Meeting Details

Date: Tuesday, 10 March
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Place: Strategy Cafe
Details: Upcoming Event

We would greatly appreciate it if you could go to the Upcoming Event and indicate your intention to attend this meeting.

Meeting Abstract

We’re pleased to have two speakers for this Month’s meeting. Syed Rayhan, of Code71, will be talking about ScrumPad, a web-based Agile/Scrum project management tool. Plus, Kevin Smith will be up from Raleigh to give us a look at Erlang.

ScrumPad

ScrumPad (http://www.scrumpad.com) is Web-based Agile/Scrum project management and collaboration tool. It was developed on Ruby on Rails as Software as a Service (SaaS). Recently, he migrated ScrumPad from Rails 1.2.x to Rails 2.x. It is deployed in the Amazon cloud (Amazon Web Services, a.k.a. AWS). AWS offers a set of IT infrastructure like compute power, storage, and other as a services. As a result, the cost of infrastructure truly becomes a variable cost. The business applications running on AWS can be dialed up and down to match its fluctuating load in real-time. ScrumPad is using Amzon’s EC2, S3, EBS, and SQS. He will share his experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rails migration.

Erlang

The multicore future has arrived and now the only question is: how do we deal with it? Spend an hour learning about Erlang—the functional programming language designed for highly concurrent environments. You’ll get an introduction to Erlang’s major concepts, it’s syntax, and learn which companies are using Erlang today and what kinds of problems they’re solving.

Presenter Bios

Syed Rayhan

After twelve years of designing multi-faceted IT solutions for financial services companies, Syed H. Rayhan, co-founder of Code71, is putting his skills to the test by leading the company to provide a comprehensive suite of development, maintenance, and support services to a growing list of clients.

Syed holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School, as well as, an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida and an undergraduate degree from BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Syed is a member of the Scrum Alliance and is co-author of Enterprise Java with UML (pub. Wiley & Sons). His current interests is building in Agile fashion Enterprise 2.0 solutions running in the Cloud.

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith has, at various times, been a network administrator, DBA, developer, team lead and trainer over his 14 year career. He first learned about Erlang in 2006 via Joe Armstrong’s excellent “Programming Erlang” and has never looked back. Kevin is the author of the popular “Erlang In Practice” screencast series and producer of the popular “Hands On Erlang” training class. In his spare time, he is a developer at Engine Yard where he uses Erlang powers only for good.

We have some exciting talks lined up, already, for next year. We're always open to Topic suggestions; send them on in, via the mailing list is A-OK.

So, let's see what's in store for the first quarter

We're hoping to get Syed to come out in March since illness caused us to cancel the November meeting.

We know schedules can change last minute and we'll do our best to keep everyone informed of any changes. However, plan to attend and bring your questions.