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Senior Application Developer
Urban Development Corporation is looking for a Senior Application Developer. The incumbent has the responsibility to improve internal business processes through software implementation, diagnostic and maintenance strategies. Sounds Interested? Apply for the position today!
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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 Hack 2019 (Hackathon)
Learn, Collaborate & Build Cross-Platform apps using Flutter. Meet other developers in your community that are using and learning about Flutter. You don’t need to develop an iOS, Android, Desktop and web app separately. All you need is one codebase for multi-platforms.
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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 keeping the lights on. The massive cost of maintenance doesn't leave much room to innovate. By "containerizing" existing apps, you can realize immediate savings (in time, money, and other resources), so you can allocate more of your budget toward innovation.
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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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Let’s talk about Docker
Join us for the Kingston local edition to learn more about Docker as we prepare our summer Play-with-Docker workshop series! If you’ve been working on a cool project using Docker technology, come and show our local community. If you’re new to Docker, come along to listen and learn. This event will provide a platform for general discussion surrounding Docker and how is used by Jamaicans.
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Digital Storytelling Competition and Workshop
Have an idea to share or a story to tell about our beloved Jamaican culture? Animate it... Don't know how to create an animated story? Attend our free workshop at UTech on April 24 and 25. In this workshop you will explore, learn and use the foundational elements of effective digital storytelling to create your very own digital story. Finally, you will put your learning into practice and create a digital storytelling asset implementing strategies for our Digital Storytelling Competition.
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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 Festival being presented by Jamaica’s Office Of The Prime Minister, in partnership with the World Bank. The festival has three major objectives of LEARN to EARN and DISPLAY animation.
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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 expense of building a real product. Watch for a quick preview of the sprint process.
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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 that work whether you’re at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you’ll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hours and countless dollars.
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StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019 - Nearly 90,000 took this comprehensive, annual survey of people who code. Demographics. Most loved, dreaded and wanted technologies. Salary and careers.
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Programming languages: Developers reveal most loved, most loathed, what pays best
Developer knowledge-sharing site Stack Overflow has released its 2019 annual developer survey, revealing the most popular programming languages and which languages are linked to the highest salaries worldwide and in the US.
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The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks
Every developer should read this irrespective of their language used; as our software becomes increasingly complex and connected, the difficulty of achieving application security increases exponentially.
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Which Country Has The Best Programming Language Programmer?
Programming Language is at the heart of every technological innovation. Therefore, a country with the best computer programmers can be considered technologically advanced in today's world.
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MakeBetter - Software Craftsmanship Symposium Series
MakeBetter. is a symposium series for software practitioners who make software and strive to make better software. The event typically consists of three 15 minute presentations and three 5 minute lightning talk presentations. Topics covered include DevOps, Software Development Lifecycles, Javascript Frameworks, Testing, QA, Innovation, User Research, User Experience and Design Methodologies.
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AI And Automation
The Faculty of Science and Technology @ U.W.I presents Science For Today - AI and Automation: Disruption or Opportunity? It is a free public lecture series with panellists such as Mr. Howard Mitchell, Dr. Gunjan Mansingh; Prof. Daniel Coore and Mr. Anthony Drummond (UWI, Mona). Themes: Prospects for Nation Building; Demystifying AI; Automation; Smart City Solutions
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Jamaica College Robotics Team Wins Prestigious Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge in New York
Jamaica College Robotics Team Wins Prestigious Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge in New York - Jamaicans.com - The 13-member Jamaica College Robotics Team put on their best Usain Bolt impression after winning the prestigious and coveted Inspire Award, the highest award, at the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) Relic Recovery Challenge in New York City. The Inspire Award is the top award given to teams at the FTC Championship. It is given to …
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Serverless For Devops Teams
Serverless as a technology is no longer in its infancy. It has matured to a point where we can at least say it is in its lanky teenage…
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Docker Bday #6: How do YOU #Docker?
This March, we are revitalizing the Docker Jamaica Community by celebrating Docker and you! If you’ve been working on a cool project using Docker technology, come and show our local community. If you’re new to Docker, come along to listen and learn.
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Women Who Code Kingston Meetup
Women Who Code is the largest and most active community of engineers dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers worldwide and now, there is a meetup in Jamaica for Women Who Code.
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Plone for Product Development - Online Training Class
In this free course, we treat Plone as a product development platform. If you're interested in creating web applications using a component-based approach. Plone provides most of the pieces you need to build a complete product
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Serverless Twitter Bot - Microservices Demo to get Videos from Twitter
In this video, Marc Byfield from IThance demonstrates a quick Twitter bot MVP that uses serverless technology to get Videos from Twitter and save it to AWS S3 servers.
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Performance Test Survey
This survey hopes to gain useful statistics on the current standards and trends in performance testing.
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data|Bootcamp Webinar
Organised by the SlashRoots Foundation, Make.Better and the World Bank, these meet-ups are designed to be an opportunity for you to learn new skills, and solve problems affecting your community and country using data and technology. Whether it’s that you want to create an app or visualise data for articles these meet-ups will help you create real work and products.
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Why You Should Take A Digital-First Approach To Branding
Brands now live and breathe in the digital age, adapting to a world that changes faster than celebrities' political agendas.
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Docker cheatsheet
Docker Commands, Help & Tips
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A not so short story about Docker, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP and the purpose of the Jamaican Developers Community.
A not so short story about Docker, Python, JavaScript, Java, PHP and the purpose of the Jamaican… - Eight years ago, I began my journey as a Full Stack Developer with DevOps skills. In that said year, I attended the University of the West…
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Particular Presence Technologies Limited
Particular Presence Technologies is focused on pragmatic approaches to problem-solving using technology. This simply means our focus is on the successful result that brings joy and satisfaction to our clients.
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pre-commit, a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug statements. By pointing these issues out before code review, this allows a code reviewer to focus on the architecture of a change while not wasting time with trivial style nitpicks.
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Particular Software Development Bootcamp
Four (4) instense days of hands-on-training from March 26 to 29 @ the EXIM Bank on 85 Hope Road, Kingston. Come and gain a working understanding of how to successfully do software development in 2019.
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