Montreal on Rails

Hugo Frappier

Hugo Frappier gave an awesome presentation about Solr last night.  Everybody I talked to afterwards seemed to have enjoyed his talk very much.  Thanks Hugo!  You’re welcome to present again anytime you want.

Hugo also suggested I create a UserVoice account for MoR, which I did.  You can see suggestions on the sidebar.  Vote on them or add your own.  If you have topics you’d like to see a presentation on, it’s also a great place to post it.

See you next month for our special edition of MoR: Montreal AGAINST Rails!

EDIT: Here are the slides and more info!

Thanks to Francois for presenting last night!  It was awesome, especially the part about Defensio <g>! (hey! gotta crank up my Google juice one way or another!)  I decided to NOT pursue a career in Hollywood.  My acting performance was rather poor, so I won’t try to go after Brad Pitt’s lunch.

You can find his slides and more info about his talk right here.

I  need your help (yes, you!)…

1. What did you think of the new format? Should we scrap it, improve it?
2. Should we take a break for the summer?
3. We need presenters. You don’t need to be an expert to present, and it’s a lot of fun!

Thanks for everyone for coming, hope to see you soon!

(I’ll be brief, my bed is waiting)

Thanks to everybody for coming out tonight! Special thanks to our presenters, Luc and Jean-François.

If you’re interested in GIT, you definitely need to watch the Peepcode video. They gave us a lot of freebies, so please encourage them; they make awesome videos. (really!) You also want to read this article on J-F’s blog. It’ll show you how to put the branch name in your shell prompt. (that alone was worth coming to MoR tonight in my opinion)

As I mentioned tonight, I want to hear your comments on how to make MoR better, so I started this thread on the Google Group. Please send your ideas. I care, really.

I figure we were a bit short on pizza tonight. I’m sorry about that, I’ll try to do better next time. It’s hard to gauge how hungry you are!

I also noticed that a lot of people didn’t RSVP. PLEASE do in the future.

Finally, we need 2 presenters for next month. Please send me your topic at carl at karabunga dot com.

Oh… and here’s what beer does to your brain :

See you next time: February the 19.