DevHouse Pittsburgh #1

When: Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm - midnight

Where: Rivers Club, One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA

(The Rivers Club is on the 4th floor of One Oxford Center. An entrance to the club is located on level 4 of the parking garage. DevHouse will be in the dining area on the 3rd floor of the Rivers Club. Don't worry about the dress code admonition in the elevator, blue jeans are fine — this is DevHouse, after all.)

Food and beverages will be provided.

Sponsors:

Bluetree Allied Angels Innovation Works Alpern Rosenthal 1-2-3 Law Group Pittsburgh Technology Council Pittsburgh Gateways

Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are quick 5 - 10 minute presentations. The idea is to give people a taste of some technology you've been working with, or some project you've been working on. The talks will be given starting at 8pm.

  1. Sean Colombo - Freeing the Social Graph
  2. Michael Rea & Paul Morel - Akorn AJAX Framework
  3. Dan Hummon - Qooxdoo JavaScript Toolkit
  4. Denny Slater - Agents and Software Robots
  5. Joseph Method - Watir and Friends for Automation
  6. Maurizio Vitale - Simulation of Systems-on-Chip

Who Attended

  1. Jeff Hunter - Cocoa, Ruby on Rails, Amazon Web Services
  2. Sean Colombo - Facebook API, Wikis, SOAP, REST, Social Graph, LyricWiki, Social Networks, Screen-scraping, FeedHub, various.
  3. Steve Madsen - .coms
  4. Dave Tremel - PHP, MySQL.
  5. Michael Rea - PHP, Qooxdoo, Akorn
  6. Karl Schieneman - Streaming Video; creating electronic games
  7. Paul Morel - Akorn, Qooxdoo, PHP, AJAX, Unleashing innovation
  8. Dan Hummon - PHP, Qooxdoo, Akorn, Small Combat Mammals
  9. Ron Gaydos - Social Networking / Community Media
  10. sriram bala - RoR, Java, Embedded, C, SOA, RIA,Lazlo
  11. Rudy Zung - OpenAFS, C++, Python, PHP, Oracle, whatever
  12. Kenneth Smith - System and Network Administrators of Pittsburgh
  13. Scott Connelly - Perl, PHP, PostGIS, AJAX, Facebook API, Java
  14. Robert Blackwell
  15. Tom Moertel - Haskell, Ruby (+RoR), Perl, C/C++, R, SGML/XML, Linux, functional programming, and other goofy stuff
  16. Jerry Shafran - CEO of a IT Network Support company
  17. Michael Knight - C#,C++,Pattern Recognition, Macheine learning.
  18. Tim Quinlan - MySQL, PHP
  19. David Gingrich - Python, REST, Ajax, functional languages
  20. Shawn Smith - Ajax, .Net, Flash, Video Integration
  21. Faisal N. Jawdat - *
  22. Josh Sager - ActionScript, Flex, PHP, MySQL, Flash Media Server
  23. Dan Vogel - Optimization and efficiency
  24. Scott Ardisson - Forensics, .net, Flash, PHP, GPS Applications
  25. Mark Dalrymple - Cocoa, C/ObjC/C++
  26. Gary Rosensteel - Promoting software development in Pittsburgh
  27. Mark Musolino - Electronic Gadgetry / Programming for mobile devices / LabVIEW
  28. Jerry Eddy - C,C#,Crystal Reports, Reporting Services, SQL Server
  29. Dennis Slater - Java, ManagedAgents, Software Robots
  30. Tim Tournay - Java, Swing, Struts, ActionScript
  31. Mike Wagner - electronics medical matlab labview microchip embedded C education thru music parodies
  32. Norman Rekitt - C#, Java, Ruby
  33. Alexis Rzewski - C#, .NET, SQL, Cocoa, Objective-C, Smalltalk
  34. Doug Balog - c/c++, system monitoring, erlang.
  35. Natalie Krall - Database
  36. Dave Paolicelli - Hardware Break-Fix/Systems Maintenance
  37. Michael Higgins - python, C, distributed systems
  38. Andrew Chen - Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Gnome, Ubuntu
  39. Joseph Method - Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Gnome, Ubuntu
  40. Doug Philips - Pyhton, Erlang, Lisp, Haskell, Forth, Functional Programming, REST, XP, etc.
  41. Steve Farkas - ruby on rails, asp.net, open design and development, SEO, Dojo
  42. Sean McCune - Ruby, Rails, Perl, Lua, Nu, C/C++/C#/ObjC, Cocoa, Mono/.Net
  43. Maurizio Vitale - C++, LISP/Scheme, OCaml, Electronic Design Automation etc.
  44. Jim Jen - Web/software startups
  45. Peter Berger - Cocoa, C, systems
  46. Maxence Crossley - Cocoa, Robotics
  47. Don Smith - computer forensics
  48. Fen Labalme - F/OSS web services for socially responsible clients, OpenID
  49. Bart Biamonte - Tracking the alpha geeks!
  50. Jeffrey Stylos - Java, C#, JavaScript
  51. Bob Bamont - PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax, Ruby, Prototype
  52. Geno Maslonek - BSD, Networking
  53. Kenneth Smith - MCSE Student
  54. Jia Ji - Virtual Worlds, MMOs, web 2.0 type buzzwords
  55. Ben Shniper - Ruby, Java, Python
  56. Eric Schweikardt - Modular robotics!
  57. Mark D Gross - tangible interaction/ constraints/ rapid prototyping
  58. Randy Pearson - Python, FoxPro, web framework design