Hey Boulder Startup Week attendees, are you ready for [Geek Field Day]?(http://quickleft.com/events/geek_field_day)! Ef was kind enough to let us throw the closing party, so we decided to use this chance to celebrate our geekiness in full force.

With the help of Silicon Valley Bank, we’ve got an incredible night planned complete with challenges, prizes, commemorative t-shirts, hot dogs, chaco tacos, and booze. The party starts at 6 and runs till 10, be sure to register here to join in on the fun.

Wednesday marked the momentous Quick Left + Orbotix Hackfest. With the help of Quick Left, Orbotix released their web SDK the night of the event, which opened up the mobile playing field to web developers.

This Wednesday from 6 - 10 pm, we’ll be throwing a Sphero-themed Hackfest with Orbotix. Developers will compete against one another for a chance to win a free Sphero (5 chances, in fact).

Last week our developers teamed up with Orbotix to work on a version of their SDK that is compatible with PhoneGap, which means that now even web developers can get in on the action!

In addition to Raise Your Voice, we’re excited to announce that another awesome client of ours, OpDemand, just came out of Beta. You can read the full press release here.

Quick Left and Sphero are teaming up to bring you one of the best Hackfests EVAR. Local start up Orbotix will be sharing their Sphero SDK with the opportunity for 5 crafty individuals to win their own Sphero.

This Tuesday (3/20) we’ll be hosting the Boulder JS meetup from 7 - 9 pm. Sam is giving a talk on organizing your code with CommonJS and AMD. You can register for the event here.

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Hackfest on Wednesday! In case you missed it, Collin gave a talk on applying software design patterns to Rails apps. His slides are up on slideshare, but you can also take a look at his example app on github. He’s got some great resources posted, complete with awesome talks by Uncle Bob and Corey Haines, an example of a Sinatra app, etc., so it’s worth taking a peek at.

The highlight of the evening came 10 minutes into the presentation when Bing’s daughter not-so-discreetly asked just how long Collin would be talking. New rule for presentations on web development: if a 3 year-old isn’t entertained by a talk on Ruby on Rails, you’re probably doing it wrong. Maybe next time...

On that note, this month we’ll be putting the “Hack” back into Hackfest so keep those fingers limber and stay tuned for more updates. We have some ideas for what we'd like to do, but we'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions, so get at us.
We’ll see you on the 28th!

Quick Left is teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to provide a new lunch ‘n learn series for startups. We’re thinking 8 - 10 people in a room, catered lunch, a 45 minute teaching session and a half hour left for discussion.

Where YOU come in:
* As an early stage startup, what would you like to learn about?
* Or, if you’ve been around the block, what do you wish someone had told you about early on?

Current topics we’re kicking around:
* Product evolution
* Design
* Growing a team
* Creating a healthy work environment
* Fundraising and investors
* How to be scrappy

Leave a comment, tweet us, or drop us a line with your suggestions.

Our CEO, Ingrid Alongi, recently sat down with the Daily Camera to talk shop about Quick Left’s greatest customer value, the rationale behind buying our new space, opportunities and challenges for businesses located here in Boulder, our company culture, and much more. You can check out the full article here.

After taking a short break from our Hackfests we’re back at it again. Mark your calendars for next Wednesday night, the 25th, and plan on hanging out with us at our new office. We’ll give people time to arrive from 6 - 6:30 (our front door is locked until 6, so please don’t come early) and then start the break out sessions.

Sam will be leading one session with a discussion on the state of Common.js and AMD modules in the browser.

David will take the beginner/intermediate crew and will be covering the basics of database design. He'll explain what a database is from the ground up, and how Rails represents these concepts in code. By the end of this session we’ll have set up several database tables and have them hooked up with Rails associations.

If neither of these sessions sounds appealing, you can, of course, also just come to hang out, drink our beer, and eat our pizza.

We'll see you there!