Stackoverflow Hong Kong Meetup April 2011

It was great fun last night ~ each of us talked about what we were up to. Beers and pizza@pizzabox

(it is really difficult to find their menu, we have hacked up a simple app to solve this problem: Menu Web Hong Kong )

Btw, I was the only local Hong Kong coder attending. Where are the other hackers ?!

here is a quick meetup summary:

Individuals

Jonathan

He talked about his Makible and shared some concepts in encouraging global manufacturing.

General Sensing

They were doing pet products in Boston. Now they are in Hong Kong working on health care products in hospital.

Jeffery

HTML, CSS and Javascript coder. welcome for projects

Daniel

He restarted coding recently. Playing with rails.

Thought Sauce: Steve Holmes and me

We are delivering an internal financial product (written in Ruby On Rails) for a client. At the same time, we are doing side projects and developing their own web / mobile products.

William Taysom

As usual, William is solving some technically and algorithmic difficult problems. One of them is auction related algorithm optimization.

Other topics about Hong Kong

• Difficult to recruit the right people in Hong Kong
• Regular geeky meetup in Hong Kong
• Why Singapore hackers are doing something that we are not?
• Why Hong Kong not a good place for hackers and startups (talk about it in another post)
• Hong Kong has so good positive GDP, but not much teams benefited from it
• remote area Cyberport has cheaper parking and cinema tickets
• Why company in Hong Kong use Microsoft?
• Thoughtworks also not able to sustain their business in Hong Kong ?
• There are many MIT talents doing interesting projects here

Thanks !

Jonathan, Thank you for offering boot hk as the meetup venue.

Thanks Steve and Thought Sauce, organizing this meetup and sponsored the drinks