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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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The Scrum Master Certified Workshop
Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. It is an adaptive, iterative, fast, flexible, and effective methodology. By being Scrum Master Certified (SMC) in Jamaica you will be equipped with the knowl...
October 26, 2019 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
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DevFest 2019
GDG DevFest 2019 is an annual all-day developer conference that offers speaker sessions across multiple product areas, codelabs, hackathon and more!
November 23, 2019 12:00 AM
Recently Added Jobs
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Python Developer
Alteroo is looking for young and eager developers to work on an upcoming project that needs Linux, Python, Web development and Docker experience. This is a junior dev position and you'll be working wi...
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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, 2019 12:00 AM
Featured Posts
Job
Python Developer
Alteroo is looking for young and eager developers to work on an upcoming project that needs Linux, Python, Web development and Docker experience. This is a junior dev position and you'll be working wi...
Event
DevFest 2019
GDG DevFest 2019 is an annual all-day developer conference that offers speaker sessions across multiple product areas, codelabs, hackathon and more!
November 23, 2019 12:00 AM
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VisitJamaica.com, fall in love with Jamaica with the many things to do with Jamaica
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Everything you need to know about OAuth2
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Best Laptops For Developers To Buy In 2019
Best Laptops For Developers To Buy In 2019 - April 2019 Best of Technobezz - It is a quite difficult task to choose the best laptops for developers. However, we have listed here the top 10 laptops for...
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Daytime Live: demonstrating motion capturing during KingstOOn Animation interview
Watch Roshane and Lushane Jones explain what KingstOOn and Motion Capturing is and how it will impact Jamaica. KingstOOn is the Caribbean’s Premiere International Animation Conference and Film Festi...
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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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Dartpad
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Get funded as a open source contributor
Now developers who contribute to open source — whether through code, documentation, leadership, mentorship, design or beyond can join the waitlist on GitHub Sponsorship platform
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Flutter is now multi-platform
Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop - Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework, as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set ...
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Docker just keeps on getting better
Have you heard the big news? Docker ranked #1 most wanted platform, #2 most loved platform, and #3 most broadly used platform in the StackOverflow 2019 Developer survey from nearly 90,000 developers.
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Building chat app with Flutter and Firebase
Hi all, in this article, we’ll try to build a chat app with Flutter and Firebase from scratch (include Firebase Auth, Google Sign-In, Cloud FireStore and Firebase Storage).
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Jamaican Medium Jobs
Jamaican Medium Jobs is a job board website that does: Candidate searching, screening and resume matching with a built-in employer’s account that thoroughly connects quality job seekers with compani...
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Demystifying the Design Sprints and Customer Experience in 90 seconds
The big idea with the sprint is to build and test a prototype in just five days. It's kind of like fast-forwarding into the future so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and...
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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...
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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 ...
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StackOverflow language popularity through the years
We took a look at the most popular programming languages on Stack Overflow since 2008 bar chart race and was amazed by the stunning adaptation for the major languages we are using today. What do you ...
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Microsoft launches React Native for Windows
Microsoft launches React Native for Windows – TechCrunch - Microsoft today announced a new open-source project for React Native developers who want to target Windows. “React Native for Windows,”...
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Python overtakes JavaScript as most queried language on Stack Overflow, new data shows
A new study from crowdsourced QA testers Global App Testing has explored developers’ biggest pain points, with Python dethroning JavaScript as Stack Overflow’s most questioned programming language...
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KingstOOn 3 crowns the ambitions of Kam Kam for best concept in the emerging animated content
The Adventures of Kam Kam – Space Explorer tells the tale of a headstrong little Jamaican girl who wants to become a space explorer and go where no one has ever gone before. According to the team's ...
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Dockerize the multi-services application for local development
The handy local development containerization guide, with examples of the Amplifr project dockerization. Getting the services written in Ruby, Node.js, and Golang work together locally with docker netw...
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Conversation with Jake Knapp - Design Sprints and Customer Experience
At Incrementic, we “Reduce risk and save time by rapidly testing the viability of new opportunities”. Our methodology is the Design Sprint, which offers a transformative formula for testing ideas ...