Ruby Hack Night

Purpose

Developers who are learning a new programming language or working toward mastery of their preferred language often have a variety of resources available to them. Online tutorials, formal training, conferences, and other events provide ample opportunity to pick up valuable skills, but don’t often provide enough hands-on experience to enhance learning.

Hack Night is a chance for developers to share experiences and enhance their skills through collaborative participation. We facilitate interaction and learning through discovering similar interests and pair-programming between attendees.

Attendees

If you’re a technical, hands-on developer who wants to hack on code while collaborating with other developers, then join us. We don’t judge based on skill level; this is a place to learn and be passionate about technology. Please bring a laptop and a project on which you’d like to work.

While most of us are Ruby enthusiasts, you are welcome to hack on whatever language you want.

If you’re a company looking to hire Ruby developers, then please explore the many other local groups that welcome recruiters; Ruby HackNight is not among them.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30: Arrival 6:30 – 7:00: Introductions 7:00 – 9:00: Coding / Collaboration 9:00 – ????: After-Hours Gathering (Optional)

Events coming up

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Past events

  • Ruby Hack Night

    18-19 May 2011 in Falls Church, United States

    A Change of Scenery!We're moving Hacknight to the Viget office space this month. Why would we do that, you might ask? First, Hacknight has always been about hacking. Cosi, our current spot, has been super hospitable but we've noticed that the space isn't ideal for collaborative hacking. We're hoping that the large desks, multiple outlets, and overhead projector at Viget will give people the opportunity to work together.Hope to see you there,Justin & Matt

  • Ruby Hack Night

    20-21 Apr 2011 in Falls Church, United States

    A Change of Scenery!We're moving Hacknight to the Viget office space this month. Why would we do that, you might ask? First, Hacknight has always been about hacking. Cosi, our current spot, has been super hospitable but we've noticed that the space isn't ideal for collaborative hacking. We're hoping that the large desks, multiple outlets, and overhead projector at Viget will give people the opportunity to work together.Hope to see you there,Justin & Matt

  • Ruby Hack Night

    16-17 Mar 2011 in Falls Church, United States

    A Change of Scenery!We're moving Hacknight to the Viget office space this month. Why would we do that, you might ask? First, Hacknight has always been about hacking. Cosi, our current spot, has been super hospitable but we've noticed that the space isn't ideal for collaborative hacking. We're hoping that the large desks, multiple outlets, and overhead projector at Viget will give people the opportunity to work together.Hope to see you there,Justin & Matt

  • Ruby Hack Night

    16-17 Feb 2011 in Falls Church, United States

    A Change of Scenery!We're moving Hacknight to the Viget office space this month. Why would we do that, you might ask? First, Hacknight has always been about hacking. Cosi, our current spot, has been super hospitable but we've noticed that the space isn't ideal for collaborative hacking. We're hoping that the large desks, multiple outlets, and overhead projector at Viget will give people the opportunity to work together.Hope to see you there,Justin & Matt

  • Ruby Hack Night

    16-17 Jun 2010 in Falls Church, United States

    Hacknight Changes & Upgrades!We're making a couple significant changes to Hacknight starting in April. First, we're changing the date. Hacknight will now be held the second Thursday of each month, instead of the second Wednesday. Making this change will allow us to reserve the back area of Cosi which has outlets, a large table, and is somewhat secluded from the rest of the cafe. Fortunately this is free of charge, which is awesome of Cosi.

  • Hack Day "Metaprogramming II"

    Sat, 5 Jun 2010, 13:30 - 15:30 in Falls Church, United States

    Hello fellow Ruby Hackers and other programming enthusiasts!It's time for another Ruby Hackday! Our previous Hackday aimed to cover the basics of metaprogramming in Ruby. By the end of the day we had covered a lot of material and like most discussions surrounding metaprogramming we successfully raised more questions than answers.

  • Ruby Hack Night May Meetup

    13-14 May 2010 in Falls Church, United States

    Hacknighters,Hopefully everyone who attended the April Hacknight enjoyed the discussion surrounding refactoring. We felt like the new format was a success, so we're going to have another discussion during our May meet up.This month's topic will be "Code Katas".For some background on what a Code Kata is, check out Code Kata Background.For an example Code Kata that would work as a discussion topic, take a look at Code Kata One - Supermarket Pricing.

  • Ruby Hack Night April Meetup

    15-16 Apr 2010 in Falls Church, United States

    Hacknight Changes & Upgrades!We're making a couple significant changes to Hacknight starting in April. First, we're changing the date. Hacknight will now be held the second Thursday of each month, instead of the second Wednesday. Making this change will allow us to reserve the back area of Cosi which has outlets, a large table, and is somewhat secluded from the rest of the cafe. Fortunately this is free of charge, which is awesome of Cosi.

  • Hack Day "Intro To Ruby Metaprogramming"

    Sat, 12 Dec 2009, 14:30 - 16:30 in Falls Church, United States

    Hello fellow Ruby Hackers and other programming enthusiasts! It's time for another Ruby Hackday! This time we'll be discussing introductory Ruby metaprogramming techniques. This event will take place on Saturday December 12th and will run from 9:30am to 1:30pm. As always, the event will be free of charge, and open to everyone. Our discussion will cover the Ruby object model, metaprogramming, and DSL creation.

  • Hack Day "Effective Testing for Rails Projects"

    Sat, 26 Sep 2009, 14:00 - 16:00 in Falls Church, United States

    Hello fellow Ruby Hackers and other programming enthusiasts! The organizers of Ruby Hack Night are organizing another "Hack Day" which will take place on Saturday September 26th from 10am to 1pm. The event will be free of charge, and open to everyone. Our topic of the day will be "Effective Testing for Rails Projects".

  • Hack Day "Refactoring Rails Controllers"

    Sat, 27 Jun 2009, 14:00 - 16:00 in Falls Church, United States

    Hello fellow Ruby Hackers and other programming enthusiasts! The organizers of Ruby Hack Night are organizing a "Hack Day" which will take place on Saturday June 27th from 10am to 1pm. The event will be free of charge, and open to anyone. Our topic of the day will be refactoring Rails controllers. This will require a brave soul to put forth their Rails code, so that we might, as a group, walk through how one might refactor a controller.

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