Novelys

As the Euruko 2010 videos are now online, a resume of the event is now up on Ruby Inside. With a nice quote regarding our sponsorship :

The organizers asked me to specially thank their biggest sponsor Novelys – a team of French Ruby on Rails experts.

Just a quick note on why we sponsored Euruko. First, I have some polish blood in my veins. More seriously, we’re always happy to sponsor tech events related to how we work at Novelys. We contribute open source code but we’re also engaged in open source tech events. Furthermore, we heared about Applicake, Ela Madej and Paul Klipp well before Euruko and we were sure that they will do a good job organizing Euruko in the lovely city of Krakow. And we weren’t disappointed ! Euruko 2010 went great and we met a lot of bright and fun people

While buying some stuff in a Puma store in Strasbourg, I asked brazenly if it was possible to buy those cute little pinguins they in had in the shopwindow. The shopgirl answered that, unfortunately, it was not possible to buy them. But! But, at the end of the season, in june or july, they will find new homestays for their penguins. We let our name, and voilà, 6 months later, a new coworker in the CPPlex !
A quick poll on twitter and Facebook help us find his name : welcome Pen Pen ! Thanks to @nmerouze who was the first one to suggest that name.

Obligatory geek reference.

Today, with David and Yann, we were at the MongoFR event at the coworking space called La Cantine, in Paris.
Courageously, Yann registered himself as a talker to present “Ruby et MongoDB dans la pratique” and was the first speaker on the main conference room.

10gen, the company that created the MongoDB database and sponsored the MongoFR event, was well represented by some people from there who made some speaks:

• Kyle Banker, talked about “Schema design“
• Mathias Steam, talked about “Administration” and “Map/reduce, geospatial indexing, and other cool features” (you can see all his Mongo presentations on Github)
• Alberto Lerner, talked about “Indexing and Query Optimizer”
• Dwight Merriman, talked about “Replication and Replica Sets”
• Eliot Horowitz, talked about “Sharding”

But there were also some French MongoDB addicts:

• Mathieu Poumeyrol talked about “MongoDB for timeline storage at Fotopedia“… not exactly, he changed his talk to a feedback with MongoDB at Fotopedia
• Cyril Mougel, talked about “Comment passer de MySQL á MongoDB par un cas pratique, Oupsnow“
• Nicolas Clairon, talked about “Enjoy Your Development with MongoKit”
• Erwan Arzur & Nicolas Fouché, talked about “MongoDB at Silentale”

Well, a great day, some high-level but interesting talks, and a lot of photos made by AF83 on Flickr and David on his Flickr too (but still no dev girls except me…)!

Today, I went to the DroidCamp with Stéphane, so I was no more the only one French there.
When we first arrived, we took our nice polo shirt and badge and a big German breakfast!

German breakfast @DroidCamp

The DroidCamp begun at 10a.m with the classical presentation of BarCamp concepts and staff members, and then the famous 3-tags people presentation.

There were 4 dedicated rooms for the sessions and I followed these ones:

• session 1: “Ruboto: Ruby on Android”
  • The goal is to have the possibility to easily develop Android apps using Ruby: http://ruboto.org/
• session 2: “native ‘enhanced’ vs. web apps”
• special session: “Blinkendroid world record”
  • 51 Android devices playing an animation (useless but funny!):
• session 3: “Windows phone 7 #shocked?”
  • If you’re interested and you speak German, you can see the slides on slideshare: windows-phone-7-talk
• session 4: “Android for business”

As we were very tired after this day, we didn’t follow the last session…

I just want to say THANK YOU again to the organization team, and especially to Benny, Moritz and Markus. See you at the next DroidCamp!

Today, well this afternoon, I was attending the first part of the AndroidCamp which took place in Stuttgart: The beginners workshop.
The goal was to show to people how to develop Android apps using Eclipse, Android SDK and ADT plugin for Eclipse (in other words, a newbie session).

Benny, Moritz and Sven had the hard task to present to more than 30 persons how to build an Android app, and in english because of me (I don’t speak German). As almost everybody wasn’t used to develop with Eclipse, they shown us very slowly each steps to create an Android Project, an Android virtual device based on whatever Android SDK version and run your project.
So, we built a very basic “Hello World” app to see how this is structured and how it works.

Thanks to this beginners workshop, I had a great introduction to Android development despite of the fact that I was using Java and its ugly syntax.

What’s next?

• tomorrow I’ll attend the AndroidCamp second part.
• make my own Android app, maybe I’ll code it tomorrow, called BonjourMonsieur to have an eye breaking every morning on my Desire!

Euruko 2010 afterparty, originally uploaded by novelysfrance.

We’re back from Euruko 2010 and we’re very pleased to have sponsored this conference !

We went to Krakow with Yann to attend the event. And thanks to Paul Klipp, Ela Madej and the rest of the organizing crew, Euruko 2010 was a bliss. The conference room was fully packed with Rubyist and good technical talks. Beside, you will find good overview of the 2 days conference here and here.

Bonus1 : Krakow is really a lovely city.

Bonus2: we even had a chance to take a photo with Matz, the creator of the Ruby language !

Novelys is sponsoring Euruko 2010, the european Ruby conference, that will take place this year in the lovely city of Krakow, Poland, the 29th and 30th of May.

More info here http://euruko2010.org

We are truely happy to welcome Frédéric Boehler as a new member of Team Novelys today. He will be our Art Director.

As for now, Novelys is a complete webshop, from Ruby/Rails programming to UI/UX designing !

New website? New blog? Year 2010 begins with new stuff at Novelys

You can now become a fan of Novelys on Facebook, follow us on twitter and see our presentations on slideshare.

And we now have also a technical blog : http://escalators.novelys.com.