Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

#1 - The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst Dylan On 28 October 2010 11:11, wolfeidau wrote: > Gday all > > Probably opening a large can of worms, but I am interested to get some > recommendations on design related books. I am interested in high level > concepts like spacing, ty

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

n they hover. > > Hover over a > pooch<http://www.google.com.au/images?q=dogs&biw=1246&bih=985>and you'll see > what I mean. :-) > > - Mike > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald > http://gmail.com> > gmail.com> wrote:

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

Hey Mike, You could achieve something like this with CSS and no JavaScript: http://gist.github.com/534548 I'm not sure how this will behave in some browsers. IE6 for one won't like div:hover. You can go and enhance it with CSS3 box shadows and even transitions for

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

e: > http://www.trottercashion.com/2010/04/27/headless-raphael-testing.html > and a follow up on doing the same with a mocking framework: > > http://www.trottercashion.com/2010/05/06/recorder-mock-makes-js-testing-easier.html > > - Korny > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:2

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

Just stumbled across this post which is a good read: http://alexsexton.com/?p=51 <http://alexsexton.com/?p=51>Dylan On 24 June 2010 15:35, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald wrote: > Currently I'm finding myself making classes or jQuery plugins for > individual screens. As time goes o

Re: [rails-oceania] simple ui widgets

If you only need this to work on new browsers, maybe you can get away with using HTML5's new input types: range and number. Opera does some interesting stuff with input type number. http://skitch.com/dylanfm/dma2c/html5-presentation from http://slides.html5rocks.com/#slide21 It'll be easy enough

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

Currently I'm finding myself making classes or jQuery plugins for individual screens. As time goes on I'll move parts into their own classes or plugins to DRY things up across the app and take advantage of opportunities to form tight little reusable modules - i.e. an AJAX uploader or something for

Re: [rails-oceania] What don't you like about ruby?

Sounds interesting, Andrew. I'm keen to learn more about your tools some time. Dylan On Monday, April 26, 2010, Andrew Grimm wrote: > Is concurrency an issue for web sites (don't you just get a couple > more mongrels or unicorns or animal of some description?) or for other > uses? > > It's somet

Re: [rails-oceania] Conferences for 2010

Yea, I'm keen on Ruby Kaigi too. I'm planning on heading to the conference and spending another week or so trying to find some waves. Should be fun! Dylan On 3 March 2010 16:56, Matt Allen wrote: > Hey Dave; > > I plan on heading to Ruby Kaigi and then spending another few weeks > there with my

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

> > To be honest, I don't think job posting in the list is that bad. What is bad is the immature shit-flinging that follows by what I otherwise consider to be a group of reasonable professionals. If you don't like a job posting, just delete the post or mute the thread. > A guideline for job po

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

Hey Kim, I think this is the repo: http://github.com/timriley/capistrano-mycorp Dylan 2010/1/14 Kim Pepper > I got a lot out of Tuesday nights talks. Very interesting. I > particularly liked the one on DRYing up Capistrano recipes. Does > anyone have links to the sample code? > > Thanks! > >

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp 7 Dates

Great work dudes. Looking forward to it. Dylan 2009/12/5 Ben Schwarz > Hugh, > > On dates - You'll never please every one. Choose what works for you > and check it doesn't clash with any of the bigger international > conferences (unlike IV with Rubyconf) then set it. > The facility looks great

[rails-oceania] Re: RORO First timers

Could a pre-roro jelly be a good idea for people in the same boat? Dylan 2009/10/28 Joshua Partogi > > It takes 3 hours to Canberra from Wollongong and it takes 1 hour 40 > minutes to Sydney from Wollongong. But I can't get out of the office > that early :-( > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM

[rails-oceania] Re: Photos from the October Sydney Meetup

Nice photos Mike 2009/10/16 Michael Koukoullis > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/webraconteur/sets/72157622471244253/ > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to t

[rails-oceania] Re: Next Sydney Meetup, Tuesday August 11?

I'd like to suggest CouchDB... Preferably with extra couches. Dylan 2009/7/28 Lachie > > I'd like to talk on either chef or couchdb. Anyone gotta hankering for > either of those? > > On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, Matt Allen wrote: > > Looks like the twitterverse has spoken. > > The title of my ta

[rails-oceania] Re: timely traffic reporting

I gave Woopra a little go a while ago. It seemed pretty good. You can see who is on the site at a given time, and even start chatting with them if you feel inclined to do so. http://www.woopra.com/ 2009/7/12 Adam Salter > > Might just be the 3G network today, but anecdotally, their > 'technolog

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

I'll be there too. Looking forward to it. Dylan 2009/6/24 Cameron Barrie > > I'm also going. > > > On 24/06/2009, at 12:09 PM, Lachlan Hardy wrote: > > > > > 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 definite

[rails-oceania] Re: Off-Topic: Anyone going to BarCamp Sydney this Saturday?

I think I'll head in for the morning. I've got a birthday on in the arvo. Dylan 2009/6/25 Myles Byrne > Yep. I'm going > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Gabe Hollombe wrote: > >> >> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm just wondering if anyone on the >> list is planning to go to barcamp i

[rails-oceania] Re: CSS frameworks

My 2c too... I haven't used sass or anything like that yet. I used Blueprint for a couple of projects. It's good, but wasn't super flexible and I found that I wasn't using a lot of parts. This was quite a while ago, it might be different now. I liked the type styles. I then looked at 960gs. I liked

[rails-oceania] Re: Fixed by TextMate 2

Fancy dress with a theme of dress as your fav textmate theme? 2009/6/17 Chris Lloyd > Ah nuts. I just got off the phone: TM2 might be a little late to the party. > > 2009/6/17 Cameron Barrie > >> >> booze provided by textmate2? >> >> >> On 17/06/2009, at 12:57 PM, Lincoln Stoll wrote: >> >> > >

[rails-oceania] Re: New Faces

Great work dude. Dylan 2009/6/11 Lachie > > At roro Sydney on Tuesday, I demo'ed the updated > faces.rubyoceania.org. There were a few things I didn't really run > through on the night. > > The ability for youse to edit your own presentations is one that comes to > mind. > > If the presentation

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

I was using a combination of Nokogiri, HTML tidy (for some really nasty pages) and net/http. Now that I look at it, I probably should've been using Mechanize. Definitely check out YQL. Dylan 2009/5/21 Lachlan Hardy > > > I used mechanize a little while back. What are your current preferred > scr

[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp #5 BLAST

Yikes, I'm going to bring some armour and a spade so I can dig a trench! 2009/3/20 Chris Lloyd > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Nigel Rausch wrote: > >> We can even have a bomb-fire !!! >> > > Sounds dangerous! > > Chris > > -- > chrislloyd.com.au > > > > --~--~-~--~~~

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

Hey dudes, I'm keen to come by. Mind if Belle pops in too? Dylan 2009/3/3 Rex Chung > > I'll see u guys on Friday :) > Unfortunately Mick's coworking plan is delayed... > > Rex. > > > Sydney: +61 421 591 943 > HK: +852 6901 2682 > > Ankoder - Video Encoding On Demand > http://www.ankoder

[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp Early Bird registration ends soon

When does it end and what's the difference? Dylan 2009/2/27 Nigel Rausch > Hi Everyone, > If you haven't got your ticket(s) for RailsCamp Please grab them > soon > > http://railscampau.github.com/ > > > Cheers, > * > * > *Nigel* > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[rails-oceania] Re: Announcing next roro sydney meetup (Wednesday, March 11, 2009)

I was planning on going to WSG too. Thanks for moving it! 2009/2/26 Lachlan Hardy > > Sounds like a move to Wednesday 18 is in order then! > > I'll email Russ and let him know he's fucking with our mojo. I'm sure > he'll be more than happy to try to avoid the middle Wednesday (second > Wednesday

[rails-oceania] Re: flickraw

Yea, I've used this a bit lately and I like it alot. Thanks for preso link. On 18/02/2009, Enrico Teotti wrote: > > Hi, > today I had to deal with the flickr api, I've spend half the morning > (but it felt like half of my life) trying to find a decent ruby > library. The solution: flickraw. >

[rails-oceania] Re: Design.

Our familiarity with computers affects how we design websites. Just because it makes sense to us, doesn't mean it will make sense to most/many/any of the site's users. I haven't taken part in any usability testing before, but I'd really like to. Now that Silverback (http://silverbackapp.com/) is ou

[rails-oceania] Re: Warewolf next Friday

Ah bummer, won't be able to make it. I introduced the game to my family at Chrissy time, they had a ball. 2009/2/7 Andrew Grimm > I'd be unable to come before 9pm. Should I ring at that time to ask SWT*B* > HAY? > > Andrew > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Keith Pitty wrote: > >> Very tempt

[rails-oceania] Re: jelly @ copa

Just in case anyone has forgotten, Copacabana is the hottest spot north of Havana. Here, music and passion are always the fashion. So, you're ensured a killer time. 2009/1/9 Lawrence Pit > > > Central Coast Jelly at my place Wednesday 14th. Welcome from 8am > > Location: http://bit.ly/3eAtf8 > >

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

Hey, the web gitjour stuff is up on github: http://github.com/DylanFM/sup-gitjour/tree/master 2008/11/20 Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 20/11/2008, at 12:04 PM, Tim Lucas wrote: > > Some more tools to help a room full of hackage would always be useful— > > gitorious works but is a bi

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

I'm sure some of us will get to a singing state at some point.. 2008/11/12 Matt Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Torm3nt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think a real game needs to be played... =P > > I've just returned from Ryan's place. We've been warming up Guita

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

Like Mouse Trap? 2008/11/12 Torm3nt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think a real game needs to be played... =P > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Pete Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On 12/11/2008, at 4:44 PM, Enrico Teotti wrote: >> >> > since @ last rails camp somebody (I think drnic)

[rails-oceania] Re: Music Making

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 play any kind > of flute, nor am I bringing one. Keith, however, has been known to perform > some bada

[rails-oceania] Re: New Faces

Nice one Lachie! 2008/10/2 Ben Askins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Looking great Lachie, nice work! Keeping that community spirit alive. > > cheers, > Ben > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:17 AM, lachie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Last night I launched the new roro faces site. C