March Porto Tech & Creative Events
Spring is coming!
And with it, a month full of opportunities to meet new people and expand your knowledge 👌
Throughout the month we should have some news for you. We‘ve seen your messages, and know you’re craving for more OPO.js and OPO.design. Stay calm, it will be worth it, we promise 😎
Porto wins Mobile Site of the Year 2018
If you remember last January, we talked about how a couple of our own were running for “best of the year” by the Awwwards, who recognise the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world.
MOXY and Bürocratik were nominated for different categories, and MOXY ended up bringing home the official Mobile Site of the Year 2018 award, which is attributed by a jury composed of Google Experts.
Congrats to MOXY and the team behind it 👏
Upcoming Porto Events
❤ Time for this month’s events. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.
March 1, 19h00–21h00
· dev · Python talks with kiwi.com
One of a kind, out of schedule event of Python Porto in partnership with kiwi.com. Two guest speakers from Barcelona are going to UPTEC to share their experience of riding drones and taming data with Python. In between there will be a coffee break with snacks, drinks and heated discussions. After the event everyone is welcomed to join the networking dinner, where the discussion will continue.
March 2, 10h30–12h30
· dev · iOS Peer Lab Porto
Join other developers for a peer-based collaborative learning lab. You’ve got a question? Maybe someone can provide you with some insight or maybe you can help someone else with their questions! Bring a laptop and some code or idea to work on.
March 5, 19h00–22h00
· design · #TDKtuesdays
Meet Rita Laranja, Serafim Mendes and Sérgio Couto who will share their projects and vision over the freelancing world, what were the highs and lows, what to be alert for, the challenges, the anguishes and how to pave the way for a more successful model of work.
March 6, 19h00–20h30
· misc · Porto.Data #49 SQL Server 2019 (Overview) What’s new in the Database Engine
The next Porto.Data meetup will be dedicated to an Overview of SQL Server 2019, welcoming Ivan Campos, founder of the Porto.Data community.
March 7, 18h30–20h30
· misc · DSPT#50
Data Science Portugal (DSPT) is an informal community of data science enthusiasts created with the purpose of sharing knowledge and experience in the fields of data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data and all related fields.
March 7, 18h30–21h00
· misc · Humane Foodtech: The Open Food Network
In this session, Luís Ramos is going to present a distributed online marketplace and after that, the discussion will focus on “what are the barriers of bringing (real) food to our table and how technology can help?”.
March 9, 18h30–20h00
· misc · Um ano Mudo — 1º Aniversário Mudo Podcast
Join in for the anniversary meetup of Mudo Podcast. Expect a podcast with multiple guests where you can participate in a non filtered conversation about trending topics, challenges and more. And, of course, some birthday cake!
March 10, 10h00–12h00
· dev · PyCoffee. Hot coffee and Pythonic discussions in Porto i/o
PyCoffee is an experimental format of informal Python meetups. There is no agenda and no speakers. It’s for those who are ready to start Sunday with a cup of hot coffee and a chat with like-minded python developers or beginners.
March 11–15, 10h00–17h25
· marketing · BOOM — Massive Growth Week
One-week growth boot camp. A 5-day journey through marketing & sales. Learn with skilled experts from diverse areas by soaking in their valuable experiences and knowledge. Straight to the point and no bullshit attached. Here’s a special discount for all our community members:
🎟 Daily Ticket Code: BOOMED1
🎟 Weekly Ticket Code: BOOMED5
March 13, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Machine Learning Porto #3 — Explanatory ML
This meetup will have the pleasure of welcoming Kelwin Fernandes from NILG.AI who will be talking about interpretability in Machine Learning.
March 13, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Porto Digital Nomads Meetup — Special edition
A special edition of Porto Digital Nomads Meetup will bring you lots of great vibes and new people to meet! This time counting with the presence of Tim Lai. Tim Lai writes “Points to be Made” (pointstobemade.com) which teaches readers how to maximize their air miles and hotel points.
March 14, 18h00–19h30
· marketing · REACTOR TALK: Digital Marketing: Trends, tools and metrics
This talk will address how digital marketing has transformed over time into today’s trends, as well as presenting essential tools and metrics as good practices.
March 14, 18h30–20h30
· dev · How to Break into Product by Mindera Product Owners
Speakers will share their career paths, past experiences, learnings and tips, explaining how they got into Product roles, followed by a brief group activity of sharing and discussing PM experiences and concluding the event with a short Q&A session.
March 14, 18h45–20h45
· dev · DevOps Porto #25: Immutable infrastructure
Traditional server management and deployment strategies rely on existing servers and infrastructure managed by some IT/Operations team which when you scale to a few hundred servers leads to inconsistent configurations and high management burden. At Feedzai, an immutable server approach is being used to achieve highly consistent environments while giving the development teams ownership of the deployment rules.
March 14, 19h00–21h00
· dev · Porto Codes
Porto Codes is a meetup for local and international programming enthusiasts. The talks are recorded and published with the presenters’ consent as one of our goals is to provide programming resources to the community.
March 16, 10h30–12h30
· misc · iOS Peer Lab Porto
Come join other developers for a peer-based collaborative learning lab.
You’ve got a question? Maybe someone can provide you with some insight. Maybe you can help someone else with their questions! Bring a laptop and some code or idea to work on.
March 18, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Porto Freelancers Meetup
Join the Porto Freelance community and go grab a few beers, meet each other and network in a nice atmosphere overlooking Santa Catarina street. It has an inclusive, crowdsourced and decentralized format so anyone can participate.
March 19, 18h00–20h00
· misc · Solo Session: Licenças Creative Commons
Lear about how to share your work or find content from other people using Creative Common Licences.
March 20, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Nerdzao PT #2 — Distributed Data
This meetup will discuss everything about distributing and managing data, with two lectures covering why, how and what to use to cover your data in a distributed world.
March 21, 18h45–20h15
· dev · Fullstack Porto 3rd edition
In this meetup, you can assist a talk that includes a brief explanation of how asymmetric keys works and how it can be used to establish secure connections to instances shells at large scale.
March 21, 19h00–21h00
· misc · Failure Thursdays by Porto i/o!
Come listen and celebrate major life-changes that were provoked by events that can sometimes be considered a “failure”. Companies that failed, dramatic career changes, a prototype that (literally) blew up.
March 21, 19h00–20h00
· misc · REMOTE WORK — The sunshine, rainbows (and dark alleys) of working remotely. 🌍
A meetup to clarify the ups and downs of working remotely. The talk will be about “both sides of the barricade”, what works, what definitely doesn’t work, some tips to avoid going in the “dark alleys” and how to make it successful.
March 26, 19h00–21h00
· misc · PWL #10 :: Concurrency & Consensus
The goal is to help bridge the gap between Porto industry and academics: membership of both types are very welcome; and to dive deep into interesting programming topics.
March 27, 18h00–20h00
· dev · ØxＯＰＯＳɆＣ Mɇɇtuᵽ [0x72] — The Meet
During gatherings, expect topics as diverse as web, network, crypto, legal, reverse, physical, IoT, mobile and pretty much anything related to security. Participants of all skills level are welcome in as much as they have a will to share and learn something new.
March 27, 19h00–20h30
· dev · Porto.Data #50 What’s new in Windows Server 2019
Next Porto.Data meetup we will be dedicated to an Overview of Windows Server 2019 and they’ll be welcoming two experts to talk about it.
March 27–29, 9h00–18h00
· dev · design · typeof conference
typeof is a professional front end and web technologies conference, partner of GDG Porto. The inaugural edition is taking place in Alfândega do Porto, with workshops on the 27th and a single track of talks conference on the 28th and 29th of March.
March 28, 18h45–20h45
· dev · Porto PHP Meetup
As promised, the first meetup in Porto, where PHP developers all around Porto can share knowledge, chat about latest technologies and software development.
March 28, 19h00–21h00
· dev · Python Porto #12
PyCoffee is an experimental format of informal Python meetups. More information about this meetup will be announced by the organisation soon.
March 29–30, 22h00–12h00
· dev · Game Dev Meet Norte
Welcoming Helder Pinto, artist from games like Crysis, Overwatch and Under Siege, who will present his new project, Europa.
March 29–31, 9h00–20h00
· dev · design · Service Jam Porto
Service Jam happens in over 100 cities simultaneously and Porto is one of them once again. So join in to answer the global secret challenge and build an awesome service in a 48h sprint!
Must reads
❤ Time to catch up on some hand picked articles, talks and tutorials!
LIRAN TAL & JUAN PICADO
10 npm Security Best Practices · js
This cheat sheet edition focuses on npm security and productivity tips for both open source maintainers and developers.
ADDY OSMANI
JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome · js
How browsers schedule and execute scripts can impact the performance of web pages.
GANT LABORDE
Avoid Nightmares — NSFW JS · js
You can use NSFW JS to identify indecent content without having files ever leave the client’s machine, even defensively if you can’t control the content being delivered.
BROWSER LONDON
Front-end 2019: predictions and expectations · js
2018 was a remarkably stable and retrospective year for the web. Frameworks and tools continue to churn, but there were surprisingly few new contenders, patterns and technologies that hit mainstream use. Will this year follow the same template?
COLIN EAGAN
UX in the Age of Personalization · design
The UX practitioner’s emerging role in personalization design: from influencing technology selection, to data modeling, to page-level implementation.
GIRISH RAWAT
Why most redesigns fail · design
A case study on big name redesign fails and what you can learn from them.
MARY LOU
Text Distortion Effects using Blotter.js · js
Some text distortion experiments using the Blotter.js library. The idea is to distort text as we scroll or move the mouse.
CHRIS GANNON
Chris Gannon — The Almighty Rabbit Hole — [Talk] · design
About the rabbit holes Chris goes down, what he finds down there (spoiler alert: sometimes it’s just rabbit sh*t) and where they lead. Learn some of his methods and apply them to your own work.
SHAHED KHALILI
Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling Applied to Product Managers & UX Designers · design
Being a good storyteller is why some product managers, marketers, and designers make the leap from Good to Great… and others don’t.
LEXIE MARTIN
Interface Copy Impacts Decision Making · design
The language used in interfaces influences the decisions that our users will make. Manipulative copy nudges users towards making choices that are against their best interests.
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