Incomm Digital Solutions

Meet the team, learn about job opportunities, and play games this Wednesday night 1/30 5-8pm @ InComm Portland downtown (Big Pink).

The InComm Digital Solutions engineering team will be opening up our monthly game night to friends and prospective employees! Please join us to check out the office, learn more about IDS, and most importantly, to eat pizza and play board games. We usually have 5-15 people, and what we play varies from "light" games like Concepts and Code Names to more strategic games like Power Grid, Castles of Burgundy, Clank, or Root. We might also play some Mario Kart or some ping-pong, but board games are the main focus.

Pizza and beverages will be provided, including vegan and gluten-free options. Please RSVP ([email protected]) so we know how much food to order, and come join us!

We currently have openings in software engineering and QA/SDET. (Sorry, we are unable to use third party recruiters)

Registration through Eventbrite [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pdx-women-in-tech-pdxwit-volunteer-info-night-tickets-44160436053] is required to gain entry to this event

Interested in joining the stellar crew of PDXWIT volunteers? New to volunteering with us? Want to meet other capable, driven women and allies in tech? You'll be in the right place at our summer volunteer program overview. At the orientation, you'll learn about different volunteer roles, from regular engagements to occasional gigs; get an overview of expectations and processes; have any questions you bring answered; and have a chance to meet others interested in volunteering with PDXWIT.

PDXWIT is an almost 100% volunteer-run organization, which means that volunteers are crucial to the success of our mission. There are plenty of ways to get involved. We can't wait to welcome you!

Agenda:

5:30 p.m. - Doors open

5:45 p.m. - Event begins Introduce attendees to PDXWIT

 Provide overview of:
      PDXWIT Goals
           Volunteer Program and Agreement
           Different types of volunteer roles
           Example of some of the regular teams
           Highlight some upcoming volunteer needs
 Answer questions

7:30 p.m. - Event ends

Event FAQ Q: Will there be gender neutral restrooms? A: Yes.

Q: Is the space ADA accessible? A: Yes.

Q: What is the parking situation? A: Yes, across the street is a parking garage and under the building, we can validate parking for both garages

Q: Is there secured bike parking? A: Yes, under the building in the parking garage is a secure bike box.

Q: Should I consider using public transportation? A: Yes

Purpose:

PDXWIT is a community-based non-profit organization. Our purpose is to strengthen the Portland women in tech community by offering educational programs, partnerships, mentorships, resources and opportunities. We are unifying a supportive environment for current and potential women in tech, all of whom are committed to helping each other. Our goal is to bring together and empower women in tech and to encourage others to pursue tech careers. This is our step towards reducing the gender imbalance in the industry and addressing the current negative effects of that imbalance on women.

Our events are inclusive. ALL people who support our purpose are welcome.

Come join the PDX F# meetup! Beginners and experts alike are all welcome.

Let's build a Unity3D game with F#! Unity3D is a popular platform for building cross-platform games based on the Mono 2.0 runtime (.NET 3.5) and supports scripting in C#, Javascript, and Boo out of the box. Those languages are cool and all, but wouldn't it be fantastic if we could build Unity3D games in F#?!

In this meetup we will explore how to create a basic Unity3D game and use F# to control the game logic. In the process we'll learn some of the differences between OOP and FP as well as why F# makes a great scripting language for game development.

Link to the slides:

http://ilmaestro.github.io/fsharpMeetup.html

And here's the github repo for the demo:

https://github.com/ilmaestro/SpaceShooter-FSharp

Lightning talks and workshops

Let's meet up and chat about F# in the web world.

Ryan Riley (@panesofglass) is a proud member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie class of ‘01, a Visual F# MVP, and Engineer for Tachyus, a start-up using F# to profoundly revolutionize the oil & gas industry. He runs the Community for F# virtual user group and serves on the management committee for the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) specification.

F# on the Web

Most people think of F# as good at math or complex problem solving. It is actually a fantastic for a very wide array of tasks, including web programming, which helped the start-up Tachyus go from 0 to production in 12 weeks. In this talk, we'll compare and contrast a web application written in familiar C# patterns with various features provided by F#, including function composition, computation expressions (async), type providers, and active patterns. We'll also cover differences in application design patterns.

Since Ryan is remote, we're going to host this in Google Hangouts, so even if you're not able to physically make it to the hangout, come join us! It is going to be a great time. Looking forward to see everybody there!

Speaker: Mathias Brandewinder (http://www.clear-lines.com/blog/)

Topic: Back in 2010, Visual Studio came with a new language on board: F#. Out of curiosity, I started playing with it, and got hooked. F# is a fantastic language - it mixes functional and Object Oriented approaches seamlessly, encourages writing bug-free code (it is virtually impossible to get a null exception...), comes with great features, and is incredibly productive. In this talk, I will give a intro to F# for C# developers, illustrated with live code samples, and discuss where it fits and how you can get started with it.

• WHERE: InComm Digital Solutions 111 SW 5th Ave., Suite 900 Portland, OR 97204 (503) 443-8264

• WHEN: Thursday 05/15/2014 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Business and Intro Presentation 7:00 p.m. Main Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words TBD

Team members from Snapflow will be presenting.  Topic TBA.

InComm Digital is hosting a New Years party and open house in the new office in the US Bankcorp Tower (AKA Big Pink) on Thursday January 9th. Come check out the new space, talk with our team about what we're doing in the emerging digital payments space, and find out about career opportunities.

We're kicking off at 4 PM with a talk by Diana Larsen on Agile Fluency! Grab a beer and check out Diana's talk, or show up later and enjoy food and drinks on us.

Some details on the talk: Going “Agile” can confer a number of benefits to an organization, but all too often those promised benefits aren’t fully delivered. Do you have the visibility you need to understand progress and make timely market-focused decisions? Do your teams ship on a frequency your customers can, and want, to accept? Does innovation flourish in and across teams? How about reduced cycle time? Developed by Diana Larsen and James Shore, "The Path to Agile Fluency" models predictable stages of agile team competency and helps leaders and team members define the benefits they’re getting, determine the benefits they really want, plan next steps, and describe success.

About InComm Digital: InComm Digital Solutions (IDS), redefines the connection between merchants and their customers through stored value and mobile gifting solutions. As the pioneer of digital gift card delivery, IDS helps clients leverage gift card program in new ways to drive sales. IDS delivers digital gift cards through e-commerce, social media, promotional and B2B toolsets. eGift Cards are delivered to Facebook, email and mobile devices.

About Diana Larsen: A founder of FutureWorks Consulting LLC, Diana Larsen partners with leaders to design work systems, improve project team performance, and transition to Agile methods. Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great! , Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects, Quickstart Guide to Five Rules for Accelerated Learning, and “Your Path Through Agile Fluency” at www.agilefluency.com .

Hi There Folks,

Incomm/Giftango has moved to downtown!

To celebrate the move, we are hosting an open house with plenty of free drinks (wine + beer) and some food as well.

Please, no recruiting, this is just a party to break in our new digs. So bring a friend and come on down.

US Bancorp Tower - 9th Floor (111 SW 5th Ave, Suite 900 - in the case you can spot a giant pink tower). Weds, 5PM to 8PM

We are taking non-perishable food donations at the door, but it's not required.

P.S. - We will be more than happy to talk shop and show you some of what goes on behind the scenes.