Ruby on Rails Oceania

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!

• 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!

• 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.

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!

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 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.

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.

It’s the start of a new year so let’s get it kicked off with a bang!

Tuesday January 12, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

We have 4-5 lightning talks and some mystery options for those who like a bit of randomness in their life:

• Jason Crane – Throw another Barby on the Prawn
• Myles Byrne – JavaScript 2010
• Tim Riley – Making your Capistrano Recipe Book
• Lindsay Holmwood – Graphing system stats with Visage
• Lachlan Hardy – Mystery Talk

• Potential Community Driven Discussion on a new type of “driven development”

It’s the end of the year so it’s time to get your festive hats on and come celebrate with your roromates.

Tuesday December 8, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

We have 5 short talks:

• Carl Woodward – Banana Mario
• Chris Lloyd – Brains 1 (and a peek at Brains 2)
• Andrew Grimm – Zombie-chaser: mutation testing … with ZOMBIES!!!
• Mark Wotton – Practical Hubris
• Julio Cesar – numbr6

and lots of merriment (free beers!)

This is happening Tuesday November 10, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs)

Sign up to give a 5min lightning demo!

Happening on Tuesday October 13.

Details over here because I’m lazy.

If you want to talk, sign up over here

We have two people who have volunteered to give presentations this month:

• Mark Wotton – Hubris (Calling Haskell code from Ruby)
• Richard Heycock – AMQP/EventMachine

If anyone wants to give a lightning demo (5min) or present (15min), head on over to the wiki and sign up: here

For those who attended, you can remember the good times with the following links, for those who didn’t – here’s what you missed out on:

• RubyKaigi Reminiscence – Martin Stannard
• CouchDB – Lachie Cox
• It’s One-Nine Time – Hugh Evans
• Good abstraction, bad abstraction – Myles Byrne
• Chris Lloyd – Tyrone’s Tuff Lovin

We start at 6:30pm for 7pm kick-off at the Trinity Bar

Not to forget those people who only use this site to find out when the meetups are on, here’s a link to the details!

http://faces.rubyoceania.org/groups/sydney/meetings/2009-08-11

Not to forget those people who only use this site to find out when the meetups are on, here’s a link to the details!

http://faces.rubyoceania.org/groups/sydney/meetings/2009-07-14

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)