February Porto Tech & Creative Events

Ana Pinheiro
OPO.network
Published in
3 min readFeb 1, 2021

Chapter 2 of 12.

No matter what, we’re going to make a special, exciting, and engaging journey for all of us.
We want to keep our community strong and unified.

There are still not many events planned for February, but we will, as usual, update our monthly calendar throughout the month.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

February 2, 17h00–18h00

· design · Innovate: Tackling problems with creativity with Rodrigo García González
In this talk, Rodrigo will share his design methods, creative approaches to problem solving, and an insight into the design of Notpla.

February 10, 17h00–18h00

· dev · Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps Study Hall
For this session, they will be covering Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps, guided by Rick Spurgeon of Confluent.

February 11, 18h00–19h00

· design · Onlive Talk — Where to Start, with Peter Marigold and Sarah van Gameren
A behind the scenes talk with designer-makers Sarah van Gameren from Glithero and Peter Marigold about the reality of the commercial creative process from project initiation to development and realisation.

February 12-13, 14h00–19h00

· dev · Talk A Bit
Talk A Bit is a technology conference hosted by engineering students.
The two previous editions received more than 500 participants, providing an exciting atmosphere where some of the most exciting technical developments are presented and discussed.

February 23, 18h00–19h30

· dev · [0x4842443231] — The Virtual Meet
Automated standard based security assessment for IoT by André Cirne and
Edge Side Includes Injections by Rui Godinho.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

MICHAL MALEWICZ
Perfect practice makes perfect · design
How the need for instant gratification is impairing the education of junior designers.

JON YABLONSKI
Laws of UX V2.0 · design
This post takes a closer look at Jon’s goals, challenges faced along the way, and how success was measured.

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
array.sort() Does Not Simply Sort Numbers in JavaScript · dev
Why does array.sort() method, when invoked without arguments, doesn’t sort the numbers as expected?

KENT C. DODDS
Using fetch with TypeScript · dev
How to make HTTP requests with fetch and TypeScript.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

JOHN PAPA, WARD BELL and DAN WAHLIN
Web Rush
Dive into JavaScript and Web development stories.

PATRICIA REINERS
Future of UX
In every episode hints and tips to leading UX/ UI Designers and digital pioners about the future and their way to benefit from new technologies.

TODD HENRY
The Accidental Creative
A podcast that shares how to build practical, everyday practices that help you stay prolific, brilliant and healthy in life and work.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in February!

Enjoy!

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