Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Australia AGM - Canberra - Sunday the 13th of December 2015

[Lachlan Hardy]

I'd like to publicly acknowledge that the new committee will be our first
Ruby Australia committee with a majority of women.

As a community, we still have so much more to do in terms of diversity, but
I think it's important to recognise these milestones and take a moment to
realise how much we have learned.

Thank you to everyone in Australia's Ruby community for continuing to find
ways to welcome and support each other.



On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Pat Allan 
wrote:

> Echoing that thanks for Ryan’s excellent note-taking. Also:
>
> * Many thanks to those in the committee who wrap up their involvement at
> the end of this month: Sebastian von Conrad, Matt Allen, Mikel Lindsaar,
> and John Barton. Your efforts to help improve the Australian Ruby community
> are greatly appreciated!
> * Congratulations to the new committee members: Jo Cranford, Rebecca
> Skinner, Lauren Hennessey, and Angus Scown - I’m sure you’ll all do a
> stellar job.
> * Ongoing thanks to the continuing members of the committee as well:
> Leonard Garvey, Melissa Kaulfuss, Rob Jacoby, and Amanda Neumann - love
> your work :)
> * Much gratitude to *all* who are and have been part of our community!
>
> —
> Pat
>
> On 15 Dec 2015, at 10:21 pm, Rebecca Skinner  wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> We had a great turnout at the general meeting on Sunday at Rails Camp -
> lots of discussion about all of the items that were on the agenda (and some
> that weren't!)
>
> If you couldn't make it, or attended and want a recap of what happened,
> the minutes for the meeting are available for your perusal here:
>
> http://ruby.org.au/general_meetings/2015-12-13.html
>
> Huge thanks go out to Ryan Bigg for recording the minutes so efficiently -
> they wouldn't be available so quickly otherwise!
>
> If there are any issues with the minutes as they were recorded, please let
> me know and I'll get them rectified.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rebecca Skinner
> Incoming Ruby Australia secretary
> On behalf of Ruby Australia
>
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 6:26:21 PM UTC+8, Mikel wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> As per usual, there will be an Annual General Meeting for Ruby Australia
>> at the upcoming Rails Camp in Canberra, on Sunday the 13th of December
>> 2015. It’ll be happening in the afternoon, at 3pm for an hour or so.
>>
>> These meetings are for hearing about what’s been happening in the
>> Australian Ruby scene with event organising and other community efforts
>> (both Rails Camp and RubyConf AU are organised under the banner of Ruby
>> Australia). By attending Rails Camp, you become a voting member of Ruby
>> Australia - although there’s certainly no obligation to attend the meeting.
>>
>> It should also be noted that you do not require a Rails Camp ticket to be
>> present for the duration of the meeting.
>>
>> The current agenda is:
>>
>> • Welcome
>> • Apologies
>> • Mikel Lindsaar
>> * Motion to accept previous meeting’s minutes
>> * Committee Reports:
>> • Treasurer’s Report
>> • President’s Report
>> • Discussion and motion to alter Annual General Meeting to be held online
>> for inclusivity
>> • Discussion and motion to alter membership through Rails Camp attendance
>> for inclusivity
>> • Event Reports:
>> • RubyConf AU 2016 (Gold Coast)
>> • Rails Camp 19 (?? 2016)
>> • Review Main Activities
>> • Ruby Conference - Rob Jacoby
>> • Event Knowledge Project - Leonard Garvey
>> • New People into the Community Project - Amanda Neumann
>> • Ruby to the Business Project Update - John Barton
>> • Event Sponsorship
>> • Committee Elections
>> • *President* - Outgoing member Sebastian Von Conrad
>> • *Secretary* - Outgoing member Mikel Lindsaar
>> • *Treasurer* - Outgoing member Matt Allen
>> • General Business
>>
>> The minutes from the previous meeting are available here:
>> http://ruby.org.au/association.html
>>
>> The current committee is listed on our website as well:
>> http://ruby.org.au/committee-members.html
>>
>> It’s worth noting that we seek to have a diverse committee, with a mix of
>> genders, experience levels, locations, etc. Nominations for committee
>> positions are usually raised at the meeting, but they’re certainly welcome
>> beforehand.
>>
>> If you wish to nominate someone but you won’t be present at the meeting,
>> please send through a statement to me indicating who the nominee is, that
>> they accept your nomination, the role you’re nominating them for, and why
>> you’d like to see them in that role.
>>
>> If there’s anything else you wish to be raised at this meeting, even if
>> you won’t be present, please get in touch with myself or Sebastian von
>> Conrad.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>> Mikel Lindsaar
>> Ruby Australia Secretary
>> On behalf of Ruby Australia
>>
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Re: [rails-oceania] Announcing the formation of Ruby NZ.

[Lachlan Hardy]

Congrats all! This is a big step that I hope really boosts your already
amazing community :)


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:23 AM, James Harton jamesot...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello Rubyists.

 It is our great pleasure to announce the formal creation of Ruby New
 Zealand.  Ruby NZ will focus it's efforts on supporting the Ruby community
 and Ruby events in New Zealand.

 The initial Ruby NZ committee as it currently stands is:

 Philip Arndt - @parndt - President
 Eoin Kelly   - @eoinkelly  - Treasurer
 Merrin Macleod   - @merxplat   - Secretary
 James Harton - @jamesotron - Auckland Region
 Breccan McLeod-Lundy - @breccan- Advisor
 Amanda Wagener   - @a_wagener  - Christchurch Region
 Nahum Wild   - @terrcin- Wellington Region

 Elections will be held at the next RailsCamp in Auckland in 2015 for a
 replacement committee.

 Thanks for your support, and we look forward to serving the Ruby community
 for years to come.

 Philip, Eoin, Merrin, James, Breccan, Amanda and Nahum.




 James Harton, Professional Tinkerer
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Re: [rails-oceania] Interesting Lead Dev / Co Founder Role

[Lachlan Hardy]

Not that I want to discourage people posting jobs on this list, but Theresa
has posted this role at least twice herself, Mikel.

Perhaps you'd be better advising her to attempt a different approach?
Because this one does not seem to be working.


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Mikel Lindsaar raasd...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi there peeps,

 Working at reInteractive, I get a lot of interesting ideas across my desk.
 Some of them are better than others.

 One I am interested in at the moment and helping mentor is Theresa Lim,
 founder of Play2Lead. She makes software that increases the engagement and
 feedback from conference / large meeting attendees.

 The cool thing about Theresa is that she has already got a working web
 app, coded and built (in Rails) and has Australia's largest event software
 registration company signed up exclusively giving her access to 20M event
 attendees in Australia and 500+ events in Australia, China and Middle East
 (including Microsoft Tech Ed). So she has the determination, drive and
 sales ability to make this happen.

 What she is looking for is a Lead Developer and Co Founder to work with
 her to get this to the next level, and to re-engage potential investors in
 next 3-6 months to raise $200K-$700K (she is already engaged with 3 seed
 funds/angel networks who have been courting her)

 You'll be taking over the existing Rails application, leading and
 directing the development effort. You'll work with Theresa and will get
 advice from me as well as needed.

 Pay:Negotiable. The company has money, talk to Theresa
 on what you can and can't do.
 Location:   Sydney, this isn't negotiable for this opportunity
 Start:  Now. Even if you can do weekends or evenings for a few
 weeks before you both agree the you/the role is a fit and you are ready to
 go full-time.

 How to contact, you can email Theresa on ther...@play2lead.com.au or
 myself.

 Mikel Lindsaar
 reInteractive

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Re: [rails-oceania] What's in a Name?

[Lachlan Hardy]

This is great news, Mikel!

One thing to consider as they're no longer under the reInteractive brand is
whether Ruby Australia should take them under its umbrella to provide
official cover in terms of insurance, handling of sponsorship etc.

Something to discuss with the current committee?




On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Pat Allan p...@freelancing-gods.com wrote:

 Hi Mikel

 Thanks for all the hard work reInteractive's been putting into these
 events, and I particularly appreciate this next step of giving them a more
 community-driven approach and name (not that you weren't community-focused
 in the past!).

 And I'm sure you're aware (though most on this list won't be): we're
 looking forward to bringing the InstallFest event down to Melbourne in the
 next few months as well - a date's been figured out at the moment.

 Cheers

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 On 05/08/2013, at 4:22 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote:

  Hi there ruby friends :)
 
  So, some of you might have heard of two community initiatives we have
 started over the past few months.
 
  The InstallFest and the Development Hub.
 
  Both of these were kicked off by reInteractive's community manager Chloe.
 
  When we started, we branded these, by putting reinteractive in front
 of them.  We did this for a couple of reasons, (1) by putting our company
 name on the line and backing this event, it got a lot more attention than
 it might of otherwise and (2) it's always good to have a bit of marketing :)
 
  However, both of these events are growing in popularity and attendance.
  installFest has now almost passed 100 people setup with Ruby on Rails and
 Development Hub last week had about 40 people rock up including mentors
 
  As our intention the whole time has been to make these community events
 and have anyone attend and help, we've decided to remove any reInteractive
 branding from the name of these initiatives.
 
  Of course we will still sponsor these events and Chloé will still work
 hard at making them happen and will be the point person on driving them to
 continue to expand and grow, but we hope this change will make it more
 acceptable for anyone from any company (development shop, freelancer or
 otherwise) to come along, participate, attend or help out.
 
  Also, it means we can start expanding this thing, news will be out soon
 about us starting the InstallFest in other capital cities in Australia and
 move out from there.
 
  To reflect this change we've gone and updated our website and every site
 we have control over to refer to these events as the Ruby on Rails
 Installfest and Ruby on Rails Development Hub instead of reInteractive
 Installfest and reInteractive Development Hub.  If you find an old
 reference to reInteractive directly in the branding, please let us know and
 we'll get it fixed ASAP :)
 
  Also, this means these events will always stay free and run at a cost
 plus basis to the sponsors.  I'm also happy to talk with anyone wanting to
 run an Installfest in their location, we can provide guidance, materials
 etc and if you have a bunch of people, we'll even fly our team there to
 help run it.
 
  Thanks for all your support everyone and here's to getting hundreds more
 people introduced and running with Ruby on Rails.
 
  Mikel Lindsaar
  Founder
  reInteractive  exec.io
 
 
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Re: [rails-oceania] [JOB] Senior Rails Dev - Sydney - $110K+super

[Lachlan Hardy]

I, for one, welcome our new rails recruiting overlord.


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Matt Allen ma...@lookahead.com.au wrote:

 Hey All;

 I've recently hung up my coding shoes to join the venerable Steve Gilles
 (@stevelikesyou) at Lookahead Search. We're technical recruiters in Sydney
 that can actually have a proper conversation with you about your code. You
 may have met me at Rails Camps 1 though 12 (except 2 :( ). I've been coding
 for the web since '96 and Rails since the beginning of it.  We like to
 think we do a great job in finding amazing roles for Rails developers.

 On that note, I'm currently looking for a Senior Rails Developer for an
 exciting, well-backed company in Sydney. The role itself is leading a small
 team that is having a big impact on hundreds of thousands of customers
 already. Scaling things up is something that should make you happy. The
 office is full of energy with a healthy mix of craftsmanship and shipping.

 The salary is $110K plus super. It's onsite work but flexible hours are
 fine, even encouraged. It's all about the output.

 If this sounds like you, please do get in contact directly for more info.
 Here's the long description: http://www.lookahead.com.au/jobs/1438423

 We actually have 8 roles on the books at the moment ranging from junior to
 mid level to senior. We won't be spamming the list with all of them but
 we'd encourage you to keep an eye on our twitter account @LookaheadSearch
 or our jobs page http://www.lookahead.com.au/jobs if you're thinking of
 making a move.

 Matt Allen @mattallen
 Lookahead Search
 0413 777 771 | www.lookahead.com.au
 16-18 Grosvenor Street, The Rocks 2000 http://lookahead.com.au/contact

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Re: [rails-oceania] RubyConfAU 2014

[Lachlan Hardy]

I, for one, welcome our new RubyConfAU overlords.


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Martin Stannard mstann...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi folks,

 RubyAustralia is happy to announce we've found an organising committee for
 the 2014 RubyConfAU.

 The committee members are Jason Crane, Steve Gilles, Elle Meredith and
 Josh Price. We're delighted to have a group of dedicated community members
 take over the reins for next year's conference and are sure they'll do an
 outstanding job.

 If you have any questions or would like to get involved please mail
 organis...@rubyconf.org.au.

 Announcements will be forthcoming regarding location and dates.

 See you all at next year's conf!

 regards,

 Martin Stannard

 on behalf of Ruby Australia

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Moving to Sydney

[Lachlan Hardy]

I vouch for Malcolm. I can vouch for anyone who vouches that Parndt has
been compromised in more ways than one.


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Malcolm Locke m...@wholemeal.co.nz wrote:

 Also, I'm pretty sure parndt has been compromised in more ways than one.

 On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:18:18PM +1100, Tim McEwan wrote:
  The vouch is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.
 
 
  On Friday, 15 March 2013 at 2:16 PM, Chris Herring wrote:
 
   Solid guarantee.
  
   On Friday, 15 March 2013 at 2:11 PM, Luke Chadwick wrote:
  
And I can vouch for parndt. Anyone he says is a nice guy is probably
 a nice guy.
   
On 15 March 2013 08:52, parndt par...@gmail.com (mailto:
 par...@gmail.com) wrote:
 I can vouch for Garrett.. he's a nice guy :)

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Re: [rails-oceania] Best community ever?!

[Lachlan Hardy]

We love you too, Charlie!

to be honest, I have no idea how we all lucked into such an amazing
community of talented lovely people who have become such good friends. I
don't know what our secret sauce is, but I'm glad we have it.

Stay awesome, y'all.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:42 PM, freshto...@gmail.com
freshto...@gmail.comwrote:

 Amazing work. Love it!


 On 11 March 2013 22:57, Charlie Gleason h...@charliegleason.com wrote:

 Hey folks,

 So, I joined the Ruby community mid-last year, when I started working as
 a designer at Goodfilms http://goodfil.ms/. Since then, I've met loads
 of people, drunk loads of beers and attended loads of events. And I've come
 to the conclusion that Rubyists are the best. Supportive of newcomers,
 generous with their time, open to collaboration, and generally super rad
 humans.

 A couple weeks ago I came up with an idea to do a music video using
 tweets, called Tweetflight http://tweetflight.wearebrightly.com/,
 cause I couldn't afford to pay for a proper one. Glen Maddern, John Barton
 and Tim Lucas straight away gave their precious time and seemingly infinite
 skills, and I am at a loss as to how to adequately express my enthusiasm
 for them and what they helped me achieve.

 Perhaps with beer? Let's start with beer.

 So thanks for being a rad community. It is beyond appreciated.

 Charlie out. *drops mic*

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Re: [rails-oceania] Open Wireless Movement

[Lachlan Hardy]

I've been running a free public (separate) network from my home since late
2007 using Meraki mesh gear. I no longer recommend their product, but I've
certainly never had any issues from the practice of sharing my bandwidth.


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Steve Hoeksema st...@seven.net.nz wrote:

 I have unmetered broadband and a spare router running OpenWRT that's
 isolated from the rest of the network, so I did this for a while.

 Unfortunately local law means I'm now liable if someone else does
 something illegal while using my connection, so I turned it off.

 Which is completely ridiculous, but until there are more than a handful of
 techno-literate people in government I'm not willing to risk it.

 On 3 January 2013 11:31, Duncan Bayne dhgba...@gmail.com wrote:

 Have folks here seen this?

 https://openwireless.org/

 The idea's got me quite excited.  Admittedly there's probably less call
 for it where I live in Upwey, but I think it'd be a powerful tool in denser
 urban areas.

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[rails-oceania] TheWorkben.ch launches tomorrow with a Jelly a party!

[Lachlan Hardy]

DING.

You're an awesome community I've been part of since it started and now
I'm part of building a new one. Thus you get a one-time only
pretty-much-off-topic message.

In Ultimo, Sydney, at http://theworkben.ch, we're building a community
of creative people doing incredible things on the web.

I figure this crew fits that description pretty damn well, so here's
the brief lowdown:

We’ve got desks, benches, couches, free blisteringly-fast wifi and a
bunch of great people to collaborate with.
So from 8.30am on Friday 13th July (tomorrow!) we're holding a Jelly
at TheWorkben.ch!

Bring your laptop, iPad, sketchbook or whatever you need to be
creative, and join us for the day to jam on whatever takes your fancy.

RSVP for the Jelly here: http://tixi.com.au/theworkbench-jelly

Afterwards, to celebrate the launch of TheWorkben.ch, we're throwing a
party to get to know all the wonderful people who've supported us –
and
to let you all get to know each other!

Join us from 5pm this Friday at our coworking space (Level 2, 645
Harris St, Ultimo) for drinks, nibbles and conversations with fellow
awesome people.

The amazing Alex Hillman (@alexknowshtml, http://www.indyhall.com) has
made his first trip to Australia and will be talking (briefly) about
his experiences
with coworking and how having a collaborative clubhouse has impacted
work and life in Philadelphia.

I'd love to see you there, whether you RSVP or not, but I'd love it if
you let us know: http://tixi.com.au/theworkbench-is-open




Apologies for those of you to whom this is a cross-post. What can I
say? I love both Ruby *and* JavaScript!

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Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne RORO March is this Thursday, the 29th.

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It is so on!

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Re: [rails-oceania] [Hack Day] Music Hack Day Sydney

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Wanna come play with Si and I? We're still trying to come up with an
idea as well, but whatever it is, he'll make it look pretty!

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Re: [rails-oceania] Inaugural Ruby Australia AGM

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Thanks again for all your (and the other interim office bearers) hard work
on this, Keith. Very exciting!

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Re: [rails-oceania] Meetup with Corey Haines - Sydney December 1st

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Big table booked!

Come meet Corey Haines, CodeRetreat badass, and keep his jet lagged brain
awake for a few extra hours with scintillating conversation about
programming and related nerdery. Or about something way more interesting :)

Table is booked under Corey from 6pm. Tell your friends, and let's
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Re: [rails-oceania] Meetup with Corey Haines - Sydney December 1st

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At Customs House Bar. In case I'm too tired to be clear:
http://www.chb.sydneyharbourmarriott.com.au/restaurant/hotels/hotel-information/travel/SYDMC-Customs-House-Bar/

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Lachlan Hardy lach...@lachstock.com.auwrote:

 Big table booked!

 Come meet Corey Haines, CodeRetreat badass, and keep his jet lagged brain
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 programming and related nerdery. Or about something way more interesting :)

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[rails-oceania] Meetup with Corey Haines - Sydney December 1st

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Corey gets into Sydney this Thursday and he's keen to meet up with folks
from the local community that night.

I suggested a pub near the CodeRetreat venue, which is at Thoughtworks. Can
anyone suggest a pub near 51 Pitt St that'd be appropriate for nerds to
meet, chat, get a decent feed etc?

I'd like to settle on a venue quickly so we can get the word out on Twitter
and to various other groups that might be interested.

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Re: [rails-oceania] Low Cost ROR Hosting

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 (Thanks everyone for the shootouts!)


Shout outs. Obviously. Still well hungover from last night's RORO.

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Re: [rails-oceania] Strategies for including a 'build id' in code

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That's hot, Ben.

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Re: [rails-oceania] Blog software recommendations?

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Like a truly wasteful old skool fool, I write my own.

It's fun and I learn from it.

Although my velocity is glacial.

(as evidenced by the fact I broke something in my deploy, haven't had time
to fix it, and thus haven't blogged in 12 months.

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Re: [rails-oceania] June RoRo Sydney Meetup

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Might have been useful to post that the mailing list for those of us who
couldn't make the May event. ;)

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Re: [rails-oceania] June RoRo Sydney Meetup

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Thanks, Keith! :)

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Rackspace is closing down Slicehost

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Yeah, that's pretty weird, Mike. I've received at least 3 emails from them
about it.

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Re: [rails-oceania] Rackspace is closing down Slicehost

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What would make a good size for a micro instance?



(leading question - cause my employer might actually deliver one...)

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[rails-oceania] Re: [railscamp] Reminder: Railscamp 9 Tickets close in 17 hours!

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6 tickets. Cause you can still have mine!



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 Hi everyone,

 Sorry for the cross-posting.

 We've had a fantastic response to railscamp this year, and have sold
 around 145 tickets to the event. This is probably your last chance to
 secure a ticket to 3 days of hacking, socialising with peers, and the
 odd beverage or two.

 You have 17 hours to secure 1 of 5 tickets remaining (which ever
 happens first!).

 This is also a good opportunity to book bus tickets from Gold Coast to
 the venue (and return) for $15 each-way ($30 return) if you haven't
 already.

 Looking forward to catching up with those of you attending.

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Re: [rails-oceania] [SYD] Meetup, Tuesday April 12th

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SWEET AS

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Re: [rails-oceania] [Hack Night] Wednesday 23rd Feb

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Thanks, all!

We were stoked to have you! And we'd be happy to gain.

I might even be able to hack on something myself next time!

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Re: [rails-oceania] RailsRumble 2010 - Only Read if you are a Rails or Design Ninja

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http://ampedweb.org/ also starts (and finishes) that day. Might be
option for those who can't dedicate an entire weekend to hack -
especially after being away conferencing for a few days ;)

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How does the new Google images work?

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Yeah, yeah, all that's cool, but...

 As cool as it is, Google must only be playing around because they've
 strangely disabled it in Opera. It's a shame that Google's open
 standards doesn't extend to it's UI.

OMG! You've become an Opera fanboi!

Represent!


:)

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How does the new Google images work?

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 Glad you said it.

Somebody had to. The man has obviously lost it!*



* still joking**



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Re: [rails-oceania] Penciling in Railscamp NZ

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Sounds awesome!

I'd heard rumours there was some original plan to have it the weekend
after Webstock? But like everybody else, I'm just thinking of myself.

Good on you for getting something up and running. I'll see if I can't
manage two trips to NZ next year :)

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Organising javascript in rails apps

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Shun the non-believer!

SHUUN!

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Re: [rails-oceania] simple ui widgets

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 The campaign monitor guys had a write up recently that explained why they
 didn't go with Raphaël and what they used instead. If you interested…

No. They didn't.

They explained why they moved from Flash to JS. All they said about
gRaphaël was that they considered it but picked HighCharts cause it
was more like their existing charts. See
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/new-features-updates/

Just sayin' ;)

In other news, Dmitry is definitely working on gRaphaël at present,
see new demos at http://g.raphaeljs.com/linechart.html

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Re: [rails-oceania] Build Status Indicators

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 Also the last.fm posts shows that they have these status screens all
 across their office - trac ticket status, last commit, load graphs
 etc. Does anyone know of any open source tools that would be used for
 office status displays like that?
We  use stuff like that internally at Atlassian. Every team has a big
dashboard displaying build status, recent commits, test coverage etc.
It's not as pretty as Panic's [1] yet, but we're working on it.

I don't want to sound like I'm advertising, but if you used Atlassian
tools you could probably make your own with a bunch of gadgets on a
single page. Of course, you can do similar with a bunch of other tools
too, you'd just have to mashup up their content yourself rather than
use existing gadgets. Worth it for a good status board, I'd say.


[1] http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

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Re: [rails-oceania] Testability Driven Development

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 Oh for the days when out build took a minute to run.

 When dealing with large, complex systems, made up of lots of moving parts, 
 testing very quickly can get out of hand.

23.5 hours anyone? With the occasional random failure just to keep
things interesting?

And, yes, that *is* a matter of concern - it's just very very hard to
do much about.

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Re: [rails-oceania] RailsCamp: Sydney - Canberra

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Fuck my car, I'm coming with you!

On Sunday, February 28, 2010, Robbie Shepherd robbie.sheph...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'll also be taking my beast. Cruise with me if you like. You'll need to chip 
 in for fuel, as she's a thirsty little thing.

 My car:

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoodshepherds/3791057649/

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoodshepherds/3791870952/

 leaving from Glenfield (south-western suburbs) mid-afternoon on the friday I 
 think.

 Robbie


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 Was planning on renting a car, driving down around 5pm from Sydney, and 
 leaving early Monday morning.
 Anyone wanna jump in on it with me?
 Jonathan



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 Unconfirmed as yet and thus totally unreliable, but I might have the
 car out of the shop by then. If I do...

 ROADTRIP!!!


 I'd be more than happy to take 3 others, if they're willing to risk it.

 Lachlan



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Re: [rails-oceania] RailsCamp: Sydney - Canberra

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Unconfirmed as yet and thus totally unreliable, but I might have the
car out of the shop by then. If I do...

ROADTRIP!!!


I'd be more than happy to take 3 others, if they're willing to risk it.

Lachlan



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Re: [rails-oceania] Eric Ries is speaking in Sydney

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I saw him speak yesterday morning at Webstock. He was fantastic.

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: An ultimatum on job postings.

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My oar:

I agree that all we can police are the regular members of the
community and that we should do so.

I advocate that we agree (place in the group 'rules', if that's what
we do) not to reply on-list to job postings. Not even for
clarification. Email the sender directly with your question and if
*they* think the answer needs wider promulgation, they can re-publish
or amend.

That's it.

I think it's pretty straightforward. It leaves us with only one email
to delete, or read, or whatever and reduces noise on the list.

It also makes us a nicer more welcoming community and I would greatly
appreciate that.

Lachlan Hardy

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Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney February Meetup

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Well, we haven't been simply a Rails group in at least 3 years I'd say ;)

On Tuesday, February 2, 2010, Andrew Grimm andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
 We're actually a Javascript meetup group. The group maintainers just
 haven't got around to updating the website yet.

 Andrew

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 On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM,  ja...@codespike.com wrote:
 Hey everyone,

 I've been very slack this month in getting things moving. It's on next 
 Tuesday
 (9th February) at the Trinity  (6:30pm for 7pm)
 http://tinyurl.com/6emfna

 If you're interested in giving a talk, head on over to the wiki and add to 
 it.
 http://bit.ly/Wut7s

 I'll update the blog tonight :)

 Given that I know only slightly north of nothing about Javascript, I
 look forward to being bollocked almightily about this, but one of the
 things that's always sort of annoyed me a bit about javascript in
 practice is that good deployment practices are often not used,
 especially since it's often considered a fluffy front-end concern
 unworthy of proper software engineering discipline. In that vein, I'd
 like to give a short talk about packaging js in rails, unless it's
 been done to death already.

 mark

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Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney February Meetup

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You're a brave man, Mark. Bring it on!

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 On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM,  ja...@codespike.com wrote:
 Hey everyone,

 I've been very slack this month in getting things moving. It's on next 
 Tuesday
 (9th February) at the Trinity  (6:30pm for 7pm)
 http://tinyurl.com/6emfna

 If you're interested in giving a talk, head on over to the wiki and add to 
 it.
 http://bit.ly/Wut7s

 I'll update the blog tonight :)

 Given that I know only slightly north of nothing about Javascript, I
 look forward to being bollocked almightily about this, but one of the
 things that's always sort of annoyed me a bit about javascript in
 practice is that good deployment practices are often not used,
 especially since it's often considered a fluffy front-end concern
 unworthy of proper software engineering discipline. In that vein, I'd
 like to give a short talk about packaging js in rails, unless it's
 been done to death already.

 mark

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Re: [rails-oceania] Reminder: Sydney: rorosyd is on tonight!

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I'm giving a mystery talk?!

Is that because, by the end of it, it'll be a mystery to everyone why
I did a talk?
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Re: [rails-oceania] Recruiting three roles in Melbourne

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 May I suggest we follow along the same lines as the rubyonrails-talk
 mailing list and recommend that [JOB] be prefixed to all job posting
 subjects?
Oh, and stick that in a prominent place on the group homepage so that
folks know - and not slam the people who don't do it :)

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Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

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 There are definitely apps where that's not true, like apps that have very
 large databases or apps that are serving large amounts of data, but for most
 dynamic apps I think that should hold true.

I've heard there are some folks hitting the big tech conferences
recently talking about how SSDs enable new kinds of applications. But
I've not chased down any of the presentations, so...

Meanwhile, my (new) MBP boots faster with an SSD than my old one woke
up from sleep. (completely unscientific comparison, but it makes me
very very happy.)

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Re: [rails-oceania] javascript framework for rails

[Lachlan Hardy]

 Obviously it'd great if we could run ruby in the browser.
Gestalt is pretty interesting:
http://www.visitmix.com/Labs/gestalt/

 I'm not quite willing to use javascript on the server side, not even for
 consistency's sake.

Why not?

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Re: [rails-oceania] javascript framework for rails

[Lachlan Hardy]

 I think it's a good question. Certainly that's the technically easiest
 solution here. Javascript is a pretty cool language. It has lots of ruby
 like features. One major hangup for me is actually just the syntax. Bloody
 commas, semi-colons and curly brackets everywhere. Normally I'm not the sort
 of person who gets hung up on this sort of thing, but I spend a substantial
 amount of time going back and putting commas in and so forth, and it really
 is costing me in terms of efficiency. Also, it doesn't help that in some
 cases, some browsers let you get away with missing bits of syntax, but other
 don't.
I can understand that to some degree, but it's hard to be sympathetic
to the idea that maybe we don't just need to learn JS properly.

That's what JSlint is for, though. A relatively short period of using
the TextMate bundle meant I never forgot what went where again (cause
it has nice little notifications for warnings or errors on save). I'm
sure there are similar plugins etc for other editors and IDEs.

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Coding Convention doc that anyone uses ?

[Lachlan Hardy]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Gareth Stokes
gar...@betechnology.com.au wrote:
 Google ie tester, it will let you run multiple ie versions on the
 one pc

Those don't work completely. Gets confused on some edgecases and uses
the wrong DLLs etc. You really do need a separate install of of
Windows for each version of IE you want to test. Not to mention
testing each browser in each OS version it's available in if you want
to be really precise - which can be very important if you're doing
interesting things with fonts ;)

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Coding Convention doc that anyone uses ?

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John, what's saucepan?

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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Coding Convention doc that anyone uses ?

[Lachlan Hardy]

 Saucepan (named by ryan) is our windows box we can remote desktop into
 to make sure our HTMLs are good (or work on IE which is the same as
 good, right?)

Ah, cool. But then you can only check one IE properly... Even if you
choose not to support IE6, what do you do now that IE8 is out? Or do
you have multiple saucepans?

 It was cheaper for us to buy a second hand comp with windows on it
 than to pay for parallels and windows licences etc.

Surely is! Requires a tad more setup but that's how I typically build
test environments too.

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Re: [rails-oceania] december meetup in sydney?

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We always 'celebrate' anyway. Why would this time be any different? :)

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[rails-oceania] Re: Reminder: rorosyd Tuesday October 13

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Sounds cool!

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[rails-oceania] Re: talk proposal: interfacing ruby and haskell

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Do it!

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[rails-oceania] Re: apologies

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 Also the feedback I got from the guys in the office (before it became
 evident we weren't going to make it to the meeting) was that no one
 wants to hear a talk with XML in the title, so I'm happy to give the
 talk next month re-titled as Good Abstraction, Bad Abstraction - A
 Jovial Jaunt Through the Dark Side of Software Engineering


It's still the same talk, though, right?

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[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Javascript minifier

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you could, in fact, go straight to the source:
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.rb

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[rails-oceania] Re: timely traffic reporting

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Sorry, everybody, I don't have any invites. I don't believe they're set up
to offer them via users, you can only get an account by subscribing on the
home page.

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[rails-oceania] Re: Cameron Adams talks about Google Wave in Sydney

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 There'll be a few of us heading from AR HQ (Foveaux St, Surry Hills) @
 5:30pm, feel free to meet us there.


Yeah, I'll definitely be going too :)

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[rails-oceania] Cameron Adams talks about Google Wave in Sydney

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Off-topic, but I know Wave is of interest to a lot of people on the list, so
I'll take the hit. Apologies to those who don't care.

Cameron Adams (http://themaninblue.com/), one of the original Wave team,
will be one of two presenters at the Usability Professionals Association
meeting next week. I don't think it'll be very technical, but I'm interested
in the design process and problem-solving involved.

RSVPs required. $10. More details here:
http://upasydney.org/index.php?page=Events/2nd+Birthday+Celebrations+-+Future+of+HCI%3A+Intelligent+User+Interfaces+as+Agents+of+Change

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[rails-oceania] Re: CSS frameworks

[Lachlan Hardy]

 In other words, if you're a Ruby developer it'll make perfect sense to
 you. If you're a CSS person you'll be shocked and sickened. That's
 just the way it is.

 If you're Lachlan Hardy you'll probably be torn by the whole thing.

That's pretty much it. Sass makes me feel pain.

The abstraction is quite nice, but I think the cost in terms of
outputted CSS is too high.

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[rails-oceania] Re: CSS frameworks

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 What cost is it that you're talking about mainly?  I thought the output of
 it was pretty good..

Mainly the size, as per Lachie's comments.

Being the front-end pedant I am, I also have some issues with the
formatting of the output.

The specificity is also something that shits me generally. The more
specific your CSS, the more the browser has to work to get your page
rendered correctly. Sass's indentation based inheritance model tends
to make it easier to end up with overly specific CSS. That's something
you could work around, I'm sure, but my tendency would be to keep
indenting and end with unnecessarily long descendant selectors.

I, too, am now intrigued by Less. I might try it on a project and see
what I think.

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[rails-oceania] Re: Thoughts on HAML?

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 Hi all (I'm new to the list, having just moved to Sydney from NYC).

Welcome, Gabe!

Be sure to keep your eye out for the next meetup in Sydney. Should
probably be Tuesday the 7th of July.

Speaking of which, given we're permanently moving to Tuesdays, how do
we update the gCal feed to reflect that?

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[rails-oceania] Re: Next rorosyd meetup vs HAML

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 I thought I had.  When I go to the page, it says 'Tuesday July 14
 (second Tuesday of the month?)'

 Is the second (now Tuesday) of the month a good day for people? (vs.
 HAML)

 Maybe I'm looking at a different calendar.

Oh. Sorry. My bad.

Calendars suck.

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[rails-oceania] Re: Thoughts on HAML?

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 %body{:class = (@layout ? @layout : (@category == * ? tags :
 @category))}

 Ah, nested ternary operators. Takes me back to the PHP demo at
 Railscamp 4!

I don't know shit about PHP, but I do know I need to re-architect my layouts :)

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[rails-oceania] Re: Thoughts on HAML?

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 My experience with HAML has left me ambi-markup. I have no preference
 as, explained by many, they both have their pros and cons. I find HTML
 to be easier to work with if you're going to put conditional
 attributes on your tags (go on, give me a HAML example that can do
 that) but HAML is so darn pretty and apparently *faster* than ERB.

No, no, it's not. http://nex-3.com/posts/81-more-haml-benchmark-issues

As for the conditionals, they're one of my favourite aspects about
Haml. Mike's examples are good. The best thing about them is that if
the conditional evaluates in the negative, you don't end up with an
empty class attribute - you don't get one at all.

You can also bust out some more complex shizzle:
%body{:class = (@layout ? @layout : (@category == * ? tags : @category))}

(Not that I'd ever use that in production... Oh, wait...)


I love Haml. It's delicious.

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[rails-oceania] Re: What do people recommend for screen scraping?

[Lachlan Hardy]

 Wow. That's insane Lachlan! Can it be configured to work with other sites?

If you look at the examples of 'data' queries towards the bottom of
the list on the right, you'll see that it can parse HTML, RSS, ATOM,
JSON, XML, Microformats and more directly from a URL.

 I need something for on the plane tomorrow - I've saved off copies of some
 sites and want to write a scraper/aggregator.

Unfortunately, it's not going to help you there as it's obviously an API.

You should also check out Smoke, which is increasingly badass:
http://github.com/benschwarz/smoke/tree/master

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[rails-oceania] Re: Order your Railscamp tee now!

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 Awesome work! Just ordered one.
Agreed. Purchased.

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[rails-oceania] Re: rorosyd meetup reminder (_Tuesday_ May 5, 2009)

[Lachlan Hardy]

 Nice one. I'm trying to get in contact with some of the other speakers too.

 Also Tuesday meetup, whoo!

Given we now have something in the order of 4 lightning talks, a
presentation from an interstate guest, and probable attendance from
Avi Bryant (and other JAOO speakers?), it would be awesome to rustle
up the funding for our own bar.

We need to guarantee a $1000 spend (incl food) to the Trinity for them
to open the bar upstairs for us. This will save you trooping
downstairs every time you want another drink (thus missing valuable
Ruby goodness) and spilling your round all the way back up the stairs
(thus annoying your mates).

This is more usually the kind of thing that's discussed on the
organisers list (which anyone interested is welcome to join) but given
the time constraints I just want to get it out there.

Can we get $1000 from a source, or sources, in the next few hours so
we can have a bar? Anybody got the hookup for sponsorship? Any
agencies or companies willing to pitch in $100 each?

We need to know immediately if we're to convince the Trinity to put on
another staff member for the night.

Respond here to receive community love even if we don't manage to get
the money together ;)

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[rails-oceania] Re: Sydney Meetup - JAOO

[Lachlan Hardy]

Not to mention that everybody who was there but *doesn't* work for a
startup still gets 25% off...


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Dylan Egan dylane...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 Just passing on this message from Dave Thomas (Big) and Lisa Cumes
 about the upcoming JAOO conference. If you were there last night and
 are interested in the start-up discount please contact Lisa at
 lisacu...@bedarra.com.

 Cheers,

 Dylan.

 -

 Dear Ruby Developer,

 We appreciated the opportunity to sponsor the Sydney Ruby Users Group
 last night. We hope to see you and other dynamic language enthusiasts
 at JAOO Australia next month. We have a great line up of speakers
 including a full slate of talks of interest to Ruby developers.

 Avi Bryant ~ Ruby and Smalltalk Wizard, (Canada) creator of Seaside
 web framework and Dabledb.com, now working on a high-performance
 RubyVM;

 Dr. Nic Williams ~ Ruby hacker and blogger, (Brisbane)

 Glenn Vanderburg ~  (Relevance LLC, North Carolina) Ruby, Rails and
 Ajax Expert;

 Douglas Crockford  ~ Senior JavaScript Architect (Yahoo!, California)
 creator of JSON, author JavaScript The Good Parts;

 There are discounts for AIIA, AIMIA, ACS members as well as a special
 startup discount. Contact Lisa Cumes for details. For everyone at the
 meeting last night be sure to take advantage of the 25% discount on a
 2 day conference ticket. Use discount code JAOO2009_ruby

 If you have never been to JAOO check out talks from our previous
 conferences.  See You at JAOO, become part of the great JAOO network!

 Best,
 Dave
 Dave Thomas
 CoSponsor and PC
 JAOO Australia Conferences
 www.davethomas.net

 


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[rails-oceania] Re: AR office launch drinks this Friday

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 Sheffield doesn't have a huge ruby scene, but I believe it's growing.
 Shrug needs to happen.

Then you know whose job that is... ;)

Besides, with a name like 'Shrug' how can you *not* organise it?

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[rails-oceania] Automatically grokking templates based on files in Sinatra

[Lachlan Hardy]

It might just be my unbelievable hangover, because I thought this
would be easy, but I'm struggling big time.


Basically, I want to be able to pass routes such as '/dialogs',
'dialogs/wizard', '/controls/buttons' etc to one controller that tells
Sinatra to go find the appropriate haml file.

Obviously, I can just map out all the routes. Just as obviously, that is lame.

Anybody got a functioning brain this afternoon?

Lachlan Hardy

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[rails-oceania] Re: Automatically grokking templates based on files in Sinatra

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 could you not do something like:
 get '/*' do
   # interpret params[:splat] as needed
 end

Yeah, but it's the commented line I'm having trouble with.

I need to tell it show a view that is based on a variable, rather than
a known value

so rather than doing:

get '/*' do
  haml :index
end

I need:

get '/*' do
  haml VARIABLE
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[rails-oceania] Re: Automatically grokking templates based on files in Sinatra

[Lachlan Hardy]

 get '/*' do
     haml var.to_sym
  end


Thanks all!

It turns out  the problem is, in fact, my hangover...


That worked. (of course)

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[rails-oceania] Re: Action Jackson in Sydney

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I am so fucking there.

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[rails-oceania] Re: Sydney Meetup, Wednesday February 11, 2009

[Lachlan Hardy]

I'm happy to do a talk on YQL and the hotness it brings to your app,
if anybody is interested?

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[rails-oceania] Re: [railscamp] Railscamp 4: What worked well; how can we improve?

[Lachlan Hardy]

 * better gitjour


I'm working on it. Should have some goodies up on github as soon as catching
up on work and life allows me to surface. Keep on eye of
http://github.com/lachlanhardy/gitjour for the funk. (and, preferably, fix
my nooby Ruby)



 * 70 people too many


I completely disagree. 70 people is only too many if you don't know them
all.

The first couple of camps we had a pattern that broke the ice, formed new
groups and gave us all awesome inspiration to hack. We didn't have that this
time.

For future camps, I recommend we structure things a little more to shape the
weekend. Sunday afternoon/evening/late night began to feel a lot more like
Railscamp than the massive LAN party we'd been having until then.

I say we go back to the stupid introductory ice-breaking activities that
everybody thinks are kinda lame. They are. We know. But they *work*. You get
to meet other cool people and learn what they're into. It's heaps more fun
hacking with folks you don't meet with regularly cause it broadens just
about everything you can learn from them / with them

So bring back crazy ruby-oriented pizza making. Or Half-baked. Or some ruby
and/or web quiz. Anything as long as everybody has to participate in mixed
random teams that they don't get to pick. This can be introduced via the
welcome to Railscamp and intro to the rules and facilities (which is also a
nice way to make sure generous folks like Nigel don't spend an hour cleaning
up after everyone on the first morning).

So that should deal with breaking the ice, meeting new peeps and forming new
groups. Then we need some inspiration:

First thing. Blog the fuck out of railscamp. Talk about what you like about
it, what you want to do there. What you want to build. Point folks to your
code for existing projects or map out plans for new ones. We should set up
some aggregration based on #railscamp to get your ideas to everybody (and
your post-camp love after you get home!)

Butchers paper/ whiteboards should be made available from the start of the
camp for organising sessions for Saturday and Sunday (this can also get
pimped in the welcome).

But what I'd really love to see is lightning talks on the Friday night. Show
off shizzle you've already done. Show off some half-finished project that
you'd love to crack on with over the weekend. Show off a new framework or
app. Anything really. The idea would be for as many folks as possible to
roll through. 5 mins max - even down to 2-3 minutes.

The more folks step up and show something, the more we know about each other
and the more likely we are to find somebody/something cool that we want to
hack with/on.

We had this at the first railscamp with Tim's preso on Twatter. Everybody
spent the rest of the weekend writing Camping apps. We had it at the second
camp with Duke, and Tim's preso-cum-workshop on Git, and Dan asking people
why they hadn't used Merb yet then helping them install 0.4(!).

The third camp had the *jours and Duke (again!). And Twetter. And... The
list goes on.

If my agenda for Railscamp could be summarised easily, it would be this:

1. Meet awesome new friends.
2. Start grand crazy projects with them.
3. Demo sexy-delicious-awesomeness.
4. Profit!



Just some stuff I've been thinking about since I turned to Tim at about 9pm
on Sunday night after the presentations had been flowing thick and fast for
nearly 7 hours and said: Now, *this* is railscamp!


I'd like to add my congratulations to Radar and Richo, though. Fucking
awesome camp, gentlemen. Big ups to all who helped out. And much love for
everybody I met. I had a completely sensational time and learned a lot from
all of you. Hopefully next time I can meet the rest of you (I think I missed
at least 10 peeps), plus some new folks, and we can build something amazing!

Lachlan Hardy

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[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp 4: What worked well; how can we improve?

[Lachlan Hardy]

 * backup guitar hero


Also: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMYWuGUZlM

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[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp 4: What worked well; how can we improve?

[Lachlan Hardy]

I guess I should make it clear that just because I don't think that 70 is
too many, it doesn't mean that 150 would be cool. I definitely think we're
reaching the upper bounds.

Also, Lachie's points are 100%. If I'd thought of anything in my rant at the
time, I hope I would have done it. But hindsight is a beautiful thing and I
figured I'd share it so we can work out plans for avoiding some problems
next time. :)

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[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp 4: What worked well; how can we improve?

[Lachlan Hardy]

 Ps. Why is the only thing I was remembered for was washing up!


Don't worry, it's not. I just wanted to make sure you knew we appreciated
it!

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[rails-oceania] Re: Rails Camp 04 [Urban Terror mouse friendly reminder]

[Lachlan Hardy]

 Enjoy the camp!  Wish I could be there, but I found out the hard way that
 asking your wife to reschedule her delivery date is not cool ;)


What? What?!

Congratulations! That's awesome news, my man! Enjoy ;)

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[rails-oceania] Re: Syd: Reminder: Next Meetup, Wednesday October 8!

[Lachlan Hardy]

 On this line, would people be interested in a talk on using Flex and Rails
 together?


Yep!


 We've been doing it for a year and a half and have a variety of
 experiences,
 some more interesting than others... All in all it's a pretty neat way to
 develop fast and pretty apps. The only downside being the nagging feeling
 of
 evilness involved with using the Flash runtime.


Well, it's definitely evil... :p


 Could show some of the different gateway mechanisms we've tried (e.g. JSON,
 to_xml, hand-crufted XML (and yes it's crufy how we do it), RubyAMF, WebORB
 for Rails).

 Perhaps the peeps would be interested to see some of the MVC frameworks
 available for Flex that we've tried to use to make Flex as fun as Rails? At
 the moment we're going with a pretty neat event-based one called Mate. A
 lot
 neater and more flexible than the traditional frameworks such as Cairngorm
 and PureMVC. Mate allows dependency injection a little like you do from the
 controller to the view in Rails, but has the advantage of using the Flex
 data binding mechanism, which means changes can be propagated immediately
 to
 views. (This is getting away from the Rails side though.)


Do it!

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