Michael Bumann

Nodecamp.eu 2012

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:34:00 +0100

Nodecamp.eu was nothing but an incredible event and I was told that people really enjoyed and loved it. The quality of discussions and talks was just mind-blowing. For me I can also say the best event I’ve co-organized ;)

For those who haven’t attended: What is nodecamp.eu?
It’s a fully community driven event. No marketing bla bla. focus strictly on content, inspiring and educating talks, great hacking. A product of everyone’s participation. If you haven’t attended, ask someone who has been there.

Lately more people have asked me about nodecamp.eu in 2012:

Will there be a nodecamp.eu in 2012??

To make it short: YES! we want to have a nodecamp.eu 2012.

But for 2012 I’d like to propose something… Nodecamp.eu has been about bringing passionate people together, learning and pushing the node.js community. In 2011 we gathered at cowoco in Cologne/Germany but this is an european, international event! So Tim and I would like to see nodecamp.eu beeing hosted in another country.

We’d like to turn the nodecamp.eu into an yearly event hosted in different countries.

- somewhat similar to the Euruko. It shall become the yearly node.js event organized by the european node.js community.

Over the next week I will turn nodecamp.eu into the central resource for the event in 2012 and the next years.

What do you think?
What would you like to the nodecamp 2012 to be?

New Railslove product for the EURO 2012

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:07:00 +0100

As you might have heard, next year is the european football (soccer) championship and like for the last worldcup Railslove has an awesome betting community aka Tippspiel in the making. The Tippspiel was a big success at the latest world championship so we’ve decided to improve it and offer it for the Euro 2012.

So what is it and who is it for?

It’s a corporate betting community. The branded community app around the Euro 2012. Allowing companies to create their story around the 2-3 month long event. Features include: full customization, user/groups rankings, user 1:1 prediction battles, news and real-time results etc. ;) I don’t want to tell to much here, but drop me an email if that sounds interesting for you or someone you know.

Here is a preview of our Railslove game. hope you all will join next year:

or maybe: :D

Cologne.rb meetups in 2012

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:28:09 +0100

Last week a few rubyists met for some Glühwein and discussed the plans for the ruby meetups here in Cologne next year. These are the results.

next meetup: 18. Januar 2012
the location rotates and we’ll meet in different locations every month.
we’ll setup a new mailing list on google groups which is easier accessible as the current mailing list
we’ll use hack hcking.de to publish the events and to have an ical feed
we’ll create a new website based on the Hamburg Usergroup
Cologne.rb will be the name thus we’ll have colognerb.de and koelschrb.de

What have I forgotten? See you next year!

Cologne Ruby Meetup tonight 7:00 p.m.

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:37:00 +0100

Just a quick reminder we will meet tonight at the christmas market at Heumarkt. We’ll meet exactly here.

if you don’t find us. call me and follow my tweets.

Dear Rubyists from greater Cologne!

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:01:39 +0100

In November 2005 we’ve started the first Ruby usergroup in cologne. Back then we’ve been 4 people who met for beers. This was nearly exactly 6 years ago. Unfortunately the meetup has soon become inactive - actually I can not remember when that was and how it happened.

After that, I guess in 2007 the rurug.de started with greater success. It was a meetup which first took place in the rooms of the Chaos Computer Club Cologne. Sadly I haven’t participated in that meetup very activly :( *bad bumi*

Early this year the meetup then has moved to cowoco and renewed itself with about 30+ people attending. The following events had been awesome! Great talks and even better discussions. Unfortunatelly, after summer we’ve became very inactive again. Not many people participated on the mailing list and the event hasn’t taken place in the last two months.

WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS!!

And now is the time to rethink the meetup.
I know we have so many awesome ruby developers here in cologne, working on exciting projects!

We need to connect, share, teach in our local ruby community!
Let’s work together to bring back one of the best tech meetups in Cologne!

To get this started again I propose the following things:

changing the mailing list to something that is more accessible.
This is something I’ve heard several times. The current mailinglist is kinda hard to follow and it’s hard for people to get into the conversation. -this is especially the case for new people.
I also think the mailing list has some spam issues?!
maybe using a google group for now. I do not really like google groups but it works for cologneJS.
better organizations/archiving of the talk material like slides etc. - obviously ;)
inviting more speakers
speakers exchange is a great. I herby invite @joshkalderimis to tell us about travis-ci
meetup for some delicious Glühwein on the christmas market to discuss these things
Date: 14th Dez. 07:00pm at Heumarkt

What do you think? How do you feel about the cologne ruby meetup? Who joins me?

Cologne.rb let’s unite!

“I must not copy what I see on the Simpsons” @ New...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:32:58 +0100

“I must not copy what I see on the Simpsons” @ New Orleans

Thank you.

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:39:49 +0100

Since today is Thanksgiving I was thinking what I’m thankful for in my everyday developer life. These were the first 3 or 4 things that came to my mind.

my coworkers and our clients: For making everyday a new exciting challenge. for allowing me to work on exciting projects and to learn every day. For giving me freedom and inspiration to experiment. Without you this would be pretty boring. <3 <3 <3

Github: Can you imagine the time without github? I can not. Github made it so super awesome to share code and work together. Following and participating in OpenSource projects got so easy that it boosts my learnings everyday. Without github my developer life would be not so exciting and I would be a far worse developer.

Twitter: Twitter has become one of my main sources of information and about staying in touch with ppl all over… actually either you know why or you would not understand. ;)

The ruby community for beeing friendly, helpful, innovative, awesome. MINSWAN!

- on a sidenote: why haven’t I heard any german Erntedank stuff on the web in the last weeks?

Global Day of Coderetreat Cologne/Bonn

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:39:26 +0100

The upcoming saturday (Dez. 3rd) is Global Day of Coderetreat. It’s a world-wide event celebrating passion and software craftsmanship.

Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.

You can find more information about the Coderetreat format and the event on the official website. For cologne all the information is on a github wiki and you should follow the office twitter account for updates.

The event will take place in our office and starts at 8:30 in the morning.

See you there!

What's in your bag? - Pictures of the Railslove Team

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:08:00 +0100

Fellow Railslover Paul is currently taking pictures of the whole team. For that he also asked everyone to show what’s in our bags and took pictures of the belongings.

I really love the results. What are the pictures telling about the people? ;)

Have a look at the first batch of pictures in the photoset on facebook.

And what’s in your bag?

pablomarques: Experience Zero Gravity — beautiful footage of...

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:26:55 +0200

pablomarques:

Experience Zero Gravity — beautiful footage of ballsy people. Very ballsy.

New Hope for The Ruby Specification

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:50:20 +0200

New Hope for The Ruby Specification

Backbone.js on Rails eBook: updates and a sample

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:46:33 +0200

Backbone.js on Rails eBook: updates and a sample

Soft Rocker, A Solar Powered Lounge Chair Charging Station

Sat, 07 May 2011 22:14:10 +0200

Soft Rocker, A Solar Powered Lounge Chair Charging Station

Are We Too Dependent on Technology?

Sat, 07 May 2011 03:38:24 +0200

Are We Too Dependent on Technology?

ilearnedtoprogram.com - Share the Story of Why and How You Learned to Program

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:48:23 +0200

ilearnedtoprogram.com - Share the Story of Why and How You Learned to Program

Video

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:13:14 +0100

Video

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 04:21:47 +0100

around the web 30/11

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:12:00 +0100

Endtable, an ORM for CouchDB on Node.JS
Gitmodel - An ActiveModel-compliant persistence framework for Ruby that uses Git for versioning and remote syncing.
Fancy CSS Buttons using Compass
Baker is an HTML5 ebook framework to publish books on the iPad using open web standards
CouchDB URL API Documentation
Magentor - Ruby wrapper for the magento xmlrpc api
Ruby’s object model - Metaprogramming and other magic
RubyDrop - roll-your-own, Dropbox clone. It uses Git as the backend for file tracking and remote syncing
waterunderice - Resumable, asynchronous file uploads using WebSockets in HTML 5 compliant browsers
geo_mere_laal - Zero-effort creation of Location-aware Rails application based on W3C Geolocaton API.
Qnotifier - Qnotifier is an iPhone and iPad based Linux server monitoring application.
monittr - Ruby and web interface for Monit statistics

rspec is lovely

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:29:03 +0100

A few days ago I’ve visited my friend and fellow railslover @reddavis in bath and I was lucky to get a great rspec2 tutorial at the bathcamp (the bath unconference). rspec really has some great features that make writing and maintaining specs a lot more easy and fun. Red has posted some examples on the railslove blog. So make sure to test rspec2 and read red’s post

wkhtmltopdf - Project Hosting on Google Code

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:57:15 +0200

wkhtmltopdf - Project Hosting on Google Code