Meeting Next Week

[Gregg Pollack]

Hey Orugians,

    It's been a while and I apologize for not staying on top of it (business has been good at Envy Labs), but our next meeting is going to be next Thursday, August 12th, at CoLab Orlando at 7 PM.  We have one talk and two discussions lined up:

    First up Jacob Swanner will be doing a talk titled "Webmachine - the web framework you didn't know existed".   Webmachine is written in Erlang, but that doesn't mean you can't use it to speed up your Ruby apps.  It has some really cool features, it's easy to understand, and Erlang can be a lot of fun.  We'll go over how to get started with Webmachine, helpful resources and debugging tools, as well as how it can play well with Ruby/Rails apps.

    Next up Caike Souza will talk about his experience at "Oxente Rails 2010", Brazil's largest Rails conference where he was doing his Refactoring talk.  I'm hoping he'll share with us what the Rails community looks like in Brazil, and maybe teach us about what he learned.  At the moment I'm up near Jacksonville for Bizconf, and at our meeting I'll give a summary of the conference.  I'll share some of the most interesting tech biz topics from the top Ruby/Agile tech shops.

    Also I want to make sure you know about Robert Dempsey's Rails / Software Craftsmanship conference, Acts As Conference (http://www.actsasconference.com) taking place October 28-30.  Tickets are on sale for $395, though you can get $100 off by using the discount code "qrcodesarethecoolestthingever". 

   Hopefully see you next Thursday!   

Gregg Pollack

Envy Labs

http://envylabs.com

407-754-5517

[Gregg Pollack]

Hey guys,

   Just a reminder that ORUG is tomorrow (see below for details).  At 6:15 PM Envy Labs will be sponsoring a free dinner.  We'll be bringing free Greek Food from Cafe Annie's, so please stop by early for a bite to eat.

   Regarding directions and parking see this link (http://bit.ly/3fpMmZ).  Street parking is free after 6 PM, but you can also park in the CoLab lot by using the flyer here:  http://orug-announce.googlegroups.com/web/Parking-August-12.pdf

   See you tomorrow.. And if the door is locked when you show up, please call me at 407-754-5517.

 

Gregg Pollack

Envy Labs

http://envylabs.com

407-754-5517