DevHouse Pittsburgh #2

When: Saturday, January 26, 2008, noon - midnight

Where: Creative Treehouse, 517 Lincoln Ave., Bellevue, PA 15202

The Creative Treehouse is located on the second floor of the building. A video tour of the space is available. Jesse, owner of Creative TreeHouse, advises that the space may be a bit cool, so wear some warm clothing.

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 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. One batch of talks will be given at 3pm and another batch will begin at 7:30pm. (Note: the 5 minute time limit will be strictly enforced. Cut those slides to the bone!)

If you're interested in giving a lightning talk, please contact Jeff.

  1. Ron Gaydos - Crowdsourcing Community Development
  2. Faisal Jawdat - Dead Experts Predict the Future of Application Development
  3. Tim Tournay - Serious Games
  4. Karl Schieneman - Mistakes I Made Launching a Tech Company with a Great Technology Idea
  5. Andy Fraley - A Complete Guide Covering How Not To Do Things (when starting a company)
  6. Sean Columbo - Greasemonkey User Script to Firefox Extension Compiler
  7. Luke Skurman - Monetizing Your Site While Still Creating a Great User-Experience

Charity Project

From 4pm to 6pm, DevHouse Pittsburgh attendees who want to work on a volunteer project can assist local charities by developing a web-based application to facilitate mentoring programs. The beneficiaries of this endeavor are the Boys and Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania and the Rivers Club's Young Executives Committee mentoring program for talented students in the Pittsburgh public schools. Share your tips and ideas on what makes sense, help the community, learn from your peers, and meet more of your colleagues.

Who Attended

  1. Walter White - Java, PHP, MySQL, HTML
  2. Isaac Gierard - Python / ASP.net, Javascript, Flash, ActionScript, PHP
  3. Faisal N. Jawdat - Distributed systems
  4. Shawn Smith - anyone want to work on a devhousepgh redesign, maybe a messaging component?
  5. Jia Ji - Sure, I'll help out with a redesign. What sort of messaging system are you thinking of, Shawn?
  6. Jeff Hunter - Cocoa, RoR
  7. Patrick Fulton - Front-end production (XHTML, CSS), design (Photoshop)
  8. Paul Mecklenburg - Graphics, Python, C/C++, Linux
  9. Gary Bernhardt - Python, Cocoa, REST, Testing, SCM
  10. G. Jason Head
  11. Bus - FYI for the carless -- the 16B to/from downtown stops right in front of the place, and the 500 stop is only a few blocks away
  12. Ron Gaydos - Collaborative tools bridging online and offline efforts
  13. Jeff Hoskinson - Ruby on Rails, Java, C++
  14. W. Scott Ardisson - Anyone interested in working on the mentoring website?
  15. Pat Collins - PHP, CakePHP, MVC, JavaScript, OOP
  16. Joseph Method - Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Gnome, Ubuntu
  17. Bob Bamont - PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax, Ruby, Prototype
  18. Luke Skurman - asp.net and C#, MySQL, PHP, Java, ajax, Perl
  19. Debadeepta Dey - Robotics and real time code development
  20. Sean Colombo - PHP, mySQL, FireFox Extensions, user-scripts, Facebook Apps, educational software (moodle)
  21. John Szurley - RoR
  22. Brian Sammon - at the moment: OpenSource stuff[Ruby webscraping(myspace, craigslist, various web-forums), Linux bluetooth stuff (probably in Python)]
  23. Michael Fulk - HTML, CSS, PHP, CakePHP, ASP
  24. Steve Strutt