WorkSpace B3 Scalability Workshop

WorkSpace will be closed for the holidays starting on December 22nd, reopening on January 5th 2009.  Members will still have access to the space during this time.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season! We'll see you in the New Year.

In Wednesday's two-page spread about the concept of co-working, The Globe and Mail Travel Section turned to WorkSpace General Manager Dane Brown for advice and comment on the topic.  After all, Dane was one of the first brave pioneers of co-working and the caretaker of Vancouver's premier open work environment.

If you can't find the full print copy, or wrangle a copy from Dane, see the shorter online version on the Globe and Mail website.

The Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup is being held tonight at WorkSpace from 7PM until 9PM.

Topic:
New Ruby Patterns: Tools to improve your code. Reduce code clutter. Increase readability.

Description:
Sunny Hirai, founder and CEO of MeZine Inc., a successful and profitable Internet company, will be presenting several Ruby patterns, many of which you've never seen before. These patterns will make your Ruby code cleaner, easier to read and more powerful. If you like discovering new ways to make your code better, you will enjoy this in depth discussion.

Presentation includes free handouts of the patterns and how to use them.

Update: As of 11:40 AM Tuesday Sept. 2nd power has been restored.

There is currently a power outage affecting Gastown and WorkSpace.  The BC Hydro website shows an ETA of 10AM for repairing the outage and the status of the outage can be viewed on their website.

Come meet the staff and new owners of WorkSpace and enjoy an evening of wine, snacks, conversation, Q&A and tours of WorkSpace. All rolled into one evening at WorkSpace in Gastown: August 14, 2008 from 5:30PM until 8:00PM.

WorkSpace is a shared work environment in downtown Vancouver. Our Gastown loft has meeting rooms, a lounge & a café surrounding a beautiful open concept work environment. We provide memberships (not leases) to independent professionals and small firms looking for a better place to work.

Today we revamped part of the wireless network in WorkSpace to stabilize the wireless network.  We introduced two main wireless access points that are part of the overall main network that also includes any hard-wired plugs.  These new access points are:

"workspace-front" which is positioned near the coffee bar while "workspace-back" is near the back open area of WorkSpace.  Both are on the same network and both can access the printer.  

If you notice any other new wireless networks besides those mentioned above, they are for testing and a notification will go out when they are in place along with a description.  Use at your own risk as they may come and go, or be renamed at any time.

As of this morning the power is back on in our building and all systems are go.  Yay!

As of this morning (Tuesday July 15) the power is still out on our side of Water St.  The building has been completely locked down due to the fact that the floodlight power is depleted and it is dangerous to enter the building.

I just called BC Hydro and found out that power may not be restored to our part of town until tomorrow morning.  I'll be working from the Blenz on Granville for most of the day or until the power is back on.  Feel free to call my cell phone at 778-855-9675 if there is anything I can do for you.

I'll do another update as soon as the power is back on.  Thanks for your patience with this.

Next week the cafe at WorkSpace will be closed on Monday June 30th and Tuesday July 1st for the Canada Day holiday.  As always the space will remain open to members during this time.