(Real World Cryptography starts 7 minutes in)

Let us know your thoughts on this talk in the comments below.

As promised, here are the slides from the Understanding Functional Programming session:

If you have any questions or comments, please send Chris an email; he loves to explore and discuss technology.

What topic(s) would you like to see next time?

“Code Camps have been taking place all over the country. This is a free, one-day event put on by the local Phoenix community to help promote software development in general. There is no right or wrong language, platform, or technology. If a topic relates in any way to the code that causes a machine to produce a desired result, it’s welcome here.”

This year it will be held at the DeVry University Phoenix Campus and is once again being organized by Lorin Thwaits.

Flatterline will be teaching two sessions this year in the 21st Century Software Development track: Developing with CouchDB and Understanding functional programming.

The schedule became available today, so if you haven’t registered do so now and build your schedule for Saturday. It looks like there are a lot of great sessions this year and we can’t wait to learn from all of our colleagues. See you there!

Photo by tonx.

We had a great turnout for the first Phoenix OpenCoffee Club, which took place April 30th at Fair Trade Cafe. About a dozen people, both entrepreneurs and investors, attended and spent several hours getting to know each other over some great coffee.

We heard at least 6 ideas pitched and discussed during the 2 hours we were there. The assembled group wasn’t shy about asking questions and raising concerns of the entrepreneurs pitching their ideas either. I know everyone appreciated hearing the perspectives of entrepreneurs and investors alike. We hope everyone who attended found the meetup engaging and useful. We sure did!

Special thanks to Fair Trade Cafe for allowing us to host our event there. The May 7th Phoenix OpenCoffee Club will be held at Hob Nobs Coffee House. We’ll try to have OpenCoffee Club every Thursday, so it’s not a big deal if there are times you can’t make it. Hope to see you there!

At Flatterline, our stated mission is to help startups realize their vision. To that end, we’ve decided to help bring OpenCoffee Club to Phoenix.

What is OpenCoffee Club?

OpenCoffee Club is a weekly gathering of entrepreneurs and investors in an informal setting (a.k.a, a coffee shop). The goal is to bring these entrepreneurs and investors together to talk about projects, collaborate and get to know each other.

It was originally started in London by Saul Klein, a venture partner at Index Ventures. Since then, over 80 OpenCoffee Clubs have sprung up worldwide. You can read more about it on Saul’s blog or at ReadWriteWeb.

Why?

On a recent trip to Boulder, CO I attended an OpenCoffee Club facilitated by Jason Mendelson of the Foundry Group. It was really inspiring to see such a vibrant startup community meeting regularly to discuss ideas, share problems, give advice and, most of all, listen to each other.

We believe that Phoenix has a lot of talented, entrepreneurial people. We want them to have the best chance to grow and succeed and this is one small way we see that happening.

The first meetup will be on Thursday, April 30 from 8am – 10am at Fair Trade Coffee. Please let us know you’re coming.

In what other ways can we help the Phoenix startup community thrive?

Thank You!  Thank you for the support, the referrals, the chats, and everything else!

In the last month we have been approached by numerous individuals and companies who have been searching for developers.  They all said they were referred to us by people in the community that had favorable past experiences with us or because they have worked with us directly.  I cannot even begin to say what a compliment it is that no sooner did we form a company that people are already being referred to us.

The only downside to all of these referrals is that we simply cannot take on all these clients.  Curtis and I fundamentally believe, and agree, that we are not in any rush to grow or take on more clients than we believe we can handle at any given time.  That being said, we absolutely believe in referring potential clients to people who do have the capacity and availability for more work.  If your a development shop we will happily try and pair you with the awesome clients that we don’t have the capacity for right now.

The ultimate goal is a win-win for clients and other developers.  We want our potential clients to know that we value their time and future success, and sometimes that future success means hitting the ground running immediately with other developers in the community.