Announcing the August meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.
Tuesday August 10, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 2 presentation length (15min) talks:- Ian Grant – (@MrFlungabunga) – Varnish
- Richard Heycock – (@filterfish) – Smith
- Keith Pitty – (@keithpitty) – RVM, Bundler and Ruby Tracker
- Nick Sewell – (@nicsewell) – A whirlwind tour of Bayesian analysis
I’ve started going through the talks from earlier on this year that have been recorded and trying to make head and tail with the audio.
Announcing the July meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.
Tuesday July 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 2 presentation length (15min) talks:- Mikel Lindsaar – RubyX (@raasdnil) – RailsConf and Rails 3
- Chris Hulbert – Libraries, schmibraries: Roll your own cryptography in ruby
- Julio Cesar Ody (@julio_ody) – rack-bundle
- Luke Chadwick (@vertis) – Deploying Ruby Applications with Git
- David Lee (@david_m_lee) – Emacs 101: Emacs is not an editor
- Steven Ringo (@stevenringo) – LiveReload – live editing of JS/CSS using Chrome/Safari and your favourite editor
I promise to start processing some of the older talks we have recorded and post them up somewhere.
Here’s the analog blog from the June meeting (on the 1st of July – a slight anomaly).
- YOW Conference is on in Melbourne in December
- Can probably get a user group discount
- About everything: agile/dev/etc
- Obie Fernandez
- Corey Haines
- Machinist 2 Beta is coming soon!
- MongoMapper has been updated, named scopes working.
- DataMapper has hit 1.0
- extjs is now called sencha
- focus on touch interfaces
- have hired dmitry from raphael, and David Kaneda from jqtouch
- Pickle has DataMapper support.
- Pickle: useful step definitions for Machinist (or FactoryGirl) and Cucumber
- RailsConf 2010 happened
- Rails 3 betas are available
- Rails 3 full release is coming soon.
- Don’t use it with Ruby 1.9.1
- Rubinius now works
- Speed is sometimes faster than MRI, sometimes slower.
- It’s definitely usable.
- Runs some C extensions.
- RubyConf 2010 in New Orleans
- But it clashes with Rails Camp Perth. They suck.
- 11th-13th November.
- Geoffrey Grosenbach wrote a rant about removing routes
- DHH wasn’t particularly supportive
- GitHub Organisations
- Don’t need to create a user for organisations, create an organisation instead.
- Has read-only support, fixing deploy key issues.
- Fixing cloning repos with collaborators.
- Rails Camp Perth tickets will be released in the next few weeks.
- 12th-15th November
- ~$200/ticket
- It’s a lot of fun.
- PhatRails
- Patch for 2.3 by Mike Perham
- Runs Rails inside EventMachine.
- One process can respond to multiple requests at once.
- Similar patches from Ilya Grigorik?
- Postgres 9 is about to come out
- streaming replication
- hot-standby backups
- Lunchtime brown-bags for those who can’t always make it to the evening meets (or are interested), get in touch with James Ladd – james_ladd at hotmail dot com.
We’re meeting for June on Wednesday 30th, and have a packed speaker line-up ready for you:
- Jared Fraser – Why Baltimore may just be the most boring city in the world (and RailsConf is awesome)
- Tim Riley – Introduction to Google Maps JavaScript API v3
- Hugh Evans – MongoDB
Anyone else is welcome to share something in the form of a demo, talk or topic for discussion.
We’re at Icelab again for this month (3/1 Gordon St, Civic) and will get started at 6:30pm. The Australian Medical Council is shouting pizza & Icelab some beer.
Announcing the June meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.
Tuesday June 8, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 3 presentation length (15min) talks:
- Ryan – Using ARel with Rails 2
- Andrew Grimm – I went to Railscamp, and all I got was a lousy t-shirt
- Luke Chadwick – Ruby and Content Management
If you’re interested in showcasing a demo of something you’ve built recently, or a plugin or gem or code you think is cool – head on over to the wiki and put yourself down for a 5min lightning demo (5min is a very short period of time)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
We’re meeting for May on Wednesday 26th. We have a couple of topics for presentation and discussion so far:
- Jared Fraser -– Using Bundler in Anger
- Tim Riley –- Authenticating to Facebook with OAuth 2.0
Anyone else is welcome to share something in the form of a demo, talk or topic for discussion.
We’re back at Icelab again for this month (3/1 Gordon St, Civic) and will get started at 6:30pm. Free pizza & beer.
- Heroku have added node.js support – (ridiculous) closed beta
- email, and they’ll let you in
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) have opened a Singapore data centre
- YOW Talks 25th, 26th, 27th at Microsoft (Southbank), Jasper Hotel, elsewhere?
- Agile – better backlogs, other agiley stuff
- $10 unless you know someone
- Check twitter for codes
- Functional Programming inside NoSQL databases
- $5
- Half sold out…
- Agile – better backlogs, other agiley stuff
- Mark Mansour
- Thursday May 13th event
- HTML/CSS (Ben Schwarz)
- YQL and Web Services
- HTTP
- Other stuff?
- Finding a venue
- Free
- Ben is doing HTML5/CSS3 workshops
- first two have sold out
- may be another
- workshops for businesses are possible
- Xavier’s doing another database workshop, in Brisbane
- And may tour the world!
- Padrino
- Sinatra framework
- ORM and Test agnostic
- Configuratable by generators
- RubyGems support for 1.8.6 is going to disappear.
- JRuby 1.5 will be out soon?
- IronRuby has gone 1.0 two weeks ago.
- RunCodeRun has shut down
- Devver shut down too… Caliper
- Sensis is looking for Java/Ruby developers – talk to Mark Mansour
- REA is looking for Cocoa/ObjC/Ruby/Java developers
- And Senior QA testers
- Everyone got rejected for RailsConf talks (well, Xavier – and who else matters?)
- WWDC tickets were released last night – 7th-11th June
- Someone needs to pay for Gareth’s ticket. And Pete’s ticket. And Gareth’s mortgage.
- DevOps is happening in Sydney this weekend?
- YOW Conference is in December
- Speakers are apparently pretty solid, according to JB
- Dave Thomas (Agile, not PragProg) is talking at the RORO meet next month
- Mark Ryall is moving to Brisbane. Buy him a drink. Or five.
- Rails Camp was awesome.
Announcing the May meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.
Tuesday May 11, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 3 presentation length (15min) talks:
- Lachie Cox – AngryMob (a real talk to a real mob)
- Mikel Lindsaar – ActiveRecord Relation Model in Rails 3
- Chis Lloyd – Failing Exams: The definitive guide
- Navin Keswani – A flickr notifier app
- Andrew Grimm – Only you can prevent Cthulhu
- Tim Riley – Authenticating to Facebook using OAuth2 and the new Graph API
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Announcing the April meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.
Tuesday April 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 2 presentation length (15min) talks:
- Steve Ringo – Nanoc3 and Static Publishing Systems
- Mikel Lindsaar – Mail, ActionMailer & OMG!
- Ryan Bigg – “Give”
- Railscamp Tee
- Bondi Sizzle
We’re meeting again for March on Wednesday 31st. We have a couple of juicy topics for presentation and discussion so far:
- Tim Riley – Cucumber, Capybara & a Deepening Affection for JavaScript
- Matt Allen – The Pros & Cons of “Feature Only Development”
- Shoaib Burq – LDAP/AD authentication with Authlogic
Anyone else is welcome to share something in the form of a demo, talk or topic for discussion.
We’re gathering at a new venue this month: Icelab – 3/1 Gordon St, Civic. We’ll get started at 6:30pm. Free pizza & beer.
Announcing the March meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.
Tuesday March 9, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 2 presentation length (15min) talks so far:
- Steve Ringo – Nanoc3 and Static Publishing Systems
- Julio Cesar Ody – The Shining
If you want to join in and do a lightning talk (5min) or try your hand at a chunkier sized talk (15min) then head on over to the wiki and signup.
We’re meeting again for February on Wednesday 24th. We have a bumper lineup prepared!
- Michael MacDonald – Highcharts
- Jared Fraser – Rails 3 Introduction
- Shoaib Burq – OpenLayers
- Tim Riley – Breaking my Ruby Addiction
We start at 6:30pm at the Australian Medical Council. Free pizza, $2 beers.
Easing into 2010 wasn’t too painful – let’s keep the momentum rolling.
Tuesday February 9, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!
We have 3 or so lightning talks:
- Mark Wotton – Jammit Sideways
- Andrew Harvey – Salute to the Sun: Finding search Zen with Solr
- Sam Saffron – something about Arel with a yet to be announced slightly less witty title
- Dave Bolton – Beyond Actions
If you want to join in and do a lightning talk (5min) or try your hand at a chunkier sized talk (15min) then head on over to the wiki and signup.
This month we’ll be hosting the meetup at REA* (realestate.com.au’s HQ) in Richmond. We’ll have a regular style meetup: A couple of presentations, some food, followed by some drinks at the Royston hotel*
Got a presentation?
We’re looking for presentations between 2 and 15 minutes in length. Show something that you’ve worked on, a problem you’ve solved, some cool technology that you’ve come across recently. New comers are welcome, there is no special guest list.
What day?
Thursday the 28th of Jan. Thats this week!
When to arrive?
Arrive for 6pm, we’ll be starting promptly at 6:30pm. If you’ve got something else on we’ll be at the Royston from around 8pm.
Parking
There is paid casual parking in the basement of the building and a fair bit of unmetered (2 hour during the day) on-street parking in surrounding streets. I’d suggest parking on Harrison Crescent or Doonside Street. There’s also paid parking in the Victoria Gardens shopping centre itself
Links
- REA - Level 1, 678 Victoria Street, Richmond Map - http://tinyurl.com/ygrstoh
- Royston hotel - http://roystonhotel.com.au
See you there!
Tickets to Railscamp 7 (Canberra, April 16-19 2010) is now On Sale.
Head on over to book a ticket or go to the railscamp page to find out more about rails camps.
UPDATE: The camp is SOLD OUT. (Record time)
