Montreal.rb

July-August meetups

You are hard on me guys. We have an equality for July between a social meetup and a normal meetup. If I find speaker for July, we will have a normal meeting, if not, we will have a pub meetup.

Results :
July : A meetup on July 19th (3rd Tuesday of July)
August : Normal meetup on August 16th (3rd Tuesday of July)

If you want to get an incredible experience and talk at one of these meetups, send me an email.

Time to move?

When I announced the Programming 102 meeting (on April 19th), commenters asked about moving the meeting. Please help by filling out this form. I’ll post the results in a few days, or after 20 answers, whichever comes first.

Whatever the results of this survey, we’ll host the meeting at the CRIM on the 19^th.

Keoox needs Rubyists

I received an email from Alain Laberge from Keeox. They need a senior Ruby developer. Here’s what he sent me:

Keoox is looking for an experienced senior level ruby on rails engineer to join our agile application development team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining our web and various backend systems (data-driven, e-commerce, etc.). Most of the work will be at the Model and Controller levels, but if you are comfortable in front-end html/css/javascript that would be a plus. You will also be responsible for working directly with the product owners and other members of the development team to shape, design and build new features. We work in two to three week iterations and follow Scrum software development models. Our engineering team is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 5 years experience developing professional web applications using non Microsoft web technology (Java, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, etc)
• Minimum 1 year experience developing Ruby on Rails web applications
• SQL (MySQL preferred)
• Comfortable at a UNIX or Linux command line
• Familiar with how the Open Source world works
• Strong communication skills
• Basic HTML/JavaScript/CSS

Desired skills:

• Experience working in an Agile Development Team
• Experience working with complex back end processes
• Professional experience building and consuming RESTfull, SOAP or any other web services
• XML, JSON and other ways of representing data
• Git
• Bugzilla

If you’re interested, contact Alain directly.

Next Meeting: January 18th

See you at the CRIM, 405 Ogilvy St. The meeting starts at 6:45 PM, with time for some chat before:

• 6:15 PM – doors open
• 6:30 PM – Adrian Dafinei, president of AQIII – Association Québécoise des Informaticiennes et Informaticiens Indépendants
• 7:15 PM – Round table discussion for next months
• 8:00 PM – Beer and such at the Cafe Vesuvio

See you then! Make sure to RSVP.

November 16th recap

Thanks again to all for coming. I loved Jonathan’s RVM presentation. I think my presentation went well, but I believe I was a bit too fast. Please feel free to comment about the evening.

Chris Desnoyers from Synapsesix visited us and told us they were looking for Rails developers:

Looking for RoR talent in the Montreal area (but remote could work) to join our team. We specialize in Elections Management, Project/Follow-up Management and Logistics Management. We live on the cutting edge and need people who like being there as well.

You may contact Chris at chris.desnoyers@synapsesix.com.

Python Wrapup of September 21st

We were very fortunate to have Cyril Robert with us at the last Montreal.rb, and Cyril left some notes about his presentation over on his blog: Presentation at Montreal.rb, including a downloadable version of the 15-minute blog.

Again, I extend my thanks to Cyril for stepping up and wanting to talk about Python to us Rubyers. It’s always nice to talk about something we’re not used to.

September 21st Speakers

I have the pleasure to announce our two speakers for the September 21^st meeting:

• Cyril Robert, from the Python community; and
• Jeff Heon, from the Clojure community.

Cyril is a Python/Django software developer for Le Site, and co-founder of Pantherific. He is also the vice-president of the Montreal Python organizing committee, and has been the master of ceremony for a few monthly gatherings since April 2010.

Jeff is a longtime developer: he started on a Commodore 64 and never looked back since. He recently switched to using Clojure, from static OO languages. He’s also the organizer for Bonjure, the Montreal Clojure Users Group.

Let’s have a warm welcome for them. See you on the 21st, at our new venue: 405 Ogilvy St.

We’re moving!

Unfortunately, due to Bloom’s recent move, they won’t be able to host the Montreal.rb group. We’re sadly too big for the available space. But that doesn’t mean we have to stop: instead, Yvan Ross from the CRIM kindly offered to check if there were rooms available. On September 21st, we will meet at the CRIM: 405 Ogilvy St. We will be in room #4. We’ll have directions or something starting at the door on the 21st.

Make sure to change your auto-pilot. I’ll leave a note at the old location. Meeting time is unchanged though: still 6:30 PM.

Hope to see you there!

Summer Recess: See you in September!

The whole group is taking a recess. That doesn’t mean we won’t see each other informally over the summer. Just be sure to follow @montrealrb to know about gatherings.

Our next formal event will be on September 21st. Details will be coming around late August. Be sure to check back then.

Until then, have a great summer!

Recap: Montreal.rb meetup from March 16th

Very good crowd yesterday at Montreal.rb! We were 30, all turning out to listen to Ben and Carl. Again, a big thanks to our speakers for teaching us about starting your startup.

Ben posted his presentation on his blog: 10 Startup To-Dos: Things You Should Really Think About When Starting a Company.

Marc-André asked Ben about doing your homework, and Ben mentioned:

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany
• Dave McClure
• Sean Ellis

Martin Aumont discussed the montrealrb.org site, as well as the GitHub repository for it: http://github.com/mynyml/montrealrb.

Great meetup, as usual!