April Newsletter

Aloha TechHuians,

Apologies for being a bit late this month. I just returned from New York and I'm prepping to leave for Tokyo in a couple days. I'm getting too old for this :-)

This month we had some excellent blog posts including:

• Security Wargaming: Capture the Flag by Dan Nishimura
• Expressing Ideas, Why simplicity is essential to good system design by Nathan Dwyer
• The ASP.NET Web API by Douglas Ching
• RESTful Data with Microsoft by Tim Little

You can help HPU student Anže Žnidaršič with his research on agile development methodologies by responding to his post "Do you use Scrum?"

Notable events this month:

• Hawaii Social Media Seminar presented by Technology News Bytes: April 11, 9am to 5pm
• Hawaii Geek Meet V by Ryan Ozawa: April 15, 9am to 3pm
• MongoDB Users Group (first meeting) by Patrick Kelly: April 19, 6pm to 8pm
• Tech Monday in West Hawaii by Rod Hinman: April 23, 5pm to 7pm
• Startup Weekend Honolulu by Daniell Scherman & David Pascua: April 27 at 6pm to April 29 at 9pm

I look forward to participating as a mentor in Startup Weekend Honolulu. Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event that focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over a weekend. The weekend brings together software developers, interactive designers and business people to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

Fifteen new jobs were posted to the tech jobs forum including Webmaster at UH Maui College, Software Engineer - Java, C# and C++ (Referentia), and Systems Administrator (Kamehameha Schools).

A hui hou,
Dan
TechHui Chief Lemur