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The Phoenix tech scene, meetups, coworking spaces, and building connections offline.

Jekyll Presentation at Ruby AZ

A presentation on the Jekyll static site generator from a recent Phoenix Ruby meetup.

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How Twitter replaced my RSS reader

Twitter has become a fast growing communication platform. Can we use it as a replacement for an RSS reader?

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Say hello to the new Phoenix OpenCoffee Club

The new Phoenix OpenCoffee Club website enables community members to ask questions, submit posts and keep up on news and events.

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Arizona's First Ruby Conference - SunnyConf 2010

SunnyConf 2010 is Arizona's first Ruby conference. With a great lineup of speakers, lightning talks and hacking, you won't want to miss it!

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Trimming the Fat from your Social Media Diet

Keep relevant people close while removing the irrelevant ones. Start trimming.

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Challenge Yourself to Create Better Relationships... Offline

I challenge you to spend some time building relationships in real life instead of focusing solely on virtual relationships.

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Observations Photographing LaidOffCamp Phoenix

Observations I had while photographing LaidOffCamp Phoenix in Gilbert, AZ on August 8, 2009. This is the first event I've photographed.

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Using Foursquare to Discover Phoenix

Thoughts on using Foursquare, a location-based application, to discover the Phoenix community, support local businesses and have fun!

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Discover Events in Phoenix with Eventification

An event site geared toward technology and business events in Phoenix, AZ.

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Phoenix Artist Offers a Chance to Live with Art

Phoenix artist and photographer Tyson Crosbie is hosting a contest to exhibit one of his rare, signed, 1 of 1 works in your home. Enter before July 17th!

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Igniting Phoenix Developers

An Ignite-style event for developers hosted by Intel.

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Phoenix Startup Drinks - July Edition

Startup drinks brings together entrepreneurs over a pint to share and collaborate.

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Support Freelance Journalism in Phoenix

Help support Heat City, a local Phoenix, Arizona freelance news source by giving a donation.

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Phoenix Startups: Register with CrunchBase

Encouraging Phoenix startups and Phoenix entrepreneurs to add themselves to CrunchBase to provide better insight into companies in the Phoenix area.

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Supporting Phoenix Startups

Some of the ways {{ site.company.name }} supports Phoenix startups and asks what else can be done to foster entrepreneurship in Phoenix.

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CollabLab: Coworking in North Phoenix

A new coworking space opens in North Phoenix for entrepreneurs of all kinds

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Personality Flatline

Starting a podcast with Chris Chandler to record our weekly hacknight conversations

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Share Your Vision with Obama

Submitting a proposal for a national volunteerism initiative to the Obama transition team

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Anonymous Caring

A wrong-number text message and a small moment of encouragement for a stranger

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Hacknight at Gangplank

Hacknight is a way to meet and collaborate with tech geeks in Phoenix on projects… or just play Rock Band.

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Suggest New Music

Asking for music recommendations and sharing what I bought

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Ethan's Dance Recital

Video of Ethan's hip-hop and tap dance recital performance

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Joining the Phoenix Developer Community

Attending my first Refresh Phoenix meetup and planning to join local Ruby groups

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RailsConf 2007: Community

Meeting fellow Rails developers in person for the first time at RailsConf in Portland

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RailsConf donations

The Rails community raised $33,000 for charity during RailsConf 2007

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Rocking the Vote!

Inspired by Danah Boyd's talk on cynicism and the importance of young voters registering

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