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Taught by Christine Hamblin (BCA, BSc, MTEI), Atlantic Innovation Lead at Accenture, and certified Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking facilitator; this class will help you learn the process of conceiving and designing new products and services for your business.

Are you a mobile worker?? Do you work from home, remotely, or have a flex-schedule? Come hang out and meet new friends, colleagues, and potential coworkers! Let's try to build a better environment and community for remote and mobile work right here in Halifax! All are welcome! Register

Able Sense is hosting the next Meetup in Halifax! This is a great opportunity to connect, network and learn with partners and fellow merchants. Shopify experts will share their specialized ecommerce knowledge to help you grow your business. See you there! Agenda 6:00 PM — 6:25 PM: Arrivals Sign in and join your fellow partners and merchants. Grab a drink, snacks and a seat before the event starts. 6:25 PM — 6:30 PM: Welcome An introduction of the speakers and an overview of the evening from Able Sense. 6:30 PM — 6:50 PM: Session 1 - Building Your Brand with Content Marketing Julie Guy, BrewHQ What Is The Content in "Content Marketing", Creating Content for Different Customers, Integrating Content Into Your Marketing Emails, Podcasts - The New Blog 6:50 PM — 7:20 PM: Networking We invite you to grab another drink, more snacks and mix & mingle before our next speaker! 7:20 PM — 7:40 PM: Session 2 - Branding, James Bond, and Your Small Business Jennifer Faulkner, Proposify Branding is often misunderstood or overlooked, especially for small businesses or when you’re just starting out. But, your brand is one of your most valuable assets. A strong brand can help you survive the roller coaster […]

**Take last set of elevators at end of the building and press 'M'. We're at the other end of the hallway** We're all well rested from WordCamp Halifax 2019, and ready to kick some butt with our websites! Come out for a night of learning, sharing and troubleshooting with the WordPress Halifax community. Weren't able to make it to WordCamp? No problemo, you'll get lots out of this meetup, which we hold every month! --What to Bring-- Yourself, your questions and your laptop or mobile device so you can show us your WordPress site whether it is just beginning or around for a while. -- 7:15: Opening Remarks-- --7:30: Happiness Bar (other items TBA)-- Break out your laptops, knowledge and questions regarding WordPress. Get feedback, learn something new or help a buddy out. Chat and get to know fellow WordPress bloggers, designers and developers. RSVP

Join us in welcoming GeoSpectrum Technologies founder, Dr. Bruce Armstrong, on September 19 at COVE for our Ocean Connector! The physics of hydrophones is easy to understand; mastery of the implementation of those ideas can be tricky. This talk will explain the physics in terms everyone should be able to understand. Topics covered will be piezoelectric ceramics, why a high frequency hydrophone is a poor choice to measure low frequencies and vice versa, preamp noise and how it relates to hydrophone sensitivity, why the low frequency sensitivity of a hydrophone is a ruler-straight line, and why it is sometimes better to calibrate hydrophones in air rather than water. Finally, you will learn that if you utter the words “rho-c”, you may be putting your professional reputation at risk. Dr. Armstrong has been designing transducers for over 41 years. In 1978 he began work as a Defence Scientist in the transducer group at DRDC-A. In 1985, he began working for Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems, where he designed DIFAR (vector) hydrophones for sonobuoys. In 1994, he founded GeoSpectrum Technologies, where he still works today, guiding the technical teams. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to construction on Parker Street, the main road to COVE will […]

Grab a cocktail and a cue stick, and join BDO at Dooly’s. Enjoy an evening of networking with the next generation of Halifax business leaders at BDO’s annual Young Professionals Pool Tournament. If pool isn’t your thing, join them for free pizza and drinks. See you there!

During this collaborative learning experience, we’ll explore the difference between UI and UX, and how they work together.

Join thousands of Canadians coast to coast to coast taking their first steps learning about application development. With great design comes great responsibility. User experience (UX) design isn’t just about creating pretty or functioning websites - it’s about creative solutioning and trying to make people’s lives and experiences better. As application designers, we need to remember that we aren’t designing products for ourselves, but for other people. Being a UX designer allows you to work with and problem solve for a variety of different people, and empathy plays a huge part in this. During this collaborative learning experience, we’ll explore the difference between User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX), and how they work together. We’ll walk through the design cycle; including discovery, user testing, and user personas. Learners will also have a chance to experience different UX methods through hands-on exercises, including building physical and digital prototypes. Never worked on application design before? No problem! This workshop is designed for absolute beginners! During this 6 hour workshop, you’ll learn: Learn all about User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design Have a fulsome and holistic discussion around ethics and why ethical designing is crucial Solve real-world problems in collaboration […]

Join us for the fourth Halifax Angular Meetup, as we continue to dig deeper into all of the incredible things Angular can help with! Schedule: 6:30-6:45: Networking 6:45-7:15: Talk #1 RXJS & Observables 7:30-8:15: Talk #2 Component Inheritance 8:15-8:30: Networking About the sessions: RXJS & Observables: Observables in Angular are SUPER powerful and we can do a lot with them but they can be intimidating if you don't know where to start. In this talk we will discuss 1. reactive programming basics 2. the differences between promises and observables 3. common operators and when to use them 4. advanced operators and when to use them and by the end you'll be able to power-up your Angular apps using RXJS and Observables! Presenter: Chris Burton Component Inheritance: Inheritance in many object-oriented languages can serve as a mechanism to elegantly re-use code. The case with Angular is that inheritance is typically far from elegant, and can cause confusing components that hide their cost of use. In this talk, I will briefly introduce composition as the preferred object-oriented approach that comes naturally to Angular. Presenter: Jonathan Ignacio Register