I haven’t been blogging much lately here but I’ve been writing on the Intellum Blog. You can read my posts here:
The traveling German carpenters
Building Sproutcore with Garcon
Using Riak session store with express.js
Ronaldo means so much more than soccer for my generation
Cheers!
I haven’t blogged for a while but I’m back. Here is a quick update of what I’ve been up to:
I gave two talks in the last two weeks and I wanted to post them here also.
I gave the first one at the DC Ruby Users Group. The topic was SproutCore as I’ve been working with this new web framework recently. Below find the video of the talk. The quality is not great. I recorded it with my Flip camcorder but I had placed it next to the projector and it seems to have caused some interference.
However, most of the presentation is me doing some live coding and I had created a screencast where I went through the same tutorial. You can see this one below:
You can also download the whole screencast as a single file from here: Download Full Video Tutorial.
Also, yesterday, I got to talk about GroupDock at a local meetup. The event is called Startup Rockstars and it gives entrepreneurs a venue to showcase what they’ve been working on. The talk was very short (less than 6 minutes) and you can find the video below:
Hope you get to watch the videos and please give me some feedback/comments below.
I’ll try not to let a whole year go by before my next blog post 
If you are software developer or entrepreneur based in the Washington DC area, there are a few interesting events coming up that I would like to share with you.
Bootstrap Maryland in College Park on May 2nd
Jared Goralnick is putting together an interesting conference for entrepreneurs. “Bootstrap Maryland brings together young entrepreneurs and the necessary tools for running a lean and successful technology business.”
becamp in Charlottesville, VA on May 8-9
I attended last year’s becamp in Charlottesville and it was a great event. There is a small but very interesting tech community in Charlottesville and people drove from Richmond or Northern Virginia.
Charlottesville is also a great city. If you’ve never been there, becamp is your excuse to go visit. It’s the home of the best public school in the country and there is a lot to visit around Charlottesvile: wineries, Monticello, The Lawn, etc…
Developer Day in Falls Church, VA on May 30
I drove down to Durham, NC for the first developer day a few weeks ago and it was definitely worth the 4 hour drive. Now, our friends at Viget are bringing Developer Day to Falls Church. Highly recommended if you are a Ruby developer.
RubyNation in Reston, VA on June 12-13
The second edition of RubyNation is coming in June 12-13. They started announcing the speakers and it seems like a it will be another great conference.
My co-founder at ShareMeme, Ahson Wardak, will be speaking at TechStart 2009 at the University of Virginia, next Thursday. Stop by if you are in the area. It should be a great event.
A few updates regarding DC Startup Weekend and HolaNeighbor. We are having a launch party next Saturday at Buffalo Billards in DC. Everyone is invited so please join us.
We have a flickr group, facebook group, and myspace group.
And we also have some great viral marketing videos:
The dev team is working hard to have the product launched tonight. We’ll stay late to reach that goal but we are all having a great time.
I’ve been at DC Startup Weekend since yesterday. The idea is to build a business in one weekend. We got a group of 74 people working in all aspect of the business: web design, web development, marketing, business development, usability. For more details, check out www.startupweekend.com.
You can track our progress at dc.startupweekend.com or on twitter.
We have decided what the company is going to do last night: it’s a platform to build social networks for communities. We have a splash page up already at www.holaneighbor.com.
