Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Slightly OT: Rails dev looking for a shared office in Surry Hills

2010-07-02 Thread Dylan Egan
On 2 July 2010 16:21, plus2 wrote: > hey there david, ping me an email and i'll send you some details... > you just described our space to a T. Was that the warehouse or the damp basement? ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" g

Re: [rails-oceania] DevOps Down Under - May 1 + 2 in Sydney

2010-04-19 Thread Dylan Egan
Definitely looks interesting. Wish I could have made it. I was hoping to catch DevOps days in the US, but it's after I leave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegrou

Re: [rails-oceania] Conferences for 2010

2010-03-04 Thread Dylan Egan
Another conference that may interest particular people in the group. http://www.devopsdays.org/ Lindsay Holmwood spoke there last year. http://blip.tv/file/3021653 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group,

Re: [rails-oceania] Conferences for 2010

2010-03-04 Thread Dylan Egan
I know a bunch of conferences were listed, but is anyone actually heading to any (besides Kaigi and India [and anyone speaking])? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googleg

Re: [rails-oceania] Conferences for 2010

2010-03-02 Thread Dylan Egan
http://euruko2010.org/ http://gogaruco.com/ http://www.goruco.com/ http://jsconf.us/ and probably jsconf.eu RubyConf 2010 YOW! 2010 (JAOO revamped) may be good. Cheers, Dylan. On 3 March 2010 16:26, Dave Newman wrote: > I've been thinking about which conferences are looking good this year. >

Re: [rails-oceania] Open Source and Indie Hip Hop

2010-02-23 Thread Dylan Egan
It's well worth it to install Silverlight for this talk and it only took 5 minutes to do so here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from t

[rails-oceania] Open Source and Indie Hip Hop

2010-02-22 Thread Dylan Egan
>From Aloha on Rails, Corey Donohoe talks about the similarities between the indie hip hop community and the open source world (Ruby). Highly recommend watching it. http://alohaonrails.hosted.panopto.com/CourseCast/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=a6229328-8edb-47b9-b7a3-e8c61ec8baa2 Cheers, Dylan. -- Y

Re: [rails-oceania] Certification and training courses

2010-02-21 Thread Dylan Egan
I think for the most part being certified is sort of an old school thing, specifically in the Java/Microsoft worlds and in weird networking/sysadmin worlds (like seriously? ;)). I even had a person or two ask me for a certificate of participation when I ran a couple of Ruby workshops a few years ag

Re: [rails-oceania] catching signals and killing subprocesses?

2010-02-20 Thread Dylan Egan
You may also want to read over the unicorn source code since it heavily invests in running child processes. Also http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix Cheers, Dylan. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to th

Re: [rails-oceania] RailsConf US 2010

2010-02-17 Thread Dylan Egan
To be frank, don't go to RailsConf if you really want to see good talks. Save yourself and your money for something better, like RubyConf or something of similar ilk. If you want to socialise and meet people from across the community then get across as you'll be able to meet people from lots of di

[rails-oceania] A Hint of Hubris

2010-02-16 Thread Dylan Egan
This article appeared on the EY blog overnight. http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/a-hint-of-hubris/ I wouldn't normally post an article, but Hubris was written by a Sydney local, Mark Wotton (http://github.com/mwotton). Keep up the good work. -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: [rails-oceania] babushka v0.3.2 — dep sources and autosources

2010-01-13 Thread Dylan Egan
Great work Ben. Looks like Babushka is really coming along. Soon enough you'll get a whole month of paid work for it. ;) Cheers, Dylan. 2010/1/14 Ben Hoskings > Hi all, > > Version 0.3.2 of babushka is online. It knows some new tricks now. > > At first, I packaged all my deps inside babushka

[rails-oceania] No response to job listings

2009-12-21 Thread Dylan Egan
Is this at all possible? I couldn't really care less if someone has posted a job thread and it's badly worded or buzzword heavy. What annoys me is seeing responses whinging about them. Maybe the people who have the most input on how to structure such emails should post a guide on the wiki and pass

Re: [rails-oceania] End of year Melbourne RORO drinks

2009-11-23 Thread Dylan Egan
The brewery is only open on Wednesday and Friday so it has to be done Wednesday and I think with the Christmas period coming up someone will always miss out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send em

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby in Australia...

2009-10-30 Thread Dylan Egan
Although if Ben is naming it I suspect it'll be something like 'Methd Misisng mate' 2009/10/30 Gareth Townsend : > > RubyConfAU. Method Missing Mate. > > > > On 30/10/2009, at 20:52, Ben Schwarz wrote: > >> >> Lets NOT call it "rails" anything. :-) >> >> On Oct 30, 5:41 pm, Dr Nic Williams wro

[rails-oceania] Reminder: Melbourne meetup tonight

2009-09-23 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi all, Just a reminder that tonight, the 24th of September will contain the next installment of teh awesomes Melbourne Ruby meetup. Lightning Talks/Demos: Ben Hoskings - Babushka (have a guess) Nicholas Faiz - Renshi Presentations: Clifford Heath - ActiveFacts (I believe they are athletic an

[rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby September 2009 meetup

2009-09-21 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi all, Just a reminder that this Thursday (although I forgot myself, thanks German for black) the 24th of September will be the next installment of teh awesomes Melbourne Ruby meetup. Lightning Talks/Demos: Ben Hoskings - Babushka (have a guess) Nicholas Faiz - Renshi Presentations: Clifford

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

2009-09-14 Thread Dylan Egan
Ian, By the sounds of your lifestyle, I definitely don't recommend Brisbane. If you want the best of both worlds (sun and lifestyle) Sydney is definitely a goer, but you can easily get around to the sunnier places of Australia for cheap and Sydney beaches aren't that great. Gold Coast is OK, just

[rails-oceania] Re: Reminder: Next Sydney Meetup September 8 (next Tuesday!)

2009-09-01 Thread Dylan Egan
Most train services start around 04:00 don't they? Cheers, Dylan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com T

[rails-oceania] Re: fish and PATH

2009-09-01 Thread Dylan Egan
You might try bashing your fish. http://christopherowen.id.au/blog/2009/06/05/bash-your-fish/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-

[rails-oceania] Re: CFP Melbourne September 2009

2009-08-31 Thread Dylan Egan
le are interested. It's a "why do we > do this", "what are the available tools" preso, fairly introductory. > If you're already running a bunch of code quality tools in your build > you won't learn much. > > Steve > > On 01/09/2009, at 3:41 PM

[rails-oceania] CFP Melbourne September 2009

2009-08-31 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi all, I've been given the honour this month to run the Melbourne Ruby meetup on Thursday the 24th of September. I'll be providing faux doctors notes for all those workers on Friday the 25th. At the moment Im just putting a call out for presentations. Im hoping to get someone in for a longer ta

[rails-oceania] WSG Wednesday 19th

2009-08-15 Thread Dylan Egan
Thought this might be of interest to the group. Lachlan Hardy and Craig Sharkie, both members of Ruby Oceania, are presenting at this weeks WSG meetup. More details at http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/176 Cheers, Dylan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[rails-oceania] Re: limit records in a model subclass?

2009-08-13 Thread Dylan Egan
It would go in the model. class Location < ActiveRecord::Base def self.all_from_inner_city find(:all, :conditions=>{:postcode=>[2001, 2002]}) end end Location.all_from_inner_city or class Location < ActiveRecord::Base def self.from_inner_city(*args) find(args.first, (args.extra

[rails-oceania] Re: limit records in a model subclass?

2009-08-13 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi Sonia, I'd recommend looking at default_scope. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M002313 Cheers, Dylan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To

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

2009-08-11 Thread Dylan Egan
Nice work. Definitely needs to be recorded when it's presented. ;) Cheers, Dylan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@go

[rails-oceania] Re: The future of Ruby

2009-07-28 Thread Dylan Egan
JRuby definitely has it benefits as Nathan mentioned. Although Im not sure if github.com is running JRuby, but I know they use JRuby for their github firewall product. Now that Nutter will be working alongside Evan at Engine Yard I'm hoping we can see more communication between the two, at least

[rails-oceania] Re: A Melbourne Hackfest

2009-07-27 Thread Dylan Egan
This might be interesting to get in on. http://wiki.railsbridge.org/projects/railsbridge/wiki/BugMash --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Meetup - 30th July!

2009-07-23 Thread Dylan Egan
Just posted this information to the website. http://rubyonrails.com.au/2009/7/24/melbourne-meetup-july-2009 Looking forward to the meetup, it's been a while since I've been to one in any city. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscri

[rails-oceania] Re: acts_as_versioned in 2.3

2009-07-13 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi Mark, Are you using it via the gem or from the latest in git? I haven't played with it in a long time so not sure if it was ever released to support 2.3 (or patched on git). If you are using the latest then you could try out http://github.com/jmckible/version_fu/tree/master, I haven't played

[rails-oceania] Re: RubyKaigi

2009-07-01 Thread Dylan Egan
Allo, If you're getting in on the 15th Im planning a dinner at http://www.mandarinoriental.com/tokyo/dining/molecular/. It's for 20:30 and so far there are 2-4 seats left (of 7 [pre-reserved for some people]). If you're wondering how long it might take to get from Narita to Tokyo, put it at somew

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

2009-06-29 Thread Dylan Egan
Just put my name down. Looking forward to it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from thi

[rails-oceania] Re: RubyKaigi

2009-06-05 Thread Dylan Egan
Also 5000JPY for the pre-conference party. Regarding the size, maybe they didn't expect such a spike? Im not sure as to what it's been like previously, but I definitely know there is a fair amount of interest this year than previously from people outside of Japan. Also small conferences are much

[rails-oceania] RubyKaigi

2009-05-25 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi all, For anyone interested in attending RubyKaigi, registrations are now open for gaijin I believe. You can email them at 2...@rubykaigi.org. I'm not going to bother with a group booking since its only 6000JPY which is ridiculously cheap. The party on the 17th is 5000JPY and Im not sure what t

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Meet

2009-05-12 Thread Dylan Egan
I've not attended a meetup in Melbourne outside of the old office, but having been to HB it definitely seemed like a good venue. The pub venue in Sydney works and works well. It helps retain a lot of people after the talks have finished and allows people to move about during the talks to grab fo

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

2009-05-04 Thread Dylan Egan
Nice one. I'm trying to get in contact with some of the other speakers too. Also Tuesday meetup, whoo! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email

[rails-oceania] Sydney May 2009 Meetup

2009-04-20 Thread Dylan Egan
Hi, When: We are unable to hold the meetup at Trinity on Wednesdays anymore. The next RoRO Sydney meeting will be on Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Who: If anyone is wanting to deliver a lightning talk, or a presentation then add yourself to http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/roro:Sydney_-_Topics_C

[rails-oceania] Re: next meeting talks

2009-04-14 Thread Dylan Egan
Dave, Sounds good. We haven't confirmed the date yet. Im not sure about the wiki either. Cheers, Dylan. 2009/4/15 David Lee : > hey all > > i tried to sign up to talk at the next sydney meeting but the wiki tried to > sell me viagra: > > http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/roro_talk:Sydn

[rails-oceania] Sydney Meetup - JAOO

2009-04-08 Thread Dylan Egan
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 o

[rails-oceania] Re: Good news sites

2009-03-03 Thread Dylan Egan
2009/3/4 Andrew Snow : > > I read: > > http://rubyflow.com/ I promote this also, but only because I found out we host it. ;) Otherwise just follow the right people on twitter. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

[rails-oceania] Re: Fwd: UG News--Discount for RailsConf 2009

2009-01-26 Thread Dylan Egan
Also just for note, if you're looking to head across you can get flights return to SF (direct) or LA for under 1500AUD with Qantas. Cheers, Dylan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Ocea

[rails-oceania] Re: Heading to a Conference in 2009?

2008-12-01 Thread Dylan Egan
I say you all give me the money to go to TED (and not the televised one either!) KTHXBI! 2008/12/2 Nick Partridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'll be considering events like Oscon[1] , etech[2], but am more interested >> in a Cloud event as that area is still being defined. > > Cloud == Internet

[rails-oceania] Re: Music Making

2008-11-10 Thread Dylan Egan
I think Duke makes teh musicz? 2008/11/10 Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Some jazz flute would be brilliant. > I'll bring a harmonica, but I can't play it. > > Dylan > > 2008/11/11 Lachlan Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> I should clarify for those missed Railscamp #1 that I don't