Meetup - MOVED! Tuesday May 22nd @ 18:30

10 May 2012

WHAT: Monthly Meetup
WHEN: 18:30 on Tuesday May 22nd, 2012
WHERE: CSC-249 Computing Science Centre, University of Alberta (map)

”NOTE”: This meetup has moved back to one week later than normal and is now happening on May 22nd.

This month we’re celebrating the launch of @exchange.js, Edmonton JavaScript developer community, with an all JavaScript meetup.

Come here talks and presentations by:

@ErikWarnke will also be demoing Backup Box, a new backup solution powered by JavaScript.

If yo’re interested in presenting, we’ve still got one or two spots left. Contact @SkepticSean to make arrangements.

As always, pizza will be provided and for the first time we’ll be streaming the event using a Google+ On-Air Hangout. You’ll be able to connect and watch via the YEGrb Google+ page on your computer, Android, or iOS device. Make sure you’re following us there for updates.

Meetup on March 20th, 2012

14 Mar 2012

WHAT: Monthly Meetup
WHEN: 18:30 on Tuesday March 20th
WHERE: CSC-249 Computing Science Centre, University of Alberta (map)

This months meetup is all about user experience.

We kick-off with a 30 minute deep dive with Christian Naths an experienced graphic designer with solid development chops in JS and Ruby. He’s currently teaching at NAIT and will be presenting a 30 minute talk humourously called, “Fundamental Design Principles – For People Who Can’t Design Good.” Here’s how he describes it,

"Non-designers (or "people who can't design good") often view design as a mystery; some right-brained out-of-body experience that they will never know. I will be discussing 4 basic principles of design that everyone, from programmer to artist, can use to help an audience understand the message being delivered. These design principles, when applied as rules, can help provide a linear pathway to good design."

Following this Ryan Jones is up to talk about developer user experience by demoing RubyMine IDE. He’s been faithfully trying out different Ruby IDE’s for a while now (and even made a stab at his own!) but he’ll be there to tell you why he thinks RubyMine is the IDE for him.

Last but not least, we’ve got our inagural Exchange.js talk. It’s going to be part of a new commitment to bring the best of JavaScript and web developerment into contact with the Ruby community via monthly JS talks, as well as other events in the future. Sean Ouimet (@skepticsean on Twitter) is the point man on this one, so if you’d like to talk or have ideas for a talk please let him know.

Meetup Notes

26 Feb 2012

This months meetup had a good turnout, and a lot of discussion about the basics of Ruby. We were also glad to see so many people out to talk about how their using Ruby in their work.

5-minute Ruby News

Upcoming events

There are so many events happening every month in Edmonton and around the world. We find the events and conferences that are most interesting to our members and share them with the group.

Startup Edmonton has also announced a new co-working space. Space is limited and they’re acception applications from local startups now.

Job announcements

There’s nothing better than landing a sweet Ruby job. Every month we share the latest Ruby and related job announcements with our members. If you’re hiring Rubyists let us know!

T-Shirt Design Contest

Thanks to everyone that completed the t-shirt survey last week. We’ve got a good idea what people are looking for now, and are excited to announce a new contest to design the shirt!

We’re looking for people to submit designs using the new logo. At next months meetup we’ll announce the designs and launch a vote to select a winning design. The designer of the winning shirt will get their own shirt paid for by the meetup.

Interested designers can download a design package which includes the official YEGrb colours, logo and style guides. Submit your designs as a PNG image to tshirts@yegrb.com, via twitter @yegrb, or via our Google+ page before our next meetup on March 20th.

Ruby Recap

This is a special 10-minute lighting talk covering a basic Ruby skill each months. Past recaps have covered topics like Rack, Bundler, and RVM. You’d be surprised at some of the tricks even expert Rubyists learn during these sessions.

Demo

Each month we challenge a local developer or company working with Ruby to demonstrate their project. The goal of this segment to to share the real applications being developed with Ruby in Edmonton. The project can be open or closed source, and companies are encouraged to demonstrate their products.

Talk ideas

  • e-commerce
  • user experience (Twitter Bootstrap, Foundation, workflow)
  • BigData (Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak)
  • scaling Ruby
  • JavaScript meetup
  • security in your Rails app
  • Padrino