Urban Writers Walkaround : Life is a Writing Prompt. Note: Events may cost $5 to $10, based on material costs, (copies),  and venue arrangements. This will be announced for each event. This unique, interactive and creative "walking workshop"  is inspired by and based on my book, "Life is a Writing Prompt," (available at www.lulu.com). This workshop combines a love  of the outdoors, walking, writing, creativity, conversation and urban observations.       In this workshop without walls …

… While we're starting off this group working on Life (at least for the first meetup) my hope is that we expand the scope to work on other problems of similar size, complexity, and that support a similar variety of approaches to their solution. Some possibilities include small parsers, interpreters, Project Euler problems, and other such challenges. The official Code Retreat site can be found at http://coderetreat.com for more information.  

Long, but informative: Like-minded folks are working locally on a national effort to correct a major problem, called "corporate personhood," at the root almost every major social injustice and environmental crisis we'd all love to resolve - if only the playing field of democracy were fair & level. First, we are working to pass a Boulder resolution on 7/19 to organize support for solving this problem. Here's the deal: You may have heard of a relatively recent US Supreme Court decision (Citizen …

… Rails is the web application framework written to support the Ruby programming language. If attendees are interested in pursuing this topic further, they are encouraged to learn more about the DaVinci Coders (davincicoders.com) 11 week program that is being taught at DaVinci Institute, located in Louisville, CO. DaVinci Coders is designed as a full immersion beginner-level skills-training program with for a maximum of 16 students per session. If this course sounds intriguing you can find out mor …