Stephen McMahon

Male

Dubai, Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Profile Information:

Occupation:
Project Manager, Software Developer
Company:
Schlumberger
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
Mobile application development, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, gadgets in general, IoT
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
ASP, C, C#, HTML, Java, Javascript, Lisp, Objective C, Perl, Python, SQL, XML, Other
Website:
http://www.slmcmahon.com
Secondary Website:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/slmcmahon
Twitter Username
@slmcmahon

Comment Wall:

  • Mika Leuck

    Welcome Stephen! We are glad to have you as our 300th member. We will have to give you something next time you visit Hawaii. You may be interested in joining the C#, Web, Python, Ruby and DB interest groups.

    May 29, 2008

  • Stephen McMahon

    Thank you Mika!

    I'll actually be moving to Honolulu in August so I decided to start looking around for local special interest groups. I just found out about this one today when I followed Truman Leung over from Manoa Geeks.

    My wife is from Hawaii so we are moving home to be closer to her family.

    May 29, 2008

  • aaron kagawa

    welcome stephen. glad that you'll be joining honolulu's tech industry.

    May 29, 2008

  • Stephen McMahon

    Thanks Aaron. It appears that Honolulu has a very large and helpful technology community. In the past week I have managed to make more developer contacts in Honolulu than I have made in 1.5 years of living in Colorado Springs!

    Although I have 14 years of experience in this industry, in my current job I am a .NET developer and have been working mostly in C# and SQL for the past 7 years. I've recently started getting interested in Python and Ruby. What are the most needed skills in Hawaii? I have two months before I move there. What do you guys think would be the best thing for me to start learning or improving on in that time frame?

    May 30, 2008

  • Mika Leuck

    I'll actually be moving to Honolulu in August so I decided to start looking around for local special interest groups.

    Great! We look forward to seeing you at Honolulu Coders or Manoa Geeks.

    What are the most needed skills in Hawaii? I have two months before I move there. What do you guys think would be the best thing for me to start learning or improving on in that time frame?

    We see the most jobs posted (here and other places) for Java, .NET, Ruby on Rails and Flex. There are some links to tech job sites on the front page.

    May 31, 2008

  • Auntie Pupule

    I'll be filing my papers to run for Honolulu City Council 7! :)

    Mahalo Stephen!

    Auntie Lynn aka Auntie Pupule

    Jun 11, 2008

  • Ryan

    Aloha, Stephen! Congratulations on making the move to Hawaii. Hawaii's tech community will be all the richer for it. I see you've RSVP'd for Manoa Geeks on July 31. Looking forward to meeting you then!

    Jul 7, 2008

  • Brooke Fujita

    Hey there, Stephen, good luck with your upcoming move to Hawaii.

    I've moved around quite a bit since leaving Honolulu, but I can tell you that you are moving to one of the nicest places on Earth to call home. Make sure to empty out the glovebox and holders in your car of anything of worth before shipping!

    Jul 10, 2008

  • Brooke Fujita

    Hey there, Stephen, hope your move was uneventful, those are the best ones. And, hope that you are acclimating to Honolulu as well. The pidgin English bit can be tough to get used to, you may be able to find some books to help with that. Although it is already 25 years old, Pidgin to Da Max may actually help out.

    Jul 21, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    Congrats on making the move. We hope to see you at some of the local geek meetups!

    Jul 21, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    No problem. I'll see you next time, or tomorrow at Manoa Geeks. I posted the presentation. Its a bit spartan (no pretty pictures), but may be of interest.

    Sep 24, 2008

  • Mika Leuck

    Aloha Stephen. It was nice meeting you at Manoa Geeks. We are happy TechHui has been useful for you.

    Sep 26, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    Hey Dan! Thanks for that Ext GWT tip. I had always assumed that it was applet based. I'm going to get some serious good use out of this!
    No problem. A lot of developers don't know about Ext GWT because they have done a terrible job of marketing it. If you want to get a great looking AJAX app up and running without writing a line of Javascript, Ext GWT (GXT for short) is the way to go.

    re: JayRock
    I haven't, but it looks very interesting. I'll have to check it out next time we have a .NET project. I'm a big fan of JSON over XML in most situations.

    Jan 22, 2009

  • Daniel Leuck

    I read the docs, but I haven't tried it yet. I've been slammed with fund raising for Ooi and sales for Ikayzo. I hope to check it out sometime soon.

    These days Pat, Konstantin and Scott do most of the development. I'm just a talking bobble head :-)

    Mar 27, 2009

  • Daniel Leuck

    Hey Stephen. It was great catching up at Manoa Geeks. We hope to see you on the 3rd at Thai Sweet Basil.

    Mar 28, 2009

  • Scott Murphy

    Very cool! Well I guess that is much easier than poken!
    http://bumptechnologies.com/

    Apr 20, 2009

  • Scott Murphy

    What was the event on Thursday? I'm getting the app right now. It nice that they released it for free.

    Apr 20, 2009

  • Scott Murphy

    Ahh the GUI meet up next Thursday. Yeah I'll be there. I look forward to your presentation.

    Apr 20, 2009

  • Scott Murphy

    No, I still haven't bought my Mac yet. I would like to ASAP so I can start building iPhone applications. Let me know what you think. It seems like it takes a while for Windows users to transfer over to the Mac OS.

    Apr 21, 2009

  • Mike Kockler

    Thanks for the positive comments about MyChangeNow.  I appreciate the support and encouragement.  Let's get together sometime when you're in Hawaii.

    Aug 8, 2013