May Meeting: Eric Pugh and Hightech Cville
Posted by melriffe, Sun May 09 16:20:00 UTC 2010
Meeting Details
Date: Tuesday, 11 May
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Place: Dominion
Meeting Note:
The location is where the RJUG usually meets. Plus, on the mailing list there is a thread started that should be used to submit your name, company, and email address to meet Dominion’s security requirements. I apologize for the inconvenience but Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.
Abstract:
HighTechCville is what happens when you have a month of paternity leave and are up at 3 AM, you’ve never seen a plugin or gem you couldn’t embed, and you want to learn more about crawling and indexing data, and that whole Semantic Web thing. We’ll go through some of the lessons I learned in the mean streets of scraping the Inter-tubes, from the pain of API throttles, the disappointment that Scrubyt was, to the ecstasy of HTTParty and OpenCalais.
Bio:
Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web.
In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software, with a focus on Solr. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development.
Announcements:
June
RailsConf is from 7 June to 10 June. Therefore there will be no regularly scheduled meeting, at least there’s no speaker scheduled for June. How many are attending RailsConf? Would there be interest in a social to discuss the conference?
July
There is no speaker scheduled for July. I will be scheduling a social; stay tuned for details.
