Welcome, July!

Summer vacation is coming.
The list of events is already shorter, but we hope to be back in style after the hot season.
Please feel free to share your events with us through our social networks.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

July 5, 18h30–20h00

· dev · NetPonto #38 — resiliência com Polly 💪🦜
A talk about building resilient applications with Polly.
The session will be held in Portuguese.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

MARC ANDREW
UI & UX Micro-Tips: Volume Six. · design
“When it comes to building efficient, accessible, and beautiful user interfaces, the smallest changes can make a massive difference.” — Marc Andrew

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
A Simple Guide to Component Props in React · dev
To start using React you don’t have to learn a lot. Learn the concept of components, state, props, and hooks — and you know how to use React. — Dmitri Pavlutin

TANNER CHRISTENSEN
How to measure design impact · design
Tips to know the design’s impact is on the product you are building.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
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INVISIONAPP
Design Better Podcast
Where they want to make it easier for you to design great products.

KATY COWAN
Creative Boom
The Creative Boom Podcast is full of fun and honest conversations with creative people that will inspire.

KEVIN CLARK AND RAFAEL CONDE
Layout
A podcast about design, technology, programming and everything else.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen to in July!

Enjoy!

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We ended May on a high note with another OPO.network Discussions session.
The team is very motivated to continue due to the positive feedback.

There are still not many events planned for June, but we will, as usual, update our monthly calendar throughout the month.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

June 8, 18h00–19h30

· dev · Speak’Out — Tech Leads #2 Meetup
The goal will be to share and listen to the panel’s visions for ways to cultivate leadership.

June 30, 14h00–15h00

· misc · “Aggregation of Marginal Gains” helps Distributed Teams become High-Performing
How do remote teams improve and maintain high levels of performance?

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

SILVIA O'DWYER
How to Create Neon Text With CSS · dev
Find and fix web accessibility issues with ease using axe DevTools Pro.

TANNER CHRISTENSEN
The bridge to Head of Design · design
“Nobody warned me how challenging being the Head of Design at an early-stage startup would be. Then again, nobody warned me how much I would love the challenge.” — Tanner Christensen

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
How to Correctly Debounce and Throttle Callbacks in React · dev
“I help developers understand JavaScript and React.” — Dmitri Pavlutin

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
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CALLSTACK
The React Native Show Podcast
Discussions about the most intriguing and relevant aspects of React Native and its ecosystem.

LAURA KLEIN AND KATE RUTTER
What is Wrong with UX
The podcast where two ladies yell at each other about how to make products suck slightly less.

YEVGENIYA DAVARASHVILI
The Create Connect Convert Podcast
Learn how to create an authentic brand that will leave lasting impressions, how to connect with your ideal clients, and how to convert your followers into raving fans.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen to in June!

Enjoy!

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For us, April was a fantastic month. The OPO.network Discussions went so good, that the positive feedback we received from our community motivates us to keep going.
This month, we hope to bring you more news.

Take a look at all the tech and creative events happening in Porto.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

May 4, 18h30–19h30

· design · Become A Conversational & Voice UX Designer
A taster session for anyone looking to switch careers into Voice Design (or Conversational Design) and learn the skills required.

May 5, 18h00–19h00

· dev · Operability and You Build It You Run It at John Lewis & Partners
A conversation with Simon Skelton, Partner & Platform & Operations Manager at John Lewis & Partners and Steve Smith, Principal Consultant
at Equal Experts.

May 5, 19h00–20h30

· dev · Let’s discuss BPT!
A session about Business Process Technology, also known as BPT, with Rui Barbosa.

May 6, 17h00–18h30

· dev · Back to the Future: The Agile argument
Shine a light on the rock-solid giants that support agile practices today with Bruno Teixeira, Senior Agile Coach at Talkdesk.

May 6, 18h00–19h00

· design · Asking better questions for better Product Design
With Philip Grother, the speaker, joining from Luxemburg.

May 11, 14h00–15h00

· design · The content-first approach: How to get a competitive edge through great UX
The next Nomensa Webinar, hosted by their Principal Content Designer, Steven Shukor.

May 27, 17h30–19h30

· dev · [Monthly] Global Agile Beer — EN Edition
A global community that always encourages experience exchange.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

KENT C. DODDS
Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js · dev
All supported versions of Node.js support ESModules now. Learn how to get started using them.

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
Solving a Mystery Behavior of parseInt() in JavaScript · dev
“I help developers understand JavaScript and React.” — Dmitri Pavlutin

STEVE DENNIS
How to deprecate old components in Figma design systems · design
While this is written for Figma users, a lot of this will be useful for Sketch users also.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

EMMA BOSTIAN, SIDNEY BUCKNER, KELLY VAUGHN, and ALLI SPITTEL
Ladybug Podcast
Great discussions around how to start coding, the hot technologies right now, how to get your first developer job, and more!

STRIVING ARTIST
The Striving Artist
A podcast for creative people working towards BIG goals.

DEVCHAT.TV
React Native Radio
Exploring React Native together.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen to in May.

Enjoy!

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Happy Easter, EveryBunny!

We hope you enjoy your holidays.

On this side, there is a lot of happiness!!!

This month we present the new dynamics of our community. Every Friday, we’ll be streaming LIVE from Clubhouse on our Instagram page.
Join us for a challenging conversation!

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

April 5, 16h45–18h45

· design · Fail:UX 2021–5 Glorious UX Failure Stories and Lessons Learned
An inspirational event where designers and entrepreneurs will give an honest testimonial about the hardships they encountered.

April 6, 10h00

· design · Is This Thing On? How to Test Voice Assistants Remotely
Benjamin Hoopes will share remote voice testing strategies for success — whether you’re ready to take VUI testing off pause and go remote or taking your first steps into this emerging tech space.

April 6, 12h00–13h00

· misc · Technical Writing at FARFETCH: Integrated API Documentation At Scale
Technical Writing at FARFETCH has the challenge to explain a business platform continuously evolved by thousands of people and used by hundreds of partners.

April 8, 10h00–11h00

· misc · Building an AI-powered Marketing Strategy: Road to Success for a modern-day CMO
They will speak about what the challenges for a modern-day CMO applying AI to create stronger, more authentic interactions with customers, and effectively using technologies to capitalise on data for insights-driven results.

April 9, 18h00

· design · OPO.design Discussions
An informal conversation for Design lovers, and everyone who wants to get to know our community up close. Every Friday, we’ll be streaming LIVE from Clubhouse on our Instagram page.

April 13, 14h00–15h00

· misc · How to stay at the top of your creative game when working remotely
In this webinar, Nomensa’s Creative Director, Chris Richards will share some tips and tricks on how to stay at the top of your creative game.

April 15, 17h00–18h00

· misc · CreativityTalks
CreativityTalks is a forum for multidisciplinary creative thinking processes, intent on leveraging innovation and new pedagogical methodologies.

April 16, 18h00

· dev · OPO.js Discussions
After waiting so patiently, welcome to our first ZOOM Webinar! This time, a discussion for JavaScrip lovers, and everyone who wants to join us.
“The State of JS“ is the theme of this session, and we are more than ready to discuss what’s hard nowadays, the trends for 2021, and many concepts of interest.

April 23, 12h00–14h00

· design · Woman in UX Leadership Panel
The ladies in the leadership position of the UX design industry come to share their experience in a panel discussion session.

April 23, 18h00

· dev · OPO.js Discussions
For JavaScript enthusiasts and everyone who wants to know more about it, and be part of our community.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

ARYELLA LACERDA
Introducing React Native Accessibility Engine · dev
Despite today’s astounding access to information, it’s still a widely misdefined concept.

LUKASZ TIRATA
On Time, Time Zones, and Software · misc
Time zones are tricky. Basics, a bit of history, and tips in this article will help designers and developers create UIs with good UX.

TANNER CHRISTENSEN
Design requires a product narrative · design
“To effectively navigate product complexity as a designer, think of the narrative around the product.” — Tanner Christensen

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

DEVCHAT.TV
React Native Radi‪o‬
Exploring React Native together.

YEVGENIYA DAVARASHVILI
The Create Connect Convert Podcas‪t‬
How to create an authentic brand that will leave lasting impressions, how to CONNECT with your ideal clients, and how to convert your followers into raving fans.

GISELLE FIELD & JEN DAVIS
Better: The Brand Designer Podcas‪t‬
“The branding world felt secretive, competitive, and sometimes really confusing, so their weekly chats were not only LIFE-GIVING but also very much needed in the midst of their crazy schedules.”

Enjoy!

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March… be good!

We have been living in the weather mood of March for the past few days — savage and serene in one hour.

But… the days are longer, the sun is beginning to appear, and at the bottom of the tunnel, there is greater hope for a return to normality.
We’ve got this! 💪🏼

Take a look at all the tech and creative events happening in Porto this month.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

March 3, 13h30–15h00

· design · Virtual Studio: Design Your Own Digital Pet with Thukral and Tagra
Join artists Thukral and Tagra to imagine your virtual pet, as part of New World series with It’s Nice That.

March 4, 18h00–19h00

· design · Onlive Talk — How to earn a living in Design, with Sebastian Bergne
An online, live presentation by Sebastian Bergne that unpacks and explains the different ways to earn a living working in design.

March 8, 17h00

· design · UX on Coffee with Alan Cooper (Inventor of Design Personas) LIVE on Zoom
Meet a UX Design Legend, the inventor of the design Personas and the ‘Father of Visual Basic’, Mr. Alan Cooper.

March 11, 18h00–19h00

· design · Onlive Talk — Design for social justice in time of displacement, in three conversations. Part 1.
An online, live presentation series by Simon Hamilton and Laetitia Wolff, who cross their perspectives to talk about their personal experiences with cultural displacement, career pivots and professional practice reinventions in time of crisis.

March 18–19, 13h00

· design · Design for Game Play- IxDA SXSW Special
Speaker: Brian Schwab, Director — Interaction Design, Creative Play Lab at LEGO; Former Director Interaction Lab at Magic Leap.

March 18, 18h00–19h00

· design · Onlive Talk — Design for social justice in time of displacement, in three conversations. Part 2.
Deep stories, practical jokes, comparative notes and useful career tips… a taste of what their individual coaching sounds like.

March 23, 19h00–21h00

· dev · Agile Beer + Agile On the Road by K21
Share experiences and knowledge about Agile by expanding your network.

March 25, 18h00–19h00

· design · Onlive Talk — Design for social justice in time of displacement, in three conversations. Part 3.
Bringing meaning and purpose to life, while the world needs design solutions.

March 30, 20h00–21h30

· design · Stone Carved Lettering and the Digital Age
The Letterform Lecture series complements the Type West curriculum with presentations from luminaries in type, design, and research.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

KENT C. DODDS
TypeScript Function Syntaxes · dev
The syntax for various functions and function types in TypeScript with simple examples.

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
How to Greatly Enhance fetch() with the Decorator Pattern · dev
fetch() is good, but you want better.

MATT OWENS
Design is everything but everything isn’t design · design
Why brands put aesthetics ahead of everything else but need everything else for design to truly succeed.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

BOTTLE ROCKET
Liftoff by Bottle Rocke‪t‬
Talk about business transformation, product growth, leadership and everything in between.

NEVER NOT CREATIVE
Never Not Creative Podcast
A community for creatives to come together and tackle the challenges we face in the creative industry.

DONALD MILLER
Business Made Simple
They teach you everything you need to know to grow a business.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 2 of 12.

No matter what, we’re going to make a special, exciting, and engaging journey for all of us.
We want to keep our community strong and unified.

There are still not many events planned for February, but we will, as usual, update our monthly calendar throughout the month.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

February 2, 17h00–18h00

· design · Innovate: Tackling problems with creativity with Rodrigo García González
In this talk, Rodrigo will share his design methods, creative approaches to problem solving, and an insight into the design of Notpla.

February 10, 17h00–18h00

· dev · Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps Study Hall
For this session, they will be covering Managed Connectors with Confluent Cloud & DevOps, guided by Rick Spurgeon of Confluent.

February 11, 18h00–19h00

· design · Onlive Talk — Where to Start, with Peter Marigold and Sarah van Gameren
A behind the scenes talk with designer-makers Sarah van Gameren from Glithero and Peter Marigold about the reality of the commercial creative process from project initiation to development and realisation.

February 12-13, 14h00–19h00

· dev · Talk A Bit
Talk A Bit is a technology conference hosted by engineering students.
The two previous editions received more than 500 participants, providing an exciting atmosphere where some of the most exciting technical developments are presented and discussed.

February 23, 18h00–19h30

· dev · [0x4842443231] — The Virtual Meet
Automated standard based security assessment for IoT by André Cirne and
Edge Side Includes Injections by Rui Godinho.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

MICHAL MALEWICZ
Perfect practice makes perfect · design
How the need for instant gratification is impairing the education of junior designers.

JON YABLONSKI
Laws of UX V2.0 · design
This post takes a closer look at Jon’s goals, challenges faced along the way, and how success was measured.

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
array.sort() Does Not Simply Sort Numbers in JavaScript · dev
Why does array.sort() method, when invoked without arguments, doesn’t sort the numbers as expected?

KENT C. DODDS
Using fetch with TypeScript · dev
How to make HTTP requests with fetch and TypeScript.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

JOHN PAPA, WARD BELL and DAN WAHLIN
Web Rush
Dive into JavaScript and Web development stories.

PATRICIA REINERS
Future of UX
In every episode hints and tips to leading UX/ UI Designers and digital pioners about the future and their way to benefit from new technologies.

TODD HENRY
The Accidental Creative
A podcast that shares how to build practical, everyday practices that help you stay prolific, brilliant and healthy in life and work.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in February!

Enjoy!

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2021, bring it on!

We hope that everyone has started the new year on the right foot.
Taking advantage of the cliche, new year, new challenges, new beginnings.
A good approach for big opportunities, and a lot of success!

The list of events scheduled by our communities is still short, but you will be able to access all the updates on the monthly calendar available on our instagram.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

January 13, 19h00–21h00

· design · Rye Here Rye Now: January 2021
An online meet-up for graphic designers, illustrators, digital designers, product designers, and photographers.

January 14, 18h00–21h00

· design · Workshop: How to run remote branding projects
Learn a lean and collaborative process to get the best results when running brand identity projects remotely.

January 15, 19h30–21h30

· design · INDUSTRY SESSION REMOTE: UX E A RESPONSABILIDADE
DO DESIGN
Guests will consider on the intensification of digital acceleration in the current context of the pandemic and on the role and responsibility of the designer.

January 21, 18h00–19h30

· design · #03 — DESIGN • PEOPLE • TECH
From college to the job market.

January 27, 18h00–19h00

· dev · Webforms — The Build vs. Buy Debate
Discover why the Intellectual Property Office decided to buy cloud-hosted webform software rather than build it — and find out what you should do.

January 28, 9h00–16h00

· design · Designing Beautiful Interfaces
Learn to Design Beautiful, Accessible Interfaces with Matt D. Smith.

January 20, 18h00–19h30

· dev · [0x0F] — The Virtual Meet
Get privileged access to all the background knowledge you need to understand some of the concepts used behind the scenes, and all you need for a successful journey tackling the different challenges.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

JAY FREESTONE
Front-end predictions for 2021· dev
His predictions for where front-end development is heading over the next 12 months.

JOVAN ROCANOV
5 designer personas every design team has to have · design
How Jason recruited his team — The Argonauts.

PAGE LAUBHEIMER
UX Animations · design
Animations can make user interfaces both easier and nicer to use. Details also contribute to the quality of animation in the user experience.

TANNER CHRISTENSEN
Design requires a product narrative · design
To effectively navigate product complexity as a designer, think of the narrative around the product.

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
What’s the Difference between DOM Node and Element? · dev
DOM also uses the term element: which is quite similar to a node. So, what’s the difference between a DOM node and an element? Let’s find out!

DMITRI PAVLUTIN
Why Promises Are Faster Than setTimeout()? · dev
What does execute faster: an immediately resolved promise or an immediate timeout (aka a timeout of 0 milliseconds)?

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

ADAM WATHAN
Full Stack Radio
A podcast for developers interested in building great software products.

DESIGN OBSERVER
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
One of the world’s very first podcasts. The show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives.

THE ENJOY THE VUE TEAM
Enjoy the Vue
Panel discussions, guest interviews, and much more to keep you up to date on what’s happening in the Vue and tech communities.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in January!

Enjoy!

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Ho, ho, ho, December!

What an uncommon year!
Now we know the annoyance of our Christmas tree being kept from February to December…

This year we will have to avoid some of our routines but we believe that small efforts will bring big results. We are all in this together!
The OPO.network team wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year.

Let’s take a look at the last events of the year.

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

December 3, 17h30–18h30

· dev · Software Architecture for Growth
“Shall we discuss how to design your software architecture so it allows you smooth growth?”

December 4

· design · WHATABOUT: MOTION
Talk about the power of experiments in Motion Graphics.

December 9, 18h00–19h30

· dev · [0x0E] — The Virtual Meet
With Nicolas Grégoire presenting one of his favourite vulnerability classes in his epic talk “Server-side browsing considered harmful”.

December 10, 17h30–18h30

· dev · The (im)perfect world of a UX on Agile
João Rui Peixoto and Luís Ferreira, Scrum Master and UX designer at Critical TechWorks will share their experience.

December 14, 18h30–20h30

· dev · Jamstack OPO #13 | Building Fullstack Jamstack Applications with RedwoodJS
In this talk, Anthony Campolo will outline the origins and motivations of RedwoodJS along with the concepts that it introduces. After a good conversation, he will demonstrate how to build and deploy a fully functional blog in under 20 minutes.

December 16, 18h00–19h40

· dev · #8 Meetup Porto.Vue — 1 Year Anniversary! (REMOTE)
A special edition to celebrate Porto.Vue first anniversary.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

OMRI BRUCHIM
React Native at Wix — The Architecture · dev
Part of a series of blog posts, which aims to shed some light and share from his experience working with React Native at Wix.

CHRIS BONGERS
Why CSS :focus-within is amazing · dev
Not a :focus selector, which will highlight when you focus on an element, but a selector to fire when something within is focussed.

KATE KAPLAN
3 Steps for Getting Started with DesignOps · design
How to implement DesignOps like a design problem, collecting evidence that demonstrates where the true design-team challenges lie and align DesignOps efforts accordingly.

KENT C. DODDS
useEffect vs useLayoutEffect · dev
Simple rules for when to use each in slightly different cases.

LEONARDO MORENO
Fundamentals of layout in user interface design (UI) · design
Composition, balance, and how to manage a good structure.

MEREDITH MELLER
Designing User-Friendly Data Tables · design
Hints and tips to avoid the worst UX design nightmare.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

DESIGN CUTS
The Honest Designers Show
You’ll discover actionable tips to land more clients, find your style, successfully brand yourself, and ultimately find satisfaction in your work.

ARYEL CIANFLONE
Mixed Methods
A podcast interested in the how’s and why’s of user experience research.

USER INTERVIEWS
Awkward Silences
Listen to how they geek out on all things UX research, qualitative data, and the craft of understanding people to build better products and businesses.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in December!

Have a good time!

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Already November, “this is un-be-leaf-able”.

A true story!
Some of you still think that summer was yesterday, and others are anxious to get into the spirit of Christmas.

But, we still have fantastic opportunities and goals to accomplish this month. Take a look at all the tech and creative events happening in Porto.
November, let’s do it!

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

November 5, 13h00 — 17h00

· dev · Talend Connect ’20 World Tour
Join at Talend Connect to learn the strategies, techniques, and tools to get confidence in your data and in your decisions.

November 5—6, 15h00 — 19h10

· dev · ML conf. EU (DSPT partner)
An online event for software developers and tech leads to learn about the practical application of machine learning.

November 5—7

· dev · EUREKATHON
A data-driven competition that addresses societal issues associated with sustainable development goals.

November 12—13

· dev · DigiEduHack — Porto — Individual Skills Tracking for the 21st century
Join the challenge.

November 14, 10h00–13h00

· dev · Virtual Salesforce Saturday Portugal - November 2020
Share your knowledge with other Trailblazers.

November 15, 18h30–20h00

· dev · #15 Dataviz — Silvia Fierăscu
In this talk, Silvia gives an overview of data visualization projects that aid and empower decision making in government, business, academia, and civil society.

November 19, 18h30–20h30

· misc· Product Management Night Porto-Virtual Event
Two different thematics to discuss: Build for Augmentation and Accelerating Data Science Impact on your Product Subtitle: minimizing friction and time for producing outcomes.

November 20, 20h00–22h00

· dev · ZIO Hackathon 2020
Share and learn about ZIO and related projects; chat about functional programming, functional Scala, and much more.

November 23, 18h30–20h30

· dev · Jamstack OPO #12 | Jamstack — The State of Commerce Today
Learn how Jamstack developers can create highly performant, highly scalable, & low-cost commerce application with Jamstack.

November 24, 15:30–16:30

· dev · How Process Workflow can extend the role of Integration
With Chris Peytier, Oracle EMEA, as speaker.

November 24—December 9

· dev · SBG Data Hackathon
This initiative aims to encourage the creation of innovative projects and solutions, with real challenges for the SBG sector, with the possibility of integrating into a project with the SBG Digital Hub team, winning certifications, scholarships and awards.

November 27–28, 14:30–18:30

· dev · Angola Data Science Summit
The Angola Data Science Summit is an international data science fair and conference from Angola, which arises in response to the need to discuss techniques, technologies and trends in data management and analysis in order to share knowledge and experiences.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

VASCO SANTOS
Kickoff your application with js-libp2p · dev
Do you want to build a dapp? Or maybe get started with @libp2p, or learn the networking building blocks for the dweb? Vasco Santos, Software Engineer at MOXY, wrote about how you can kickoff your application with js-libp2p.

EMMA BOSTIAN
5 Things You Need To Become A Senior Developer · dev
The skills it takes to level up from a junior to a senior developer.

ANASTASIYA FLYNN
Advice for Development Team Leads · dev
Lessons that Anastasiya learned during her experience as dev team lead for software agencies.

LUIS BERUMEN CASTRO
Good design feedback does not need to be cruel · design
When abuse and harassment are masked as design critique.

ERIC ELLIOTT
The Missing Introduction to React · dev
Why React is the Top UI Framework in the World.

MARC ANDREW
7 (more) tips to quickly improve your UIs · design
More small and easy to put into practice tips to improve your designs.

MICHAL MALEWICZ
This is NOT collaboration · design
Design tools are ultra powerful now, yet they seem to highlight the nightmarish features of collaboration the most.

KOOS LOOIJESTEIJN
Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases · design
Good UI design is all about guiding attention to what’s important.

ALIA FITE
Learning and failing as a team · design
If you’re not sure where to start, read on for a glimpse of the moments that really stuck.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

NEDCAST
Marco Oliveira— MOXY
For this episode of Nedcast, Marco Oliveira, CEO at MOXY, was invited to share his experience of managing a Design and Software Studio and building Design Communities to empower their expertise.

AMY PORTERFIELD
Online Marketing Made Easy Amy Porterfield
Discover why hundreds of thousands of online business owners turn to Amy Porterfield to generate more profits and to make sense of the online marketing space, implement the strategies that really get results, and turn that side hustle into a business that lasts.

VUE MASTERY
The Official Vue News
The goal is to give you the information you need to stay on top of your game as a Vue developer.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in November!

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Hey, hey!

October is here and we are going to announce the date of the first OPO.network event this month. We have fantastic news, and we worked hard to surprise you and exceed your expectations.

We are extremely excited!
Stay tuned for all of this, it’s worth it!

Upcoming Porto Events

❤ Here are the online events happening in Porto this month. Topics include JavaScript, Design, and pretty much anything creative or tech related.

October 6–7, 9h00–15h00 / 9h00–13h00

· dev · Jamstack Conf 2020
Join 15,000+ developers and web enthusiasts for a dynamic day of keynotes, interactive sessions, live Q&A and 1:1 networking.

October 6–21, 14h00–19h00

· dev · DSSG SUMMIT 2020
What can I expect from the Summit?

October 7, 18h30–20h30

· dev · 6th LS Meetup — Connect: a major factor to Serve
How often those two words connect and serve come together? And when they do, what happens?

October 10, 9h00–19h00

· dev · Agile Connect Day
An online event full of talks, workshops, sharing sessions, and other surprises Lean & Agile friends might appreciate.

October 10, 10h00–16h00

· dev · Commit Porto ‘20
An excellent opportunity for knowledge sharing and inherently promoting Porto as a vibrant and dynamic city for technology-based companies.

October 10–November 14, 9h00–18h00

· misc · Future Female Founders
A program with three main focus: inspiration, networking, and training.

October 13, 17h30–18h30

· misc· Building Great Startup Communities: A Chat with Investor & Author Brad Feld
On this live online event, Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder of the Founder Institute, will discuss with Brad the most recent best practices for building thriving startup ecosystems.

October 14, 18h00–19h00

· dev· Client Spotlight: Outside to In — a story of Transformation-Ryan Bryers, Flooid
With Ryann Bryers, Senior Vice President Of Global Engineering at Flooid.

October 16–18, 16h00–18h00

· misc· Techstars Startup Weekend Online Santa Catarina
A 54-hour virtual event held to provide first-rate experiential education to technical and non-technical entrepreneurs.

October 17, 08h30–19h00

· misc· CONF TSE
Everything about eCommerce.

October 17, 14h00–18h00

· dev· DevFest Portugal 2020 with GDG
An online DevFest that is being prepared by the GDGs, WTM and DSC from our country.

October 21, 19h00–23h00

· design· Design Colaborativo de Projetos
An exploration of social technologies that invites people to be aware of their responsibilities in society when using the design process to bring about cultural changes.

October 27, 18h00–19h00

· dev· [0x0D] — The Virtual Meet
With Pedro Umbelino, a speaker at several key security conferences handling top-notch research ranging from fancy green boards to testing daily technology limits.

October 27, 18h30–19h00

· misc· AMA — You didn’t fail, your product did
Susana Lopes, Senior Product Manager at Onfido, wil answer all your questions.

October 29, 18h30–19h30

· dev· Porto.Data #63 What has been going on with Azure SQL Managed Instance
Next Porto.Data meetup will be dedicated to Azure SQL Managed Instance. With the invited speaker, Vitor Faria Tomaz (currently working as Embedded Escalation Engineer (EEE) at Microsoft, focusing on Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

October 29, 18h30–20h30

· dev· Jamstack OPO #11 | Leveraging APIs in the Jamstack + Ecommerce in the Jamstack
Two amazing talks during this October edition:
— The importance of media;
— Leveraging APIs in the Jamstack.

October 29, 19h30–21h00

· dev· #7 Agile Beer Porto — Online
In this talk, you will understand why business agility depends fundamentally on replacing “command and control” with “autonomy and collaboration” to be real and sustainable.

October 30, 9h00–18h00

· dev · RECPAD 2020
A one-day conference with an invited keynote speaker and poster sessions along the day.

Monthly Must Read & Watch

We handpicked more articles and tools just for you!

JON YABLONSKI
Laws of UX · design
Learn more about 20 laws of UX.

CHRISTIE TANG
Responsive grids and how to actually use them: common UI layouts · design
How to use the right responsive grid and UI layout based on your design goals.

TARAS BAKUSEVYCH
Text fields & Forms design — UI components series · design
Simple rules that will help you design forms users will like to complete.

DYLAN FIELD
Embracing the tension between code and design · design
“There’s a natural tension between design and code. In the world of design, the focus is deciding what to build — in the world of code, the focus is building it.” — Dylan Field

CALEB WILLIAMS
How to Tame Line Height in CSS · dev
GraphQL backend for JavaScript apps.

PATRICK BROSSET
3 things about CSS variables you might not know · dev
What happens when a var function uses an undefined variable, how fallback values work, and how browser DevTools can help you.

BECKY KANE
What to Do When Your Brain Is Too Tired to Think Straight · misc
Why you feel mentally exhausted right now and 8 concrete ways to overcome it.

KENT C. DODDS
How to React ⚛️ · dev
See how learning React in the right order can make it less overwhelming.

ALEXA COLLINS
Storytelling is great, but is it enough? · misc
“The notion of storytelling has pervaded the marketing world as of late.” — Alexa Collins

PABLO STANLEY
Designing for accessibility is not that hard · design
Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web.

Podcasts

They tell you cool stuff!
Our selection made through great references from our community.
Contact us and share your tips/work as well.

DEMAS RUSLI and BENJAMIN LEE
529 Podcast
A podcast about creators, for creators living the 5 to 9 life.

MARK HIRONS
Creative Waffle
Design and illustration podcast for students, graduates and emerging creatives. Bringing you top tips and honest advice from industry professionals.

MARSHALL BOCK and BRIAN LOVIN
Design Details
A weekly conversation about design process and culture.

These are our suggestions for you to read and listen in October!

Enjoy!

Feel free to suggest online events for the calendar by contacting us via Facebook, and tweet us any suggestions on how to improve OPO.network.

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