Episode 52: Robert Reppel and Erik Reppel Alex and Drew open the show talking about dog friendly workspaces, Haml, the upcoming inaugural Vancouver Tech Meetup, an open-contribution style company, and go over the upcoming week of Meetups Around Town.

Our guests this week are Robert Reppel and Erik Reppel. Robert Reppel is Director of Engineering at Adaptech Solutions and co-host of the DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup and the new Vancouver Tech Meetup. A true Polyglot, Robert has more than 25 years of practical, hands-on experience as a Software and Systems Architect, fixer, aligner, deliverer and explainer of products and projects within all aspects of the software development life cycle.

Also joining us is Robert's son Erik Reppel who is working on his B.SEng. at UVIC majoring in Computer Science and has interests in big data and time series events. Erik is also cofounder of launchaco.com a company that instantly searches domain names, social media handles and gives you the means to a custom website in 3 easy steps.

Meetups for the week of November 14th

Monday 14th

  • GIT Help! and 0-Tech (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Vancouver Rust (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 5:30 PM
  • Vancouver Windows Platform Developers Group: Atley & Mark - App Development, More Money, Less Problems (needs a location) 5:30 PM
  • Vancouver Hack Space (#104 - 1715 Cook St.) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM *meet-up full, for information only
  • ***Inaugural Vancouver Tech Workshop: Hands on Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves Event Sourcing (The Tribe, 68 Water St.) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday 15th

  • VPC Camp Tech - Writing Killer Web Content (Hive Vancouver, #210-128 W. Hastings St.) 1:00 PM
  • NetSquared Vancouver: Tech4Good & NonProfits - Hands on with Google Analytics (Wavefront, Willow Room 9th floor - 1055 W. Hastings St.) 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  • FileMaker Cloud Live Event (23 West Pender) 4:00 PM
  • VPC Make The Leap - Unleash The Power of Your Amazing Ideas!(Launch Academy, 300 - 128 W. Hastings St.) 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  • Vancouver Azure - How Microsoft learned to love Java (Microsoft 11th Floor, 1111 W. Georgia St.) 6:00 PM
  • Vancouver Social Innovation (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • Vancouver Hackspace Open House (104 - 1715 Cook St) 7:30 PM

Wednesday 16th

  • Vancouver Excel Power Users MS Excel VBA for Beginners and Intermediate (location confidential until registration) 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  • 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
  • Docker Vancouver (Hootsuite, 5 East 8th Ave) 5:30 PM
  • .NET User Group of BC (Microsoft, 1100-1111 W Georgia St) 5:45 PM
  • PyData Vancouver - Communicating with Data, Visualization and Beyond (Mobify new HQ, #420 - 725 Granville St.) 6:00 PM
  • Vancouver HoloLens User Group (Work at Play, 500-329 Railway St) 6:00 PM
  • Vancouver Music Software Meetup (The Network Hub, 422 Richards St) 6:30

Thursday 17th

  • Vancouver Lean Coffee (Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall St.) 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
  • DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (DCTL, 436 West Pender) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  • Learn Data Science (SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  • PyLadies Vancouver (Needs a location) 6:00 PM
  • Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 West Hastings) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • Vancouver Web Design (CodeCore, 142 West Hastings) 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  • VPC #DesignYVR (BrainStation 1110 Hamilton St. #410) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Friday 18th

  • BC Tech Grub in the Hub (887 Great Northern Way) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  • Unbounce Open House (#400 - 401 West Georgia Street) 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
  • VPC Get Real: Honest Conversations About Tech, Startups and Building Companies (BrainStation, #410 - 1110 Hamilton St.) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • 9CAT.NET Tech & Startup Weekly (950 - 777 Hornby St.) 6:30 PM
  • VPC Startup Weekend Vancouver 2016 (Launch Academy, #300 - 128 W. Hastings St.) 6:00 PM to Sunday, November 20, 11:30 PM

Saturday 19th

  • VBN SociaLIGHT Conference (Vancouver Convention Centre, 999 Canada Place) 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

Credit for audio engineering to Anthony Morris

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