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When: May 29th, 6 – 8 pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Connascence (noun) is defined as (1) the common birth of two or more at the same tome; production of two or more together, (2) That which is born or produced [...]

When: April 24th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. In our information architecture work at The Understanding Group we typically conclude the discovery phase of a project with an “alignment session.” The objective of this meeting is to develop understanding [...]

When: March 27th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending We received notice that unfortunately our originally scheduled speaker is out sick and will be unable to speak. Taking up the torch on very short notice (Thanks Zach!) is Grand Rapids local, [...]

When: March 27th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending If you’ve ever been on a job interview, there’s one question you knew you were going to be asked. You may have even practiced your response. Finally they asked, “Are you a [...]

When: February 28th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. When creating software, whether it be a small website or a large custom platform, you repeatedly face the build vs buy dilemma. Should you use raw sockets or a web framework that [...]

When: Tuesday, January 31st Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. “The cloud” is an area of rapid transformation – major vendors release new functionality every month … what does it all mean? How can you take advantage of it? As a developer, why would [...]

When: November 29th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St. SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending. iOS development has become increasingly popular in the past four years since the introduction of the first iPhone. That popularity has created a vibrant developer community that has introduced a number of great third-party [...]

When: October 11th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending Most non-trivial software systems suffer from severe technical and structural debt. This burden acts like an ever increasing tax on every code change or new feature to be added. The cost of change is [...]

When:Tuesday, September 13th, 6pm – 8pm Where: Atomic Object, 941 Wealthy St SE, 49506 Please RSVP if you plan on attending Lean Startup is new and, it’s sometimes easy to forget, mostly unproven. But it builds on older ideas that have more evidence going for them: Lean Thinking, Agile, user research and many others. These [...]

If you were unlucky enough to miss our closing meeting this past June, you missed a great talk! However, there is a silver lining. The talk is available online here.