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June 11th, 2013
Just before the summer arrive, we’ll have 2 new speakers at Montreal.rb.
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or the first presentation, Marc Beaupré will talk about Redis on Rails. Learn why redis has become his new best friend, and why you should be using it every Rails project you work on.
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hen, Anna Filina will present Speed Up Your Database. Are your queries slow? Learn how to speed them up through better SQL crafting and use meaningful indices. You will understand what works well and what doesn’t, and will walk away with a checklist for faster databases.
L
ike last month, Shopify will pay for food and drinks during the meet-up. Checkout their job offers for their new office in Montreal.
As usual, we are going to finish everything at the Benelux for a beer and great discussions.
When: June 18th, 2013 at 18:30
Where: Notman House
Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much: Free
Register: No need, just come, you’re welcome
Questions?: Contact me
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May 19th, 2013
In May, we’ll have a normal talk in the first part and then, 3 flash talks for the second part.
In the first part, Mauricio Idarraga will present us the asset_sync gem and config.action_controller.asset_host. He will explain us how Instagrad synchronize their assets on S3 with CloudFront and multiple host name to increase the number of browser connections.
After the break, the first flash task by Christian Joudrey will be about #pairwithme. He will discuss his experience on pair programming with a stranger across the world and the tools they used and why everyone should give it a try.
Then, Gary Haran will present us the Practical Object-Oriented Design book by Sandi Metz who was at Confoo this year.
Finally, Mikaël Theimer will present us his next project Mots-Dits Québec.
Planbox sent me a job offer. They are looking for a senior back-end developer to lead the development of their Ruby back-end . Planbox is an agile project management tool as a single-page web application in Backbone.js backed by a Ruby on Rails REST API.
For this month and the next ones, Shopify will be sponsoring our meet-ups by providing food and drinks. They are opening an office in Montreal and are searching a lot of different people, you should check them out. You can also directly contact Edward Ocampo-Gooding.
As usual, we’ll end the night at the Benelux for more discussion. I’ll see you there.
When: May 21st, 2013 at 18:30
Where: Notman House
Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much: Free
Register: No need, just come, you’re welcome
Questions?: Contact me
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April 11th, 2013
This month, the 2 presentations are about tools you can use to accelerate your project development and help you scale your project.
To
start the event, Mathieu Martin will present CloudFlare. CloudFare is a CDN, an asset optimizer, a security proxy, and more. They can be a great tools for your projects and their first tier is free.
In
the second section, Richard McGain will talk about Babushka – a lightweight dependency based tool that could help you improve your deployment process and automate other annoying tasks reliably.
As usual, we are going to Benelux afterward for networking and beers.
I received some jobs offer lately.
François Beausoleil at Seevibes is searching a ruby developer with SQL skills to work on their Sinatra application. You can contact him directly at francois@seevibes.com.
InfoActive is searching a senior Ruby on Rails developer. You can see the description at http://infoactive.co/jobs/.
When: April 16th, 2013 at 18:30
Where: Notman House
Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much: Free
Register: No need, just come, your welcome
Questions?: Contact me
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March 9th, 2013
This month meet-up will be presented by Shopify. They are sponsoring the event, and the two speakers work there.
To
start the event, Christian Joudrey will present Ruby One Time Password library. Following the recent Rails vulnerabilities we all know that keeping our dependencies up-to-date is important. What is equally important is providing our users with ways of securing their accounts. We’ll look at how two-factor authentication works, a way of implementing it and how to leverage the Google Authenticator mobile app.
After
ward, Edward Ocampo-Gooding will talk about Legato - a Google Analytics Reports client written in Ruby. If you need to programmatically hit Google Analytics for data coming from reports, you want this. I’ll show you how I used it for a project at Shopify and also point out a few bits of internal Legato code/architecture that I thought were great examples of idiomatic Ruby. Hint: probably some metaprogramming.
This event is sponsored by Shopify. They’ll provide us with food and beers. They’ll also be able to answer any of your questions about their product.
As usual, we are moving to Benelux after the event for drinks and great discussions.
When: March 19th, 2013 at 18:30
Where: Notman House
Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much: Free
Register: No need, just come, your welcome
Questions?: Contact me
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February 16th, 2013
Our meet-up a week before the next Confoo will be charged. Concordia students with GradProSkills will join us for the event to learn about networking and the Notman House.
After
the intermission, Jean Boussier will present ActiveModel::Serializers – the object oriented way to serialize your models in JSON or XML. You can do so much with this technique, it’s the time to understand it.
This m
eet-up is sponsored by MotionEleven. They’ll provide paninis and beers at the start of the event. It’ll be the place to eat and network. They are searching Ruby on Rails and Front-End developers.
We’ll go to the Benelux afterward for beers and great discussion.
Don’t miss it.
When: February 19th, 2013 at 18:30
Where: Notman House
Who: Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much: Free
Register: No need, just come, your welcome
Questions?: Contact me
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January 14th, 2013
The first meet-up of the 2013 is upon us. We have 2 great talks coming in.
Alain Pilon will pre
sent Cloudinary: an elegant and easy way to move all image related tasks to the cloud!
Then
, Hugo Frappier will hack a Website. After all the media attention about the big rails security issue, Hugo will use this bug to hack a rails application. This should encourage you to fix your project with the newest version of Rails or with the hack fix.
As usual, we are going at Benelux afterward for more discussion.
This will be great, don’t miss it.
When : January 15th, 2013 at 18:30
Where : Notman House
Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much : Free
Register : No need, just come, your welcome
Questions? : Contact me
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January 6th, 2013
At our last meeting, a lot of people presented. It was very interesting.
The fir
st talk was by Nicolas Marchildon. He presented us the Réseau Libre project – a free wifi network in Montreal built by its users. You can have more information or participate by visiting their website.
Afterwa
rd, Mathieu Gagné presented 2 projects : errbit and gitlab. Errbit is a self-hosted error catcher project – use it to manage your problems in all your project in production. Gitlab is a self-hosted github. SLIDES
T
hen, Martin Provencher (myself) presented the RailsBridge Montreal project. This is a formation for non-programmer, beginning developers and advance ones who wants to learn Ruby/Rails. I’m currently searching volunteers to helps organize, to teach or just to give a hand here and there. SLIDES
Next, Mathieu Martin presented Vagrant – a library to build development environment using Virtual Box. Very useful to manage your team test platforms and help your designer to get easily up and running on a development environment. COMMANDS
Fina
lly, Jeffrey Dungen – who brought the beers – presented its startup: ReelyActive. They make hardware able to detect the position of users in a physical environment. They built the TV at Notman House where you see who is present. They are searching a developer to build an API for their system and programmers to use it to implement incredible applications.
This was a really busy meet-up. The next one is January 15th at 18h30 at Notman House. The talk descriptions will be in the next post.
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December 13th, 2012
This is Christmas time. We’ll do a light meet-up then go for beers afterward. This event will take the form of lightning talks (see below). Send me an email mprovencher86@gmail.com to register your lightning talk. I’ll announce who will present on Monday.
Lightning talk: Come in front and talk about a subject, it could be a project you built, a gem, a ruby/rails feature that you like, maybe just why you love ruby/rails. The talks should be between 5 and 10 minutes. You can use the projector or not, it’s up to you.
At the same time, I just want to update all the links we can use to contact Montreal.rb:
When : December 18th, 2012 at 18:30
Where : Notman House
Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much : Free
Register : No need, just come, your welcome
Questions? : Contact me
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November 18th, 2012
This November, we’ll stay with our cores: Ruby and Rails. We’ll start by talking about ruby-lang and its strange behaviors. Afterward, we’ll see a new feature of Rails 4.
Marc-André Lafortune wi
ll present his talk from Confoo 2012: Back Alleys of Ruby. This will be an excursion through dark corners and back alleys of Ruby, a language so dynamic it is difficult to know what its actual specs are. Is it a bug or a feature? This is what we’ll try to figure out.
Martin Provencher w
ill present Strong Parameters, a new feature of Rails 4. The Rails repo on GitHub got hacked because of a mass-assignment bug. whitelist_attributes and attr_accessible was a temporary fix. During this talk, you’ll see the real answer of the rails team to fix that issue. The best part: you can already use this new feature in Rails 3.
I will see you all on Tuesday.
When : November 20th, 2012 at 18:30
Where : Notman House
Who : Everyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails or Ruby
How much : Free
Register : No need, just come, your welcome
Questions? : Contact me
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October 29th, 2012
I’m sending our last update for the crowd funding and the information of the last meetup.
The Notman House crowd funding is almost over, only 20h left. We only miss 400$, any amount count to achieve our goal. I’m sure we can do it. How to give in the name of Montreal.rb :
- Go to http://www.indiegogo.com/notman?a=1599326
- Click to give a no perk donation
- Confirm that you chose no perk (see image bellow)
- Enter “Montreal.rb” as a name
- Send me an email to confirm the amount so I can follow our total.
The presentations of the last meetup:
Rail
s Engine Patterns
by Andy Maleh
Gem
Club
The next meetup will be on November 20th. I’m still missing a speaker, send me an email if you want to share your knowledge with everyone.
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ming to Montreal on February 23th. James McKinney will present some of the datasets available and projects planned. Learn more on the day’s wiki and sign up on EventBrite.
