Utah Open Source Conference: Aug 28-30 at SLCC Redwood

Utah Open Source Conference
Thursday August 28, 2008 - Saturday August 30, 2008
Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus
4600 S Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130
Website: http://2008.utosc.com
The Utah Open Source Conference 2008 will be held at the Salt Lake Community College, Redwood Road campus from August 28 - 30, 2008.
The Salt Lake Community College Computer Science department [...]

Geek Dinner Thursday 7-31 at Paradise Bakery

Looking for the Utah geeks, bloggers and coders? You’ll find them at the Utah Geek/Blogger Dinner. This month, we’re meeting at Paradise Bakery. If you have been feeling lonely for computer conversation in the Salt Lake Valley, you’ll find it all here!
THEY HAVE WI-FI, so you can bring your laptop if you want!
RSVP at Upcoming.org: [...]

See Batman the Dark Knight FREE TODAY

Local tech company Bungee Labs is hosting a FREE showing of Batman the Dark Knight this afternoon at 4:00pm. (I interviewed @ReverendTed from Bungee last Friday on the Couchcast)
We believe Utah is home to many amazing companies…and we want to get to
know more of you.
Bring your family or friends and join us this Tuesday, [...]

Utah Jobs Growing

Matthew Reinbold was kind enough to use a few of my comments in a recent piece on Utah Job Growth at UtahPulse.com.
Here’s some of the takeaways:
“Unemployment is still below the generally-accepted measure for ‘full-employment’ of 4-5%,” Robert Merrill, Technical Account Manager for SOS Engineering and Technology, said. “This means that people who would otherwise choose [...]

4 Factors Creating Utah Workforce Funk

There’s no question something interesting is happening with Utah’s professional/technical workforce right now, and I think there are no less than four competing factors at play any business-owner should be paying very close attention to:

Real and Wage Inflation
Intense Competition for Talent
Corporate cost-cutting
High Energy/Commute Costs

The hardest part to pin-down is that the economic indicators show a [...]

Utah Tries Four Day Work-Week

On August 4th, Utah will begin its move to a four-day work week, a move that should save up to about 20% of the state’s expenses by 2015.
The change will apply to about 17,000 employees, roughly 80% of the state workforce, [Utah State Governor] Huntsman says. Public universities, the state court system, prisons and other [...]

Job Posting: PHP/MySQL Programmers. Symfony, RAD experience needed

SOS Engineering & Technology is immediately seeking several qualified PHP/MySQL programmers to work on exciting new projects.
We are seeking both candidates for front-end and back-end development, including architecture.

Front-end programmers must have mastery of HTML, AJAX, CSS and JS. PHP knowledge preferred.
Back-End programmers must have no-less than reasonable experience with PHP4/5, MySQL (LAMP stack) and highly [...]

Hiring: Senior Application Developer US-UT-SLC (Draper)

Our client is immediately seeking top candidates to help fill a key-critical Senior Application Developer/Engineer position in their Draper, Utah office (Salt Lake City Metro Area). This is a Direct Hire opportunity with our client.
This position will be highly visible within their company, as you will report directly to VP-Engineering. Experienced software engineers with excellent [...]

Calendar: Podcast, Geek Lunch & More

What’s your calendar doing? There’s a lot going on this week:
Podcamp SLC this Saturday 3/15
Geek Lunch Friday 3/14 @ Bombay House in Provo
And there’s more, thanks to the Utah Tech Events Calendar:

Wednesday, March 12
All day FamilySearch Developers Conference
4:30pm SLCFUG Monthly Meeting
7:30pm Provo Linux Users Group - Canceled
Thursday, March 13
5:00pm slc.north.rb [...]

APX ALARM of Provo, Utah is a Thief and a Liar.

I hope this blog post gets to the very top of the search engines for the terms “APX Alarm” or “APEX ALARM“. Please help? Furthermore, please remember that this is my blog, and not representative of any other entity.
Its TOO BAD that there are so many “APEX ALARM” companies in the country that none [...]