Ruby on Rails Oceania

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)

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!)