Montreal on Rails

(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.

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!

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!