It’s good to understand some of the basic internals to how InnoDB
works, what goals it has, and what trade-offs you may be making when
you switch to a NoSQL database.

Paul Mylchreest  has a gem he kept under the radar: hansel. Hansel is a gem to drive httperf.

As usual, we’ll be at 481 Viger W., at 6:30 PM on June 15th, 2010. Free admission for all. Thanks to Bloom Digital Platforms for the venue.

• Interesting gems you’ve come accross: rvm, homebrew, chef, thor, trinidad, unicorn or, hydra
• Rubinius hit 1.0: talk about what changed since Mathieu Martin talked about it in March 2008
• There’s also MagLev, an alternative Ruby implementation
• NoSQL is all the rage: we have talked about Redis in the context of Resque, but Redis has a lot more to offer. Then there are also other NoSQL implementations: Cassandra, TokyoCabinet and many others

Any of those topics is a candidate for a talk. You don’t have to talk long either: 5-10 minutes to give us an overview of some technology.

If you’re interested, talk to me!

Our meetup will be on May 18th, 2010, at 6:30 PM at 481 Viger W, in Montreal’s downtown.

We’ll be talking Bundler and Rails 3. François Beausoleil (me!) will present Bundler, how to use it now, what problems it solves, and I’m still waiting for a confirmation on a Rails 3 presenter.

As usual, we’ll be at 481 Viger W., at 6:30 PM on May 18th. Free admission for all. Thanks to Bloom Digital Platforms for the venue.

First up, we’ll have a flash talk by Jean-Sébastien Cournoyer from Montreal Start Up. Jean-Sébastien will talk about FounderFuel Ventures, their new seed fund.

JS Cournoyer has been in high technology since the mid nineties both as an entrepreneur and an investor. JS is a partner with Montreal Start Up, an active angel investor and co-founder of a few startups including Maybenow and SocialBuckets. He was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Vantage Point Venture Partners (VPVP), a diversified technology venture capital fund based in San Bruno and was angel investor, CFO and VP business development with Terrascale Technologies, a storage software company sold to Rackable systems in 2006.

Next, Guillaume Bouchard from NVI will talk about doing a good search and social campaign.

Guillaume Bouchard est co-fondateur et président de NVI, une entreprise montréalaise spécialisée en stratégie interactive. Fondée en 2004, NVI est rapidement devenue la plus grande agence web spécialisée en SEO et médias sociaux au Canada, avec plus de 50 employés.

Finally, Gary Haran from Talkerapp will tell us about “4 Ways to Boot Your Startup”.

Gary Haran is an entrepreneur who co-founded talkerapp.com and now works as Chief Information Officer at SocialGrapes.com.  In this flash talk he plans to convince you that it’s time to boot your own startup. If you are ready to take the leap he’ll show you 4 good ways to do so.

As usual, we are having the event at 481 Viger St W. Thanks to Bloom Digital Platforms Inc. for allowing us the use of their premises.

Anyway, our next event will be on April 6th, 2010, 6:30 PM as usual. Please bring your laptop and mind. We can go out or call for food as appropriate. I don’t have any gems yet, but we still have 2 contenders from last time around:

1. Package @chebuctonian’s semantic_menu as a gem
2. Make @aan4nd’s Deadweight reuse credentials across requests

I’m open for suggestions as well. Leave your suggestions below. I’ll create and put up a survey shortly.

The meeting place is as usual, at Bloom Digital Headquarters: 481 Viger W. Be there to learn much more on the business-side of things.

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

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.

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).