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Montreal.rb June 15th recap

François Beausoleil — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:19:43 +0000

Great crowd yesterday at Montreal.rb. I’d like to thank all speakers for the 2009-2010 season:

On a related note, Drew Sechrist mentioned he was looking to build a team of engineers for his new startup, kuuzuu. Drew said he might be interested in building and hosting his team in Montreal. Show him all the talent we’ve got!

Montreal.rb Branding: New Logo, New Direction

François Beausoleil — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:01:51 +0000

Before Gary’s talk yesterday, Sean Braithwaite showed us a great new logo:

With this logo, and Gary’s talk, we suddenly find ourselves ready to generate lots of new content. To this end, I propose we have a Hacknight on March 4th, at 6:30 PM where we will dissect and extend one gem we, as a group, will choose. We have lots of great candidates.

The format I want to explore is as a group we concentrate on a single project. We have received permission to use Bloom’s offices again, so we have access to the big screen for coding. Essentially, I’m proposing a big pairing session, with 10-12 heads instead of 2. If you’re interested, please RSVP.

PS: If you want the logo, download it from http://teksol.s3.amazonaws.com/montreal-rb.png.

Jonathan's Dotfiles (.vimrc, etc) & Mina's Slides

James Golick — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:18:18 +0000

Jonathan Palardy asked me to post his dotfiles here, so that people could find them easily.

So, here they are: http://github.com/jpalardy/etc_config/tree/master

Update: Also, mina’s talk slides are here.

Changes at MoR

Carl Mercier — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:17 +0000

Hello! Yesterday sure was PACKED at MoR 13! Thanks to everybody for showing up, and most importantly to Jennifer and Rob for presenting. The presentations were very insightful.

As I mentioned last night, I decided to step down from my role at MoR and I will no longer be organizing the monthly events. It’s been a lot of fun but I felt the time had come for someone else to take over. Some new blood can’t hurt after roughly 1.5 year.

From now on, James Golick, a very experienced Ruby hacker will take the lead. James has great ideas for the group which he’ll announce shortly. It was important for me to pick someone who will take the group to new heights, and I truly believe James to be that guy.

As for myself, I’ll definitely make sure to participate in the upcoming meetings and I’ll be glad to assist James as much as he wants me to. It’s been fun meeting you all and I look forward to next meeting!

Carl

10 was a success!

Carl Mercier — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:40:07 +0000

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!

Refactoring to Patterns: post-mortem

Carl Mercier — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:10:39 +0000

Thanks to Francois for presenting last night! It was awesome, especially the part about Defensio ! (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!)…

What did you think of the new format? Should we scrap it, improve it?
Should we take a break for the summer?
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!

Followup on tonight's event

Carl Mercier — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:45:37 +0000

(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.

Thank you!

Carl Mercier — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:57:41 +0000

Just a quick thank you to everybody who braved the weather and showed up last night. I had a lot of fun presenting and I sure hope you found my talk insightful. And congrats to Mehdi who did an awesome job at explaining how to setup a great Rails box. The slides can be found on the “Past Presentations” page.

Our next event will be held on January 15, 2008 and WE NEED 2 PRESENTERS! So please get in touch if you’re interested.

Until then, have a great Holiday and take some time to relax.

Cheers!

MoR4: Event Roundup

Mathieu Balez — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:02:21 +0000

It was great to see familiar faces on Tuesday night — it’s starting to feel like there really is a tight RoR community here in town, and that’s exactly the point of these events.

Many thanks to the evening’s speakers!

Mathieu Martin, an up-and-coming RoR star, provided an in depth look into JRuby, something a lot of devs were clearly interested in, but few had played around with.
Alain Pilon, who is a business analyst by day and coder by night, talked about acts_as_state_machine, a plug-in that appears very useful for a wide range of applications.
Sylvain Carle, local tech legend, provided an overview of how his new company Praized used Comatose in a multi-lingual setting.

So, all in all, another really great evening of information, pizza and fun!

Now a couple of administrative notes:

- If you RSVP on the Upcoming.org page, please either: COME or take your name OFF the list. This month, we were at capacity on the Upcoming page, but only had about an 80% attendance rate… that’s not great. So please be better about that.

- Our goal is to have two 30-45 minute presentations and one 10-15 minute presentation, per event. We’re going to try to police the time constraints a little bit more ~~militantly~~ tightly (by calling out a 5 minute warning?) so that the evening wraps up in a reasonable amount of time.

- We’re looking for two speakers for next month’s (Dec 4th) meeting – one short, one long talk. Shoot us an email if you’re interested.

See ya next month!

MoR 3: another smashing success!

Carl Mercier — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:02:36 +0000

Yesterday was Montreal on Rails #3 and god, it was good!

Our presenters, Gary Haran, François Beausoleil and James Golick all gave very insightful and interesting presentations. If you want more information about these, I have posted more information on the past presentations page.

Alain Pilon took great pictures of the event has already posted them on Flickr. James Golick and François Beausoleil both videotaped the presentations so we can (hopefully) expect multi-angle videos shortly. See the Pics & Vids page.

Many people went out for a beer(s) afterward (to wash down that Domino’s Pizza!) and, as always, I had interesting conversations with Mathieu Martin and Marc-André Cournoyer.

Apparently, a few of you don’t know we have a Google Group. Well, we do! Feel free to subscribe to it and post your burning questions.

Special thanks to Standout Jobs for hosting the event. The new venue is fantastic! A big thank you to O’Reilly for sponsoring the event with free books!

We at Karabunga never thought MoR would be such a success, so most and foremost, thanks to YOU!