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JaD, a Community of Tech Enthusiasts in Jamaica
We are a community of tech enthusiasts in Jamaica that aims to grow and market the development skills of Jamaicans with a community of highly proficient technical officers and companies while providing valuable information about technology related events and initiatives.
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Build and Market your skills
By building your skills and techniques, the more marketable you become. Share your skills here and let others know about your greatness.
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Learn and Share your knowledge
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Get Help Online and In-Person
Sometimes Stack Overflow, blog post, forums and Googling are not enough to solve the problem, sometimes, the good old face-to-face works best.
Interact with other professionals
Despite being a small country, Jamaica has been quite busy in the Tech Industry. Find out others Jamaican Developers are doing and start meeting up with the ones near you.
Get StartedFind a Collaborator for your project
With the every increasing developer societies in Jamaica. It easier than ever to find collaborator or advisor for your project.
Get StartedJaD, a Community of Tech Enthusiasts in Jamaica
We are a community of tech enthusiasts in Jamaica that aims to grow and market the development skills of Jamaicans with a community of highly proficient technical officers and companies while providing valuable information about technology related events and initiatives.
Upcoming Featured Events
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Building Blue-Green Deployment with Docker
Docker (as well as Kubernetes) offers you a way to update your applications with no-downtime through a common strategy called Blue-Green deployment. In this session, we will demonstrate how to build a...
January 18, 2020 12:00 PM to 04:00 PM
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Hands-on Labs: Modernizing Traditional Applications!
Let's face it: nobody gets into IT so they can maintain legacy apps. We dream about innovation and about changing the world, but 80% of IT budgets are spent maintaining existing systems and just keepi...
March 21, 2020 12:00 PM to 03:30 PM
Recently Added Jobs
Internship
Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3-month programming pro...
May 27, 2020 12:00 AM
Featured Posts
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2019 Software Development Salary in Jamaica (Survey)
You are invited to share your perspective in the wide world of coding in Jamaica. Help us gain insight into the work environments, tools, and compensation of practitioners in our diverse field. All re...
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Watch AWS re:Invent keynotes live ( December 2 – 6, 2019)
AWS re:Invent 2019 Livestreams - Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
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Best-Selling Computer Brands 1996 - 2019
Timeline history of the most selling personal computer manufacturers since 1996 to 2019. Ranked by worldwide trailing twelve months sales market share. Inclu...
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Usage Share of Most Popular Antivirus Brands 1997 - 2019
Most popular antivirus software companies from 1997 to 2019. Percentage share of devices with a running software by specific vendor, worldwide, desktop & lap...
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Most Popular Operating Systems (Desktop & Laptops) 2003 - 2019
OS platforms market share usage on desktop computers and laptops. I am a first year PhD student, data geek and I love visualizations. As always your feedback...
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The Future of Work Conference. Outsourcing 4.0: Global Digital Services
Learn all about job and business opportunities in the evolving outsourcing industry, as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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Learn Kubernetes entirely within your own browser
Play with Kubernetes is a labs site provided by Docker and created by Tutorius. Play with Kubernetes is a playground which allows users to run K8s clusters in a matter of seconds. It gives the experie...
Challenge
Take the Flutter Clock challenge
Build a beautiful clock face UI with Flutter for the Lenovo Smart Clock for a chance to win an iMac Pro, Lenovo Smart Display, or Lenovo Smart Clock.
January 20, 2020 12:00 AM
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Take part in the Python Developers Survey 2019.
Join and contribute to the community knowledge!
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Most Popular Mobile Phone Brands 1993 - 2019
This is an updated version of my previous best-selling mobile phone manufacturers video. I've updated some historical data and added fresh numbers for 2019. ...
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Most Popular Internet Browsers 1996 - 2019
I have updated this chart with the recent data. Also there're statistical adjustments to Opera, Firefox and Safari numbers thanks to the additional data sour...
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Most Popular Websites 1996 - 2019
Timeline of the most visited websites on the Internet from 1996 to 2019. Worldwide statistics based on websites traffic measured by monthly visits.
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Cloud Firestore Now Supports IN Queries!
Hello, Cloud Firestore developers! We wanted to let you know about some useful new querying features we've added to Cloud Firestore this week. Starting with… in queries! With the in query, you can ...
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Building Blue-Green Deployment with Docker
Docker (as well as Kubernetes) offers you a way to update your applications with no-downtime through a common strategy called Blue-Green deployment. In this session, we will demonstrate how to build a...
January 18, 2020 12:00 PM to 04:00 PM
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Dartpad
Are you gearing up for Flutter development and want to learn more about Dart programming? You may test your scripts online by using the online editor at https://dartpad.dartlang.org/. The Dart Editor ...
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DevFest 2019 event was cancelled
For more information, please visit https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Kingston/events/262881366/
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SmarthubJa
Use your voice to control every single appliance/equipment in your home. From your refrigerator, microwave, lights, air conditioners, door locking system and camera's or just using one voice command t...
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Most Popular Email Providers by Active Users 1997 - 2019
Timeline history of most popular email providers by active users from 1997 to 2019. Active user is defined by an action performed within email account during...
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Most Popular Mobile OS 1999 - 2019
(UPDATED!) Most Popular Mobile OS 1999 - 2019 - Timeline history of the most used smartphone operating systems from 1999 to 2019. I've updated my previous most used mobile OS video with a much broader...
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Top 10 Caribbean Countries by GDP
Data visualization for the top ten Caribbean Countries with the highest GDP from 1960 to 2018.
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Visualize 140k Gun Violence Incidents with Deck.gl & Google Maps
Create high-performance 3D data visualizations with Deck.gl and Google Maps. Analyze over 140K gun violence ☠️🤕 incidents by geographic location
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Project Quito: Calico Challenge Student Demonstration 2019
Quito is a mobile app that aims to help automate church and corporate small project coordination. The Quito project was mentored by David Bain from Alteroo, with students Javier Bryan, Phillip Llewell...
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Shipping Companies in Jamaica
You've bought an item online, whether through Amazon, eBay or Wallmart, now you need to choose the right shipping company that offers the optimal service, price and pickup location combination to get ...