news-and-tidbits

Matt Buck and the otherinbox guys have just launched RubyDojo.

from their website
What: A chance to improve the Ruby libraries we all know and love with your fellow Rubyists
Where: The OtherInbox offices (current Austin on Rails location)
When: 5:30 the day of the monthly Austin on Rails meetings

Speaking of Rails: Tonight's Austin On Rails meeting marks the 4th Anniversary of the group. At the first meeting, Damon Clinksales presented Rails 1.0 to a single table of enthusiasts. From that meeting, it's grown to one of the strongest local Rails communities in the country.

Congrats to Damon, Matt, and everyone who's helped make this all happen.

-Lynn

Infoworld just published an article on the top 10 emerging enterprise technologies. At first glance, it looks like a pretty good list:

10. Whitelisting
9. Cross-platform mobile app dev
8. Hardware power conservation
7. Many-core chips
6. Solid-state drives
5. NoSQL databases
4. I/O virtualization
3. Data deduplication
2. Desktop virtualization
1. MapReduce

Read the full article at InfoWorld.

By the way: look for an announcement about NoSQL Camp Austin in the next few days.

-Lynn

What have I been telling you? Is Austin DrupalTown or what? First, the DrupalCamp Austin website has been launched. The registration fee is only $40. Two days of drupaliciousness for only $40 -- right here in Austin. Register now!.

Second, it was announced this week that Dries Buytaert (wikipedia), the creator of Drupal, will be at SXSWi 2010. Now I can quit begging Hugh.

Third, this month's Austin Drupal Meetup on October 28th features Michael Godeck speaking on drupal database management, drush, & command line scripting.

Fourth, Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization, the new book by Ben Finklea, CEO of Volacci, just made the front page of Drupal.org. Congrats, Ben! Last, David Strauss, of Austin's own Four Kitchens, was just interviewed by the Lullabots regarding PressFlow -- 4K's high performance enhancement of Drupal. Listen to the interview here.

-Lynn