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<div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2015-03-03T18:00:00" datetime="2015-03-03T18:00:00">Tuesday, March 3, 2015 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2015-03-03T22:00:00" datetime="2015-03-03T22:00:00">10pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202392091'><span class='fn org p-name'>New Relic</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">111 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2700</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">Oregon</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">United States</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=111%20SW%205th%20Avenue,%20Suite%202700,%20Portland%20Oregon%2097204%20United%20States'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>We'll have pizza & beer starting at 6pm, so stop by early if you want to have dinner and socialize before the presentations.</p> <h1>PRESENTATIONS at 7pm</h1> <h3>Community retrospective</h3> <p>We're going to take 30 min to discuss the group and the mailing list and how we participate together.</p> <h3>Samuel Giddins: Using Ruby in a Non-Ruby World</h3> <p>Ruby is an incredible language that we all love to code in. But it's also a language that lends itself to being used in other ecosystems, in other 'worlds'. Ruby is an incredibly useful tool for building DSLs that look more like data than code. It's also a very portable language with a strong, standardized toolchain that makes it a go-to choice for client-side tooling. I'm going to walk through the ways in which we, as rubyists, can build systems that cooperate with a non-Ruby environment.</p> <h3>Ruby Jobs Storytime</h3> <p>5 min talks about people's experiences looking for and finding jobs (and conversely from the hiring side, experiences looking for and hiring engineers for their teams). These talks would probably not need slides, just a person willing to provide their experience. The types of things people could talk about include:</p> <ul> <li>A new developer’s experience trying to get their first programming job</li> <li>A seasoned developer’s tips and tricks for finding and getting a great job</li> <li>A story about how someone got their job in a non-traditional way</li> <li>Information from a hiring manager or engineer involved in hiring about what they look for</li> <li>Any other type of story in the same vein</li> </ul> <h1></h1> <p>After presentations we'll have more socializing time.</p> <h1>Thanks to New Relic for providing the venue and beer, pizza & snacks this month!</h1> <h1></h1> <p>ARRIVING BY BIKE? Cyclists are welcome to park their bikes in the New Relic office. Bikes are not allowed in the building lobby, however, and must use the freight elevator. To get your bike up to the 29th floor, enter the building's parking lot by going down the ramp at 5th and Pine. Go past the booth -- no need to pick up a ticket -- and turn right. Go straight until you almost run into the elevator lobby, then go right again. On the back side of the elevator block you'll see a beat up pair of double doors marked "freight elevator." You can get up by buzzing in with the intercom, and saying you're here for New Relic. Ride on up to the 29th floor, you'll easily find the bike parking.</p> <p><em>ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby">mailing list</a>. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there! </em></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pdxruby.org/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>

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Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 from 6–10pm

New Relic

111 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2700

Portland, Oregon 97204, United States (map)

Public WiFi

Access Notes

Check in at the security desk to get access to the 27th floor. This usually isn't required for official events and meetups.

This meeting: Come on up to the 29th floor. The elevator will be unlocked after 6:00pm.

Website

http://pdxruby.org/

Description

We'll have pizza & beer starting at 6pm, so stop by early if you want to have dinner and socialize before the presentations.

PRESENTATIONS at 7pm

Community retrospective

We're going to take 30 min to discuss the group and the mailing list and how we participate together.

Samuel Giddins: Using Ruby in a Non-Ruby World

Ruby is an incredible language that we all love to code in. But it's also a language that lends itself to being used in other ecosystems, in other 'worlds'. Ruby is an incredibly useful tool for building DSLs that look more like data than code. It's also a very portable language with a strong, standardized toolchain that makes it a go-to choice for client-side tooling. I'm going to walk through the ways in which we, as rubyists, can build systems that cooperate with a non-Ruby environment.

Ruby Jobs Storytime

5 min talks about people's experiences looking for and finding jobs (and conversely from the hiring side, experiences looking for and hiring engineers for their teams). These talks would probably not need slides, just a person willing to provide their experience. The types of things people could talk about include:

A new developer’s experience trying to get their first programming job
A seasoned developer’s tips and tricks for finding and getting a great job
A story about how someone got their job in a non-traditional way
Information from a hiring manager or engineer involved in hiring about what they look for
Any other type of story in the same vein

After presentations we'll have more socializing time.

Thanks to New Relic for providing the venue and beer, pizza & snacks this month!

ARRIVING BY BIKE? Cyclists are welcome to park their bikes in the New Relic office. Bikes are not allowed in the building lobby, however, and must use the freight elevator. To get your bike up to the 29th floor, enter the building's parking lot by going down the ramp at 5th and Pine. Go past the booth -- no need to pick up a ticket -- and turn right. Go straight until you almost run into the elevator lobby, then go right again. On the back side of the elevator block you'll see a beat up pair of double doors marked "freight elevator." You can get up by buzzing in with the intercom, and saying you're here for New Relic. Ride on up to the 29th floor, you'll easily find the bike parking.

ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the mailing list. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there!