Things I’ve learned from organizing a large-scale event

DevCon Summit 2015, a 2-day developer conference that had over 1500 attendees, ended a few days ago. I was part of the organizing team which consisted of 60+ volunteers - The largest team we’ve ever had at a DevCon event. It was a really bumpy ride for everyone. Mistakes were made, and a lot of things were learned during the event. The event opened my eyes and made me appreciate how hard events productions can be....

November 16, 2015 · 7 min · 1449 words

I'm in charge of the Philippine Ruby Users Group

It’s been a couple of days since the recent PhRUG August meetup. It was the first ever meetup that I have organized as the new boss for the Philippine Ruby Users Group. This post isn’t about bragging. I just wanted to share how my journey with Ruby has been very surreal to me. 9 months ago, I barely knew anything about Rails or Ruby. I was just some kid who recently got out of college and trying to find his way into the industry....

August 29, 2012 · 2 min · 397 words