Development Blog: Viget Labs

Patrick Reagan, Development Director, March 26, 2009 1

I have been interested in finding an effective way to use gitjour to share code with others during hack night gatherings, but I never really sat down to figure out the correct workflow. Until last night, that is.

At the Potomac Hackers meeting, David and I decided that we were going to collaborate on something that involved Sinatra, CouchDB, and the DataMapper CouchDB adapter. We didn't get to work on any of those things, but we did make some progress toward gitjour mastery. Here's what we did:

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Ben Scofield, Technology Director, March 23, 2009 0

So our first Developer Day came to a close on Saturday, and everyone I've heard from loved it. Andy Hunt's opening keynote on Refactoring Your Wetware started everything off on the right foot, and throughout the day we had great talks on git, JavaScript, Scala, music, Ruby, and more. Add on the food (catered by downtown Durham's own Rue Cler), and we ended up providing a great experience for the attendees and speakers for a more-than-reasonable price.

In fact, we had such a fun time with this that we've decided to do it again! Stay tuned to the website and twitter for more information on Developer Day DC in late May — the high-quality, low-cost local conference at its finest.

Ben Scofield, Technology Director, March 03, 2009 1

As you may have seen over on their blog, Viget Labs is teaming up with Relevance to present Developer Day in Durham, NC on March 21st. We're very excited to be putting on great talks (on git, testing, performance, and all those other things developers care about) and providing excellent food (breakfast, lunch, and snacks) from local restaurants, all for an insanely low $50 fee. In addition, we're working hard to ensure that there'll be ample time to mingle and talk with the other attendees and the speakers, so the hallway track should be just as valuable as the rest of the conference—so don't hesitate! Check out the conference website and register today!

Patrick Reagan, Development Director, October 24, 2008 4

There was a palpable excitement in the air when I arrived at the office yesterday – voting for the Rails Rumble competition had started and 2 of the Viget teams at HQ were tracking progress as our applications bounced around at the top of the leaderboard. Ben posted the list of the competing Viget teams and the the lessons learned, so I thought I'd expand on some of lessons we learned as a team while building the Qflip application:

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Ben Scofield, Technology Director, September 08, 2008 1

Finally, back in the office! I spent the last week in Berlin for Railsconf Europe, and though the travel can be painful at times, the conference more than made up for it. A few highlights:

• Bratwurst on Rails - just like last year, the Berlin Ruby user group grilled thousands of brats for any attendees who happened to be in town Monday night. Great food and conversation.
• The keynotes - from the Tuesday night panel (with DHH, Jeremy Kemper, and Koz), to DHH's and Jeremy's Wednesday keynotes, to the symposimi/ium on Thursday morning, the plenary sessions were uniformly excellent. DHH on legacy software as product of developer growth (not as a result of code rot), and Jeremy on performance stand out in particular.
• The content - I went to a number of sessions that had outstanding content, foremost among them Sven Fuchs' on internationalization.
• The attendees - like every conference, the best part is always the other attendees. I met a number of smart, passionate people in Berlin, and I'm excited both to keep up with them and see what they (and others) will do with the burst of inspiration that conferences like this are famous for.

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