Now that Gutenberg has been released (WordPress 5.0), we’re intending to take another look at it and share the good, bad and ugly from our members’ experience so far.

This session will focus on updates, site recovery and backup. Learn more.

Details coming soon! Learn more.

Very soon, the Gutenberg WordPress editor will become part of the WordPress core. What does that mean for you?

Writing good code is hard. Writing good code when you’re given unrealistic deadlines, afraid of breaking builds and losing your job is harder. This talk is about dropping the illusions that miracle cures exist, and instead making us all aware of our surroundings and what we can do about it. Instead of focusing on complete […]

In this presentation, Erwin Kooi will demonstrate how to build a simple application in Python/Django from scratch, write a few unit tests, setup a selenium test, push source to github, integrate the project with CircleCI, and finally auto-deploy on Google App Engine on a CircleCI workflow trigger. Again, all from scratch. The purpose of this […]

Join us for the next event in our Women’s Coding Workshop series! This workshop is offered in partnership with Innovate Kingston, and will be instructed by Mohammed Hamada Gasmallah. Hamada is a graduate student at Queen’s University and specializes in machine learning and computer vision. Join us for an introduction to a machine learning workshop focused […]

Sudo is hosting a games night at Innovate Kingston. We will be running short one to two hour roleplaying game sessions. No experience required!

Traditionally WordCamps always have a ‘Happiness Bar’, a help-desk staffed by volunteers. There’s a fair bit of discussion out on the web that a new name is needed as it’s become an ‘insider’ term that no-one understands! So this is a slightly tongue in cheek nod to 15 years of WordPress.

More details coming soon!

Find out what your local devs are up to, share your weekly triumphs & challenges, get to know what’s going on in your community and geek out. Headhunters, job-seekers, project ideas, Kingston newcomers, curious cats, old-timers, noobs, all welcome!

Incorporating Your Business: When and Why, is a Special Advice Event presented by Kingston Young Professionals (KYP). This event will discuss all the reasons to incorporate your business. Experts will be talking about the benefits from an accounting and tax standpoint, as well as the legal considerations.

Bring your selfie A game and come hang out with other amazing influencers, get all the deets on fab opportunities, snack on delicious food, and show off some Insta-worthy swag from our sponsors Neutrogena, Midori and Card’s Bakery! *limited tickets available, get yours here! **Free parking provided by the City of Kingston @Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, just across the street!

React is a great way to create and share reusable, modular components among projects. But how do you ensure your React apps are usable by all?

Join Paul Bearne (Senior Freelance WordPress Developer) and Ian Misner for a virtual meetup using Google Hangouts, where we come together as a team with the aim of adding to and improving WordPess. Ian Misner, who works regularly with WooCommerce, will take us through the basics of where to begin and configuration.

Please join us to celebrate our launch of Kingston’s first mobile experience designed for all businesses!

Find out what your local devs are up to, share your weekly triumphs & challenges, get to know what’s going on in your community and geek out. Headhunters, job-seekers, project ideas, Kingston newcomers, curious cats, old-timers, noobs, all welcome!

Do you have an interest in visualizing geographic data in real time 3D? The Mapbox SDK allows you to quickly generate custom 3D worlds, power location lookup, and incorporate traffic-based directions into your Unity3D project.

Explore cutting edge sounds and sights over two nights of music and art at the second annual festival which showcases diverse artists working with technology in Canada today.

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In this talk Owen will touch on canvas, d3.js, webGL, and webAudio to create experiences on the web. You can see some examples here: – Animated Hearts: https://twitter.com/o1sound/status/963791926951542784 – Hover your mouse on the page: https://www.owenfernley.com/ – Explore the Great Lakes: https://pixelsandplans.com/live/flow/ – wtf: https://vimeo.com/63159799

This month feature workshop is “Creating 3D Content for Facebook”. The aim for the evening is to learn how to navigate Blender, create a simple 3D model using a primitive, then convert it to glTF format, ready for posting to Facebook.

Find out what your local devs are up to, share your weekly triumphs & challenges, get to know what’s going on in your community and geek out. Headhunters, job-seekers, project ideas, Kingston newcomers, curious cats, old-timers, noobs, all welcome!

This event is a comprehensive introduction to python 3. We’ll be starting from the very basics of data types and syntax and building up to building our own simple data mining tools without using any packages.

Ivari has a comprehensive advisor development program which has proven itself. The foundation of this program is business coaching and brings together a consultative environment that includes business planning, practical sales concepts, professional development and customized marketing solutions.

iK is excited to be joined by Adam Tracey of Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP this coming Friday, March 23rd (11am-1pm), bring your lunch, Adam will be talking IP on a Lean Budget! Register today – spots are limited!

Join us for a presentation by Prof. Roel Vertegaal! Towards Real Reality Interfaces: From Interactive Light Fields to Programmable Matter

It is a discussion of a member’s current website or project. The group member shows their project and describe what problems they have run into. The group can discuss possible solutions, highlight great points in the design, or just learn from each other.

In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics and uses of Blockchain technology using JavaScript. There will also be a short talk on the uses of smart contracts and their impact on the music & entertainment industry.

Find out what your local devs are up to, share your weekly triumphs & challenges, get to know what’s going on in your community and geek out. Headhunters, job-seekers, project ideas, Kingston newcomers, curious cats, old-timers, noobs, all welcome!

The ShopifyYGK community is growing and we think it’s about time we got everyone together again. Join us on March 14th to learn, engage, and connect with other Shopify community members in the Kingston area!

Astronauts can’t take everything they need with them on long space missions. Unleash your creativity and problem-solving skills to 3D print solutions to potentially save lives, time, and money for astronauts on deep space missions and the 3.75 billion people on Earth who live in rural areas and who often lack access to healthcare services.

In this talk, we will be walking through the creation of an interactive, real time graph built with d3.js.

Join us for the next event in our Women’s Coding Workshop series! This workshop will be lead by Jeff Stafford, and is offered in partnership with Innovate Kingston.

Creating a offline development work-space using Vagrant (VVV).

Creating a offline development work-space using Vagrant (VVV). VVV is ideal for developing themes and plugins as well as for contributing to WordPress core.

Upstairs! Let’s meetup monthly every first Wednesday of the month at 7pm. Find out what your local devs are up to, share your weekly triumphs & challenges, get to know what’s going on in your community and geek out. Headhunters, job-seekers, project ideas, Kingston newcomers, curious cats, old-timers, noobs, all welcome!

Join Rachel, a recent addition to the dev group and the group’s self-proclaimed resident geographer, for an introduction to using R as a GIS. Topics to be covered include the basics of geospatial data sources and data types, analysis and visualization, and application examples.

This interactive and collaborative workshop will allow you to develop your own custom website, with help from Sudo’s volunteer mentors. You’ll be learning HTML and advanced CSS, with a focus on website design.

Upstairs! Let’s meetup monthly every first Wednesday of the month at 7pm. Find out what your local devs are up to, share your weekly triumphs & challenges, get to know what’s going on in your community and geek out. Headhunters, job-seekers, project ideas, Kingston newcomers, curious cats, old-timers, noobs, all welcome!