The format for the evening will be instead:

• John Barton talking about the Railscamp recon mission
• Ben Schwarz’s “Why Haml sucks” talk
• Pizza!
• Mike Bailey presenting Chef!
• Pub

Same bat place, same bat time, same bat channel:

Thoughtworks IOOF Building : Level 15, corner of Elizabeth and Collins Street For lift access past 6:30 SMS Mark Ryall on (0414 740 489)

Thanks to all those who presented lightning talks.

News for the analog blog included:

• railscamp 5 rocked!
• isitjruby.com
• jruby 1.3
• wwdc
• rubykaigi – about 10 aussies going
• wax (static site generator) came out
• page speed released by google
  • similar to yslow
• google wave
• continuous integration conference in Brisbane
• nab consumer confidence up

Tuesday June 9, 2009

This month we’re having a feast of lightning talks. Each talk will be strictly limited to five minutes. So far we have the following:

1. Keith Pitty: The evolution of bivou.ac
2. Lachie Cox: A face in the hand is worth two more than none. Or something else.
3. Martin Stannard: Inside bivou.ac
4. Tim Lucas: bananjour
5. Myles Byrne: fancyfancy
6. Carl W, Dave N & Chris L: the code behind Mütliplayer Rubystein
7. Phil Oye: Sinatra Rehearsals, Running multiple versions of your app
8. Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald: Building your first jQuery plugin
9. Keith Pitty: Using REST and Builder for legacy XML
10. Lachlan Hardy: lachstock.com.au
11. Andrew Grimm: What has the Romans source control ever done for us?
12. Chris Lloyd: Metalpoint

We’re aiming to fill 15 slots so we need more speakers.

If anybody has a lightning demo of something they’ve worked on, an idea they have, or some such, put your hand up now! Share what you’re working on, what you’re proud of! Yes, we’re talking to you teams of smart web peeps that have never done a demo/preso before.

Add yourself here.

This month we’re at: Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs)

AND we’ll kick off from 7pm! (turn up a bit earlier to mingle and get a good seat!)

Format

• Anablog
• Marty Andrews - Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails
• Pizza
• Lightning talks †
  • Glen Maddern - “RubyOSA”
  • Ben Schwarz - “Sinatra, Rack and Middlewares”
  • Daniel Neighman - “Receiving email eventfully”
• Drinks

Venue

Thoughtworks IOOF Building : Level 15, corner of Elizabeth and Collins Street For lift access past 6:30 SMS Mark Ryall on (0414 740 489)

† Lightning talks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk)

The Perth section of RORO will be meeting up again in June.

When: June 18, 2009 from ~5pm onwards

Where: The Frontier Group, Unit 9, 1010 Wellington Street, West Perth

What: Well, we’re still looking for speakers, but we’re hoping there will be a talk on gitauth, a fully ruby replacement to gitosis, from one of the guys at Brown Beagle.

If you’d like to nominate to present, or RSVP (important in particular for this month) head over to the RORO Perth meetup group at http://www.meetup.com/roro-perth/

Personal thanks to Matt Lambie from The Frontier Group for offering up his office while our regular meeting spot is unavailable.

It's that time of the month again and this time we have Darcy Laycock presenting on CouchDB. We'll kick off at 5.30pm at the WA Barista Academy (135 Lake St, Northbridge).

Ruby/Rails meetup is on this month Tuesday 12th May…

We’ll be at The Sealink Building foyer (upstairs at 440 King William Street, cnr South Terrace) at 6.30pm. We generally head over to the pub for meals/drinks at around 7.30ish, depending on start time, and length of presso’s.

I’ll be doing a shorte presson on web scraping using Mechanize—a cool little ruby lib to automate processing of web pages.

Also, Vishal has volunteered to present—stay tuned for his announcement….

NOTE! If you’re willing/able to do a presso, please update the page over here

See ya there!

Thanks to all who attended this month’s meetup, especially Tim Lucas and Dr Nic for their presentations.

News for the analog blog included:

• Porn week (Dr. Nic)
• Heroku pricing available – cloud 2.0 (Tim)
• Rails Maturity Model is out (Dr. Nic)
• Ruby 1.9 book (pickaxe) (Tim)
• JAOO2009_partners coupon for 250AUD ticket to JAOO Sydney – < 10 available
• Passenger + nginx = 2.2.0
• railscamp v3 tee (Tim)

Tuesday May 5, 2009

If anybody has a lightning demo of something they’ve worked on, an idea they have, or some such, put your hand up now! Share what you’re working on, what you’re proud of! Yes, we’re talking to you teams of smart web peeps that have never done a demo/preso before

Add yourself here

Dr Nic from Dr Nic’s academy of testing, will be demo’ing more of his testing craziness.

Tim Lucas is going crazy with all of the following:

byjodiemcleod.com

• Self-redeploying Sinatra apps
• Rails-less Capistrano
• Using HAML 2.1 for old-school-style image replacement (smarter stylesheets)
• Sprites

railscampteev3.agencyrainford.com

• Cufon image replacement
• Heroku deployment

and two small ideas/presos on:

• rethinking cucumber stories
• writing stories whilst adhering to YAGNI

• view-first rails validations

This month we’re at: Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs)

AND we’ll kick off from 7pm! (turn up a bit earlier to mingle and get a good seat!)

Thursday April 30th, 2009, 6:30pm

Lightning Talks

• Gareth Townsend – “Mass assignment”
• Ben Schwarz – “Smoke and pipes”
• Daniel Neighman – “rack-auth”
• “James Healy” – “eventmachine hacking”

Why you should attend

• It’ll be awesome

Venue (New venue!)

Horse Bazaar 397 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne 3000 http://www.horsebazaar.com.au

Thanks to all who attended this month’s meetup, especially Tim Riley, Myles Byrne, Ben Schwarz and Matt Allen for their presentations.

News for the analog blog included:

• JRuby on Rails on Google App Engine
• Scrum user group at USYD
• Passenger 2.1.3 released (needed for new rails)
• BrowserCMS released – an alternative to Radiant
• MVC framework in Microsoft – IronRuby related
• E Text Editor went opensource – similiar to TextMate on Windows
• TextMate 2.0 still vapourware
• MountainWest Ruby Videos on confreaks.com
• Xavier Shay did something cool with jour and midi – Ryan Allen skipped out
• YAIDE – RubyMine
• RubyKaigi – 6000 JPY – 3 days – July 17th – 19th – Tokyo – sake and sashimi
• prangz.com by matta – super awesome crashes
• Web Directions workshops at end of month
• RailsCamp : plenty of tickets – now with sponsor
• SXSW was awesome

Wednesday April 8, 2009

If anyone is wanting to deliver a lightning talk, or a presentation – then add yourself down over here

We currently have the following people stepping up to talk:

Lightning Talks

• Myles Byrne – “Git Ninja Moves with git-sh”
• Tim Riley – “Compass for Semantic Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets”
• Ben Schwarz – “Passenger-stack, simple server provisioning”

Presentations

• Matt Allen – “Hashes in the sky with Diamonds”. Caching, how to break the rules

This month we’re at: Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs)

AND we’ll kick off from 7pm! (turn up a bit earlier to mingle and get a good seat!)

Thanks to all who contributed to another inspiring #rorosyd meetup last Wednesday, especially to our presenters, Lindsay Holmwood and Myles Byrne.

News for the analog blog included:

• Rails 2.3.2 released
• jQuery 1.3.2 & jQuery UI 1.7 released
• Raphael 0.7 released
  • including Graphael
• Martin announced that RSpec 1.2 had been released
• Andrew let us know that Heckle 1.4.2 had been released
• Lindsay reported that wiki.rubyonrails.org has been overhauled and vastly improved
• Martin enthused about the excellent Rails Guides site
• libxml-ruby 1.0 released
  • Nokogiri still faster
• Rake 0.8.4 released
• FutureRuby conference tickets are on sale
• jRuby 1.2 released
• Rails Underground conference is on in London at the end of July
• Railscamp 5 in May (15-18)
  • Gold Coast hinterland
• Sproutcore
• Sketchup widgets

• Jamis is no longer supporting Capistrano, net::ssh, etc.
  • Thanks for all your hard work Jamis! You’re awesome!
• Deprec 2 is on Rubyforge. Buy Mike a beer and he’ll tell you all about it.
• RailsCamp bookings are open. 150 spots all up.
• Edge Rails
  • Now has find in batches support
  • render method is now smarter, and can figure out what it’s rendering automagically
  • Nested model mass assignment
• Inside scoop: mod_rails will be available for nginx
• Sinatra is cool
• Amnesia monitors memcache servers, written in Sinatra

After much discussion on the state of the Ruby world, we’ve decided to try something a little different for future meetings: we’re going to have a different person run each meeting, and we’re going to experiment wildly with the format.

Brent Snook has generously agreed to run the next one, and is going to run an Iron Chef meets Ruby Hacking night. A theme ingredient, along with more details, will be announced soon, and it’ll be a chance for everyone to come and show off their l33t Ruby skills.

A couple of other points of consensus:

• We’d like to try more hands-on stuff in the meetings
• We’d like to have the topics be driven more by what people want, rather than just whatever anyone wants to talk about
• A couple of in-demand topics: Sinatra, Cucumber, testing in general

Thursday, March 19 2009

Announcing the next Perth RORO meetup!

We'll be at:
WA Barista Academy
135 Lake St, Northbridge.

Discussion will start at 5.30pm with some presentations to start at around 6-6.15pm