Montreal.rb

Followup on tonight's event

(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!

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

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!

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!