This is the website for the Western Massachusetts Developers' Group. We meet up twice every month (every other Thursday). Our meetings are pretty casual, if you're involved in any kind of development and are in our area, stop by our next meeting and join our e-mail list, we also have a Facebook group. You might also catch us on IRC (niven.freenode.net) in the #wmassdevs channel.
Our next meeting is tonight, Thursday January 3rd. Ring in 2008 with a developer meeting!
And not just mildly inclement, I mean seriously unpleasant. They say a foot of snow, starting at noon!
Our next meeting will be next week (12/20) and the meeting on Christmas week (12/27) has been canceled. Or rescheduled for our glass-half-full developers. 
That’s right, we have another developer meeting coming up this week. We’ll be gathering at Panera Bread this Thursday (Dec. 13) in Hadley at 7:00, most likely towards the back. Join us for some coffee or maybe a sandwich and chat about what you’ve been working on lately.
Doug sent out this e-mail to the mailing list today about our new Facebook group.
In our never ending quest to stay hip and relevant in today’s world we’ve
setup a Facebook group for the developer’s meeting:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20811386120
The name of the group is “Western Mass Developers” in case the link above
does not work for you.There is a photo and a video up there from last night. None of the photos
from my camera where that good — I think it was set for manual instead of
automatic so the focus was off on almost all the pics.The video should help dispel the illusion your significant other may have of
the group being a modern day Algonquin Round Table — as my wife said when
she saw it: “wow, it’s just a bunch of guys sitting around talking”.
A link has been added to the blurb at the top of our website, too.
That’s right, it’s meeting time again! Our next meeting is scheduled for this week at Panera Bread in Hadley. We’ll be meeting up at our usual time, 7:00 pm. Stop by for a sandwich or some coffee and some friendly tech-savvy chatter.
Having Monday off has left me confused once again, it turns out I’ve been living my life one day behind.
The next developer meeting is tomorrow night, 7:00pm at Panera Bread in Hadley. I will definitely be there, the call of the chicken salad sandwich and the hot coffee is simply too much for me to ignore.
See you tomorrow!
Our next Developer meeting is coming up this week, Thursday November 1st. We’ll be meeting up at our usual spot, Panera Bread in Hadley. Stop by around 7:00pm for some coffee or even a sandwich. 
I have installed OS X and I’ll have been using it for almost a full week. For those of you who let cowardice rule your lives, I will be available to answer questions. 
Paul couldn’t make it to the meeting this week, I have attempted to carry on the tradition of note-taking in his absence.
I took some notes at our last meeting. These are by no means exhaustive, they’re just the things that managed to catch my ear.
Mac OS X Leopard: will it still support PowerPC machines? The answer, we believe, is “Yes”. In related news, Lou has finally joined us in the naughts and has upgraded his workstation to two processors.
Paul’s notes make us look both smarter and busier. His minutes are great and have even impressed somebody’s wife: “Wow, you guys really do a lot at those meetings!”
An SDK for the iPhone will be available in February. We suspect that all the new applications will be available through iTunes. Miles seems pretty positive that there will be some easy method for developers to deploy to their own iPhones for testing but that it will be tricky or weird to get these apps on other people’s phones without going through Apple.
FaceBook is going to start selling music through their website, they could be a real challenger for iTunes. In related news, MySpace still sucks. They announced an API for developing some kind of horrible ugly MySpace apps but it’s still not actually available.
Facebook does some crazy shit: they have been known to deploy with almost no testing of any kind. “It’s real Wild West over there. They throw some shit on the wall and see what sticks.” Also overheard: “What do you expect from PHP developers?”
Microsoft’s e-mail reports are great, they are probably the best in the field. If you run a mail server you can sign up for these reports, they are pretty detailed and tell you things like how many messages Microsoft received from your mail server, what their status is, how they were routed and if they were tagged as spam.
The process of signing up for an OpenID could be smoother and easier. Several of us signed up when Miles wanted people to vote on Jyte for a meeting way back. Almost no one has used it since.
Joe rocks the Linux PPC t-shirt. It makes me wish I still had my old MkLinux t.
Sender ID and SPF are totally worth it. Suddenly all of your spam, I mean mail, will be delivered unmolested.
People are throwing parties and inviting people they don’t know. Like, not even one person they know. Out of three thousand.
Another bad Lisp joke was told. Another round of dry, mirthless chuckling was heard.
“Tell me if this sounds asinine…”
JavaScript tracking tools like Google or Mint: are they killing web server log file analyzers? It looks like the answer is yes, yet these products are clearly collecting inferior data. We suspect they are winning because they are so much prettier.
We have another meeting coming up this week on Thursday the 15th! We’ll be meeting up at Panera Bread in Hadley at our usualy time, 7:00pm.
Our next developer meeting is this week, Thursday October 4! We will be meeting up at our usual location: Panera Bread in Hadley at 7:00pm. If anyone has anything specific they’d like to talk about this week, go ahead and post a comment. Myself, I have been looking at workflow engines lately; if anyone has worked with anything like that then I want to chat with you.
