Episode 58: Holly Peck

Drew opens the show talking about resolutions and spending more time on front end javascript development, in React during the upcoming Vancouver Tech Meetup with special guest Bryan Clark from Mozilla on January 23rd. Drew then talks about upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.

Our guest this week is Holly Peck of Women Who Code Vancouver. You can reach Holly on twitter at @WWCodeVancouver

##Meetups for the week of January 9th

###Monday 9th

Vancouver Excel Power Users - Lunch & Learn: Intro to Excel best practices (Confidential until registration) 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
GIT Help! and 0-Tech (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

###Tuesday 10th

Vancouver Lean Coffee (Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall St.) 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
NetSquared Vancouver: Tech4Good and Nonprofits Understanding the New Top-Level Domains (TLDs) (Hive Vancouver, #210 - 128 W. Hastings St.) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Vancouver Hackspace Open House (104 - 1715 Cook St) 7:30 PM

###Wednesday 11th

Vancouver Linux Desktop (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Pluralsight Study Group (PNI, 100 - 425 Carrall) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Network Admin and Support Professional - Prometheus (whitebox, time series based monitoring and alerting) by Niko Smeds (BCIT Downtown campus, 555 Seymour St.) 6:00 PM

###Thursday 12th

Vancouver Excel Power Users - Excel Beginners & Intermediate (Confidential until registration) 9:00 AM to Friday, 5:00 PM
DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (location to be confirmed) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
[Learn Data Science by Doing Kaggle Competitions: Reduce Manufacturing Failures (https://www.meetup.com/LearnDataScience/events/236275077/) (SFU Harbour Centre - Room 1530) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 West Hastings) 6:00 PM to 9:00

###Friday 13th

Vancouver Internet Technology Talents Networking @ 9CAT.NET Tech & Startup Weekly (Unit 950 - 777 Hornby St.) (call 604-440-1433 / 778-927-3746 to get you in) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

###Saturday 14th

BrainStation Vancouver - Wordpress Bootcamp (BrainStation YVR, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor) 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

Credit for audio engineering to Anthony Morris

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