Ruby on Rails Oceania

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!)

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)

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

Wednesday March 18, 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

• Lindsay Holmwood on Cucumber/Nagios
• Myles Byrne on Sinatra Tips & Ticks + Deployment with Heroku

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 Lachlan, Tim and especially Dan for presenting at this month’s meetup in Sydney. Much appreciated by all who were there.

• cloudmade – released rubygem for their api (mapping stuff) – Shoaib
• ruby 1.9.1 released (faster!) – Martin
• yfactorial have released objective resource on github (iphone integration with Rails apps) – Nathan
• rails 2.3 rc1 – Cam
• Myles predicted haml 2.1’s arrival real soon now
• isitruby19.com documents whether or not gems are supported – Enrico
• ISG version 5 released!!! – Matta
• radiant 0.7 – Enrico
• jQuery 1.3 released (“faster parser of css crap” – Myles)
• beware of jQuery 1.3.1’s regression (affects IE) – Lachlan
• drnic released choctop & iconmerge

Wednesday February 11, 2009

If anyone is wanting to deliver a lightning Demo, add yourself down over here

Daniel Neighman (hassox!) is coming up from Melbourne and is giving a talk on the Merb integration into Rails.

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!)

Wednesday January 14, 2009 – First meet of the year, let’s make it a big one!

Anyone want to volunteer to give a presentation or a lightning demo? Click here

If your name is on that list and you still want to talk, move it to here

...otherwise you’ll have to hear me rabbit on about something or other.

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!)

Wednesday December 10, 2008 – End of Year Bonanza!

Pressos

• Tim Lucas on ‘Staticish sites with Nanoc and/or Sinatra’
• Ian White on ‘resources_controller’
• Myles Byrne on ’ Javascript Animation via Custom Events and OO Design’

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 presenters and attendees at this month’s meetup, where the lightning talk format proved to be very popular.

• Railscamp 4 rocked
• Railscamp 5 to be in SE Queensland in April 2009
• Merb 1.0 was recently released
• Rails 2.2
• Dr Nic mentioned Rails Test Serving
• DHH’s Rails Myths
• Rubinius team has become smaller
• RubyConf was held last week\
• OSDC next month (2 – 5 Dec)
• Matt mentioned that Thinking Sphinx has become the de facto Rails search tool and that “Pat is chuffed”
• Several Australian teams entered Rails Rumble
• Ben Webster has skinned jobberBase – the opportunity exists to deploy it

Wednesday November 19, 2008

This was supposed to be up a lot earlier, but we’ve have an ordinary response to the call for action! The plan is to have a bonanza lightning talk night!

The current list of who’s talking about what is over at: Wiki (hoping to get 10-15)

So if you want 5min of fame on any topic, you best be heading on over and putting your name down. It can be on anything vaguely Ruby or Rails related. It’s also a low-stress way of learning a bit more about presenting!

• Jason Crane on “Railscamp 4 Roundup”
• Ben Askins Sexy web service consumption with hpricot and openuri
• Adam Salter “websites I’ve known” – or rather one in particular. Challenges and technologies used in making the new business.un.org
• Lachie Cox on “Something or other”
• Keith Pitty on “Railscamp 4: What worked well?; how can we improve?”
• Tim Riley on “Using iUI and Rails to build simple iPhone web apps.”
• Leonard Chin on “Why you should attend RubyKaigi 2009”
• Jason Crane on “Prawn (PDF generation)”
• Brian Menzies on “community outreach project”
• Martin Stannard on “Risque – World Domination with RoR”
• [Chris Hulbert] on “A silly-simple Comet demo – reverse AJAX”
• Dave Newman on “Javascript test coverage”

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!)

Wednesday October 8, 2008

Sorry to all those who read the blog for notification of the next meetup. We’re a bit light on content this month, but it should still be a rocking evening.

Lightning Demos

• Tim Lucas on ‘Cucumber and Factory Girl’
• Carl Woodward on ‘Great Test Debate – Findings (mate!)’

Pressos

• Tim Lucas on ‘Web Directions, and WebJam Lowdown’
• Nathan de Vries on “The Fine Line Between Pleasure and Pain (tips and tricks for bringing the mobile web to phones)”

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!)

• Tim reported that Webjam will be held on Thursday 25th September
  • register at the site
  • opportunity to present
  • gonged after 3 minutes
• Geoff told us about the Startup camp that was held recently
  • next one in Jan
  • see http://startup.australia.org
• Railscamp 4 is on in November in the Adelaide Hills
  • bunks sold out (campsites still available)
  • Radar is organising transfer from airport
• Railsconf Europe was held recently
• Envycasts are available from the guys who do the Rails Envy Podcast
  • Carl vouched for them
• Merbcamp (not really a camp) will be held in San Diego
  • go *camp!
• A Rails conference to be held in Brazil (Dr Nic speaking)
• Matta reported that Rails 2.1.1 had been released and that another Ruby vulnerability had been found
• Linc told us about Rails 2.2 goals, which include being threadsafe
• Noel reported that a patch had been made available for rack to fix cross-site request forging
• Matta told us that the caching solution that he, Ben Shwartz and Dan had developed at Railscamp 3 for merb had been released!!!
• Keith reported that Work at Jelly has been rejuvenated on the Central Coast

Wednesday September 10, 2008

Quite an eclectic line-up, with many a varied topic to be discussed. Since we have CSS, Testing, Databases and Shoes (oh my!) there’s no excuse to not to invite your other geeky friends and associates.

• Craig Sharkie on ‘Don’t Repeat YourselfCSS’
• Carl Woodward on ‘The Great, Test Debate, of ‘08, mate!’
• Chris Lloyd on ‘Stepping on Ants with Shoes’
• Nick Jefferson on ‘PostgreSQL 101’

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!)