Hello, I'm   Jason

There are plenty of technology events on the calendar for October. All of the events I have listed below are virtual events or seminars. As a reminder, TechBash 2021, which was scheduled for this October, is being postponed until November 2022.

I’ll be at the Rochester Institute of Technology Career Fair today. This will be my first in person career fair that I’ll be attending in over 20 months. If you are a student or alumni of RIT, be sure to look for me tomorrow or in the Career Connect portal.

Revue is not new. In fact, it’s been around since 2015. However, back in February, Twitter announced that it reached a deal to acquire Revue. Revue is a newsletter system that allows content to be pulled in from several different sources including Twitter and RSS feeds.

Visual Studio Code is a very powerful editor. There’s little doubt that developers from many different languages are using this editor to extend for their own needs. One of my favorite uses of Visual Studio Code is to use it as a pure Markdown editor. Chances are you’re familiar with Markdown at this point as GitHub, StackOverflow, and many other systems use Markdown to strip out unnecessary HTML and have a clean and concise rendering.

GitHub is constantly adding new features and settings to help developers. While I still feel there are areas that I’d like to see more improvements, there are plenty of features that are easy to overlook.

Yesterday, Microsoft released a bunch of new Microsoft Surface devices as well as a few other products. Here is a list of the products they have announced:

Microsoft is holding it’s annual Surface hardware event today at 11am ET. The most obvious announcement is that Microsoft will surely release the Surface Pro 8. In addition, I’d expect a new Surface Duo 2 mobile phone, Surface Book 4 laptop, and potentially other Surface devices.

On Wednesday, I opened my inbox to find this:

Microsoft Ignite registration is now open. The website is currently very slow as registration for the virtual event is required.

I’m hiring a Junior Web Developer for our growing team. This position is for biBerk, a direct insurance company. We’re looking for someone interested in writing clean and efficient HTML and CSS. This individual will help to maintain our Content Management System, Intranet, and will gain experience in other areas of the business. While experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, SASS, and CMS systems are preferred, it’s not required. As with all of our positions, this position also offers opportunities for growth.