Our next meeting is Tuesday, September 14th. Add it to your calendar now.

Pre-meeting at Chick-fil-a at 6, post-meeting at Charlie Hoopers when we're done.

Schedule:

• Sean Cribbs (@seancribbs) will talk about Riak, how it works, why you might want to choose Riak, and how to use Ripple as your own persistence layer. (more about Riak below)
  
• Wes Garrison (@wesgarrison) will talk about Caching in Rails.
  
• Lightning talks welcome, limited to 5ish minutes. Get up and show off your latest gem or neat technique.
  

Riak is the hot new “NoSQL” database from Basho that scales like the Web using 100% organic free-range unicorns. ActiveModel is the hot new framework in Rails 3 that extracts the best parts of ActiveRecord. Put them together and you’ve got Ripple, the fully-loaded Ruby client and modeling library for Riak.

Ideas:
We want to give presenters a little more notice, so we'll be going over our ideas and to pick the next month's talks before/at/after the meeting.

We do have some ideas on the ideas list:
http://www.meetup.com...

If you see an idea you'd like to see a talk on, vote it up. If there's something you want to learn about or want to talk about, add it to the ideas section.