[socal-piggies] Next meeting: Wed. Feb 22 @ spire.io offices

[Jathan McCollum]

I am in. For real this time. No seriously!

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Sean Bradley <sean at bravoflix.com> wrote:

> I'm in!
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It also looks like we have a 2nd presenter in the person of Joshua
>> Timberman from Opscode, the makers of Chef. I don't know the exact
>> topic yet, but I can guarantee it will be interesting!
>>
>> Grig
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
>> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello everybody,
>> >
>> > Thanks to Danny Greenfeld, we are able to hold our meeting in
>> > February. Danny invited over Craig Kairsterns and Kenneth Reitz from
>> > Heroku, part of the Python team there.
>> >
>> > Carlo Flores from spire.io offered to host the meeting at their
>> > offices at 7257 Beverly Blvd #210, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (it's on
>> > Beverly Blvd, just west of La Brea, between Alta Vista and
>> > Poinsettia.)
>> >
>> > The meeting will be on Wednesday Feb 22 at 7 PM.
>> >
>> > We have 1 presenter so far, Craig Kairsterns from Heroku. Here's the
>> > abstract of his talk:
>> >
>> > "In recent years there's been rapid growth in application development
>> > area. This is in large part due to trends such as better tools to
>> > manage code and dependencies, external services to aid you, and due to
>> > the elasticity of the cloud. At Heroku we have a fortunate experience
>> > to interact with thousands of application developers and see their
>> > patterns and trends as well as help influence these. We will walk
>> > through some of the recent trends and emerging trends for the future
>> > in application development. These trends will make it even easier to
>> > scale up without significant overhead, further enable continuous
>> > deployment, and improve the ease to onboard other developers into a
>> > development team. Many of these current and emerging best practices
>> > will be highlighted on Heroku with live demos, but broadly apply
>> > outside the Heroku platform."
>> >
>> > We are working on getting a second presenter.
>> >
>> > Evite will sponsor the food and drinks.
>> >
>> > Parking (from Carlo): "parking semi-tricky.  There's plenty of street
>> > parking on Beverly and south of Oakwood (one block away).  There's
>> > some gentleman running a parking lot across the street, though often
>> > times he's not there.  Pretty typical LA parking."
>> >
>> > I need to know how many people are going so we can buy appropriate
>> > amounts of food, so please reply to me personally if you intend to go.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Grig
>>
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