Re: [rails-oceania] Giving junior devs small tasks and bugs??

2016-08-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
will allow you to be > successful. > > Cheers, > > Adam > > > > On 23 August 2016 at 12:47:33 PM, Andrew Harvey (and...@mootpointer.com) > wrote: > > Hey Ian, > > I can't bring to mind any articles that would support you here, but I > agree with your

Re: [rails-oceania] Giving junior devs small tasks and bugs??

2016-08-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hey Ian, I can't bring to mind any articles that would support you here, but I agree with your sentiments (and Glenn & Rufus'). Firstly and as you mentioned, the codebase gets messier. Juniors given small tasks aren't pushed to understand them as part as a bigger system, so what you end up with i

[rails-oceania] [SYD] rorosyd venue change proposal

2016-03-11 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hello again friends, On Tuesday at rorosyd, I proposed that we change venues. We would like this to be a consultative process, so we've created a github issue with a run-down of some of the reasons we're looking to move and a proposed new venue. https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/issues/81 If

[rails-oceania] [SYD] rorosyd Survey Results

2016-03-11 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hey Friends, A couple of weeks ago, we sent out a survey about rorosyd. I'd like to share the results with you. I gave a talk about some takeaways from the survey, which I'm not going to go into here. Here are the results: https://notcode.typeform.com/report/KlcOOt/HL26 If you have any questions

[rails-oceania] [SYD] rorosyd March Edition

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew Harvey
s – Amy Simmons (@amesimmons <https://twitter.com/amesimmons>) - rorosyd Survey Results – Andrew Harvey (@mootpointer <https://twitter.com/mootpointer>) - Plus maybe 1 more! *Lightning Talks:* - Morphing your Ruby into Civic Tech – Keith Pitty (@keithpitty <

[rails-oceania] [SYD] rorosyd Survey

2016-02-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hey there folks! Just interrupting your regularly scheduled job postings to let you know we're doing a little survey of people who have attended rorosyd. We're getting this feedback because we want to know how to focus our efforts in making the meetup better. There's about 20 questions (depending

Re: [rails-oceania] 2015 June Ruby Australia minutes

2015-06-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
Reading these minutes, I find myself incredibly proud of our community. Thank you Sebastian for casting a vision for the growth of Ruby within Australia. Thank you everyone who got behind that vision. I look forward to the journey ahead. Andrew. On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Mi

Re: [rails-oceania] Multi-dimensional time series data analysis - recommendations?

2014-11-05 Thread Andrew Harvey
ggregator and multiplexer? I suspect we do not have enough data sources for > it to be useful. > Regards, > Michael Pearson > (sent from my phone) >> On 6 Nov 2014, at 5:39 pm, "Andrew Harvey" wrote: >> >> I saw that Segment.io has just allowed SQL ac

Re: [rails-oceania] Multi-dimensional time series data analysis - recommendations?

2014-11-05 Thread Andrew Harvey
I saw that Segment.io has just allowed SQL access using Amazon Redshift, which is kind of cool (though not strictly relevant). What reminded me of this is that they’ve also enabled some interesting looking analytics services. Generalised and yet useful self-service magic analytics seems a ha

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Recorded presentations - best practices?

2014-06-09 Thread Andrew Harvey
om the audience come out? > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> I have a Rode Lav mic which I plug into a zoom h4n and then sync the audio >> to the camera audio in FCPX. Works like a charm. The H4N does auto levels so >> it's pretty good. >> >>

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Recorded presentations - best practices?

2014-06-09 Thread Andrew Harvey
I have a Rode Lav mic which I plug into a zoom h4n and then sync the audio to the camera audio in FCPX. Works like a charm. The H4N does auto levels so it's pretty good.  A. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Andy Kitchen wrote: > I'm trying to record some meetup talks too. > Sound seems to be

Re: [rails-oceania] Senior Rails developer top 3 frustrations

2014-02-25 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 26 Feb 2014 15:23, "Sebastian Porto" wrote: > 3) Bundler, it just seems to get slower over the years (in my modest internet connection), it just kills me each time I have to do bundle install Check out the -j switch in bundler. On a 4 core machine, I'd say -j8 should give you a pretty marked

Re: [rails-oceania] In memory ruby full text search

2014-01-02 Thread Andrew Harvey
Way back in the day I used ferret, which is a pure ruby implementation of Lucene. I moved away from it because scaling was a real problem. It may be a good tool for the job, though I'd be surprised if it was still maintained. I don't know of any other options, other than maybe JRuby/Lucene. A. On

[rails-oceania] Q&A with André Arko (Bundler)

2013-12-12 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hey Ruby Friends, You may know that I got to go off to RubyConf in Miami this year and talk with a bunch of really cool people about Ruby things. The fun has kept on going, because I'm hosting some Q&A sessions with some of the speakers from the conference. First up is André Arko. He's the curren

Re: [rails-oceania] [SYD] September Hack Night

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Harvey
ht! Great idea! (but sadly, > I've already made alternative plans for the evening). > > Have an great time though. Love the theme! > > ciao ! > Daryl. > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > >> Hi rubyfriends! >> >>

[rails-oceania] [SYD] September Hack Night

2013-09-23 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hi rubyfriends! It's late notice, but we'll be having a rorosyd hack night *this Thursday* 26th September at Ninefold. The plan is to hack our way through https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior, which is a cool game designed to teach ruby and AI. There should be something for everyone, both beginn

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney hack night

2013-08-14 Thread Andrew Harvey
Haha. Yeah, that's my bad. I did the wiki and then after some requests setup meetup as well. I'll worry about the limits. We've got a bunch of excited newbies coming along, and I'd love more of the old hands to come and help out. I'm still very keen to work out a theme as well. For the point o

Re: [rails-oceania] July Hack Night?

2013-07-30 Thread Andrew Harvey
laces would be love to contribute as well.). > > ciao ! > Daryl. > PS> I'm a bit swamped at the moment due to some work/role changes, but really > need to get some coding done on things I said I would, so hoping I can make > it. Also, I need cider. Lots of cider... =p &

Re: [rails-oceania] July Hack Night?

2013-07-22 Thread Andrew Harvey
-On-Rails-Oceania-Sydney/events/127518252/ >>> >>> That's massive! Good work reInteractive! >>> >>> If a hacknight goes ahead, maybe I'll switch from the DevHub to the >>> hacknight so someone on the waitlist can attend. >>> >

Re: [rails-oceania] Taking a long flight, what are some good podcasts?

2013-07-21 Thread Andrew Harvey
I find podcasts very relaxing personally. I often find that it takes me several attempts to finish them because I end up drifting off to sleep. Another good one for the plane (I do the SYD-SFO route fairly regularly) is Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots ( http://learn.thoughtbot.com/po

Re: [rails-oceania] July Hack Night?

2013-07-21 Thread Andrew Harvey
Apologies for the radio silence on this one, I've been flat out with #tobyontour/#wycatsdownunder then a trip to the US. The plan is that we should have a hack night, even if it's just some his at a bar hacking in a corner. I'll work on getting some more details sorted today. A. On 22 Jul 2013 10

[rails-oceania] rorosyd Hacknight Tomorrow @ Ninefold

2013-05-26 Thread Andrew Harvey
It's (Sydney) hack night time again. We're changing it up and doing a ruby dojo for this month's hack night, so we'll be doing some coding problems in ruby (it's a lot more fun than it sounds, I promise). This is a great chance for beginners to come and pair and learn some things, and for batt

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Running rack apps

2013-04-30 Thread Andrew Harvey
I'm a big fan of using config.ru to mount my rack apps next to my rails app where it's useful as well. I've only used it when taking a path and routing to that, so if need to work by domain, then a separate unicorn instance is probably the go. A. On 30/04/2013, at 5:20 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote:

[rails-oceania] Re: [AD] Kick the tyres of Ninefold's new App Deploy

2013-04-30 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hey Ian, The deployment solution currently uses the Ninefold infrastructure to deploy your app. We believe that we have the best control there and that allows us to provide the best experience across the board. As for an elevator pitch, we're still not quite ready to let that cat fully out of

[rails-oceania] [AD] Kick the tyres of Ninefold's new App Deploy

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew Harvey
Greetings , As you may know, Ninefold has been working away for last few months building a new app deployment system. We're not quite ready to show it to the world, but we are ready to get some of you to throw some apps at it and give us some feedback. If you'd like to try it out and deploy so

Re: [rails-oceania] ROROsyd hacknight

2013-03-24 Thread Andrew Harvey
Having just conferred with Josh, I can confirm that there will be a hack night at Ninefold tomorrow night. We're going to have a freestyle hack night, so bring a project that you'd like to hack on, or come willing to hack with someone on their product. Maybe you want to pick up an issue from a

Re: [rails-oceania] Moving to Sydney

2013-03-15 Thread Andrew Harvey
I've got a spare room. You would have to put up with Jon Rowe. I'm in SF at the moment, but I'll be back Sunday morning. A. Sent on the run. On 14/03/2013, at 10:03, Garrett Heinlen wrote: > Hello Fellow Rubyist, > > I am Garrett Heinlen and thanks to this google group (and Steve Gilles

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby/Rails in the Bay Area

2013-02-27 Thread Andrew Harvey
t; I asked a friend who lives (and codes) in the bay area. > He sent me this link. I'm somewhat surprised he didn't send me a link to > http://lmgtfy.com/. > > Craig... > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I've just found out that

[rails-oceania] Ruby/Rails in the Bay Area

2013-02-27 Thread Andrew Harvey
I've just found out that I'm going to be in the bay area for a couple of days in mid-march, and was looking to connect a bit with the ruby/rails communities there. Does anyone have suggestions for meet ups or events to go to or people to meet? Feel free to contact me off list if you prefer :)

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: RoRo Talks

2013-02-03 Thread Andrew Harvey
Caecillius est in horto. Sent on the run. On 04/02/2013, at 17:18, "freshto...@gmail.com" wrote: > Conclude vos ingeniosi bastardus > > > On 4 February 2013 17:10, Mark Wotton wrote: >> quod licet iovi, non licet bovi. >> >> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:30 AM, freshto...@gmail.com >> wrote:

Re: [rails-oceania] Hacknight going ahead?

2013-01-28 Thread Andrew Harvey
Looking at the BOM radar[1] there is no evidence of severe weather, or Godzilla attack[2]. As such the hack night is still on. Even if the weather gets like it was yesterday, I'll still be there hacking, since it's just a walk across the hall from me. If Godzilla were to attack, I'll probably b

Re: [rails-oceania] SYDNEYSIDERS: Postponing Rorosyd by a week to January 15th

2013-01-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hey Nik, There's some tips that can be found on the wiki: https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/tips-for-giving-a-talk Andrew On 07/01/2013, at 3:01 PM, Nik N wrote: > Hey Steve, folks, > > I'm kinda new here (hi everyone!) and so, i was thinking maybe I could come > down there say hel

Re: [rails-oceania] Testing Observers via RSpec

2012-06-14 Thread Andrew Harvey
Craig, I'm by no means an expert but I'm working on some different testing strategies. I'd be interested to have a peek at railscamp. Andrew Sent on the run. On 15/06/2012, at 8:13, Craig Read wrote: > Aleskey, > > I think that's a fairly simplistic view of Rails. > Rails itself is made u

Re: [rails-oceania] Search within the whole app

2012-02-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
We're working on something very like this at Westfield. I'm working on using field collapsing (aka. Grouping) to achieve this. That will allow us to compare apples to apples as it were, rather than having disparate result sets being merged and scored together. The trick comes when different filt

Re: [rails-oceania] mobile frameworks

2011-12-28 Thread Andrew Harvey
ell! > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> At Westfield we took the first option suggested by Julio. We hooked our >> rails app up to a backbone.js app on mobile devices. It's still fairly >> simple, but it does the job and looks native in parts. >&

Re: [rails-oceania] mobile frameworks

2011-12-28 Thread Andrew Harvey
At Westfield we took the first option suggested by Julio. We hooked our rails app up to a backbone.js app on mobile devices. It's still fairly simple, but it does the job and looks native in parts. If you want to look in production: http://westfield.com.au/m We'll be building on this over the

Re: [rails-oceania] simple ui widgets

2010-07-08 Thread Andrew Harvey
We've been using the slider from jquery-ui and it's been pretty solid for us. It's easy enough to style, too. Andrew Sent from my iPad On 09/07/2010, at 11:16, Korny Sietsma wrote: > Yeah, I thought about html5 ranges; however while I don't need to support IE, > I do have a wider audience t

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney February Meetup

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Harvey
I just locked in for a talk about Solr. There will be bits of rails in there, but the concentration is on leveraging the features of the search platform whatever the language you're using. On 02/02/2010, at 11:34, ja...@codespike.com wrote: Hey everyone, I've been very slack this month in

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Measuring traffic

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew Harvey
If you're using apache or similar, AWStats is great to see what your app is serving up. From there, find your big paths and work out why they are big and why they're being hit. Andrew On 18/12/2009, at 17:55, Ben Schwarz wrote: > Depending on exactly what you host on your VPS, perhaps you c

[rails-oceania] Re: Average salary for Rails developer down under?

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew Harvey
Drinking or pissing, or one then the other. On 15/09/2009, at 15:20, Glen Maddern wrote: > > Must everything come down to a drinking contest? > > -glen. > > p.s. yes. > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Matt Allen > wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Lachie wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, S