Indy ALT.NET has transitioned to IndySA!

Posted Sun, 12/21/2008 - 1:08am by SuperAdmin

We have all enjoyed our years of great meetings and awesome discussions. However, we feel that in order for us to grow in the direction we want, a new name is required. This decision was not taken lightly, and there was much debate on whether to do this -- and even more debate on what the new name should be. When the dust settled and the blood dried (figuratively speaking, of course) we had ourselves a new name:

Indy Software Artisans

Aside from the name change, we've also implemented a slightly different meeting style. Most, if not all, meetings will now consist of both a "soft" or more abstract topic as well as a "hard" or very techy, deep down in the code, topic. As always, everybody is free and encouraged to make suggestions to improve our meetings.

So, without further ado, here's IndySA!

(That's a link up there. Click it.)

Get your Erlang on!

Posted Fri, 12/09/2011 - 4:07pm by Dean
Date/Time: 
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Bryan Hunter

Would you like to build massively parallel, distributed, fault-tolerant, cross-platform, easily maintainable systems with less code and look cool doing it? If so, the opensource programming language Erlang has some real sweet spots for you. If you're unfamiliar with Erlang you may be surprised to learn how battle tested it is: Facebook's chat backend, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, GitHub's backend and Amazon's SimpleDB are all written in Erlang, and every phone call you make is likely helped along by some Erlang somewhere.

Lightning Bowl

Posted Tue, 11/08/2011 - 7:46pm by jonfuller
Date/Time: 
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 6:00pm
Speaker(s): 

You!

Show up at 6 for news or a minitalk (a little before for Social Pizza©).
We'll start the lightning bowl at 6:30, and probably go get some beer afterwards.

What's a lightning bowl?  It's a mix between lightning talks (where you bring your own short talk), and a fishbowl (roundtable disucssion style).  So, bring your own discussion topic, and we'll discuss several of them for 20-30 minutes each.
One topic we already thought of is: Change Mother $^%#er, Do You Speak It?
 
See you there.
 

Javascript Day

Posted Mon, 10/17/2011 - 8:48am by jonfuller
Date/Time: 
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 5:30pm

Note:  We're changing the time up just a little.  Food (pizza)/networking from 5:30-6:00.  Then some kind of informal starter at 6, till 6:30 or so.  Then the real deal gets going at 6:30.

We've got a bunch of little javascript talks queued up.  If you want to talk about Javascript, you can come and do yours too (~10-20 minutes).
Backbone, jQuery, Node, Reactive, Amplify, Knockout, Pusher, Coffee Script, Sproutcore and more.

Join the MakerBot revolution!

Posted Wed, 08/31/2011 - 1:39pm by Sasha
Date/Time: 
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Bill Steele

Join us as we host William Steele, maker of his own MakerBot Cupcake CNC.  In this session, Bill will discuss the history, construction and usage of his MakerBot Cupcake CNC.  You'll see how you can use one of these fantastic homebrew CNC 3D Printers to construct anything you can imagine.  You'll also learn how you can utilize the Thing-A-Verse to find, create and share your own ideas with others.  3D Rapid Prototyping is a fast growing segment of the homebrew space... here's your chance to see what all the fuss is about!

Mobile Web Development

Posted Thu, 08/18/2011 - 2:28pm by Sasha
Date/Time: 
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Sasha Kotlyar

You!

Join us this month for a discussion about mobile web development! We'll discuss the whys, the whats, and the hows. This will be a combination talk and fishbowl (or other format) discussion. As always, pizza and networking are at 5:30 and the presentation is at 6PM.

Lightning Bowl

Posted Thu, 07/21/2011 - 12:42am by Sasha
Date/Time: 
Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

You!

We're trying something new this month - a lightning bowl! Calm down, Zeus, it's not literally a bowl of lightning that you get to throw at people. It's a lightning talk fishbowl. In other words, bring your own fishbowl topic. So come on by and we'll discuss whatever people want to discuss in a fishbowl format. As always, pizza and networking are at 5:30 and the lightning bowl starts at 6 PM.

Git, Markdown, Code Metrics

Posted Wed, 06/08/2011 - 8:57am by jonfuller
Date/Time: 
Thursday, June 16, 2011 (All day)
Speaker(s): 

Alex Conner

Matt Swanson

Jon Fuller

Location Details: http://www.sep.com/blog/2011/01/04/2011move... - 4th floor.
 
Alex - Continuing on his git series
Matt Swanson - Markdown
Jon Fuller - Code Metrics (a discussion)
 
Join us at 5:30P or so for pizza and networking.  We'll kick off the topics ~6P and try to wrap up and give away stuff (books software, etc.) at ~8p or so.  Plan on going to get drinks afterward too!

Multitalk - Git, Mobile App Design, and Code Contracts

Posted Wed, 05/18/2011 - 10:06am by Sasha
Date/Time: 
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

Alex Conner

Sasha Kotlyar

Dean Weber

Note: we're at the same alternate location as last month.
Come join us for some great presentations! First, we've got Alex continuing his series of Git lightning talks. Then Sasha will be presenting on mobile app design from a developer's perspective. Finally, Dean will talk to us about code contracts in C# 4.
As always, pizza and networking is at 5:30 PM, and the presentations start at 6 PM.

A Fishbowl

Posted Wed, 04/20/2011 - 5:01pm by Shane
Date/Time: 
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 5:30pm
Speaker(s): 

YOU!

Please note the location change!
Join us for a fishbowl to talk about interviewing.
 
All interviewing/hiring topics are on the table.  Both sides of the coin... interviewee and interviewer.

  • Interview Style
  • Trick Questions
  • Do you have folks code in an interview
  • How to answer the 'where do you want to be in 5 years' question.
  • etc.

Also, Alex is going to grace us with a quick lightning talk in his Git series.
 
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