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I apologize for this late change:

Marshall's company is sending him out of town and he won't be able to make the meeting. He'll do his talk on Heroku in December instead (and demo a cool related iPhone app)

Also, I'm out with the flu and won't be able to make it (trust me, you don't want what I have) If any of you want to get together still feel free to show up. We'll probably cancel the community room so you won't have to buy the $50 worth of food/drink to use it.

Our May meeting will be soon after RailsConf and Day Of Ruby so we will discuss those events.

Also Tom Stovall (@stovak) will be discussing parameter binding in the JQuery and Prototype javascript frameworks. He's prepping a talk for BarCamp and will be giving us a sneak preview.

See you all there.

Driving Directions:
Take I-275 to the Fowler Avenue exit (#51) and head east, or take I-75 south to the Fowler Avenue exit (#265) and head west. The main entrance to the university is at 4202 East Fowler Avenue.

More directions: http://www.usf.edu/dir_tpa.html
Campus Map: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/campus_map/

- Once you pull in the USF main entrance, go straight past the first light.
- Go past the library (large building on your right) and take a right into the parking lot north of the library.
- The education building is north-east of the Library. You may need to park in the guest area in the parking garage. (Guest permit costs $4)

The Laptop Lounge is located in room EDU-252 in the Education Building at USF. Get to the second floor and walk around the perimeter hallway to the back side of the building where you should be able to find room EDU-252. If you need help finding it, call the room at (813) 974-6816.

This meeting begins our second in a series of Mini-BarCamp / Lightning Talk meetups. Please come to the meetup with 5 to 10 minute short talks (or longer if the topic excites you) related to the topic. If the topic is new to you, its an opportunity to learn something and come share. Or maybe just come with some questions ready to discuss.

This month we'll be discussing Ruby/Rails Testing Frameworks.

Some ideas:

Bring some Ruby/Rails code you think is well tested and brag
Bring some Ruby/Rails code you want help on testing and we'll live-code test it.
Bring an idea for a small feature/app/class to develop with TDD/BDD approach.
Bring some TDD/BDD success/failure stories.
Others?

See you all there.

Driving Directions:
Take I-275 to the Fowler Avenue exit (#51) and head east, or take I-75 south to the Fowler Avenue exit (#265) and head west. The main entrance to the university is at 4202 East Fowler Avenue.

More directions: http://www.usf.edu/dir_tpa.html
Campus Map: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/campus_map/

- Once you pull in the USF main entrance, go straight past the first light.
- Go past the library (large building on your right) and take a right into the parking lot north of the library.
- The education building is north-east of the Library. You may need to park in the guest area in the parking garage. (Guest permit costs $4)

The Laptop Lounge is located in room EDU-252 in the Education Building at USF. Get to the second floor and walk around the perimeter hallway to the back side of the building where you should be able to find room EDU-252. If you need help finding it, call the room at (813) 974-6816.

This meeting begins our first in a series of Mini-BarCamp / Lightning Talk meetups. We will be posting topics several meetups in advance (for now at http://tamparuby.github.com/ to allow people to review the topic and come to the meetup with 5 to 10 minute short talks related to the topic. If the topic is new to you, its an opportunity to learn something and come share. Or maybe just come with some questions ready to discuss.

This month we'll be discussing Git, the distributed revision control system sweeping through the open source community, especially the Ruby and Rails communities.

To learn more about Git here are some resources:

Pragmatic Version Control with Git ($$) -- Pragmatic Programmers
http://gitcasts.com
http://git-scm.com/
http://railscasts.com/episodes/96-git-on-rails
http://railscasts.com/episodes/113-contributing-to-rails-with-git
Our IRC channel #tampa.rb on freenode.net

Sample talk topics:

Converting from SVN to Git
Working in remote teams with Git
Branching strategies with Git (e.g. one branch per bug or feature)
Using github.com to foster open source development
Why I don't like Git
Neat Git tricks you may not know

See you all there.

Driving Directions:
Take I-275 to the Fowler Avenue exit (#51) and head east, or take I-75 south to the Fowler Avenue exit (#265) and head west. The main entrance to the university is at 4202 East Fowler Avenue.

More directions: http://www.usf.edu/dir_tpa.html
Campus Map: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/campus_map/

- Once you pull in the USF main entrance, go straight past the first light.
- Go past the library (large building on your right) and take a right into the parking lot north of the library.
- The education building is north-east of the Library. You may need to park in the guest area in the parking garage. (Guest permit costs $4)

The Laptop Lounge is located in room EDU-252 in the Education Building at USF. Get to the second floor and walk around the perimeter hallway to the back side of the building where you should be able to find room EDU-252. If you need help finding it, call the room at (813) 974-6816.