On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Chris Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ran your question by my department's Java guru, and he gave a strong > thumbs-up to the Houston Java Users Group (http://www.hjug.org). They will > have a meeting later this month with Neal Ford that should be well worth > attending. Also, for the Microsoft realm, consider DotNetNuke (Houston > chapter: http://dotnetnuke.meetup.com/34/ ) > Although I've not attended an HJUG meeting, I have seen that they get some good quality speakers. > > Hopefully Sammy or someone else can suggest some good RoR resources. > Funny enough, I never thought to even sign up at the local Ruby User Group at http://www.houstonrb.com/ until you mentioned that. I just joined a few minutes ago. The Ruby mailing list (Ruby-Talk @ http://www2.ruby-lang.org/en/20020104.html) is a good resource. It's a very high volume list, so I don't read it all, but occasionally a subject jumps out at me. The community expects you to look for answers and to help yourself first, but it's very friendly. They have a saying, MINSWAN - Matz (creator of Ruby) Is Nice So We Are Nice. I don't hang out on the Rails list, so I can't give it a thumbs up or down. I can also mention http://agilehouston.org/ as a good all purpose agile dev. group. The mailing list is lite, but the meetings have been top-notch (though infrequent) since the group formed last year. They had Robert Martin a couple of times recently, we did a TDD workshop working on a real project, and they may also have Neal Ford in May (or share him with HJUG). The agile mailing lists for TestDrivenDevelopment and extremeprogramming (at yahoo groups- you'll need to search for them as I'm just too lazy too look them up right now =)) are good high-volume resources for the engineering side of agile development, which touches a lot of subjects. ScrumDevelopment also has medium traffic and talks more about the management side. They're all great groups that taught me a lot about software development, but expect some dogma. I started http://www.codedojo.org/ where we meet and work out the solution to some problems - the mailing list has almost no traffic, but the meetings are always fun, even if we haven't met since October 2007. =) It's been a much busier semester than I thought it would be, but hopefully when I'm done with school I'll be able to continue on with that. I was trying to get someone else to run it, but they've been incredibly busy as well - probably more so than me. HTH, Sam -CPC > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Christopher Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > Can anyone recommend some good groups with as many cool people as this > > who focus on Java/J2EE, RoR, AJAX, and other technologies? > > > > I'm trying to branch out and there's only so much reading blogs and > > vendor documentation can do. :) > > > > Thanks! > > Chris Watkins > > Lead Developer > > Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas > > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Houston ColdFusion Users Group > www.houcfug.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
