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February 13 Meeting Agenda (Version #5)

Three year anniversary party!

7:00 p.m. Lightning talks and announcements
As always, anybody is encouraged to get up and do impromptu announcements and/or talks on tiny little subjects. We enforce a strict five-minute time limit.

7:10 p.m. Testing Clinic
Francis Hwang
Francis sits down with Jake Howerton, Sebastian Delmont, and Jesse Chan-Norris to go over real-life code and real-life testing strategies.

A video of the presentation is available here

8:00 p.m. Raffle
We’ll be holding a free raffle for two publications:

1. A copy of Ruby for Rails by our friend and occasional-NYC.rb attendee David Black, given to us by the good folks at Manning Publications.
2. One to-be-determined book from the good folks at O’Reilly.
3. One free PeepCode screencast, made possible by Topfunky.

8:10 p.m. Refactoring Rails Applications
Trotter Cashion
Refactoring is the changing of your program to improve its readability or structure without affecting its results. Trotter will explain the need and process for refactoring Rails applications.

A video of the presentation is available here

Three year anniversary party!

7:00 p.m. Lightning talks and announcements
As always, anybody is encouraged to get up and do impromptu announcements and/or talks on tiny little subjects. We enforce a strict five-minute time limit.

7:10 p.m. Testing Clinic
Francis Hwang
Francis sits down with Jake Howerton, Sebastian Delmont, and Jesse Chan-Norris to go over real-life code and real-life testing strategies.

A video of the presentation is available here

8:00 p.m. Raffle
We’ll be holding a free raffle for two publications:

1. A copy of Ruby for Rails by our friend and occasional-NYC.rb attendee David Black, given to us by the good folks at Manning Publications.
2. One to-be-determined book from the good folks at O’Reilly.
3. One free PeepCode screencast, made possible by Topfunky.

8:10 p.m. Refactoring Rails Applications
Trotter Cashion
Refactoring is the changing of your program to improve its readability or structure without affecting its results. Trotter will explain the need and process for refactoring Rails applications.

A video of the presentation is available here