[rails-oceania] StillAlive and Asteroids

2011-04-12 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
Hi all, After the StillAlive demonstration, I had a lot of people ask me about (of course!) the Asteroids implementation. It is by Erik Andersson, and here is a gist of the Ctrl-A command I had to fire it up on the unicorn site. Thanks for all the awesome feedback from everyone who spoke to me

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

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Allen
Hey All; So, it's the morning after the night before and we've all had a chance to let last night's Heroku/Salesforce presso sink in. A few have expressed some discontent on the twitters but I thought I'd get some feedback here. It was a bit of an experiment from my perspective, so I really have

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

2011-04-12 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Of course we should. If anything, it tells that we're at least smart enough to hear them out. >From the initial announcement of the night, I understood there'd be some people from Heroku talking about the platform. Now reading it again, it was clearly a misunderstanding. You did disclose who would

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

2011-04-12 Thread Dave Newman
Wish I could have made it, can you give us a bit of a wrap up? I must admit the job titles scared me off too On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Matt Allen wrote: > Hey All; > > So, it's the morning after the night before and we've all had a chance > to let last night's Heroku/Salesforce presso s

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

2011-04-12 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
On 13/04/2011, at 10:29 AM, Matt Allen wrote: > PS. as a side note, I was expecting something geekier from them, > however IMHO it was interesting and the free wine helped a lot. I think this is the key point. I don't think anyone was upset with the night. There were a lot of people there and i

Re: [rails-oceania] Is Twitter moving away from Rails?

2011-04-12 Thread Tom Adams
Yeah, that's what I meant (and said). On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hi Tom, > > This is a very good analysis on Rails use-case. However, you mention > that Rails is not so good for building a website. Because Rails is a > web framework, then what is it good for if not f

[rails-oceania] RailsConf 2011 - 20% Discount Code

2011-04-12 Thread Mikel Lindsaar
Hi all, Not sure if anyone else on list is planning on going to Rails Conf. As a speaker, I have a discount code I can give out. So if you are attending, and want to buy a ticket, use rc11fos as the discount code to get 20% off the ticket price. Thanks Mikel http://lindsaar.net/ http://rubyx.

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

2011-04-12 Thread Steven Ringo
Firstly a big thanks to Matt and everyone else for organising. I voiced some opinions on twitter earlier, "Can’t say I was too impressed with the SalesForce sales pitch at #rorosyd. There was no coolness and no geeky demo. #fail" and "IMO it had the reverse effect of what they hoped. I thought

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

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew Grimm
I've got a dodgy memory, but didn't they say at the start of the talks that they had hoped to bring in a Ruby top gun to talk, but they weren't able to do so? Andrew On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Ringo wrote: > Firstly a big thanks to Matt and everyone else for organising. > I voiced

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

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Grimm wrote: > I've got a dodgy memory, but didn't they say at the start of the talks > that they had hoped to bring in a Ruby top gun to talk, but they > weren't able to do so? > They did. They're actively working on getting him out here for RailsCamp.

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

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Ringo wrote: > > We have 3 guys from Salesforce.com/Heroku coming to give a 10-15 > minute presso on Heroku.  It'll be weighted heavily towards the geeky > aspects of the service as opposed to being a marketing spiel. > > That's not what we got. Hey Steve;

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

2011-04-12 Thread Josh Price
I agree that there definitely needs to be more of a tech angle for these kinds of sponsored events. However, I'd just like to say a big thanks to Matt for organising a great night and to the Salesforce/Heroku team for coming down and buying us all drinks and giving us free stuff. Not to mention