Community & Events

We are proud to support Rails Girls Summer of Code

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Last year, Rails Girls Summer of Code was a raging success: over 30 students worked on Open Source projects for 3 months, most of them full-time and supported by the community and company sponsors. We’re excited to see Rails Girls Summer of Code shaping up for yet another summer. The office we share with Travis CI in Berlin is full of life and Ruby code!

Rails Girls Summer of WHAT?

Rails Girls Summer of Code offers students a scholarship so they’re free to learn coding. It’s all about helping students to further expand their knowledge and skills by contributing to an Open Source project – like Sinatra, Rails or Spree, last year’s projects.

What does anynines have to do with that?

Last year we supported this initiative in a more classic sponsor way (read: we donated money). This year we are determined to be more personally involved. Floor (who is already quite involved with the Rails Girls community) will spend part of her time co-organizing, and we support her. This makes us a Supporting Organizer. Some of last year’s most successful students teams have been supported greatly by local companies like Soundcloud who allowed developers to spend a certain amount of company time on coaching students. (more…)

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Gophers meet in Berlin

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Last Friday – coincidentally pi day – we attended the Golang User Group meetup at the Hub:raum in Berlin. The Hub:raum cafe, which is a beautiful space filled with an eclectic mix of seventies inspired design, hosted us bunch, a little over 20 attendees.

After a 5 minutes presentation of the sponsor of the evening; Spiffy, ‘incubating’ a number of projects written in Go, Alexander Surma (@surmair) presented, GoPin – a tool-less version pinning for Go. Alexander described his package manager like a man in the middle between your app and Github, Bitbucket, et al. In the end, GoPin made way for gopkg, written by Gustave Niemeyer. (more…)

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Talking AngularJS and Internationalizing in Berlin

Posted by Floor Drees
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AngularJS-Berlin
Yesterday we attended the AngularJS Meetup Berlin, that took place at the Bitcrowd offices. Pascal Precht (CouchCommerce, sofa.io) talked about ‘i18n with angular-translate‘, or:
“going beyond basic localization with angular-translate”.

Starting with an introduction to AngularJS, Pascal evangelized the JavaScript framework (or rather: HTML compiler) that gives you two way binding (ng-model, ng-repeat) and dependency injection. And is built with testability in mind. (more…)