The Cloud Developer Group Meetup, Good Sake, and Stackers Burgers

Gavin Hughes (Proudcloud’s newest RoR Rockstar) and I attended the 2nd Cloud Developers Group Meetup at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Burgos Circle.

Gavin and I drove round and round trying to find the place but finally found it after failed attempts at geolocating ourselves using the iPhone. Parking was a mess although we got a spot close enough to walk to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf without breaking a sweat.

We were late looking for the place but eventually arrived to catch the last slide of  Piotr Banasik‘s preso. I hope he shares it with us on Slideshare.

Adam Baechler welcomed us at the registration desk with free CB&T Swirl cards with load!

We got to meet a few interesting folks from the developer community who we quickly invited to Roofcamp. The collection of geeks included meetup organizers  Mike Stephenson and Mark Leduc of OutsourcingThingsDone, Ming Andrada & Vic Zapata of Webbuggers, Elmer Rivera of EXIST, and a few other guys we failed to get business cards from.

Gavin noticed a bar beside CB&T called Izumi Sake earlier so after we wrapped up our coffee laced meet-and-greet, we moved next door for some real networking over beers and chilled Sake.

After an hour or two of kampais and saluds, Gavin and I realized that we hadn’t had dinner yet. On the way home, Gavin suggested a quick run for some Mickey D’s but I told him that I’d bring him to Stackers for some real burgers. The Jack Burgers, fries, and a Coke really hit the spot!

The OTD boys invited us to a party tonight at Kuya’s but since I got home around 2:30am this morning, I’m pretty sure I’ve worn out my wife’s patience for the weekend (I even missed the Argentina-Brazil game).

Thanks fellas for a rocking meetup and the awesome convo over sake!