
4/1 – HTML5 Denver – Hands-On with Angular 2
4/1-4/3 – Go Code Colorado – Challenge Weekend
4/5 – BoulderUX – Innovation by Design
4/5 – CIGDA – Game Developers meetup at Serenity Forge
4/5 – Denver Java Users Group – Tim Berglund: Building Java Applications on Cassandra
4/5 – DOSUG – Hazelcast Platform presented by Nils Kilden-Pedersen

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Colorado Tech Weekly #145: Partnerships, Opportunities and a Logo Challenge

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As someone who has been following Colorado tech companies for the last 145 weeks I took it as a personal challenge when I saw the BuiltinColorado tech startup logo challenge as a personal challenge. I thought, “If anyone should be able to list all 30 companies, it should be me.” Well I still have a few yet to identify. If you’re going to the Built in Brews event on Thursday and you want a cool t-shirt maybe you can get 2 shirts and I’ll help you out. I wear a large. Shhh! Don’t tell Jess Ryan.

After being overwhelmed last week, I feel almost on target this week. Classes are over for now. Birthdays are celebrated and I even get 2 whole days off with my wife and daughter this week! I’m excited to recharge, refocus and get moving on some personal projects. I should probably write up another blog post about those. Until then, here’s some cool news and events!

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Top Colorado Technology News

Denver-based 303 Software celebrates ten year anniversary with brand re-launch and website redesign [CTA]
Prosper Marketplace and Golden’s HomeAdvisor partner to bring home improvement financing to millions [BuiltinColorado]
Broomfield-based Level 3 shares diversity philosophy on women, global community and millennials [Tech+]
Fort Collins-based Innosphere startups create 296 jobs in 2015 [Coloradoan]
CTOs to Know: Here’s what the tech leaders of 5 Colorado companies are working on this year[BuiltinColorado]
Denver’s Altitude Digital joins forces with DoubleVerify to combat non-human fraudulent traffic [AltitudeDigital]
Two companies consider relocating North American headquarters to Colorado [DBJ]
Boulder startup Kindara names former SendGrid exec CEO [BizWest]
Skillful launches in Colorado to help companies with skills-based hiring and recruiting [CTA]
Can you guess these 30 Colorado tech startups by their logos? [BuiltinColorado]

Top Upcoming Events

3/23 – DeRailed – Mad as in March Madness
3/24 – Boulder/Denver Big Data Meetup – An Evening with Apache Spark: Dan Lynn and Andy Grove
3/24 – BuiltinColorado – Built In Brews at Gusto
3/24 – CodeCraft – Happy Hour + Sweet Giveaways!
3/24 – Denver Creative Tech – Software Synthesizers, Realtime Kaleidoscope Apps, & Creative Placemaking
3/24 – GoCodeColorado – Fort Collins Roadshow
3/25 – CIGDA – Monthly Northside Casual
3/28 – Denver Visual Studio User Group – Building Microservices with ASP.NET Core * and Spring Cloud
3/29 – Boulder iOS – Server-side Swift
3/29 – Boulder/Denver Mongo – MongoDB and Indexes

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Colorado Tech Weekly #144: That urge to do all the things right now

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Last week was my attempt at doing all the things. I finished up a class. I prepared a large essay for a second class. I went to C-Level @ A Mile High. My dad came into town for the weekend so we could all go to the Denver St. Patrick’s Day. We had friends over to celebrate birthdays. Then played some card games with friends on Sunday. Meanwhile I’m getting my ToDo lists ready to go because after this week, I’m free from classes for 6 months so I want to do some projects to show that I really do know how to code.

I’m trying to do all this all right now. It’s one of those moments where I feel trapped somewhere between pride, guilt, ambition and time. It’s a feeling that many adult students and entrepreneurs feel too often. This is all stuff I chose to do and I enjoy most of it. Sometimes it just gets too overwhelming. Anyway, here’s the tech news!

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Top Colorado Technology News

Workers report layoffs at IBM in Boulder, nationally [DenverPost]
Announcing Leah Leaves as Boulder-based Ramblin Jackson’s COO! [RamblinJackson]
Meet 10 of the students graduating from Boulder’s CodeCraft this week [BuiltinColorado]
Boulder-based TapInfluence opening Silicon Valley office, adds CTO [BizWest]
DU’s new Cybersecurity degree comes with 50% tuition discount [Tech+]
Everything you need to know to break into Colorado’s tech world [BuiltinColorado]
Colorado Statewide Internet Portal Authority Announces CTO [BusinessWire]
Denver-based HomeAdvisor expands in Colorado Springs, plans to hire another 100 [Tech+]
Nest to grow Boulder presence separate from new Google campus [BizWest]
CTOs to know: meet Denver-based Tack Mobile’s Jan Birkelund [BuiltinColorado]

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3/16 – BDNT – New Tech Longmont: Technology for Social Impact
3/16 – Denver Droids – ExoPlayer Demystified: Google’s Open Source Media Solution for Android
3/16 – SecureSet – Academy Observer Day
3/16 – Skill Distillery – Open House
3/17 – RefactorU – Demo Day
3/19 – RefactorU – Intro to Javascript Workshop
3/21 – HTML5 Denver – “Linting at the Next Level”
3/21 – Learn to Code at the Denver Library – Building Infinite Worlds with Unity3d
3/22 – Node.js Denver/Boulder/Ft. Collins – Full Stack Development with Couchbase and Node.js
3/22 – TechRIoT – IoT Security Mashup Sponsored by Tuliva featuring Mark Weatherford

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