Austin On Rails

Next Monday night (3/10/2008), we are having an AOR SXSW Happy Hour (sponsored by FiveRuns). The event is from 6-9PM in the Recreation Room at Buffalo Billiards (upstairs). There will be games galore (including Wii), beer, appetizers, and Rails geeks from all over the world. The first 100 attendees shall receive a very choice "Rails at SXSW" T-shirt. So, do come early!

You do not have to be a SXSW Interactive attendee (but if you are, just bring your badge) to enter the party. However, if you don't have a badge, please send an email to "sxsw [at] fiveruns.com" to reserve your party spot. If you're feeling particularly social and geeky, you can add your name to upcoming.org (currently over 70 Attending so far!)

Secondly, the meeting night poll concluded on March 1 and the results were strongly in favor of holding our meetings on the 4th Tuesday of the month (full poll results in the sidebar). We aren't having a regular meeting in March due to the happy hour, but we will begin our fancy new schedule in April, on April 22nd. So, please mark your calendars. I have updated the Google Calendar accordingly.

Looking forward to seeing you next Monday!

In lieu of our December meeting, we are going to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary as a group by having a holiday party. Yes, it's become an annual tradition by now...and a darn fine one at that.

We are going to meet at Buffalo Billiards on 6th Street (map) on Tuesday, December 11th from 6 to 9 PM. We currently don't have any official party sponsorship this year, so we are going to just meet up and grab some pool tables and hang out downtown at Buffalo. Should be fun!

Last year, we donated about 95 pounds of food to the CAFB (Capital Area Food Bank) and I think it would be great if we could do it again. So please, bring some non-perishable food items with you to Buffalo. I'll gather them all and then drop them off at the center. Thanks so much!

Looking forward to hanging out with you all (!) next week and shooting some pool while partaking in the beverage of your choice. :)

P.S. I'm looking for a few volunteers who are willing to meet me down there at 5:30 so we can grab up a couple of tables together. Please send me an email if you can help do this.

Here are the links for the slides:

Rob Mack's Performance Tuning Your Rails App

Rein Henrichs' REST and Rails: Web Services for the Rails World

Rock!

The Working With Rails site has been updated with a bunch of new features. One of them is a Groups feature, so I decided to create the Austin On Rails group today. Feel free to join if you are a regular attendee of Austin On Rails.