Second internal meetup at Twinslash
Sasha told us about hackathons, about Garage48 this year and about the winner Metrics Cat, about marketing and productivity. Sergey went through GTD and about principles of time-management. Tanya told us about conflicts and how to deal with them.
Next meetup is on next Thursday. We’ll talk about app deployments and about high load, databases, and search engines for Russian texts.
From: dima.zhlobo@twinslash.com
To: all@twinslash.com
Subject: Meetup Announcement for February 28, 2013
Hi everyone,
Folks, I’ve been thinking about this for some time and have decided to organize a corporate meetup. We all are working on different projects with different technologies (e.g. mysql, postgres, mongodb) and 100% we learn something new every week. However, when someone meet a proplem that another person had not so long ago, they had to solve it from beginning. It’s good if they ask about it in a chat, but if not — quite some time gets wasted. So I got an idea to organize weekly corporate meetups where we could share knowledge and experience, invent new ideas for our (mini-)startups and just talk about technical and non-technical topics.
This Thursday (February 28, 2013) at 18:30 in big meeting room we’ll have the first meetup, where we will certanly discuss pros and cons of code reviews and discuss about ideal company and about things we wish to have in Twinslash (prepare your questions ;)). All topics are related to everyone, not only rubysts.
I imaging a format like this: short talks for 5-10 minutes and discussions. I don’t think we need exact rules. Everyone who wants to present something or share something with everyone may prepare a talk and present it. It’s even possible to announce your topic right on the meetup and improvise ;). While we don’t have a whiteboard and a projector in the meeting room, all our presentations will be verbal. I think it’s even better. Perhaps we’ll bring whiteboard from Artek room.
I wait everyone on Thursday in the big meeting room with a short presentation about a topic you’re insterested in or just with good mood.
Reply me with any ideas or suggestions for meetups. If you want someone to make a talk about something — just ask them.
I’ve started the cookbook — a knowledge base with guides, articles about good practices and programming recipes. The idea is to structure company-wide information and facilitate knowledge sharing.
I’ve made a talk on the very first Minsk.rb meetup organized by Twinslash.
Slides: ruby-code-analysis.pdf (on Speaker Deck).
Other talks:
🧑💻 Started working as Ruby Developer at Twinslash
Quit network administrator job by the end of academic year
First version of tau is released. Tau is a tool for web designers who want to build websites using modern technologies such as haml, scss, coffee script and others.
Attended LVEE Winter 2012
Visited SEF.BY To Students.
The best motivational talk was from Mikita Mikado: youtube.com/watch?v=UZ0F3Ao6Ce0.
Disassembled old LAN in the BSU dormitory №3 that was closed in 2011. Made it possible to reuse old cables and switches.
👨💻Started working as a network administrator in Belarussian State University
A lot of kilometers were cycled this summer.
Visited a town where I was born and where my grandma lives:
The places I knew from my childhood are slowly getting destroyed:
Location: 53.129845, 30.802798 (on Google Maps).
My grandparents used to work at the organization called “Selhoztehnika” (“Agricultural Machinery”) and I loved to go to the job with them, either with my grandma to the gas station (the private one used by the organization) or with my grandpa working on a truck Kamaz:
Location: 53.141151, 30.819682 (on Google Maps).
Abandoned gas station:
Visited an abandoned town, people were evicted from there after the Chernobyl:
Location: 53.130360, 30.864556 (on Google Maps).
Made 95 km on bicycle
Arrived to my grandma.
A yard where I spent my childhood:
2 new books are arrived
Upgrading Kubuntu to 11.04