June 24, 2009 Meeting

[JimCifarelli]

Hello Everyone,

A big thank you goes to Neil of Celery for hosting us in May. And a
thank you to the new members who joined us.

We are meeting this June 24 again in downtown Troy at the headquarters
of Celery:

Celery, LLC
212 River Street
Troy, NY 12180
http://www.mycelery.com

We can begin to gather at 5:30PM with presentations/lightning rounds/
discussions at 6:00PM

Please add to this thread any topics you would like to present or
discuss.

See everyone there. Please RSVP to this thread so that appropriate
food/drink orders can be made by our hosts.

Thank you,
Jim

[Mark Menard]

I plan on being there.

Mark

On Jun 12, 1:00 pm, JimCifarelli <cifare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> A big thank you goes to Neil of Celery for hosting us in May.  And a
> thank you to the new members who joined us.
>
> We are meeting this June 24 again in downtown Troy at the headquarters
> of Celery:
>
> Celery, LLC
> 212 River Street

> Troy, NY 12180http://www.mycelery.com

[Doon]

I'll be there as well..

[Dallas DeVries]

Same

--
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SportSpyder, LLC
http://sportspyder.com

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

I will probably come as well.


Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
mar...@marnen.org

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From: Dallas DeVries
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:44 -0400
To: <techva...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: June 24, 2009 Meeting

[Andrew Badera]

Count me in. Wednesday is 100% clear right now, and I think I intend to keep it that way except for TVRB ... how else will I find time to pity my turning 30 that day? ;)

[Doon]

30??

Dang youngins... get off my lawn... .

says the guy who will be turning 33 in Aug :)

-Patrick

[scott stewart]

Ah, you are all a bunch of kids! But, I'll be there anyway ;-)

[Gemma Hentsch]

Hi,

I hope to be there at least at the begining, (i unfortunatly am double
booked most of this week and at least once i'm triple booked)... but
i'll also be bringing along a fellow ruby/python hybrid coder,

From
Gemma

[Chris Holtz]

I plan to be there tonight as well.

- Chris

[John]

I will be there.

John Fitzpatrick
Vita Rara

On Jun 12, 1:00 pm, JimCifarelli <cifare...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> A big thank you goes to Neil of Celery for hosting us in May.  And a
> thank you to the new members who joined us.
>
> We are meeting this June 24 again in downtown Troy at the headquarters
> of Celery:
>
> Celery, LLC
> 212 River Street

> Troy, NY 12180http://www.mycelery.com

[scott stewart]

Crap, a problem that I need to finish at work. I hope to still make it
some, but at best I will be late.

[Doon]

Sorry I had to cut out early. My SCU (Spousal Control Unit) got
either a stomach bug or food poisoning (I am voting on the former
since my daughter ate the same food, and didn't get sick...). So I
had to run home, shed my nerdy exterior and go back into dad mode.
Since if momma isn't happy, aint nobody happy.

So now onto next month...

SCU is feeling a bit better this morning. But she got up and got a
bit dizzy so went to throw up and my 23 month old daughter looked at
her, laughed and said Mommy Throwing up Pee Pee...

-Patrick

[Andrew Badera]

Sorry I had to cut out a bit early myself, had car work that needed doing before this morning.

I'm looking at buying a Mac ... mostly for web app testing purposes, but if it happens to do a lot more for me, that's fine too.

Technically, I could get away with a Mac Mini ... but a nicely portable notebook might be worth the investment. Trying not to get lavish with spending.

The Macbook 13" is probably the most cost effective answer here ... but the Air, or an MBP 13" with SSD, are pretty sexy, if more expensive, options ...

Any input you all had to offer, I'd certainly love to hear it, thanks in advance.

--Andy Badera

[jason rabolli]

I did the same recently, few months ago I broke down and made the switch (mostly driven by Rails interest).  I went with the 13' macbook for the same reasons and have never looked back.  It is truly a superior machine to anything i have used before.  There is a 'refurb' section somewhere on apples site where u can find factory rebuilt machines of all types fully backed by the same apple care as new for about 30 percent savings.  Thats what I did and couldn't be happier, I think i spent about 1300?  Figured i would spend 1100 on a nice new PC, why not spend an extra 200 for the real thing?

just my 2 cents

JR

[Gemma Hentsch]

Sorry i had to pull a disappearing act, my plans were sane but they
suddenly decided to change on me (hence my kidnapping)

But i'll be back next month,

The white macbook is still pretty powerful... but might still be
better to go for the 13" Macbook pro, its just more powerful. Right
now i'd trade space for flash drive any day particularly on a machine
i wanted as my main computer...

Also if you are doing development the ability to have VMs on hand
makes life so useful, my main criticism of OS X is a primitive package
management system, so for my web development i usually use a LAMP
style server (although technically my "LAMP" server is currently an
LAMPgPPyR :) )

-- Gemma

[Doon]

On Jun 25, 10:39 am, Gemma Hentsch <rassilon2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also if you are doing development the ability to have VMs on hand  
> makes life so useful,

I have vmware fusion on my MBP, and it is indeed handy. Suns Virtual
Box (based on Xen) is available for OSX and is free. So no excuse not
to have it :)

> my main criticism of OS X is a primitive package  
> management system,

mac ports really isn't that primitive/horrible, at least to me...

> so for my web development i usually use a LAMP  
> style server (although technically my "LAMP" server is currently an  
> LAMPgPPyR :) )

My server would be FARPs then.. (FreeBSD, Apache, Ruby,
Postgres..) :)

-Patrick

[Dallas DeVries]

When I bought my macbook pro i got it $200+ cheaper via Amazon.  Check it out, they often have the previous version there at even better prices.

[Gemma Hentsch]

On Jun 25, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Doon wrote:

>
> On Jun 25, 10:39 am, Gemma Hentsch <rassilon2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also if you are doing development the ability to have VMs on hand
>> makes life so useful,


> I have vmware fusion on my MBP, and it is indeed handy. Suns Virtual
> Box (based on Xen) is available for OSX and is free. So no excuse not
> to have it :)
>

Even means i can use windows on occasion without having it as my main
os :P

>> my main criticism of OS X is a primitive package
>> management system,
>
> mac ports really isn't that primitive/horrible, at least to me...
>

Its functional, but the updated nature on Ubuntu/Debian trees (and the
lack of need to compile) makes my life a lot easier when i want to
configure something...

I use mac ports (used to use fink) but it still can be a pain compared
to apt...

>> so for my web development i usually use a LAMP
>> style server (although technically my "LAMP" server is currently an
>> LAMPgPPyR :) )
>
> My server would be FARPs then.. (FreeBSD, Apache, Ruby,
> Postgres..) :)
>

Actually i forgot my django media is actually proxied off of a
lighttpd server so i think that would be a LALhPgPPyR ...

- Gemma

> -Patrick
>
> >

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

Then why not use Fink?

[Sorry about the top-posting...the BlackBerry has its problems.]

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--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
mar...@marnen.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gemma Hentsch <rassil...@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:04:21

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Subject: Re: June 24, 2009 Meeting