BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Meetup Inc//RemoteApi//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/ical/The+East+Bay+Ruby+Me etup+Group/ X-WR-CALNAME:Events - The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Using Ruby on Rails in a multi-platform environment (java/.net/ruby ) DESCRIPTION:The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group\n\n6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mi c This is your opportunity to ask questions\, get help fixing problems\, sh ow your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room\, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract Rails' database migration capabilities and rapid admin UI development make it a great way to tie multi-platform development projects together. This talk will discuss some of the opportunities and difficulties regarding coor dinating all database changes\, working with Sqlserver\, build environments on both Linux and Windows\, and fighting religious battles. Bio: Mike ha s 4 years experience with Ruby on Rails on social networking projects and c ontent management projects. His most recent assignment was working for Fir stPaper\, Inc in Palo Alto (now www.skiff.com) on electronic media distribu tion. See the East Bay Ruby Meetup site for more details\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94701 - USA\n\nTuesday\, January 19 at 6:30 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos3.me etupstatic.com/photos/event/2/9/9/d/event_610653.jpeg\n\nAttending: 59\n\nD etails: http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/11157261/ LAST-MODIFIED:20091229T185314Z UID:event_11157261@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20090820T155217Z DTSTAMP:20100106T110651Z DTSTART:20100120T023000Z DTEND:20100120T043000Z GEO:37.87;-122.26 LOCATION:Wozniak Lounge - Soda Hall\, UC Berkeley\, Corner of Hearst & LeRo y - Berkeley\, CA 94701 - USA URL:http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/11157261/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Amazon Web Services DESCRIPTION:The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group\n\n6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mi c This is your opportunity to ask questions\, get help fixing problems\, sh ow your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room\, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract : Learn about Amazon Web Services: a collection of remote computing service s offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. They provide online services for other web sites or client-side applications. Most of these services are no t exposed directly to end users\, but instead offer functionality that othe r developers can use. Amazon Web Services' offerings are accessed over HTTP \, using REST and SOAP protocols\, and are billed on usage. The services in clude: * Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2): scalable virtual private serv ers * Simple Storage Service (S3): Web Service-based storage for applic ations * Simple Queue Service (SQS): a message queue for web applicatio ns * Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk): for managing small units of work d istributed amongst many people * Amazon SimpleDB: for running queries o n structured data * Amazon CloudFront: a content delivery network (CDN) for distributing S3 objects to 'edge locations' near the requester * a nd a number of others Bio: Janesh Varia is a Web Services evangelist at A mazon.com with a background as Solutions Architect at UBMatrix and a Softwa re Engineer at Penn State Data Center. http://www.linkedin.com/in/jinman\n\ nBerkeley\, CA 94701 - USA\n\nTuesday\, February 16 at 6:30 PM\n\nPhoto: h ttp://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/9/9/d/event_610653.jpeg\n\nAt tending: 3\n\nDetails: http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/12071011/ LAST-MODIFIED:20091225T150952Z UID:event_12071011@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20091212T165732Z DTSTAMP:20100106T110651Z DTSTART:20100217T023000Z DTEND:20100217T043000Z GEO:37.87;-122.26 LOCATION:Wozniak Lounge - Soda Hall\, UC Berkeley\, Corner of Hearst & LeRo y - Berkeley\, CA 94701 - USA URL:http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/12071011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Web application customer experience management DESCRIPTION:The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group\n\n6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mi c This is your opportunity to ask questions\, get help fixing problems\, sh ow your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room\, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract : "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love (Monitoring) My Site's Use rs" Anyone who has used a Web application of even modest functionality has likely encountered at least one problem that prevented completion of a des ired task. In fact\, according to the Harris Interactive Survey\, 87% of consumers conducting transactions online have experienced problems. Testin g a Web application of more than the most trivial complexity rarely results in preventing even glaring errors that can cost the site customers. To co pe with this situation\, an ecosystem of customer experience management too ls is rapidly growing. We'll survey some of the techniques that can help y ou catch and cope with problems in your Web applications\, both before and after going live in production. Bio: Al Chou has been with TeaLeaf Techno logy\, Inc. since 2001 in various roles\, including QA Manager and Support Manager. He is currently TeaLeaf's Professional Services bespoke developme nt consultant and technical advisor. Al trained as a computational plasma physicist and works on Rails-based Web sites when the demands of the horse ranch allow. \n\nBerkeley\, CA 94701 - USA\n\nWednesday\, March 17 at 6:4 5 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/9/9/d/event_6 10653.jpeg\n\nAttending: 2\n\nDetails: http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/1 2071052/ LAST-MODIFIED:20091225T151018Z UID:event_12071052@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20091212T171017Z DTSTAMP:20100106T110651Z DTSTART:20100318T014500Z DTEND:20100318T034500Z GEO:37.87;-122.26 LOCATION:Wozniak Lounge - Soda Hall\, UC Berkeley\, Corner of Hearst & LeRo y - Berkeley\, CA 94701 - USA URL:http://ruby.meetup.com/81/calendar/12071052/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR