Meetings are on the last Wednesday of every month!

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to post the website for the Web Visions Conference in Portland, OR at the Oregon Convention Center. I believe the dates will be May 22-23, 2008. I have attached the websites for more information.

http://www.webvisionsevent.com/ and http://www.hotpepperstudios.com

This is information for if you are interested in attending the conference or we are now starting to look for volunteers to help out and it is a blast! I have participated the last 2 years and now I'm on my third year of helping.

Also if you may know or want to see any main speakers at this conference, the event committee is going to start rounding up the speakers between Sept. and Oct.

If you have any more question, please feel free to ask me ( Stephanie).

Thank you and also great to meet everyone at the last meeting,
Stephanie

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Thanks to everyone who came out to see Evan's presentation on grilling! I hope everyone had a good time. I sure did!

Housekeeping items...

Evan's notes - tools, gas vs. charcoal, prep info, cooking times, and more! (PDF)
Dave's salsa recipe
Steph's pasta salad recipe (PDF)

Last but not least...

Pictures!

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Hope everyone is having a great month so far! I received the following announcement for an upcoming BendTech gathering. Sorry for the late notice, I have not had access to email. If you make it let me know - I will be out of town most of the week.

When: Monday, August 13, 2007, 5:00 PM 2007

Where: Deschutes Public Library
601 NW Wall Street Brooks Room
Bend, OR 97701

All - so a slight change of plans for the next MeetUp. We're proud to welcome the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) to Bend on August 13th. They will be officially restarting a new chapter in Bend, working closely with BendTech going forward. And, August 13th will be an introductory meeting to SAO at 4:00 PM at McMenamin's. Depending upon how much fun and networking everyone is having/doing, we will move to the library around 5:00 / 5:30 and discuss the introduction of and direction of BendTech.

In the meantime, check out the following sites for further information:

http://www.bendtech.com
http://www.sao.org

I hope to see everyone at the event(s).

Matt

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I worked for Marketleap which was purchased by Digital Impact which was then purchased by Acxiom and is now called Acxiom Digital. If you meet the qualifications, I'd recommend applying. They are good company to work for.

http://www.tsweekly.com/index.php?option=com_marketplace&page=show_ad&catid=5&adid=1509&Itemid=94

Acxiom Digital, a leading interactive agency and digital marketing pioneer, is seeking a talented Software Engineer to work within the Client Acquisitions Group (CAG). The Software Engineer serves as a member of the CAG Development group and reports to the Manager of Application Development. This person will be part of a small team whose responsibility is to define, design, develop, and maintain various .NET-based applications. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and will be primarily responsible for ASP.NET development with some middleware development and systems design.

Responsibilities:
• Spec, design, develop, and support applications and back-end systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Create documentation of developed solutions where applicable.
• Provide estimates for assigned tasks
• Participate in code reviews
• Support CAG team members with technical expertise as necessary

Minimum Qualifications:
• 2-3 years relevant software development experience with 2+ year's experience using the .NET framework and the C# programming language
• 2+ years n-Tier web application development experience using ASP.NET including custom Web User Controls (custom Server Controls a plus).
• 2+ years developing/supporting software that processes XML data (including DOM/SAX parsing, XSLT, XPath).
• Solid Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) and Object Oriented Design (OOD) skills.
• RDBMS knowledge with Oracle or SQL Server
• Understanding of networking-related technologies, including: TCP/IP, DNS, web servers
• Focus on producing reusable, maintainable software
• Exceptionally strong work ethic and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Good business judgment, initiative, and organizational skills
• Strong ability to work both collaboratively and independently
• Internet marketing experience desired but not required
• Bachelor's (BS) degree computer science or applicable experience

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Ideal position for parent or other wanting to work from home 20 hours/week. Our main office is in Bend, but we work with designers throughout Oregon. ColdFusion/SQL/JavaScript for an interesting variety of sites, Flash authoring including ActionScript and Flash Remoting also helpful. Please reply with several references, will also need code samples from multiple projects.

Thanks,

Chris
www.tsongas.net

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