I have two awesome meetings to tell you about.

Next Wednesday, June 3rd at 7 PM at CoLab Orlando
(http://www.CoLabOrlando.com), we’re going to have a small TDD Dojo
with Corey Haines (http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/) who will be
in town for Day of Ruby. In case you’re not familiar, Corey is the
Journeyman Programmer who travels around the country pairing with
people. Since he’s quite fluent with TDD, he offered to help us put
together an impromptu TDD Dojo (10 minute round-robin ping-pong
programming), plus some discussion on good programming practices, and
doing BDD in Ruby.  If you're looking to improve your testing skills,
then you don't want to miss this.

A few of us Rubyists recently rented an office space at CoLab, #604 on
the 6th floor. Feel free to come by and see our digs before 5:30 PM
Wednesday, and you can join us for dinner before the meeting. If you
get to the meeting late, you may need to call me at 407-754-5517 so I
can let you in.

Secondly, our normal meeting will be Thursday, June 11th at Devry
(Room 114) starting at 7 PM (6 PM for food and networking). Ed Burns
will be discussing highlights of his recently published his book
entitled Secrets of the Rock Star
Programmers(http://ridingthecrest.com/), which is a collection of
interviews with some of today’s top programmers. Two programmers in
the book you may be familiar with are Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas.

We’ll run through the book by looking at a cross section of secrets
(aka character attributes) exhibited by the rockstars, listening to
audio clips from the actual interviews along the way.

We’re still looking for a sponsor for this meeting, so let me know if
you or your company might be interested.

-Gregg