BostonRB Remote
July 08, 2012
On Tuesday, June 12th, BostonRB will be streaming their presentations live via YouTube. We’ll setup a projector, camera, and microphone at AlphaLoft and participate in the meeting via Google Hangouts telepresence. So join us 7:00pm Tuesday at AlphaLoft for and evening of Ruby with two great talks:
Five Things You Didn’t Know Your Documentation Tool Could Do
by Loren Segal
YARD is a pretty great tool for writing and serving documentation. But did you know you could also do some other neat things with your documentation tool? This talk will outline some of YARD’s lesser known features and discuss different commands and techniques to visualize your code, provide basic code metrics, and ensure overall quality in your documentation.
The Well-Grounded Nuby
by David A. Black
If you get the fundamentals right, the rest of Ruby falls into place nicely. In this talk, Ruby developer and author David A. Black takes you on a tour of a large handful of Ruby features and techniques chosen to help you understand the essence of the language, and to avoid common pitfalls that sometimes hold people up when they’re trying to master Ruby. All are invited: nubies, Rubyists who want to cement the foundations, and anyone who works with Ruby developers and wants to help them along the way.
More Info and RSVP
RSVP for the event on the Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup page.
When: Tuesday, July 10th from 7pm to 9pm
Where: AlphaLoft, 3 Congress Street, Portsmouth
BostonRB Remote
May 06, 2012
New Hampshire Rubyists! We’re going to try an experiment with our southern neighbors, BostonRB.
On Tuesday, June 12th, BostonRB will be streaming their presentations live via YouTube. At AlphaLoft, we’ll setup a projector, camera, and microphone at AlphaLoft and participate in the meeting via Google Hangouts telepresence. So join us 7:00pm Tuesday at AlphaLoft for and evening of Ruby with two great talks:
TorqueBox
by Kevin Menard
TorqueBox is a new kind of Ruby application platform that integrates popular technologies such as Ruby on Rails, while extending the footprint of Ruby applications to include built-in support for services such as messaging, scheduling, and daemons. TorqueBox provides an all-in-one environment, built upon the latest, most powerful JBoss AS Java application server. Functionality such as clustering, load-balancing and high-availability is included right out-of-the-box.
Introduction to JRuby
by Jay McGaffigan
This will be a general introduction to JRuby, should be a great primer for anybody that is interested in getting their feet wet.
More Info and RSVP
RSVP for the event on the Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup page.
When: Tuesday, June 12th from 7pm to 9pm
Where: AlphaLoft, 3 Congress Street, Portsmouth
Announcing the Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup
January 31, 2012
So as mentioned at our last meeting, NH.rb has been rolled into the new more general-purpose Portsmouth Web Dev group (I clearly lost the name war here) which is being co-organized by myself, Josh Cyr of Alphaloft, and Jeff Leombruno of Pixelmedia. Meetups will be monthly on every second Wednesday, and the first one will be held Wednesday 2/15 6:00PM at Alphaloft (directions) in downtown Portsmouth, NH.
For the first event, my good friend Mark Bates will be venturing up from Boston to give an introductory talk on CoffeeScript. Here’s his talk abstract, in case you know not whence I speak:
CoffeeScript is taking the world, by storm. This little language has provided an almost Ruby/Python like abstraction onto of JavaScript. CoffeeScript is trying to make writing front end code as much fun as writing backend code can be.
In this talk we start with the basic concepts of CoffeeScript and move on to the more powerful and fun features of the language. We’ll learn how CoffeeScript helps us prevent common JavaScript bugs such as bad scope and improper use of ==. We’ll also learn about the fun new constructs it provides like classes, inheritance, and bound functions.
Never before has writing front end applications been so easy, and so much fun! Your applications will come alive as you start writing more powerful code, quicker and more stable/secure. Come see what all the cools kids are talking about.
Mark is a frequent conference speaker and is finishing up a book on the subject for Addison-Wesley. He’s an awesome guy, with a lot of great experience.
Future meetup topics will of course feature Ruby and Rails related topics, among other things. The whole ideas is to pull our little NH tech community closer together and help us stay on top of new developments. I hope you’ll join us! Register for the group and/or RSVP for the event at : http://www.meetup.com/Web-Dev-Meetup/
Thanks for being awesome!
Comments »November 2011 Wrapup: So You Want to be a Rails Developer
November 22, 2011
Thank-you to Brian Cardarella for prototyping his upcoming presentation, “So You Want to be a Rails Developer?” for the group. And a big thanks to DockYard for sponsoring pizza for the meetup.
Comments »November 2011 Meetup: So You Want to be a Rails Developer?
November 16, 2011
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 21 November 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular NHRuby meetup. This month, Brian Cardarella finishes our series of learning Rails with a talk titled, “So You Want to be a Rails Developer?”
Ruby and Rails is built on many open source technologies and has so much domain knowledge that it can be overwhelming for anybody wanting to start doing Rails development. Brian will show you HOW to learn Rails. Learn the Rails stack, learn the terms that Rails developers throw around and learn where to go and what resources exist to help you become the Rails developer you want to be.
About Brian Cardarella
From Brian’s blog:
I’ve been developing Ruby on Rails applications for over 5 years.
I live in Boston and have worked for Rakuten USA, Zendesk, and The Democratic National Committee Software Development Lab.
Currently I’m freelancing, if you’d like to hire me please get in contact!
In my spare time I enjoy sailing, spending most of my summers in New England racing. I own a Laser (sail 177367) and have been known to frostbite it.
He’s also the organizer for Boston.rb, the author of client_side_validations, and all around nice guy!
Directions to NH-ICC
You can find detailed directions on the NH-ICC site or use Google Maps
Comments »October 2011 Meetup: Hackfest
October 17, 2011
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 17 October 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular NHRuby meetup. This month … Hackfest! Bring your code, questions, and experience to share with your fellow Ruby developers.
Directions to NH-ICC
You can find detailed directions on the NH-ICC site or use Google Maps
Comments »September 2011 Wrapup: Backbone.js
September 20, 2011
Thank-you to Jason Morrison for a most excellent presentation of Backbone.js including a tour of real code in a Backbone.js heavy application. Jason’s slides from last night’s presentation can be viewed online at http://jayunit.net/backbone-js-on-rails-talk/ [github repo]
Also appreciated is the gracious accomodation by Alpha Loft of our last minute, unplanned venue change. If you are looking for coworking space near downtown Portsmouth, check them out.
Comments »September 2011 Meetup: Backbone.js
September 18, 2011
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 19 September 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular NHRuby meetup. This month, Jason Morrison of Boston web development and design firm, thoughtbot, introduces us to Backbone.js – client side MVC. Jason will also cover integration of Backbone.js with Rails.
About Jason Morrison
Jason loves to build web and mobile products. He started programming when he exhausted his family’s collection of Commodore 64 games at the age of six, and has believed in building software to satisfy real needs ever since. Find him on Twitter at @jayunit or at http://jayunit.net.
Directions to NH-ICC
You can find detailed directions on the NH-ICC site or use Google Maps
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