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Melbourne April Analogue Blogue

  • 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…
  • 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.
Posted by pat on May 13th, 2010

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