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Join us at Panino’s Pizza in Downtown Orlando on Thursday, Feb 9th from 7pm to 9pm for our first meeting of the new year! I thought we could try a Coding Dojo, like the Orlando Dojo group: we pick a problem (usually from Project Euler), pick a language (Ruby, duh), and discuss an implementation, then get to work! We work in pairs to practice pair programming, we write tests first to practice test-driven development, and we time-box each pair (usually 5 minutes) so that everyone who wants to gets a chance to code. As for pairs, we use the pilot-copilot method – the pilot writes code while the copilot kinda navigates and offers advice – and after 5 minutes, we rotate: the pilot goes back to the audience, the copilot becomes the pilot, and someone from the audience becomes the new copilot. We keep going until we finish the problem (rarely), run out of time (usually), or run out of people (or loop). It’s a lot of fun. Seeya there!

Next Thursday would typically be our next meeting, but next Wednesday is Build Guild Orlando. So to help them start their new event with a bang, lets just head over there for our meetup this month. More information and RSVP Here. Some of the Envy Labs team should be over there AND we’ll be handing out a bunch of $15 gift cards to Code School.

If you just can’t stay away from Envy Labs for a month, on Tuesday July 19th from 7 PM – 10 PM we’ll be doing a trial run of our newest Code School course, Functional HTML5 & CSS3 by Jason VanLue. As we do with all our courses, we like to invite people into our office to play through it and get their feedback before we do a release to the public. If you haven’t learned much HTML5 / CSS3 yet, you might dig it.. it’s a beginner course. Register and more info here.

It’s been a while, but we’re back and next Thursday, June 16th and we have two presentations (and FREE DINNER) you won’t want to miss. First up Jacob Swanner will be giving a presentation on CoffeeScript, The Basics. Since Rails 3.1 is going to be adding support for CoffeeScript, now seems like the perfect time to learn about it, if you haven’t already. We will cover what CoffeeScript is, the syntax, and how you’d use it.

Next up Eric Allam will be giving a talk on the Asset Pipeline in Rails 3.1. We’ll discover how Rails 3.1 promotes Assets to a first-class Rails citizen in 3.1, and how the new Asset Pipeline allows you to use new technologies like CoffeeScript and Sass to write cleaner and more maintainable code.

Starting at 6:30 PM we’ll have free food from Gringos Locos, and at 7 PM the talks will start. We’ll be holding the meeting at Envy Labs office (http://bit.ly/envylabs). There should be plenty of free street parking and the elevators are right behind the Corona Cigar company on the corner of Orange and Pine. There should be someone in the lobby to buzz you up for the meeting. If not you can call me 407-754-5517. If you park in the garage and you can’t get up to the 10th floor, come down to the lobby and we’ll buzz you up. If you can use your Ruby skills to hack the elevators, you get extra points.

Hope to see you next Thursday the 16th!

Update: The course we ran Rails Best Practices is now for sale at RailsBest.com

Next Thursday, March 10th from 6 PM to 9 PM at Voxeo’s board room we will be running Code School‘s Rails Best Practices course. This is a course done in the same style of Rails for Zombies. All skill levels are welcome. Here’s a description:

Although Rails contains many web framework best practices, there are still plenty of ways to create horrible code. Fortunately, as the community has matured many new techniques have been discovered which can help keep Rails apps maintainable. In this 5 part lab we will walk through the most common of these best practices and get some hands on experience refactoring Rails.

This course will be on sale when we release CodeSchool.com, and we could use your help fine tuning it before it goes live. Directions to Envy Labs office (which is right next to Voxeo) with Parking options can be found here: http://bit.ly/envylabs

If you get to the building after 6 PM, you will need someone to buzz you up to the 20th floor. Someone will be in the lobby, so just ask for the Orug meeting and we’ll get you where you need to go. Call me if needed 407-754-5517.

Going to call off the meeting tonight due to weather, hopefully we will have better weather next month.

So the next meeting will be Monday, July 10th.

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