Category → Meetings
Montreal.rb January 19th: Hash and Resque
Start 2010 with a Ruby refresher: Marc-André Lafortune will give us a talk on Hash. Like his last presentation on super, I expect this will be ideal for beginners while surprising experts with some edge cases.
Jonathan Palardy will present Resque, Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.
As always, the meetings start around 6:30pm at Bloom Digital’s offices:
481 Avenue Viger West, Suite 202
Montréal, Québec H2Z 1G6
Montreal.rb: the testing edition
Mark your calendars: Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30PM, at Bloom Digital’s office – rsvp here.
Paul Mylchreest will give us an overview of pluginaweek’s state_machine.
Martin Aumont is presenting watchr, a modern continuous testing tool that’s more flexible than autotest.
The last presentation has François Beausoleil explaining how he used state_machine and watchr to build Nestor, which makes your tests run much, much faster.
September Montreal.rb with Blake Mizerany
We’re back from our summer break! The next meeting on Montreal.rb will be September 15th. Please RSVP to ensure we have enough space.
Blake Mizerany will give us an insider’s view on Heroku.
Sylvain Carle will present a logo for the Montreal Ruby community.
Finally, I’d like to have a panel discussion on nosql alternatives. A few members are scaling past what MySQL and other databases can handle for storage and analysis. Are you experimenting with MongoDB or CouchDB? Running Hadoop or Map/Reduce jobs? Let’s share war stories.
If you would like to give a short talk – between 5-10 minutes – please get in touch with me (chebuctonian AT gmail).
July: summer's last Montreal.rb
First, a note of thanks to James for his tenure as Montreal.rb organizer. We owe a lot to him trying new formats, as well as finding great speakers!
Mark your calendars: the next Montreal.rb is Tuesday, July 21st. Please RSVP.
Alexis Sellier will discuss less, his framework for creating leaner CSS.
Loren Segal will discuss installing ruby 1.9.
More short talks are welcome. That’s as short as 1 minute, so if you’ve released or learned of a new project, you have no excuse for not presenting. Contact me at chebuctonian at gmail.
For those who like to plan in advance, September’s Montreal.rb will be on the 15th.
This Month's Montreal.rb is Sure to Kick Ass!
Sadly, this is going to be my last Montreal.rb. I’m leaving Montreal at the end of June to eventually end up in Vancouver. My good friend and colleague Daniel Haran is going to be taking over Montreal.rb.
I’m really excited about this month’s meeting, though. We’ve got 3 amazing speakers lined up.
Loren Segal is going to be talking about the work he’s been doing with yard, an (awesome) RDoc competitor he wrote.
Brian Cardarella is coming up from Boston to give a talk called “Debugging Out”. In it, Brian will talk about speeding up your debugging time with ruby-debug.
Finally, we’ll have Pat Allan, author of thinking-sphinx and ruby hero, all the way from Melbourne, Australia. He hasn’t decided what he’s going to talk about yet. But, you can be sure it’ll be aewsome.
Please RSVP if you’re coming.
Montreal.rb – Now with beer.
Earlier today, I received an email from Bosko of Bloom, Montreal.rb’s new host. I’ll let his words speak for themselves.
They just brought in 8 two-fours and something like 12 bags of chips.
Still on the fence about coming? RSVP here.
Also, don’t forget that the location has changed to 481 Avenue Viger West, Suite 202
This Month's Meeting – Back to Presentations
Last month’s hack fest was a lot of fun, but somewhat sparsely attended. It has come to my attention, too, that some people were put off by the new format. So, let’s try something different this month.
We’re going to have one event this month with a similar format to the one we’ve been used to for the last year or so. We’ll have a couple of presentations, and then go for drinks. Hopefully, this will give people the opportunity to come out, and hang out with local rubyists, without the added pressure of needing an open source project to hack on.
So, we need speakers for this month. Even if you’re only interested in giving a short talk, we’d love to have you come out and speak at this event. Please send me an email at my first name at giraffesoft dot ca if you’re interested in speaking.
Today’s second announcement is that we have a new home for Montreal.rb! The awesome guys at Bloom have been nice enough to offer up their offices as a new space for the group to meet. See the upcoming event for details.
Oh, and don’t forget to RSVP, please.
Meeting #13 coming up
Our 13th meetup will be held on November 18 at Standout Jobs, 6:30pm as usual.
The lineup is:
- Rob Britton: An introduction to jQuery
- Jennifer Bell: Citizen Activism for Government Transparency: Scraping Government Data Using Scrubyt and Rails
MoR 12 => Oct 21
Apparently some people think MoR 12 is tonight. It’s not! Our meetups are held every 3rd Tuesdays of the month. The next one is on October 21.
Hope I didn’t disrupt your plans 
MoR 12
It’s time for another Montreal on Rails event! Our 12th.
This months line-up is quite interesting:
- James Golick (Rails guru): RESTful Possibilities – REST in Rails and Beyond
- Morgan Tocker (MySQL guru): Let me show you three ways to optimize a query
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to be there since I’ll be on a business trip. Gary Haran will be at the helm and will maintain law and order at the event. You’ll be in good hands!
See you soon!