Next Meeting

December 1st, 2010 from 6-8pm @ http://www.officesquaredvt.com/

Previous Meetings

• September 29, 2010 - Presentations on Creating Ruby Gems by @beerlington, Vim For Rails (http://github.com/alanpeabody/Vim-for-Rails-Developers) by @alanpeabody
• October 27, 2010 - Presentation on Rails + Hadoop by @bseanvt

Future Presentation Topics

• Data transformations
• New tools like Hadoop
• Unit testing (in various languages)
• CouchDB vs Mongo vs Riak vs Redis
• Javascript (jquery, closure, yui, prototype)_
• Agile / workflow (VCS, documentation)
• Google Sketchup
• API providers / consumers
• Problem set deconstruction
• Project management (Jen at o2)
• MVC pattern
• framework comparison (symphony, rails, django)
• CMS design / comparison
• UI design / wireframing / mockups
• node.js
• language comparison / starting a new project
• cloud computing / hosting
• regular expressions
• sysadmin / networking / system admin
• heroku (for rails)
• sockets
• VIM / OSS / Development environment
• CSS / HTML / Semantic markup
• release processes
• Continuous integration