#meetrailslove – May 2012
Like every month there are some awesome events coming up. Here are a few – and at some you can #meetrailslove:
- Adcloud TechTalk (25.04.): This Wednesday AdCloud are hosting their first TechTalk. The first talk will be about Chaplin – a JavaScript Application Architecture with Backbone.js. For more information check out http://dev.adcloud.com/blog/2012/04/16/chaplin/. This is a really good opportunity for anyone interested in frontend technology to learn about one of the most exciting new JavaScript projects. More information on Chaplin can be found on http://9elements.com/io/
- Kölsch.rb (25.04.): Like every month the Cologne Ruby User Group meets for some very interesting discussions. E.g. AvocadoDB and embedded Ruby with “mruby”, “Ruby on R with RSRuby” or some testing small talk with Ede. This week we’re meeting at Coworking Cologne Gasmotorenfabrik. If you have any point of contact with Ruby development this event should be required for you. For more information check out http://hcking.de/events/40/single_events/570.
- ADVANCE HACKATHON (27.04.-29.04.): A meetup for hackers and thinkers – imagine you are sitting together with the most talented web & app developers and designers for kicking off your own or others’ projects, refine or complete code collaboratively, or just experiment with others. This is the purpose of the hackathon and if you have any interest in the web at all you will find no better place to meet interesting people and see a lot of cool projects. For more information check out http://hackathon.advance-conference.com/en/. Unfortunately this is event is already sold out.
- Webmontag (07.05.): Webmonday is an informal, non-commercial, and completely community-driven event that aims to connect the people who are shaping the future of the internet. As usual we’re discussing interesting web driven topics, hacking ideas etc. Check out: http://www.webmontag.de/location/koeln/2012-05-07
- UX-CGN (15.05.): UX-CGN is a new format discussing different topics about user experience. If you’re interested in frontend, frontend development and usability, visit this user group and meet people that speak your language. http://uxcgn.org/
- SIGINT (18.05.-20.05.): SIGINT is a conference on discourses in the digital age. It addresses socio-political demands for participation and change, utopias, hacktivism, as well as the creative breaking of norms. For more information check out http://sigint.ccc.de/Main_Page.
- Clash of Realities Conference! – 4th international Computer Game Conference (23.05.- 25.05.): The international game developer scene comes to Cologne to meet for a three day conference organized by the Department of Media Studies and Media Education and the Cologne Game Lab in cooperation with Electronic Arts. If you wanna get into the world of game development this is your chance. For more information check out http://www.clashofrealities.org/.
- DevHouseFriday Chillout (25.05.): we’ve moved the meetup because of the ADVANCE HACKATHON. The next DevHouse Friday is happening @ Pixum – “Wir machen den DevHouse Friday Chillout zum Erlebnis” and is a great chance go meet a lot of interesting people around the Cologne web scene. For more information check out http://devhousefriday.org/networks/events/show_event.52535.
- Bastelnachmittag Every Friday: the Dingfabrik meets in their rooms for Bastelnachmittag. Just play around with your arduino or do some origami – everyone can have some fun! Date: Friday 4th of May. For more information check out: http://hcking.de/events/84-dingfabrik-bastelnachmittag
On the international scene the DLD Moscow is happening from 27th – 29th May, 2012. Check out Moscow calling DLD.
For more events check out this and this event calendars.
We wish you a very eventful May!
We @ Wroc_❤.rb and we ❤ Vention Dention
We’re proud to announce wroc_love.rb 2012. The very first of such conferences in a beautiful city of Wrocław. What is this conference about?
A fresh Ruby conference organized by thriving local Ruby community. We’re keen on experimenting, value original ideas and diversity of opinions – as long as they’re backed with valid arguments.
You can meet : Georg, Bumi, Mike, Ralph, myself and our friend Nick.
We’re giving a talk
What is our talk about? About.. “Pit .. Brad Pit..Pit’s..ahhr! Just get out of the trap!!!” In our talk we will share some of the most interesting, absurd, or funny moments and insights we have experienced in past couple of years. As developers and business founders, we present the best of our own mistakes and show you how we got out of the pits we fell into. Believe us, we’ve been there as well and, hopefully, attending our talk will help you not make our mistakes. ;) It will be a serious fun! The talk will cover both technical and other subjects. Each mistake will get a 2-3 min coverage. Read more about us and our talk at the conference page and on their blog.
We love punk rock
Did you know we have our own band? No? Ok… now you know it! We’re proud to indroduce you to…
Vention Dention
Oh yeah. Vention Dention is on tour again… and we’re with them all the time. So the next gig’s are:
- wroc_love.rb, 10.-11. March 2012, Wrocław, Instytut Informatyki, Uniwersytet Wrocławski
- Nodecamp.eu (Details coming soon)
We’re planing some more gigs with them and everything will be announced on their homepage, on Railslove’s Vention Dention Homepage and via Twitter (@ventiondention). So stay tuned!
For now, just for you… Vention Dention:
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See you @ wroc_love.rb!
Backlash @ Robot Unicorn Invasion Party 2011
Help You need somebody; Help not just anybody!
Here at Railslove, we love building web applications. But aside from our core business, we also help other startups understand how the web works and what it means to run a web business — in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne. And since experienced Ruby on Rails developers are increasingly hard to find, we’ve started to offer apprenticeships, too.
One of our new partners is DailyDeal. We’ve done some beginners and advanced courses in Rails covering stuff like testing, building APIs, advanced JavaScript coding and general design and programming patterns in Ruby on Rails, etc.
Oliver Hepfner, Director Software Engineering of DailyDeal:
The training Railslove provided under the direction of Georg Leciejewski helped us understand advanced programming patterns in Ruby on Rails. Our developers were excited to get a hands-on introduction into Ruby on Rails.
Next month, we will launch a few more courses with DailyDeal and with other companies, like Adcloud GmbH in Germany. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Ralph and Georg: ralph AT railslove.com & gl AT salesking.eu & team AT railslove.com
The DevHouseFriday Chillout and the stolen Adcloud chair
First of all – a big, big thank you to @adcloud for hosting last DevHouseFriday. The location is perfect for such events – nice conference room, a terrace, free beer and some food. Thanks again!
The last DevHouseFriday had cool talks too: @tisba talked about loadtesting in the cloud @killerg was talking about his PDF-Dragon idea, we had a interesting talk about Scala and Closures for Java (by TJ) so, thanks again.
Unfortunately someone has stolen an @adcloud chair from the office. Turns out it was one of the Railslove guys. At the event only handful of Railslovers were present: Georg, Jan, Lars, Michael and Dirk…. Apparently, it was Jan. He got his punishment for this. Now this Chair is his burden to bear, and he has to take it on every other DevHouseFriday Chillout meetup.
So, see you next time, the next DevHouse Friday Chillout is on the October, 21th. Venue will be announced soon. Jan the Chairman will also be there to throw rocks at.