Ruby on Rails Oceania

Another rockin February meetup in Sydney. Thanks to everyone who came along, especially those who put their hand up to give a presentation.

Analogue Blog

We started the night with a Melbourne Ruby meetup style analogue blog, where we get some human aggregation of what went on in the last month in the Rails, Ruby and web community at large.

Ryan Allen mentioned Heroku - rails in your browser. Ryan's opinion: "Purple and stuff, it's awesome!"

Lachie Cox mentioned Dr Nic took over support of the textmate bundle, and wrote an article on using git and github. Good article for intro on why to use git.

There was a bit of chatter about Git - Wincent has some good articles on git supposedly.

Dylan Egan mentioned a Merb release-candidate was due to be released yesterday (Thursday). There's talk with DHH on merging merb-core into Rails.

The RubyInside guy (Peter Cooper) released SwitchPipe - a proof of concept tool for making deployment of web apps simpler.

Carl Woordward mentioned that Paul Graham finally released Arc - a new LISP dialect that's going to rock our socks off.

Matthew Palmer - Intro to Plugins

Matt Palmer, who was there for the first time, gave a rocking preso covering dos and donts for plugin authors.

Matt Allen - Unfuddling your bugs

Matt Allen showed us unfuddle, a web app for bug tracking and what-nots which his team at iseekgolf.com are using with great happiness. Check out a recording of his presentation or the slides on slideshare.

Matthew Landauer - Building Open Australia

Matt Landauer, who I think was also a first-timer, gave a very inspiring and engaging rally to build a They Work For You in Australia to help bring some transparency and web-appy goodness to the wealth of dumb Hansard data posted by the Parliament of Australia. Matthew's set up openaustralia.org to get the ball rolling. Check out the slides on slideshare:

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Register on faces

If you came along to the night register yourself over on Lachie's roro facebook. If you didn't, come along to the soon-to-be-announced March meetup.

Next Sydney Meetup

The next Sydney meetup will be on March 12, same place, same time (see the google calendar). If you've got something you'd like to present, whether it be a proper presentation or simply a lightning demo of something cool you've worked on that you'd like to share, tell Jason (snapper on #roro, irc.freenode.net) or post a note to the rails-oceania google group.

Thanks to everyone who came!