by SherlockTalent
Rachel Terman is organizing a massive baseball night out for all of the South Florida tech communities in August. Sponsors are signing up and tech groups from all around South Florida are tapping into this Baseball Palooza.
There will be a private pregame party from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM and will be located at Terrace 15 inside Marlins Park. Enter the ballpark through the Home Plate entrance and proceed up the escalator to the Promenade Level. Terrace 15 is behind the Guest Services booth near section 25.
SPECIAL EVENT TICKET PACKAGE INCLUDES: A drink ticket good for a complimentary beverage at the pregame party. Packages only available at marlins.com/specialevents. Deadline to order packages is Monday, Aug. 19th
by SherlockTalent
The Windows Azure Roadshow kicks-off on September 4th at Keiser University-Ft. Lauderdale Campus. A morning and afternoon session will be available covering ‘WordPress in Windows Azure’ and ‘Windows Server 2012 Backing Up to Windows Azure Cloud Services’.
We’ll also cover training and business opportunities through the Microsoft Virtual Academy and BizTalk programs.
3-Hour session (9am-Noon) include:
• Introduction to Windows Azure and Windows Server 2012 Backup Integration
• Windows Server 2012 Backup with Windows Azure ‘hands-on lab”
• Microsoft Virtual Academy and BizSpark Programs
You’ll need to bring your own computer (laptop preferred) with the following minimum configuration:
• * Windows Azure Subscription is needed for lab by going to
http://aka.ms/try-azure
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB preferred)
• At least 40 GB of free disk space (preferred)
• NO Drive encryption technology (Bitlocker or 3rd party)
• x64 compatible processor with hardware assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V technology)
• Installed OS of Windows Server 2012 with Server Backup (Preferred)
• Although wireless internet access will be available, you may find that bringing your own mobile connectivity (MiFi™, phone data tethering, etc.) will be desirable.
• Download required .VHD Windows Server 2012 Trial (Datacenter Edition) for future labs
* Required for lab
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by SherlockTalent
Hope all of you are getting some well needed rest before the Paypal Battle Hack comes to Miami this weekend at The LAB Miami. Over 160 people have registered for the
Battlehack Miami Event. The registrants span all of South Florida Universities and Corporates. To the credit of Diane Sanchez, CEO of Technology Foundation of the Americas, Paypal agreed to host the Battle Hack in Miami. Paypal has completed four cities (Berlin, New York, Tel Aviv and Seattle). The winning apps are:
- Clean Berlin made an easy to use application for iOS that enables Berliners to order a cleaning lady (and/or man) to clean up their apartments. The usability of the project was truly great and featured a really nice integration of PayPal’s SDK.
- New York: Team DropDeadAR won for their application that puts PayPal payments in both physical and artificial reality locations with virtual dead drops. The application allows a user or a business to leave money (virtually) in any location for someone to find using a mobile phone or Google Glass. The user needs to go to the location and identify the item to which the money is attached in order to pick it up and used a cutting edge augmented reality technology as well as PayPal to transfer the money.
- LateBet is a mobile web application that allows to create dates and meetings with a friend from your social networks. Both parties commit on being on time at the arranged meeting point. If that is not the case the friend beign late has to pay 1 $ per minute being late and automatically transfers the total amount via PayPal to the punctual participant.
To promote the Paypal BattleHack Hackathon, we hosted two meet ups at Nova University and The Beacon Council in the last couple of weeks. Both the meet ups were very successful. Previous Hackathon winners and expert Peter Martinez and Damian Montero gave an overview of the Paypal API’s, how to win a Hackathon and how to prepare for the Hackathon.
I will encourage all of you to send this email out to other developer groups that you know of and encourage developers to register for the Paypal Battle Hack.
As we embark on this mission of showcasing MIAMI as a TechHub, we are planning for number of other Technology events including other Hackathons and eMerge Americas Conference on May 4-6, 2014 (
http://emergeamericas.org/).
Thanks for all the help and looking forward to seeing you at all the upcoming technology events.
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions – (954) 461-4856
Best Regards,
Sanjay Deo,
Founder & President
24By7Security
Security 2.0 = {reactive, proactive, counteractive}
by SherlockTalent
I’m a volunteer with ITPalooza. I’m writing to invite your user group to be a part of the big event and year end party.
This will be our second year for ITPalooza. It’s going to happen on 12/12/13 at NSU’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences. Last year, on 12/12/12, ITPalooza raised over $30,000 in charity donations from 1,200 members from the local IT community.
In the spirit of bringing together the whole South Florida Technology community, this year’s ITPalooza will be a full day of tech education sessions, hackathons, professional networking, vendor-prospect interaction, and a tech employment fair.
Organized by over 50 local technology groups, from the CIO Council to IT Security and hands-on programming groups, the day culminates with a grand courtyard holiday party with live music by the all-IT professional ITPalooza band.
User groups are a huge part of South Florida’s tech community and I hope yours will join us at the event. There is no charge for your group to participate.
Each user group will be given table space in the main atrium and also a time slot in a classroom where you can hold a group meeting or a session to tell interested attendees about your group and what it does.
More information can be found on the event website, which is being updated as we get closer to the event, at http://ITPalooza.com
If your user group would like to participate in ITPalooza on December 12, please let me know right away so we can reserve your classroom and table space. Email me, Adam Glass, at adamglass@gmail.com or contact Alex Funkhouser at alex@sherlocktech.com.
I hope to see you there!
Adam Glass
President, FLUX Linux User Group
by SherlockTalent
On August 29, TechConnect, a networking event for the local technology community to share experiences, and discuss current trends in technology will be hosted by NSU’s CTO Hugo Alvarez. Hugo was recently elected chair of the South Florida Digital Alliance. Alvarez serves as Chief Technology Officer at Nova Southeastern University. He is responsible for overseeing the development and integration of information systems that provide the foundation and support of the student experience, from virtual classrooms to online seminars and administrative portals.
