Ruby on Rails Oceania

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

Presentations:

• Learnings of awesome logfile munging for make great benefit rorosyd - James Sadler @freshtonic
• Creating neat APIs with Grape - Mario Visic @mariovisic
• Heteromorphic Fantasy: Obrie's state_machine - Rob Howard
• Lessons learned building a Rails-iOS app with CouchDB - Steven Ringo @stevenringo

Lightning talks:

• Heroku Q & A - Lincoln Stoll @lstoll
• Ruby Australia - Keith Pitty @keithpitty

See you there!

Tuesday Jan 10, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

Presentations:

• EventMachine + WebSockets - David Parry @suranyami

Lightning talks:

• Decorating your Rails models with Draper - Keith Pitty @keithpitty
• Put your name down if you'd like to give a talk...

See you there!

Tuesday Dec 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

Presentations:

• Unshredding Like A Boss - A retrospective on solving the Instagram Unshredder Challenge using CoffeeScript and Canvas by Gabe Hollombe
• All I want for Matz-mas - Andrew Grimm

Lightning talks:

• Engine war stories — Ryan Bigg

Put your name down if you'd like to give a talk...

See you there!

Tuesday Sept 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

One presentation:

• Mikel Lindsaar – Roguenomics

Three lightning talks:

• Well Grounded Rubyist is Awesome - Felix Tjandrawibawa
• View inheritance in Rails 3.1 - Steve Ringo
• An Introduction to Pry - Keith Pitty

See you there!

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

Three presentations:

• Dave Bolton – Sneak peek into Westfield and Ruby in the enterprise
• Andrew Harvey – Test Driven Search Development
• Mikel Lindsaar – There be magic in Rails (multiple dynamic per instance database connections)

One lightning talk:

• Richard Heycock – Unicorn

See you there!

Tuesday June 21, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

Five lightning talks:

• Damien Le Berrigaud – Presenting somanyfeeds
• Luke Chadwick – Flynn & Offline
• Andrew Grimm – Ruby 1.8.8 head with RVM, and Professor
• Steve Ringo – Faster Rails loading hotness with the 1.9.2 patch
• Keith Pitty – Railscamp 9, hominid and prawn

See you there!

Tuesday May 10, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

Three 15 minute talks:

• Khoa Nguyen – MacRuby – reading pad (live coding)
• Andrew Boag – katoomba – open source ROR sms gateway
• Steven Ringo and Ryan (radar love) Bigg – Rails 3.1 stuff

One lightning talk:

• Mark Wotton – Instigator

See you there!

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

Three 15 minute talks:

• The Heroku guys – Technical context behind the Heroku acquisition by Salesforce.com and what it means for Ruby devs in AU
• Luke Chadwick – Simpleworker for Heroku
• Mikel Lindsaar – StillAlive addon for Heroku

Q & A

• Come prepared to talk Heroku. Questions, war stories, whatever

Salesforce.com/Heroku is also sponsoring our bar for the evening and bringing some schwag along to give away.

See you there!

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

One 15 minute talk:

• Chris Lloyd (@chrislloyd) – Macruby

One lightning talk:

• Tim McEwan (@tjmcewan) – Rectal Set

See you there!

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

Two 15 minute talks:

• Ivan Vanderbyl – Distributing long running tasks to the cloud with Cloudist (gem)
• Leonardo Borges (@leonardo_borges) – Case study: Clouds against the Floods, or how Ruby on Rails saved the Day in Australia

Two lightning talks:

• James Crisp (@jtcrisp) and Ryan Bigg (@ryanbigg) – Rails Refactor: a command line tool to make refactoring Rails apps much more fun
• Tim Lucas (@toolmantim) – Backbone.js & CSS3 flexbox

See you there!

First rorosyd for the year!

Tuesday January 11, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

One 15 minute talk:

• Julio Cesar Ody (@julio_ody) – rack-pagespeed

One lightning talk:

• James Sadler (@freshtonic) – Time Travel With Git

See you there!

Last rorosyd for the year!

Tuesday December 14, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

Two talks:

• Luke Chadwick (@vertis) will give an a talk on: scaling and optimising MongoDB
• Jason Crane (@snapperwolf) will give an a talk on: UX Eye for the Code Guy (a look into why UX is important in coding)

See you there!

Here’s the notes from last week’s Ruby meeting – the Analogue Blogue, and a list of people hiring Ruby developers.

Analog Blog

• Rails Camp Perth
  • No New Memes
• Next Australian Rails Camp is near Byron Bay in June.
• Next Asia-Pacific Rails Camp is near Wellington in March.
• Rails 3.0.2 – oh wait, 3.0.3
• Rails 2.3.10
• Rumours of a Ruby 1.8.8 – Engine Yard are the masterminds behind it. Final 1.8 release.
• Phusion Passenger (modrails) 3.0 has been released
  • Better performance
  • Can run as a standalone server
  • Happier with RVM and Bundler
• YOW and related workshops is next week!
  • Java, Ruby, Agile
• Rails Conf 2011 – May in Baltimore
  • Speaker applications are now open

Hiring

• Lonely Planet – several places available for variety of levels (mid to senior or a bright junior)
• Red Bubble is hiring
• Michael Morris is looking for designer-ish front-endy Rails-y person. Someone who can do everything.
• SitePoint – Ruby developers. Get in touch.
  • Experienced Rails developers (different part of SitePoint.)
  • Ruby on Rails authors as well.
• C3 – junior Rails developer. Includes such luminaries as Rob Postill and Mike Bailey.
• Thoughtworks is always interested in good people.
• realestate.com.au (REA) is looking for QAs and developers

Tomorrow’s Melbourne Ruby meet is almost here. We will once again be enjoying the hospitality of Thoughtworks: Level 15, IOOF Building, corner of Elizabeth and Collins Street, Melbourne (ie: the city).

• Ben Hoskings (I’ve forgotten the topic)
• Sean Caffery (Cucumber Analysis)
• Paul Coia (Solr and Sunspot)

Please arrive at 6 for a 6:30 start. The official proceedings should wrap up by 9pm, and then we’ll head off for drinks somewhere. If you are late, then you’ll need to call Perryn Fowler on 0400 438 233 so he can let you in – and hope he’s feeling generous ;)

And don’t forget: everyone is welcome, no matter how experienced you are with Ruby. These meetings are a great opportunity to meet your peers, learn something, and hear about what’s been happening in the Ruby community.

See you all then :)

Back to regularly scheduled planning this month.

Tuesday November 9, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

Three talks:

• Luke Chadwick (@vertis) will give an a talk on: mongoid
• Andrew Grimm (@andrewjgrimm) will give an a talk on: Small Eigen Collider – Producing random ruby programs
• Mikel Lindsaar (@raasdnil) will give a talk on: StillAlive after 48 hour.

See you there!

In conjunction with Australian Web Week we have an evening planned around introductory topics of Ruby and Rails.

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

• Ryan Bigg (@ryanbigg) will give an introduction to Ruby the language.
• Mikel Lindsaar (@raasdnil) will give an introduction to Rails3, what is new, and what has changed.
• Open Panel: Ryan Bigg (@ryanbigg), Mikel Lindsaar (@raasdnil), and Gabe Hollombe (@gabehollombe) will sit on a panel to answer any questions you have about ruby, rails or even some of your coding problems/questions. Feel free to bring along your laptop and have your code looked at, optimised and discussed.

Invite your friend, or people new to Ruby and Rails – looking forward to seeing you there.

We’re meeting for September on Wednesday 29th. This time around it will be a hack night. Bring something to work on.

We’re gathering again at Icelab (3/1 Gordon St, Civic) and will get started from 6:30pm. The Australian Medical Council is shouting pizza & Icelab some beer.

Announcing the September meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd.

Tuesday September 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 (upstairs) 6:30 for a 7pm start!

• Julio Cesar Ody – (@julio_ody) – CSS progressive enhancement
• Mikel Lindsaar – (@raasdnil) – CDNing, deploying and coding a new Rails 3 app
• Taylor Luk – (@taylor_luk) – pairjour – gitjour + git hackery + pair programming

• Josh Price – (@joshprice) – RubyKaigi 2010 experience report
• Rufus Post – (@rufuspost) – Learnings from gem building
• Andrew Grimm – (@andrewjgrimm) – Using web scraping to make easyroommate.com easy

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.