For March 18th, we’ll be covering the first two sections of Chapter 2. A nice pdf of the book: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/blob/master/sicp.pdf Public Github Repo for exercises in Clojure: https://github.com/hipplej/sicp Read more about SICP Discussion
You’re making the move to APIs – you have a mobile application, or you need to enable cross-organizational access to your data, or because you have an idea for a cool single page web application. Now you’re mired in learning everything you can about web services, and discovering that APIs pose a whole set of challenges discrete from your web applications: what response format should you use? how will you report errors? Read more about Apigility: Agile APIs w/ Matthew Weier O'Phinney
We’ll be covering the first chapter of SICP. For more information on the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, see (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs) Read more about SICP Discussion, first meetup
Getting back in the swing of things for 2014 we’re currently planning to do some NodeJS workshops on months we don’t have speakers. Starting off the year with Learn Node. Josh Broton, and Seth Larson(and likely other regular attendees) will be available to help people through any problems attendees run across. Bring your own computer. This first meetup is trying out a new location, Raven Industries’ Training Center. We’ll be trying to consistently schedule the last Tuesday of the month when hosting at Raven. Read more about NodeJS Workshop #0
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Scott Hanselman is in town to speak at Innovation Expo on tuesday and is awesome enough to talk with us on Monday. The time is a little earlier than usual, but we’ll have tacos so thats ok. We’re starting early so that those attending Inno Expo’s event tonight can make it to the latter part of that if they’d like. Innovation Expo is a conference focusing on connecting entrepreneurs, innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists, and the many others who are involved in developing startup companies. Read more about JavaScript and the New Virtual Machine: Scaling client and server
An overview of the community edition of Chef by OpsCode and creating loval environments with it(15-45 minutes). Following discussion on how we(and you) go about making deploying updates an easy and seamless operation, at least as seamless as organization processes allow. If anyone has used Puppet I’d love for input from them in how it compares/contrasts to Chef. Any other deployment tools would also be open for discussion. Capistrano, Fabric, PSake are a few I’m familiar with that come to mind. Read more about put the dev into ops (chef/vagrant)
Josh Broton is going to lead a discussion on Responsive Web Design. Read more about Responsive Web Design
Plan is to do a very short short (10 minutes?) centralized vs. distributed overview and then probably do an outline of some of the main different DVCS approaches. Then we’ll do a deep dive into the subtle differences between git & mercurial. (How branching is subtly different between the two, why reflog is amazing, how subrepos are handled differently, rebase vs. merge, etc.) I’m sure we’ll discuss the different commandline and graphical user interface options for each as well at some point. Read more about Compare and Contrast DVCS Tools (primarily git and mercurial)
Whatever you use for Development, Deployment, Testing, etc. Open discussion about problems you’ve ran into and how you and others have fixed or hacked around them. People present will discuss (at a minimum) usage of: Git, Jenkins, Chef, homebrew, bash, powershell, sass and how they fit into your workflow. Read more about Open discussion on essential tools