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Rob Woodbridge – Founder, Untethered Mobile
Vahid Jozi – CEO, Igloosity

 

 

What’s Going on in the Ottawa Startup Community

Mobile Monday Ottawa #5
Monday, November 21, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Mercury Grove HQ, 738A Bank Street, Ottawa ON

Mobile Monday Ottawa is a gathering and networking event for Ottawa mobile community. A strong mix of panels, speakers, product demos and straight up networking will be the focus for this monthly event. The mobile OS battle has not been won and Microsoft is right in the thick of it. Bring your questions as we get set for a great session with Susan Ibach, developer evangelist for Microsoft Canada, who will guide us through Mango and introduce us to developing and testing Windows Phone applications.

 

 

The meetings feature topics on Javascript and NodeJS development by some of Ottawa’s most innovative developers. This will be our last meetup of 2011; everyone is welcome to come check out the group and join us for drinks afterward.

 

Web Marketing Wednesday is a free local event in Ottawa. This event is opened to those who have an interest in Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) , Web Analytics, Social Media and other topics relating to Internet marketing. Follow our event by following the #wmwott hashtag.

 

Writing good user stories is an essential skill for any Agile Team. Please join us for a user story workshop, where a Product Owner will be presenting a real-life scenario and we the team will participate in generating user stories.

 

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to becoming a better hacker every week. This week’s edition features Stanford University’s OpenClassroom website. It features full courses in the form of short videos, all available for free.- John

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

 

 

 

Resource of the Week

Stanford OpenClassroom
From openclassroom.stanford.edu

Stanford has opened up their video library with an impressive collection of videos recorded from their courses. The collection covers AI, machine learning, database theory, and much more.

If you like this, you may also be interested in video collections from these other institutions:
-Carnegie Mellon
-Michigan
-Berkeley
-MIT
-Notre Dame
-Open University (UK)
-Fulbright (economics)
-Yale
-University of Washington (Computer Science and Engineering)
-Khan Academy

 

 

Past Resources

10 programming languages worth checking out
By Fabio Cevasco

 

Modern Ruby Development
By Andrew Carter

Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C
By Scott Stevenson

 

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to becoming a better hacker every week.
 
This week’s edition features a quick comparison of 10 non-mainstream programming languages.

- John

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio
 
 
Resource of the Week

10 programming languages worth checking out

By Fabio Cevasco, H3RALD

There’s been a lot of buzz lately around new programming languages. Between Google’s recent unveiling of Dart, or the growing popularity of languages like Scala, F#, Go, and many others, the industry is always innovating. Fabio Cevasco has assembled this list of just-outside-the-mainstream languages with a brief description and resources for getting started with each one.
 
 
Past Resources

Modern Ruby Development

By Andrew Carter

Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C

By Scott Stevenson

iOS Boilerplate

A base template for iOS apps

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to becoming a better hacker every week.

This week’s edition features a walkthrough on how to configure a Mac OS X machine for Ruby and Rails development.

- John

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John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio
 

Modern Ruby Development

By Andrew Carter, ascarter.net

If you’re just getting started with Ruby and Rails you may find yourself lost in the sea of outdated information out there on how to best configure your system. If you’re starting from scratch on OS X 10.7 Lion, this guide will get you completely set up with configuring your new system.

 

Past Resources

Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C

By Scott Stevenson

iOS Boilerplate

A base template for iOS apps

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to becoming a better hacker every week.This week’s edition features a written and illustrated tutorial on learning Objective-C.- John

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

 

 

Resource of the Week

Cocoa Dev Central: Learn Objective-C
By Scott Stevenson, Cocoa Dev Central

While it’s slightly dated and missing a few newer constructs like protocols, Scott Stevenson has put together an extremely clear and concise intro to Objective-C. This 11-step intro covers the basics of calling methods, class design, memory management and more. If you’re looking to get started with iOS dev, this is a good place to learn the language first before jumping into the framework.

 

Past Resources

iOS Boilerplate
A base template for iOS apps

For newcomers: StartupDigest Hacker is the members-only weekly email newsletter of the best resources in hacking.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to becoming a better hacker every week.Starting with today’s digest we’ll be exploring a new format. Each week I’ll be sending you one essential tool or resource to add to your arsenal of skills and knowledge. If you have a link you’d like to share, please send it to john@startupdigest.com.

Along with the change in format, we’ll also be changing the schedule. The StartupDigest Hacker will now arrive on Wednesdays.

- John

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio
 
 

Introducing iOS Boilerplate, A base template for iOS apps

From iosboilerplate.com

This week’s link is inspired by the popular HTML5 boilerplate project. The iOS Boilerplate is a project template that helps you quickly get up and running building an iOS app. Some of the core features include:

- HTTP requests and an image cache (both in-memory and disk-based)

- UITableViews and UITableViewCells: fast scrolling, async images, pull-down-to-refresh, swipeable cells

- Maps and locations: directions between two points, autocomplete a location

Also included are JSONKit, SVProgressHUD, and helpers for Dictionaries, Strings and Data. iOS Boilerplate is developed and maintained by @gimenete.

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This week’s edition highlights Git being simpler than you think, writing Vim plugins, thoughts on “making things” from the co-founder of Hunch and Flickr, why developers never use state machines, and recommendations on how to improve your Unix skills.

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Git Is Simpler Than You Think
By Nick Farina, nfarina.com

“And because of Git’s explosive popularity, it’s a total Emperor-Has-No-Clothes situation. If you’re anything like me, you probably wondered why you were the only stupid person on the planet who didn’t intuitively get Git already.”

Writing Vim Plugins
By Steve Losh, stevelosh.com

“A couple of people have asked me if I’d write a guide to creating Vim plugins. I don’t feel confident enough to write an official ‘guide,’ but I do have some advice for Vim plugin authors that might be
useful.”

Make Things
By Caterina Fake, caterina.net

“And this made me think. People ask me who inspires me. This question often stumps me because I have been inspired in my work by stuff that people make.”

Why Developers Never Use State Machines
By Alan Skorkin, SKORKS

“But it got me thinking, how many times in my developer career have I actually used a state machine (either separate library or even hand-rolled abstraction)? The answer is zero times – which surprised the hell out of me since state machines really are very useful.”

Learning Unix
By Miguel de Icaza, tirania.org

“As I meet new Unix hackers using Linux or Mac, sometimes I am surprised at how few Unix tricks they know. It is sometimes painful to watch developers perform manual tasks on the shell. What follows are my recommendations on how to improve your Unix skills.”

 

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Hacker, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the hacking community every week. 
This week’s edition highlights learning vim, writing a complier, 10 papers every programmer should read, advice from a startup lawyer, and issues with git-flow.

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Learn Vim Progressively
From yannesposito.com

“Want to learn vim (the best text editor known to human kind) the fastest way possible. I suggest you a way. Start by learning the minimal to survive, then integrate slowly all tricks.”

Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.
From prog21.dadgum.com

“Imagine you don’t know anything about programming, and you want learn how to do it. You take a look at Amazon.com, and there’s a highly recommended set of books by Knute or something with a promising title, The Art of Computer Programming, so you buy them. Now imagine that it’s more than just a poor choice, but that all the books on programming are at written at that level. That’s the situation with books about writing compilers.”

10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
By Michael Feathers, Object Mentor

“So, I was thinking about this and trying to not to get too glum. I realized that instead of complaining, I could help by pointing to some papers which are easily available online and which (to me at least) point to some of the most interesting ideas about software. To me, these are classic papers which contain deep ‘things you oughta know’ about code – the material you work with.”

If I Launched a Startup
By Ryan Roberts, Startup Lawyer

“Here’s what I’d do in the beginning.”

GitHub Flow
By Scott Chacon, scottchacon.com

“I travel all over the place teaching Git to people and nearly every class and workshop I’ve done recently has asked me what I think about git-flow. I always answer that I think that it’s great – it has taken a system (Git) that has a million possible workflows and documented a well tested, flexible workflow that works for lots of developers in a fairly straightforward manner. It has become something of a standard so that developers can move between projects or companies and be familiar with this standardized workflow. However, it does have its issues.”

 

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This week features Mobile Mondays and Chicago Health 2.0, with Eric Ries’s visit in September kicking off the fall in a few weeks.

Chicago StartupDigest is curated by:
Bernhard Kappe - Founder of Pathfinder Software

 

 

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Kauffman’s website Entrepreneurship.org is a free online site chock full of content and resources for entrepreneurs, business mentors, investors and anyone in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Content ranges from information entrepreneurs need to launch a company to policies and research that has been conducted regarding entrepreneurship. Check it out at www.entrepreneurship.org.

 

What’s Going on in the Chicago Startup Community

Mobile Mondays Chicago – Networking Mixer and Apps Demo

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In honor of Steve Jobs’s resignation as Apple CEO this week, I bring you a tribute to the greatest hacker of our time.

StartupDigest Hacker is curated by:
John Sheehan – Developer Evangelist for Twilio

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Icon Ambulance
By Vic Gundotra, Google+

Vic Gundotra of Google recounts the day Steve Jobs called him on a Sunday to talk about icons.

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes
By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The Wall Street Journal”It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

Folklore
From folklore.orgAnecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it.

Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs
By David Sheff, PlayboyThe infamous 1985 interview Jobs did with Playboy. Safe for work.

 

Just Missed The Cut This Week

-Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs
-Pirates of Silicon Valley
-Triumph of the Nerds