Yes, we are going to host a Ruby meetup again in St.Petersburg on September 14.
We are going to cover Rails 3.1, CoffeeScript, Asset Papeline, Bundler’s secrets, Knockout.JS and much more.
Here is a post on the blog covering out previous meetups:
http://blog.sphereinc.com/2011/03/our-ruby-meetups-in-march-brought-over-100-developers-together/
Sphere Consulting will be participating in the annual Windy City Rails one-day conference.
On September 17, 2011, Chicago, Illinois – WindyCityRails Conference will open its doors to those who are passionate about Ruby on Rails. The conference will focus on providing training and information on Ruby on Rails for those who want to improve their skills, network with other professionals and hear the top professionals of the Ruby on Rails community.
The Windy City Rails Conference will be held at the Westin Chicago River North, Illinois and is easily accessible from the airports and via public transportation. Sphere Consulting employees will participate in WindyCityRails to share their expertise and to gain some knowledge in the latest trends in the Ruby community and to build professional relationships with the participating companies.
One of the most anticipated sessions for Sphere is GitHub flavored Ruby, by GitHub cofounder Tom Preston-Werner. Sphere has been using GitHub since 2009 and we look forward to learning how GitHub does Ruby. Another one we’re looking forward to is High Performance Ruby, by Dr. Nic Williams, EngineYard VP of Technology. Sphere is an EngineYard partner for over 1.5 years and we look forward to learning the latest on threading and evented performance.
About Sphere Consulting:
Chicago based Software Development Company, Sphere Consulting was founded in 2005 by Leon Ginsburg and has risen to become the leading Ruby on Rails development company in Chicago and the largest Ruby on Rails team in Eastern Europe. The company works with both market leaders as well as start-ups to provide robust and scalable solutions. Even though the main focus of Sphere Consulting is on development of the Ruby on Rails applications, it also servers the clients with mobile applications development and application development using Python, Java, .NET solutions and data mining. Using agile application development methodology, Sphere delivered top notch quality software to over 30 different customers.
Contact:
Sphere Consulting, Inc.
312-924-1687
http://www.sphereinc.com/
I’m very excited to write that two Ruby meetups we organized in St.Petersburg, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine could bring over a hundred Rails developers together. To be precise it was our third meetup in Russia and the first one in Kiev, Ukraine where we recently opened a new R&D center.
Sphere’s is actively developing projects with Python and this year we’re going to attend several Python conferences. Thus, if you bump into someone in a Sphere’s t-shirt, please don’t hesitate to say hi or grab us for beers 
Here is an uncompleted list of Python conferences you might want to attend. If I happened to miss some valuable conferences please add them in a comment.
At Sphere, we strongly believe that sharing our knowledge using the open-source model of development helps all of the parties involved achieve the desired results. Contributors aid each other in improving software, making the final product more suitable for the end user.
Our philosophy at Sphere rests on the notion that being a leader in software development means not only delivering quality software to our customers, but also sharing our knowledge and expertise with them.
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