One Community One Goal

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Newsletters

Coming up May 8, The Beacon Council – One Community One Goal project will hold a free update event at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. Increasing the number of Internships is one important goal of this long-term project that I have personally embraced. Tickets are provided at no charge, but you must register.

Publishing a Windows Store App

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Newsletters

Session on the Anatomy of publishing a Windows store app followed by a hackathon.

Join Homnick Systems and the Gold Coast Users Group at Dadeland Microsoft Store on May 23 at 4pm for a Windows 8 presentation and Hackathon

Joe will start the Hackathon with an overview of the three Windows Store Apps he has worked on and published the last couple of months. He will then be available to help you if you want to work on your own Windows Apps until they kick us out. Whether you will be working on an App or not, come on by for a typically interactive and fun presentation by Joe on Windows 8 Apps.

 

 

Girls Who Code

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Newsletters

Miami based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will be funding the expansion of Girls who Code to Miami later this year. Launched in Spring 2012, Girls Who Code is a national nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in the technology and engineering sectors. Girls Who Code works to educate, inspire, and equip high school girls with the skills and resources to pursue opportunities in computing fields. 

ITWomen is running its Role Model Speakers program in Miami-Dade and Broward throughout the year. If you are interested in joining this worthy cause, please contact Arlene Willis
Women in IT are doing well in South Florida and SherlockTech has some smoking hot jobs available right now. Visit our complete jobs listings and then contact our Miami office to learn more. 
This past weekend SherlockTech sponsored the Costa Rica CodeCamp and SQL Saturday event. Click here for a photo snapshot

HackaNUI – Natural User Interface Hackathon coming to Boca

by | Apr 9, 2013 | Newsletters

SherlockTech Staffing is proud to be a sponsor for the first HackaNUI Hackathon to be held in Boca Raton Saturday, June 1.

HackaNUI is the first of its kind Hackathon dedicated to creating applications centered around Natural User Interface (NUI) technologies. HackaNUI is the creation of mLabs and LiveMetrics. 

Help NSU's Computer Museum

by | Apr 9, 2013 | Newsletters

At GSCIS we have established a computer museum and need your help to obtain some key pieces. Our goal is to have machines from various eras and computing power. Recently I was made aware of an unbelievable opportunity to get a Cray T94 Supercomputer for $10,000. This machine when new in 1995 was millions of dollars. 

Seymour Cray was an electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed the fastest computers in the world for decades. He has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. More..