This Week in Local Nerd-dom

There are a few events of note taking place this week in the Accordion City tech scene:

Monday, July 17th: Rails Pub Nite

This will be the fifth such night where Accordion City’s Ruby on Rails developers and developers-to-be gather to chat, network, learn and eat and drink. It’s organized by Pete Forde and the gang at Unspace and starts at 7:00 p.m. at The Rhino (1249 Queen Street West, a little bit west of Dufferin).

Wednesday, July 19th: Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget – How We Built Flickr

A Carson Workshops seminar led by Flickr’s Cal Henderson in which he talks about building web applications that will scale — on a budget. From the promo material:

The workshop will focus on topics that have real, practical “rubber-meets-the-road” value. It will cover everything that most developers wish they’d known before tackling a huge professional web application. It will be a lot of information to take in but it’s all stuff you need to know if you’re serious about building an enterprise level web application.

The seminar runs from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and will be held at an downtown location, near the corner of Yonge and Dundas. The seminar costs $CDN495 to attend. It sounds like it’ll be fun and educational, if Tom Coates’ writeup is accurate. I’ll be there, furiously taking notes.

Wednesday, July 19th: Wireless Toronto July Meeting

Wireless Toronto describe themselves as “a not-for-profit group dedicated to bringing no-fee wireless Internet access to Toronto. Our aim is to encourage the growth of wireless networking and to build community in interesting and innovative ways.” Their meeting will take place at the Centre for Social Innovation (215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120) at 6:00 p.m..

Thursday, July 20th: Enterprise 2.0 Toronto

Another spin-off of TorCamp: “Enterprise 2.0 is about the business world applications of “Web 2.0” and “Social Media”. The idea for Enterprise 2.0 is built on the hypothesis that the real killer app for the next generation of web and collaborative media technologies is in the enterprise. How can we take our learnings from the recent boom in the consumer internet and apply them to boosting employee productivity, enabling new ways of working and doing business?” This event will start at 8:00 p.m. at Rower’s Pub (150 Harbord Street, halfway between Bathurst and Spadina).