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| Rails 4 Whirlwind Tour 40 min video Can’t wait for Christmas? (Yep, that’s when Rails 4 is supposed to be released.) Bone up on its dope new features here. |
| JavaScript: Function Invocation Patterns 15 mins Writing a lot of JS these days? Make sure you understand the subtle differences in how its functions can be invoked. |
| Why I’m not Leaving Python for Go 5 mins One dev’s perspective on why he doesn’t think he’ll like Go: “Errors are handled in return values. 70′s style.” |
| Rails Rumble Winners – Gem Teardown 10 mins Keep up with the latest trends in building Rails apps – some interesting data here in terms of the tools being used by top Rails engineers these days. |
| Simplify your life with an SSH config file 10 mins A bunch of neat stuff you can use to trick out your SSH config. |
NYC EVENTS |
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| PyData NYC (Oct 26-28) The PyData conference and workshop is a semi-annual event for scientists, engineers, and data analysts in the Python community. The conference focuses on techniques and tools for management, analytics, and visualization of data of different types and sizes with particular emphasis on big data. Use the discount code “nyc-python-meetup-20″ for a 20% discount off registration. |
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| NYC MySQL Group (Mon, Oct 29) Speakers include the founder and chief engineer of NuoDB. Check out this session to see what a cloud database should be and to better understand the future of SQL. |
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| NYC Hack & Tell (Wed, Nov 7) Hack and Tell is show and tell for geeks. The format is as follows: 5 minutes to show off your hack, and 5 minutes for the audience to applaud, cry, laugh, inquiry, snore, chew, stand, sit, dance, grow, interact, etc. |
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SF EVENTS |
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| HBase User Group (Mon, Oct 29) Hear lightning talks from engineers at RocketFuel, Continuuity and Salesforce. |
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| Project stORM: an open source ORM for SQLite on Android(Tue, Oct 30) David Chandler, from Google, will be speaking on stORM, an open-source ORM for SQLite on Android. |
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| MongoDB and Gaming (Tue, Oct 30) Ben Goswami, an Analytics Engineer at KIXEYE, will discuss how we are using MongoDB to solve some of the challenging problems with big data analytics. |
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