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!
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.
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!
We have 3 presentation length (15min) talks:- 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!
We have 2 presentation length (15min) talks:- 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!
We have 2 presentation length (15min) talks:- 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!
