Welcome to Orlando Devs

Orlando Devs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit creating education and networking opportunities for software developers in Orlando, FL.

Orlando Devs is undergoing some big changes and we wanted to take some time to go through them and explain what they mean for our group and what you can expect as we move into 2018 and look further into the future.

Hundreds of Orlando computer programmers filled out this anonymous survey in 2017. Find out the going average salary for developers in Central Florida. Also learn about their healthcare coverage, PTO and even job satisfaction.

As developers we often are drawn into debates of which is more important, code quality or iteration speed. Here I aim to provide some advice of how to account for both.

How to decouple application logic from your framework to make your angular apps more modular and testable.

An anonymous survey was sent out to around 200 software developers in Orlando. Find out the going average salary for developers in Central Florida. Also learn about their healthcare coverage, PTO and even job satisfaction.

Learn how to unit test your Android code with JUnit4 and Mockito

Since its release into the web development world several years ago, the traditional 12 column grid has become the developer's defacto solution to a base UI. But is it the right choice for everything?

Though having a full understanding and plan for a software project can be very efficient in theory, sometimes you just have to tear into the code and figure it out as you go. You can read about some of the benefits of a "Grip It and Rip It" mentality and situations that warrant that methodology.

Doing these kinds of talks, and doing them well, is a fantastic way to catapult yourself into a position of authority on a subject because you're demonstrating your knowledge and ability to communicate that knowledge to your peers. I wanted to take some time to talk about my experience. If you're interested or on the fence about speaking, I hope this insight will guide you.

The official Orlando Devs blog is live and open sourced! It uses Jekyll, GitHub Pages, CloudFlare and AWS Lambda. Anyone can open pull requests to add new articles.