We’re ecstatic to officially announce The OpenRain Alliance: a free resource program for Phoenix’s diverse breadth of technical entrepreneurs needing a hand in getting a startup off the ground. This is a free program for bright, motivated people such as yourself to get quick and easy access to physical resources normally not available to early-stage companies. [...]
Elite OpenRain ninja Remi Taylor will be presenting his approach to test-driven Rails development tomorrow afternoon at 1:30pm at OpenRain HQ. That’s Wednesday, October 8th for approximately 1 hour. All are welcome. No reservations required. Forecast: 99 degrees with a 90% chance of awesome.
You can grab the latest presentation file here. Remi’s synopsis…
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Notwithstanding a change of heart from Apple following yesterdays announcement, the first Phoenix iPhone Developer Group meeting will be held at 6pm on Wednesday, October 22nd at the OpenRain office. We’ll have several give-a-ways, food, a presentation by iPhone application developer Brad O’Hearne, and a whole lot of fun!
Getting Started With Rails evening tutorial workshop with Preston Lee.
Joe Developer at OpenRain HQ
Wednesday, September 27th, 2008. 6pm.
Light dinner provided.
This event is for developers new to or otherwise interested in web development using Ruby on Rails. Laptops encouraged. WiFi provided. See you there!
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 [...]
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, [...]
On Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 we’re hosting a free event at OpenRain HQ with Refocus Phoenix to get your computer monitor rendering colors correctly. If you’re a web designer, photographer or other graphics professional that is not using a custom color profile, this is a must-do process. I mean it. You owe it to your clients. We [...]
It’s time to celebrate our office upgrade to Mesa, Arizona at the OpenRain Open House this Friday with friends, family, and the Phoenix tech community over food, drink, and games. This is an open invitation to you and everyone else in the Phoenix area that enjoys the design, development, and business of web software. OpenRain is growing and [...]
We do Rails, and we’ve been keeping a secret from you.
You can grab some of the tools we maintain for our own production Rails apps for free. Now, we’re not going to give you all our marbles, but there’s nothing quite sweeter than commercially-funded Open Source software, especially when it’s written in Ruby, and by [...]
