Orlando Ruby Users Group

Here to bring you news about the next two Orlando Ruby Users Groups meetings.

May 14th – Hardware Day

Our may 14th meeting will be held back down at Devry room #119, food at 6 PM thanks to sponsorship by Engine Yard. At 7 PM we will have two hardware related talks:

First up, Tyler Hunt will be doing a talk on “Cooking with Chef”. If you’re tired of running the same commands over and over when setting up your servers, you’ll love Chef. It’s a systems integration framework that allows you to use a Ruby DSL to manage your system configurations, and then easily deploy them across your entire infrastructure, à la Capistrano. Tyler will be breaking down the various components of Chef, and showing some example configurations to get you cooking.

Next Thomas Meeks will be doing a talk on “Building your own personal cloud with eucalyptus”. Eucalyptus is an open source cloud infrastructure that is API-compatible with Amazon’s EC2. In this talk he’s going to give an introduction to Eucalyptus, its uses, how to install it, and how to interface with it using the Amazon EC2 gem available on github.

I’ve got a bunch of Engine Yard T-shirts to give away, first come first serve. I’m also going to give away a few copies of Ruby 1.9 – What you need to know, the new envycast with David Black, so hopefully see you at this Post-Railsconf meeting.

June 11th – Rock Star Programmers

Last week I ran in Ed Burns, who lives here in Orlando and works for Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Ed recently published his book entitled Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers, which is a collection of interviews with some of today’s top programmers. This presentation will share some of the things he learned during the creation of the book. Two programmers in the book you may be familiar with are Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas.

We’ll run through the book by looking at a cross section of secrets (aka character attributes) exhibited by the rockstars, listening to audio clips from the actual interviews along the way.

This meeting will also be down at Devry (Room 114), and we’re looking for a sponsor, so let me know if you or your company might be interested.

Thanks!