(x-posted to COCC, ChennaiRb and ILUGC) Hi Folks,
Chennai has excellent groups like Chennai OCC, ILugC and Chennai.[rb|py]. But what I found missing was a forum to have talks on technology without being focussed on a single topic. We are living in the best of times. We have tools and the computers that allow a single person to create solutions that took teams of several individuals to build. Also, as one becomes better at the craft, they tend to use the right tool for the right job. In the future, I see that there is a need for more polyglot hackers. The lines between the typical roles such as Programmer, DBA, Sysadmin and QA are blurring. Earlier each used to have separate tools and there was not much overlap. However, in the current state, DBAs need to learn Javascript to work with MongoDB and CouchDB. SysAdmins have to learn Chef or Puppet to create recipes. QAs have to learn Selenium, Cucumber, RSpec and other test suites and Programmers have to dabble with scripted tools like RVM and virtualenv. There is a great convergence of these roles leading to my favorite role - "The Passionate Hacker". This site is dedicated to such passionate hackers who are willing to advance the craft. I would want this group to foster the hacker spirit that is essential to create just about anything. Although, I am biased towards open source technologies, I do believe that people in the .NET camp should have their fair share of excitement. They are welcome here as well. This group is open to anyone who would like to pursue the exciting craft of building software. I have also setup a ChennaiGeeks.com Facebook Group[1]. To start with, I would like to catalog all the tech talks happening on various fora. I also take this opportunity to invite bloggers to contribute technical content for this blog. It could be on anything as long as it relates to technology. So long. Keep hacking. You know I will. [1]: http://bit.ly/fb-chennai-geeks Regards, Vagmi Mudumbai http://blog.chennaigeeks.com “There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." C.A.R. Hoare. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
