If Marc’s gauge of using laughter levels as a measure of event successfulness holds any truth, I’d declare it extremely successful! Major überthanks to…
O’Reilly Media for over $500 of book sponsorships that we’ll continue to distribute to the group for review at future events. If you want to see more awesome O’Reilly stuff, post a [...]
Noon, Pacific Seafood Buffet. Bring $10 for all-you-can-eat sushi and other great buffet eats. (There’s much more than seafood, and veggie stuff too.) Table reserved under “Lee”. Give-a-ways provided by O’Reilly Media…
High Performance MySQL
Understanding MySQL Internals
iPhone: The Missing Manual (2nd ed., covers the iPhone 3G)
Map: http://tinyurl.com/5f5jfj
Venue: http://www.pacificseafoodbuffet.net/
Sit Next To: Someone you don’t know!
OpenRain is a U.S. company with U.S. staff. The value of direct, barrier-free, native-language communication outweighs any perceived cost savings of outsourcing our niche, not to mention it’s a lot more fun to work in the same office and time zone. For a typical 3-month project with 2 developers, it’s not uncommon in an outsourced [...]
Welcome to the first of many posts in the OpenRain Tips and Notes series. We’re going to use this space to share some of the tips, tricks, howto guides, and notes, that we use internally to keep us productive and make us happier programmers.
Today, we’re going to learn how to get your brand new shiny [...]
Geek ‘n’ Eat is a cross-technology discussion and networking luncheon held every couple months. We’ll be at a buffet this month, so skip that breakfast bar and pack it in!
What: Geek ‘n’ Eat (Phoenix) VII
Where: Pacific Seafood Buffet, Chandler. [map]
When: Friday, August 29th, 2008. Noon - 1:30PM.
Who: Computer geeks, dorks, nerds, wizards and wannabes.
Why: Geekery, [...]
Phoenix is home to many closet-Rubyists doing .NET, Java or C++ during the day, ripe for a change to something more… productive. The difficult part is that Ruby as a profession is a growing marking. Enterprise CxOs aren’t yet clamboring to migrate internal applications to Ruby-based stacks, but are starting to take notice because their developers [...]
DEFCON is an annual hacker convention event held in Las Vegas. It’s currently held at the Riviera on the North end of the strip and is happening this Friday through Sunday: August 8th-10th.
This year, we decided to rent a 15-passenger van and roll in Puff Daddy style with most of the OpenRain crew and other Phoenix [...]
