Code and Coffee in Canton set for Friday June 18th at 7am at the Canton Arabica.  Check out Darrell's post on getting started with Ruby Koans if you're interested in working through it with us.  Hope to see you there.

We have another Code and Coffee scheduled for tomorrow (6/5) at the Canton Arabica on Dressler.  We'll be there around 7 staying for about an hour or so.  Darrell, Eric and I have been working through Ruby Koans and are working through the array's section.  Please feel free to join us, you can start from the beginning and catch up to us or work on something else if you're so inclined.  If nothing else, drop by have a coffee and say hello.

Three of us made it for Code and Coffee in Canton this morning.  Always good to see Darrell and Eric.  We're starting to work through Ruby Koans to learn the Ruby language.  Very cool stuff and a very neat way to learn a language.  Would be a good idea to see something like this for C#, VB.net or any other language for that matter.  If I had time, maybe I'd work on something for C#.

Anyway, our next get together is schedule for Friday June 5th.  Same place, same time.  We'll probably continue to work through Koans (we were working through about_arrays when we called it quits this morning).  Feel free to come jump in and join us or if there is something else you'd rater work on that's cool too.

We're meeting for code and coffee again at Canton Arabica on Dressler in Belden at 7:00 am Friday, May 22.  Four of us there last week (Darrell Mozingo, Eric Schliffka, Josh Clark and myself).   Last time we decided we're all interested in doing some Rails.  That's way out of my comfort zone so should be fun.  I'm looking forward to this week to see what we get started.  Come out and join us!

A few weeks back I read about the Code and Coffee meetup in the Columbus Ohio area that Jeff Blankenburg mentioned.  Sounded like a great idea to put together for those of located in the Stark County region in Northeast Ohio.  Darrell Mozingo expressed an interest in at as well and helped to get this first one organized.

What is the purpose of this?  To get together for some great coffee (or other preferred morning beverage) and do some pairing in the hopes of pushing the comfort zone and learning some new stuff.  Our hopes are to keep this very informal and casual with really no agenda, just working on some things that are interesting and helping us all grow.  Idea is to pair, so no need to bring laptop if you don't have one, just come and we'll all hopefully learn something.

First meetup for the Stark County Code and Coffee will be Friday May 15th at the Canton Arabica on Dressler in Belden.  We'll be there at 7am and try to get the old brain functioning that early.  Since everyone is busy, we'll try to keep this to about an hour so most anyone can be back to work by 8:30.  I'm an independent so there is a great possibility that I may stick around longer, so if you can too, we'll keep on working. 

Unless we come up with something better, we'll probably keep this first one to more of a meet and greet to see where everyone's interest lies.  But we'll pretty much play it by ear and just wing it.

If you're interested or have any more questions, contact either myself or Darrell.  Otherwise, we hope to see you there!