East Bay Ruby Meetup

The East Bay Ruby Meetup today was pretty awesome. In short: presentation on Vagrant by Mitchell Hashimoto, and guest visit by Gregg Pollack of Code School fame.

Vagrant is a great virtualization / deployment / setup / devOps tool which you can configure with shell/ruby/puppet/chef. I learned a lot listening to the presentation. Seems like a very bright future for the project. Lots of companies use it, Github, Mozilla, BBC News, Yammer, Expedia, Disqus and the New York Times to name a few. Mitchell Hashimoto’s definitely made a great product.

Also neat to see Gregg Pollack peruse and walk into the room. He’s doing a presentation later this week at the San Francisco Ruby on Thursday on good development practices. So neat to see him in the room. Yes, currently he leads the codeschool online learning resources, but honestly I first remember the videos that came back way back when comparing Ruby on Rails vs the World. Yes, I met Mr. Ruby on Rails….“Hi, I’m Ruby”… Lol….

Got to shake both Mitchell’s and Gregg’s hand. Pretty neat for one day. Meet both people in East Bay Ruby, and last time 2 month’s ago, listened to Yehuda’s talk on Ember. Pretty darn awesome. I’m liking this East Bay Ruby Meetup, John and Rich lead a good meetup group. To be commended. Great speakers, but also a nice homey feel to the group too–something not always found in Meetup groups.

JL