Meeting November 13th

Our next meeting is Thursday, November 13th – 7 PM at Devry Room #106 sponsored by Veredus. We’ll have some delicious Panda Express for dinner at 6 PM, so feel free to show up early for networking and free food.

This month Thomas Meeks will be doing a talk entitled Grace Under Pressure: Nanite. Oftentimes, the key to making an application that can handle a heave load is ensuring that it’s graceful and predictable. Nanite, a brand new project that bills itself as a self-assembling fabric of ruby daemons, provides a great many tools to create applications that act gracefully under pressure. We’ll start off with a few concepts nanite touts, and quickly move into some examples of it handling load spikes and (metaphorically) exploding servers.

After Thomas’s talk, Matt Aimonetti will be doing a talk on Merb, and covering the following topics:

• Merb 1.0 just got released and the Ruby community is excited about having the choice between at least 2 major and stable frameworks. But what does that mean for you?
• Should you use Merb in your next project?
• Is Merb ready for the enterprise world?
• But what about simple projects?
• What are Merb plans for 2.0?

I’ll also be giving away a few free Envycasts, so hopefully see you there.