From nre at foraker.com Tue Sep 6 06:55:21 2011 From: nre at foraker.com (Neal Enssle) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 04:55:21 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Foraker Labs' Ruby on Beer hackfest: 9/8/11 Message-ID: Foraker Labs' Ruby on Beer hackfest: 9/8/11 Ruby on Beer is an informal hackfest and a chance to socialize with other Rubyists in the Boulder area. Bring your own laptop and join the Foraker Labs crew on the second Thursday each month for free beer, pizza, and hacking. http://rubyonbeer.com Our next meeting is THURSDAY, September 8th, starting at 5:00PM at our office: Foraker Labs 4775 Walnut Street, Suite 200 Boulder, Colorado Our summer BBQs were a bit hit but this month we're celebrating BACK TO SCHOOL time. We'll likely be doing some group kata hacking in our newly redesigned office space, but feel free to bring your own project or just come and pair up on a code kata or two. And while we obviously love all things Ruby and Rails, we're really more interested in fellowship and learning new things. So don't be afraid to drop in if you're working in a different technology! Need more information? Got questions? Drop us a line at rubyonbeer at foraker.com. Planning on coming? Of course you are! Let us know by signing up at Plancast: http://plancast.com/p/73zc I look forward to seeing you there! Neal Neal Enssle Director of Technology Foraker Labs 4775 Walnut Street, Ste 200 Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 449-0202 nre at foraker.com http://www.foraker.com http://www.twitter.com/forakerlabs --------------------------- >From the Foraker blog: "Why Rails?": http://bit.ly/15uu25 From lpillow at gmail.com Tue Sep 13 10:18:35 2011 From: lpillow at gmail.com (Luke Pillow) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:18:35 -0500 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Ruby Midwest 2011 - Give Aways & Pricing Changes! Message-ID: The Ruby Midwest Conference is approaching quickly! Don't miss out on this two day, single track conference scheduled for Friday and Saturday, November 4-5, 2011 in downtown Kansas City, MO with keynotes from "Uncle Bob" Martin and Andy Hunt. - General Admission is $189 until October 1, 2011 - Discounted rate of $169 for groups of five or more. - Online drawings begin this Friday, September 16, 2011! Register to be included in our first online drawing for a GitHub micro account! Follow @RubyMidwest (http://twitter.com/RubyMidwest) on Twitter for news, updates, and give aways! Hope to see you in November! Luke Pillow http://rubymidwest.com http://twitter.com/RubyMidwest http://twitter.com/lpillow From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Sep 19 12:46:37 2011 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:46:37 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - September Meeting - Sep 20th Message-ID: Our September meeting has snuck up on me so I'm a bit late getting out the word. The meeting will be at 7pm on the 20th at Pivotal Labs (directions below). We have two presentations lined up. Rafer Hazen will present on Mapping with Raphael.js and PosGIS. Prakash Murthy will be previewing his RubyConf talk on building stronger local communities. I know he'll be looking forward to discussing his talk and gathering any feedback to make it better. http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2011/08/29/september-2011/ Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org Directions: Everlater/Pivotal Labs 1701 Pearl St Boulder, CO 80302 Use the 17th St entrance closer to the alley on the NE side of the intersection. You should see the Pivotal Labs logo in the window. The meeting space is upstairs. URL to google maps: http://bit.ly/fNTcZf From lpillow at gmail.com Wed Sep 28 00:13:05 2011 From: lpillow at gmail.com (Luke Pillow) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:13:05 -0500 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Ruby Midwest 2011: Giveaways this week! Workshop by Groupon! Register now! Message-ID: Ruby Midwest 2011 - a two day, single track conference taking place on November 4-5, 2011 in downtown Kansas City, MO - is just over a month away and we're gearing up for another great conference! === Pricing === General Admission pricing ends soon!?Register?now and save!?http://j.mp/lhjoEV === Giveaways === We're giving away another?GitHub?subscription and several?Manning e-books this week and only Ruby Midwest ticket holders are eligible to win! === After Events === Kauffman Labs?will be hosting an evening reception on Thursday, November 3 @ 6:00PM. Details coming soon! === Training === The amazing?Noel Rappin?and?Ethan Gunderson?of?Groupon?will be teaching a full-day workshop at Ruby Midwest. ($49 registration includes breakfast) At this intermediate level workshop from Noel and Ethan you build a Ruby application while making every effort to be purist about the principles of BDD. Topics include Enough RSpec and Cucumber to get by, or ?it?s about the process, not the tools?; the Five Habits of Highly Effective Tests and many more. For more information or to register for the full-day workshop, visit: https://groupon.eventwax.com/highly-effective-bdd-for-ruby-developers-a-groupon-hackon-day. Be sure to check out the RubyMidwest.com website and follow us on Twitter (@RubyMidwest) for the latest updates! Hope to see you soon! Luke Pillow (@lpillow) Ruby Midwest Organizer