Possible talk(s)

[Matt Williams]

Hey, I'd like to do a demo of a mockup tool; the company will give us a
free license to raffle off.

It's balsamiq's mockup. I like it better than any other mockup tool
I've seen thus far.

Any interest?

Also, if anyone's interested, I could talk about ucat -- a "cat on
steroids" script I wrote -- feed it a url, a file, a string, stdin,
etc....

Matt

[Adam McCrea]

Doh!  Unfortunately, I just emailed the list a week or two ago about the same thing.  I am giving my demo at next month's meeting.

- Adam

[Craig Muth]

Man, they must have quite the marketing machine going.

A lightening talk on ucat sounds quite interesting though, Matt.

--Craig

[Adam McCrea]

Yeah, what Matt and I didn't mention (but you may have surmised) is that the person doing the demo gets a free license as well.  They have other ways of getting free licenses (such as writing blog posts, etc.). http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/desktop#buy

For the record, like Matt I have used the product and I think it's awesome and very useful, so the demo isn't *just* to get a free license. ;-)

- Adam

[Matt Williams]

Whups! It's all good, unless we want to double team it & give two
licenses ;-)

[Matt Williams]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:47 -0400, Craig Muth wrote:
> Man, they must have quite the marketing machine going.
>
>

Actually, it's a way to get a license. But I'll blog on it....

I do like it a lot, though. I've tried a number of other products, and
this one is my fave (other than #2 pencil)....

> A lightening talk on ucat sounds quite interesting though, Matt.
>

Sure. I'd be happy to give it. It was kinda fun to write.

Matt

[g iams]

On 30 Oct, 2008, at 12:36 , Matt Williams wrote:

on the topic of possible talks for November's meeting, i'd be more
than happy to give a 10 minute talk on vendor management (and it'll
_actually_ be 10 minutes this time!). i think this would be
particularly beneficial to newcomers because of the (perhaps
overlooked?) number of approaches/tools for solving the problem and
the pros and cons attached associated with each.

i've already got a good idea of what i'd like to cover (assuming
there's interest), but suggestions/constructive criticism are more
than welcome.

--
-gary

[Adam McCrea]

Are you talking about tools like Piston, Braid, Git submodules, and that kind of thing?  If so, I'm very interested.  Particularly in those tools that are available to Git.

[g iams]

On 31 Oct, 2008, at 09:21 , Adam McCrea wrote:

> Are you talking about tools like Piston, Braid, Git submodules, and
> that kind of thing? If so, I'm very interested. Particularly in
> those tools that are available to Git.

you've got it. what's more--and time permitting--i'd like to discuss
the challenges of transitioning your local solution to production via
the deployment tool of choice.

--
-gary

[Josh Schairbaum]

I heard all the cool kids were deploying with Tugboat these days.

[Ken Barker]

Looks pretty lightweight.  :-)

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Ken Barker
EdgeCase
http://theEdgeCase.com

[g iams]

On 31 Oct, 2008, at 11:12 , Josh Schairbaum wrote:

> I heard all the cool kids were deploying with Tugboat these days.

Apparently you are more in the know with the cool kids than I am,
Josh. But this awesome, and something I'll look into, thanks!

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-gary

[Ryan Briones]

FYI, tugboat is a deployment solution that i hope to get a working version of this weekend. The concept is making it simple to deploy apps from within a server as opposed to being outside of the server. "Pull" not "push. You'll be able to find it at http://github.com/ryanbriones/tugboat.

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Ryan Carmelo Briones