Get ready to dive into the most electrifying event of the fall! The DevFest GemJam Hackathon is kicking off in just 12 days on October 25th, and tickets are going fast. This is your last chance to grab a spot for a week-long creative sprint focused on collaboration, ethical innovation, Read more…
On behalf of GDG Central Florida, GDG Spacecoast and our fellow Florida chapters, we have the joy of announcing our winners for the Google Build with AI Hackathon 2025. We enjoyed seeing our diverse community of developers connect with each other, brainstorm ideas, and roll up their sleeves to build Read more…
Here’s a curated set of 7 video tutorials and 3 blog posts that dive into building a 2D platformer in Unity3D inspired by Super Mario Bros. These resources cover everything from level design and movement mechanics to enemy behavior and polish. ? Video Tutorials for Building a Mario-Style Platformer in Read more…
In the human experience, learning has a central place for growth in our life. As parents, we want to encourage good learning patterns for our kids to help them succeed. As professionals, we want to explore ways to enhance our skill set and competencies to grow our career. In this Read more…
In this post, I wanted to give a shout out to one of my favorite tools for leveling up with code: FreeCodeCamp. This non-profit organization has the mission to create high value code training for the world. I have a few friends who have engaged in their content for starting Read more…
One of my friends reached out to me curious about trying to build a simple AI bot. In my social circles, I have observed many friends and family showing curiosity in learning to code. Many of these friends do not come from a formal programming background but want a way Read more…
Hi, friends. While looking through old blog post I have written, I discovered that I wrote my first blog post about Google developer group ten years ago. I have enjoyed the journey. In this blog post, I wanted to explore some of my personal motivations, stories and feelings toward supporting Read more…
In this series, we will continue building a small system to capture pictures of my back yard and detect if we see anything. In the future, we want to search the database for birds. This post will focus on the problem of detecting objects in the image and storing them Read more…
In this series, we will continue building a small system to capture pictures of my back yard and detect if we see birds. Check out the first post here. In this post, we will focus on the problem of taking pictures every minute or so. For fun, I decided to Read more…
In the Rosario tradition of boldly exploring nature, Sarah and my eldest have gotten into bird watching. It’s been cool to see my son and my wife going on hikes and finding cool birds with a local meetup. My wife gave me a challenge to make a bird watcher device Read more…