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Test-Driven Rails Development Lunch Session Tomorrow

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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Getting Started With Rails: 2008.09.27

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!

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII: Aftermath

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 [...]

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII Reminder: Noon, Pacific Seafood Buffet

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!

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII: Friday, August 29th, 2008

 

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, [...]

DEFCON 16: Leaving For Las Vegas

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 [...]

Free Monitor Color Calibration Event For Graphics Geeks

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 [...]

Open House In Pictures

Wow.
I don’t think the open house could have gone better. Major thanks to everyone that came out to show support, and extra-special props to Gracie (OpenRain Office Manager) for handling the catering arrangements and running it so smoothly. We had a perfect amount of food and drink and saw plenty of smiling faces. In fact, [...]

Open House This Friday!

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 [...]

Phoenix iPhone Developer Group Meeting

As soon as potential legal gotchas with Apple are cleared up, we’ll be hosting the first ever Phoenix iPhone Developer Group (Pi) meeting, hopefully this month. We’ll be providing food and potentially other sponsorship, so grab the latest SDK build from the Apple Developer Connection and get ready! (We’ll post an announcement with the details [...]