Jan 4-6, 2011 events in tech and innovation

I met Charlie O'Donnell last week at #techsnowball, an "impromptu snowball fight" in Madison Square Park that was publicized to the NYC innovation and tech community from Charlie's weekly email list (see www.thisisgoingtobebig.com).  It also got covered by CNN!  Anyway, here's his list of this week's events in NYC tech and innovation.
Happy networking,
Katharine
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Tuesday, January 4th

6:30PM Distributed Computing with Scala and GridGain

Nikita Ivanov of GridGain systems will present the use of Scala with the GridGain framework for cloud computing.

2/3 of the presentation will be devoted to live coding demonstration of writing basic MapReduce application in Scala using GridGain middleware.  The other 1/3 will be spent comparing Angry Birds and Animal Farm, relating both to the current political climate.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/ny-scala/calendar/15665134/


Wednesday, January 5th

6:30PM Breaking the Software Death Cycle with Domain Driven Design

We were standing in front of 7-figure deals, as long as we could transform the desktop application into an Enterprise-ready system. We focused exclusively on solving technical problems of scale and failed.

After a year worth of work it brought the company to a halt, lead to the first year of non-growth and put the software in a death cycle. Half of the company was laid off. Scrum and DDD were introduced and lead to a new level of enthusiasm and market success.  Today, our workdays are like 8 tantric hours with Sting--glorious.  We give credit for a successful transformation to DDD. We'll discuss how our transformation was triggered and how DDD was scaled gradually to a team of 50 engineers.

RSVP: http://www.dddnyc.org/calendar/15302867/


Thursday, January 6th

6:30PM Ruby Games @ Patch

No its not an exploration of Gaming frameworks via ruby. Rather think of this as an exercise in Ruby as a group and individuals.  Do you remember the Ruby Quiz? Ruby Koans? Ruby Chutes and Ladders? Ruby Boggle? Ruby Operation?  Hungry Hungry Ruby Devs?  Exercise your ruby chops against some challenging problems.

RSVP:  http://www.meetup.com/nycruby/calendar/15584038/


7PM The Product Group: Dinevore

Dinevore's mission is to help people discover, organize, and share the best restaurant advice on the web. Our users create and share mini restaurant guides which other users enroll in and combine to discover new places.  For example, here's a list of restaurants you're likely to run into NYC venture investors and angels.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/TheProductGroup/calendar/15105368/