Archive → March, 2010
Next Hacknight Event: April 6th, 2010
Our last hacknight occured nearly a month ago. We were 6 and we hacked on Holygrail. Lots of coding and workarounds later, we managed to make Holygrail call into Rails integration tests for Ajax requests. Martin still hasn’t announced a new release, but he told me it was forthcoming.
Anyway, our next event will be on April 6th, 2010, 6:30 PM as usual. Please bring your laptop and mind. We can go out or call for food as appropriate. I don’t have any gems yet, but we still have 2 contenders from last time around:
- Package @chebuctonian‘s semantic_menu as a gem
- Make @aan4nd‘s Deadweight reuse credentials across requests
I’m open for suggestions as well. Leave your suggestions below. I’ll create and put up a survey shortly.
Recap: Montreal.rb meetup from March 16th
Very good crowd yesterday at Montreal.rb! We were 30, all turning out to listen to Ben and Carl. Again, a big thanks to our speakers for teaching us about starting your startup.
Ben posted his presentation on his blog: 10 Startup To-Dos: Things You Should Really Think About When Starting a Company.
Marc-André asked Ben about doing your homework, and Ben mentioned:
Martin Aumont discussed the montrealrb.org site, as well as the GitHub repository for it: http://github.com/mynyml/montrealrb.
Great meetup, as usual!
Montreal.rb Business Edition: March 16th, 6:30 PM
Programming the next generation web application isn’t all about the code. It’s also about the business: building a clientele, a revenue model, an exit strategy. Luckily, we have two excellent people right here in Montreal to show us the ropes: Benjamin Yoskovitz of StandoutJobs and Carl Mercier of Defensio will be in to tell us more about all those things, and you will have your chance too: we have time set aside to do a Q&A after the two presenters.
The meeting place is as usual, at Bloom Digital Headquarters: 481 Viger W. Be there to learn much more on the business-side of things.