October 2014 Meetup

We're mixing things up this month :) This next Meetup will be hosted at the swanky Puppet Labs office, before their big move next month!

RSVPs will open on September 29th and you DO need to RSVP to attend this event. Please note that this will be a dry meetup: no alcohol in the Puppet space. We'll have our usual food and non-alcoholic beverages though, and as a consollation, dessert :)

Please also review the Event Code of Conduct (https://docs.puppetlabs.com/community/community_guidelines.html#event-code-of-conduct).

Schedule

6:30pm - 7:00pm: Check-In, Networking and Food
7:00pm - 7:30pm: Testing an Ember App, from the Guides to the Real World, by Lindsey Smith
7:30pm - 7:40pm: Break
7:40pm - 8:10pm: A History of Time: Why JavaScript Dates are a Mess, Tim Wood
8:10pm - 8:40pm: Networking

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Program

Testing an Ember App, from the Guides to the Real World, by Lindsey Smith

Lindsey's talk will run through Ember's testing utilities and ember-qunit to get the basics of testing. Next, he'll discover and work through some pain points that surface when testing a real Ember application.

A History of Time: Why JavaScript Dates are a Mess, Tim Wood

Tim’s talk will cover some of the technical debt acquired over the last 3 millennia concerning the measurement and representation of time. Zero-indexed months in JavaScript will seem like a trivial problem by comparison.

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Sponsors

Puppet Labs is the leader in IT automation. Our software (http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/) helps sysadmins automate configuration and management of machines and the software running on them. With our software, businesses can make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices, across physical and virtual machines, on prem or in the cloud.

Based in Portland, Oregon (http://puppetlabs.com/contact), Puppet Labs employs more than 300 people (http://puppetlabs.com/about/careers). We’ve raised $86 million from our investors (http://puppetlabs.com/about/investors): Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Radar Partners, Triangle Peak Partners, True Ventures and VMware.

HealthSparq® develops healthcare transparency software solutions for health plans and employers to offer to their members and employees. The result turns patients into informed healthcare shoppers, allowing them to seek out better care, make smarter choices and save money.

HealthSparq is a recurring Ember Meetup supporter and sponsor—thanks so much!