NYC On Rails: Technical Talks
Details
NYC on Rails* is back and we have some stellar presenters lined up for our monthly technical presentations! The evening will feature short Ruby/Rails-related talks, followed by Q&A, and networking.
PIZZA AND BEER are kindly being sponsored by our friends at ChallengePost (http://challengepost.com/). Come by at 6:45pm to grab a slice and a drink. Talks will start promptly at 7pm.
Lineup for 8/7
Francis Gulotta (https://twitter.com/reconbot) of Wizard Development (http://www.wizarddevelopment.com/) - "Hacker Chat: Why You Might Not Need Servers"
Carlos Lazo (https://twitter.com/CarlosPlusPlus) of TimeInc. (http://www.timeinc.com/) - "Large Scale Rails: WebDev at Big Companies"
Benjamin Pollack (http://bitquabit.com/page/about/) of Knewton (http://www.knewton.com/) - "How Knewton Deploys"
PLEASE INCLUDE FIRST AND LAST NAME IN RSVP TO ALL NYC ON RAILS EVENTS.
*For those of you looking for the "Flatiron Presents" meetups of yore (featuring The Flatiron School students), we've moved them here (https://www.meetup.com/Flatiron-School-Presents/?trax_also_in_algorithm2=original&traxDebug_also_in_algorithm2_cookied=original&traxDebug_also_in_algorithm2_picked=original).
About the Presenters:
Francis Gulotta (https://twitter.com/reconbot) is CEO of Wizard Development by day but loves to hack on robots with ruby and javascript by night. He loves to teach and believes education is the key to a healthy life.
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Carlos Lazo (https://twitter.com/CarlosPlusPlus) worked for the Department of Defense for 5 years, course corrected at the Flatiron School in Summer 2013, and is now a Rails Developer / Program Manager at Time, Inc. He's passionate about consistent learning, good engineering practices, and always having fun doing what you're doing.
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Benjamin Pollack (http://bitquabit.com/page/about/) works on scaling and deployment at Knewton. He was previously at Fog Creek Software and later founded Kiln with a friend. In his free time, he works on his screenplay and novel, plays classical piano, and codes - for fun!
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PLEASE INCLUDE FIRST AND LAST NAME IN RSVP TO ALL NYC ON RAILS EVENTS.
*For those of you looking for the "Flatiron Presents" meetups of yore (featuring The Flatiron School students), we've moved them here (https://www.meetup.com/Flatiron-School-Presents/?trax_also_in_algorithm2=original&traxDebug_also_in_algorithm2_cookied=original&traxDebug_also_in_algorithm2_picked=original).