[rails-oceania] 0x10c Hack Night

Hi everyone, As promised here are the details for this month's Hack Night, and we'll be building stuff in 0x10c assembly. Tuesday 24th April 2012, 6pm til 10ish The Project Factory Suite 305, 50 Holt Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 Go put your name on the list here: https://github.com/rails-ocean

Re: [rails-oceania] Hack night idea — 0x10c

That's a great idea Steve. The Project Factory has kindly offered to host this month's event on Tuesday 24th April (I'll send a separate mail with all the details), and the plan is to build something for the DCPU-16... so bring your assembler hacking hats! Also if anyone is interested in hostin

[rails-oceania] [Hack Night] Tue 27th March

Hi everyone, Hack Night is on again next week. The fine folks at ISF are hosting this month and generously feeding and watering us. And by water I mean beer. Tuesday 27th March 2012, 6pm to 10pm Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS 11/235 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007 Sign up here https://github.

[rails-oceania] SAPI Hackathon 24th & 31st March

Hi everyone, This is the link to the SAPI hack event I mentioned at last night's meetup, there are not that many tickets left so get your team together! http://sapihacksyd-jr.eventbrite.com/ SAPI is the Sensis API which exposes listings for all businesses in Australia, if you need such a thin

Re: [rails-oceania] Reminder: rorosyd is on next Tuesday

> I've been playing around with Riak lately, has anyone done a talk on that yet? If someone has, it was a while ago, so definitely do it! On a related note for anyone who hasn't seen Steve Vinoski's talk at YOW last year, do yourself a favour and check it out, it was one of the most interesting

Re: [rails-oceania] Rake task to convert erb to haml

> If you guys intend to use HAML, I would suggest use SLIM It looks quite nice (http://slim-lang.com), has anyone used it? Josh -- 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@googleg

[rails-oceania] Hack Night Tue 28th Feb

Hi everyone, Just a quick heads up that Sydney Hack Night is on next week, Tuesday 28th Feb. Tuesday 28th February 2012, 6pm til 10ish Pollenizer 180 Commonwealth St Surry Hills NSW 2010 Sign up now over on the wiki https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/rorosyd-hack-night Pollenizer (htt

[rails-oceania] First Hack Night for 2012

Hi everyone, I trust you've all recovered from an awesome Railscamp and are ready to get your hack on. Hack Night is on Wed 25th (that's next week). Thanks to Chris Darroch, Atlassian will be hosting in the basement and supplying the food and beer. It should be a great opportunity to keep work

Re: [rails-oceania] [Melbourne] roro-melbourne website?

> For Ruby Australia, I think .ruby.org.au is the most intuitive naming > strategy. I agree. This definitely feels like the most concise and meaningful url scheme. Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Hack Night Monday 21st November

y be attending. I registered > for a key but noticed the maximum hits per day is 250 which seems a > tad low. Is there any chance of getting a higher rate limit just for > the event? > > On Nov 16, 12:27 pm, Josh Price wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> It's Ha

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Hack Night Monday 21st November

itely be attending. I registered > for a key but noticed the maximum hits per day is 250 which seems a > tad low. Is there any chance of getting a higher rate limit just for > the event? > > On Nov 16, 12:27 pm, Josh Price wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> It

Re: [rails-oceania] Hack Night Monday 21st November

report and look_up_by_id much but I'm pretty sure everything's more or less working now https://github.com/wiseleyb/Sensis Still a bit rough (have to do work on another project now) - but works. Pull requests welcomed. See you guys there. -ben On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Josh

[rails-oceania] Hack Night Monday 21st November

Hi everyone, It's Hack Night time again. Sign up here: https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/rorosyd-hack-night Monday 21st November 2011 6pm til 10ish Ninefold Level 15 Allianz Building 2 Market St Sydney This will be the final Hack Night for 2011, so we're doing something a bit special

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney Code Retreat 1

10/2011, at 5:53 PM, Tim McEwan wrote: > Hey guys, > > Josh Price, Scott Harvey, & I are holding a Code Retreat on November 5th at > UTS. It's short notice, but we want to keep it small this time around, as > we're essentially practicing for the Global Day of Code Retr

[rails-oceania] Sydney Founder Institute

Hi everyone, Apologies if this is slightly off-topic, but I thought some of you budding entrepeneurs might be interested in this. The Founder Institute is planning on coming out to Sydney in February next year if there's enough interest. Basically they deliver after-hours training classes to g

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Hack Night: Wed 26th Oct

Hi Ben, I probably should have mentioned that the new format is perfectly suited for beginners. Since we swap pairs around fairly quickly you'll get a chance to learn from a couple more experienced rubyists. So if you can make it, please do come along. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Josh O

[rails-oceania] Hack Night: Wed 26th Oct

Hi everyone, We had a great Hack Night last month, and we're doing it all again next week at the ThoughtWorks office. Go sign up on the wiki: https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/rorosyd-hack-night Wednesday 26th October 2011 6pm til 10ish ThoughtWorks Level 8 51 Pitt St Sydney Head up

[rails-oceania] Hack Night: Tue 27th Sept @ Digital Five

Just a quick announcement of the next Hack Night. Tuesday 27th September 2011 6pm til 10ish Digital Five Level 14 61 Lavender St Milsons Point just head up to level 14, otherwise call Gareth Stokes on 0414 072 676 to be let in. Sign up on the wiki here: https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/w

Re: [rails-oceania] Hack Night Wed 24th August

htm > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Josh Price wrote: > Bring whatever you fancy working on. > > Cheers, > Josh > > > On 24/08/2011, at 10:56 AM, Tim McEwan wrote: > >> What languages/libraries are we likely to need? Guessing everyone al

Re: [rails-oceania] Hack Night Wed 24th August

> I mention this mostly because installing Haskell takes ages… > > > On Friday, 19 August 2011 at 15:01, Josh Price wrote: > >> Hack Night is on Wednesday 24th August and will be hosted by the kind folks >> at The Project Factory (who'll also be shouting some food)

[rails-oceania] Hack Night Wed 24th August

Hack Night is on Wednesday 24th August and will be hosted by the kind folks at The Project Factory (who'll also be shouting some food). The plan is to do a mini version of the code retreat, where we pair up and tackle John Conway's Game of Life problem in several different ways (attempting it u

Re: [rails-oceania] New in Town

Welcome Will! Hack Nights run monthly 2 weeks after RORO. Its like the meetup but with more coding. We announce on this list and at RORO. Cheers, Josh On 01/08/2011, at 9:35 AM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > Hey Will, > > one other upcoming event worth attending would be SydJS (sydjs.com). > RS

[rails-oceania] [Hacknight] Tuesday 26th July @ Ninefold

Hi Guys, Hack Night is back at Ninefold this month (thank you Mr Hardy). Tuesday 26th July 2011, 6pm til 10ish Ninefold Level 15, Allianz Building 2 Market St, Sydney 2000 Call Lachlan on 0407 091 518 to be let in. Drinks & pizza supplied by Ninefold Sign up on the wiki: https://github.com/rails

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: [Hack Night] Wed 27th April @ Sentia

Technically we don't really need a wiki for Hack Night either. It just happens to be how we started off organising it, and it works. However I agree with Nathan if we can find a better solution for attendance management than the wiki, we probably don't really need a wiki... Meetup.com seems a l

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: [Hack Night] Wed 27th April @ Sentia

Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Josh Price wrote: >> Just a reminder that Hack Night is on tonight (in case you enjoyed your long >> weekend so much that you forgot). >> Please double check the wiki if you were on the waiting list, as there has >> been a few changes

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: [Hack Night] Wed 27th April @ Sentia

Just to clarify, we'll be starting at the usual time of 6pm. Apologies for any confusion. Cheers, Josh On 27/04/2011, at 12:46 PM, Michael Cindric wrote: > Yep ready to go mate see u at 7 > > > On 27/04/2011, at 12:34 PM, Josh Price wrote: > >> Just a reminder tha

[rails-oceania] Re: [Hack Night] Wed 27th April @ Sentia

Just a reminder that Hack Night is on tonight (in case you enjoyed your long weekend so much that you forgot). Please double check the wiki if you were on the waiting list, as there has been a few changes. See you tonight! Cheers, Josh On 14/04/2011, at 11:39 AM, Josh Price wrote: >

[rails-oceania] [Hack Night] Wed 27th April @ Sentia

The next Hack Night is on in ~2 weeks and we'll be back to hacking on whatever projects and ideas people being to work on. Sentia is hosting this month and kindly supplying us with pizza and beer. Wednesday 27th April 2011 6pm til 10ish Sentia Level 4, Suite 4 300 George Street Sydney NSW 2000

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

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

Re: [rails-oceania] [Hack Night] Wednesday 23rd March @ Ninefold

42 AM, Tim McEwan wrote: > oh lame, i snoozed. :-( > > interested to find out what the structured format will be too... > > -- > Tim McEwan > > On Tuesday, 22 March 2011 at 10:21, Josh Price wrote: > >> That was quick! Hack Night is back again tomorrow night. >

Re: [rails-oceania] [Hack Night] Wednesday 23rd March @ Ninefold

It was still in preview mode. It should be there now. Josh On 22/03/2011, at 10:23 AM, Ryan Bigg wrote: > Uh, you didn't add the new Hack Night to the Wiki page? > > -- > Ryan Bigg > > On Tuesday, 22 March 2011 at 10:21 AM, Josh Price wrote: > >> That was

[rails-oceania] [Hack Night] Wednesday 23rd March @ Ninefold

That was quick! Hack Night is back again tomorrow night. This month the format is going to be a bit different to last time and lot more structured. It'll be good fun whether you're a Ruby master or a complete beginner. I personally guarantee you'll learn something new... Ninefold is hosting an

Re: [railscamp] Re: [rails-oceania] Railscamp9 Tickets ON SALE tomorrow!

Now that the VIP ticket is a standard fixture, it might make sense to introduce an optional "sponsor" ticket: Pay ~$50 more to put into the sponsor pool. I'd be happy to pay extra for a ticket, and sponsor rubyists who couldn't otherwise make it. Seems like it would make it easier to sponsor als

Re: [rails-oceania] Skinny Controller, Fat Model ...

Another name for the "Skinny Controller, Fat Model" concept is a "Rich Domain Model". The opposite of this is the "Anemic Domain Model" anti-pattern which is written up nicely here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html You want a rich domain model for all the reasons everyone ha

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

; Daryl. > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Josh Price wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Hack Night is back! > > After a slightly slow start to the year (due to midweek public holidays) > we're back for 2011. For those who haven't come along before, we spen

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

Hi everyone, Hack Night is back! After a slightly slow start to the year (due to midweek public holidays) we're back for 2011. For those who haven't come along before, we spend an evening working on various code problems, mini-projects or open source. Sometimes there's a theme, sometimes not

Re: [rails-oceania] Mail Merge with word templates

On 02/02/2011, at 1:03 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote: > you might try using headless openoffice.org to make the changes. That sounds like an interesting approach. How does this work exactly? Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania"

Re: [rails-oceania] Mail Merge with word templates

On 02/02/2011, at 11:35 AM, Michael Cindric wrote: > Have a requirement where we need to design a doc using word templates > dot files or even word docs docx files and then mail merge the data in > using place holders e.g {{first_name}}, > > Now word templates are now just really zip files but ha

Re: [rails-oceania] What the hell does the RailsCamp 8 tshirt say ?

It is and says Capybara. The fan club lives here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/kapibarasan-Kapibara-San/49825139716 On 29/11/2010, at 1:13 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: > Just curious if it was anything... assumed it was Japanese on the front of > it, but realized it could be the reverse of "Engri

Re: [rails-oceania] parsing xls files

I'm not aware of any gems that do this specifically, but you may be surprised that an XSLX file is just a zip file containing a folder structure of reasonably parsable XML. So nokogiri is the "roll your own" option depending on exactly what you need to extract. Josh On 26/11/2010, at 3:48 PM,

Re: [rails-oceania] [syd announce] Hack Night tomorrow

Bringing your own projects is definitely encouraged! Josh On 23/11/2010, at 10:46 AM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > Good thing is when you have a handful of open sauce projects yourself :) > > Or is that against the rules? > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Josh Pric

[rails-oceania] [syd announce] Hack Night tomorrow

Hello hackers, Hack Night is on tomorrow night and will be held at the ThoughtWorks office. We'll be working on Open Source projects this month, so bring your ideas for a patch to your favourite gem. Wednesday 24th November, 2010 6pm til 10ish ThoughtWorks Level 8, 51 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 20

[rails-oceania] [Syd][Announce] Newbie Hack Night 28th October

Following on from the enormous success of last month's Rails 3 Hack Night (many thanks to Key Options for hosting) as well as the Sydney RORO night on Tuesday, we're going to be having a Hack Night devoted to getting beginners up and running with Ruby or Rails or Rspec or answer any questions th

Re: [rails-oceania] Anyone thinking of attending YOW Melbourne?

The $935.5 includes GST J On 08/10/2010, at 12:36 PM, Clifford Heath wrote: > And while on this subject, why are the prices advertised different from > Eventbrite's? > The 2-day conference is $885 on > > but $973.5 on

[rails-oceania] [SYD] Hack Night tonight

Hack Night is on tonight! The venue, beer and pizza will be provided courtesy of the kind folks at Key Options. WHEN: Tonight, 6pm - 10pm WHERE: Key Options, 202/250 Pitt Street, Sydney WHAT: Rails 3 theme, so bring those new projects you've been wanting to work on There's no spaces left, but p

[rails-oceania] Rails 3 Hack Night 28th Sept at Key Options

Hi everyone, Hack Night is on again, Key Options is hosting this month (thanks guys!). This month we're going to have a Rails 3 themed night to celebrate the release of Rails 3. So bring any Rails 3 related projects you want to work on, or just play around with your first app. Mikel Lindsaar (

Re: [rails-oceania] slides for my preso

ttp://www.ankoder.com > -- > Sydney: +61 421 591 943 > HK: +852 6901 2682 > Twitter: @rexchung @ankoder > > > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Josh Price wrote: >> Here's the link to the code: >> http:/

Re: [rails-oceania] slides for my preso

.com/14817369 > > Even crazier without IRC translations > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Andrew Grimm > wrote: > Do you have logs of the IRC translations done during the conference? > > Andrew > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Josh Price wrote: > >

Re: [rails-oceania] slides for my preso

> > -- > Pat > > On 15/09/2010, at 1:18 PM, Josh Price wrote: > >> For anyone interested in the RubyKaigi 2010 videos they can be found here: >> >> http://rubykaigi.tdiary.net/20100828.html >> >> The full list appears on the right side of the

Re: [rails-oceania] slides for my preso

For anyone interested in the RubyKaigi 2010 videos they can be found here: http://rubykaigi.tdiary.net/20100828.html The full list appears on the right side of the page (click on the numbers). My personal highlights were: Ben Hoskings Babushka Lightning Talk http://rubykaigi.tdiary.net/20100831

[rails-oceania] Ola Bini talking on Seph

ThoughtWorks' Ola Bini will be visiting Sydney during the week of 6th to the 12th of September, and during that time he will be giving a talk on his new language Seph in the ThoughtWorks Sydney office. http://olabini.com/blog/2010/07/preannouncing-seph/ Thoughtworks are inviting anyone interest

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

On 22/07/2010, at 10:48 AM, Clifford Heath wrote: > On 22/07/2010, at 10:04 AM, Korny Sietsma wrote: >> Isn't this a bit of a golden hammer approach though? Surely MVC is not the >> one true architecture for everything... > > I think the important thing about what's proposed here isn't about put

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Sydney Hack Night @ Agency Rainford

e community as to the >>> benefits that Hack nights provide!? What makes this night different from >>> others? >> >>> Cheers, >>> Glen Trudgett >> >>> On 19 July 2010 15:17, Josh Price wrote: >> >>>> Thanks to Agency Rain

[rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night @ Agency Rainford

Thanks to Agency Rainford for offering to host this month's Hack Night. Wednesday 28th July 2010 Level 2 2-12 Foveaux Street Surry Hills 2010 This month we're going to try something a little different: CodeWars - Working in pairs you'll have to solve 3 or 4 coding challenges. - There will be

Re: [rails-oceania] simple ui widgets

On 09/07/2010, at 11:18 AM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > I thought this was about Raphael-based widgets. If not, and you're > using jQuery, check out jQuery-UI. I'm personally not a big fan of it, > but hey, it's code you don't have to write and it's well maintained. There's also the option of jQuery

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night

t; Bring drinks if you want something other than some beer. > > See you there! > > Chris H. > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Josh Price wrote: > >> Thanks to Chris Herring and Job Futures we have a venue lined up for hack >> night next Thursday. >> >

[rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night

Thanks to Chris Herring and Job Futures we have a venue lined up for hack night next Thursday. Thursday June 24, 2010 6pm til 10ish Job Futures Level 10, 117 Clarence St Sydney Go signup while there's still space! http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/Rorosyd_hack_meetup See you there. Jos

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night @ Steam - Tuesday 25th May

the scheduled. Thanks, Carl. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:50 PM, James Sadler > wrote: Thursday is not a problem. On 13 May 2010 17:43, Ryan Bigg wrote: Thursday is fine for me. On 13 May 2010 17:34, Josh Price wrote: For one of the hack nights would a Thursday be possible if it's

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night @ Steam - Tuesday 25th May

I've already cleared it with everyone and checked the scheduled. Thanks, Carl. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:50 PM, James Sadler wrote: Thursday is not a problem. On 13 May 2010 17:43, Ryan Bigg wrote: > Thursday is fine for me. > > On 13 May 2010 17:34, Josh Price wrote: >>

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night @ Steam - Tuesday 25th May

> For one of the hack nights would a Thursday be possible if it's not too > awkward for the masses?? Absolutely! We've done it on Wednesday once, so I don't see any reason why we couldn't try a Thursday. How do others feel about mixing it up? Josh -- You received this message because you ar

[rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night @ Steam - Tuesday 25th May

Fresh from a truly memorable RORO Sydney meetup this week, don't forget about getting your hands dirty with some actual codes. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Steam and Carl Woodward, we have secured a venue. Even better: beer and pizza will be provided to sate your victual requirements.

Re: [rails-oceania] Bootstrapping a Rails Startup

An extremely important distinction between a sole tradership or partnership and limited company is the concept of limited liability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability To summarise: a limited company (ie Pty Ltd) is a structure which protects you personally from any debts a company

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: HTML/CSS to PDF conversion?

When I used it I don't recall noticing any speed issues, but I did front it with TagSoup to guarantee clean HTML. On 28/04/2010, at 8:15 AM, Kirill Radzikhovskyy wrote: > The thing about flying saucer. > its Java, you need jruby > It fails if html is not correct and its REALLY slow > > On 28 Ap

Re: [rails-oceania] HTML/CSS to PDF conversion?

Although it's probably not ideal for a pure Ruby environment, I used Flying Saucer (a Java lib) under JRuby a few years ago. It's a lot like Prince but open source. I found it excellent for HTML/CSS to PDF conversion and it may well get you out of your Solaris pickle. If you want to do the conv

[rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night call for hosts/sponsorship

A big thanks to Agency Rainford for hosting and to Gabe for organising in my absence. So far we've been lucky enough to have some wonderfully generous hosts for the first few Hack Nights: - ThoughtWorks - Snepo Research - Plus2 - Tutoring Australasia - Agency Rainford Swapping location each mo

Re: [rails-oceania] Build Status Indicators

Here's one I took a few years ago on a project at Fairfax Digital. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshprice/1071595790/in/set-72157601341739994/ The light is mounted on a plastic cup for that lighthouse effect, and it's one of the original Delcom lights. Josh On 08/04/2010, at 11:46 AM, Joshua P

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: spare ticket to Rails Camp going...

I have an available camping ticket, I've emailed the official waiting list but received no response so far. If nobody replies by tomorrow it's yours. Josh On 08/04/2010, at 3:07 PM, Nicholas Sewell wrote: > Sorry, but is this still going? > > On 08/04/10 14:48, Robbie Shepherd wrote: >> >> a

Re: [rails-oceania] Sydney: Next hack night, March 23rd. Want to change the format up?

I'd certainly expect one of the Hack Night formats to include one where participants bring in existing projects and work on those. The long term goal is to have a selection of formats for Hack Night and rotate this every month. Perhaps we could even run 2 formats side-by-side, for example runni

Re: [rails-oceania] Testability Driven Development

On 10/03/2010, at 11:57 PM, Lachie wrote: > As for declaring canon, doctrine or dogma: I find restricting software > practices to that degree is deleterious to the enjoyment of my craft. > > Testing in your head works for some people, some projects. For srs. > But you have to be confident that y

Re: [rails-oceania] Testability Driven Development

On 10/03/2010, at 3:40 PM, David Lee wrote: > * The tests are more important than the application. > I agree that tests are very important. However, what really matters to clients who pay us money to build software, is an application that does what they expect it to. I don't think we can ever

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

this, going out for dinner instead. Will edit the Wiki good 'n' proper. On 19 February 2010 15:29, Josh Price wrote: On 19/02/2010, at 2:42 PM, David Lee wrote: Thanks for the background. I'm on the waiting list; if I can make it I'll try to find something fun and tangenti

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Certification and training courses

On 22/02/2010, at 3:35 PM, Mike Bailey wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote: > I'm going to be less polite than others: I think certification is completely > useless. > > —ben_h > > Well said Ben. +1 > I was getting a bit weirded out by all the "none of us have cer

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Certification and training courses

On 22/02/2010, at 9:27 AM, Lachie wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Josh Price wrote: >> The criteria I usually end relying on are: passion, intelligence and getting >> stuff done. Communication skills also factor in too, which helps if you're >> workin

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Certification and training courses

ll, we're all supported by open source technology. Those who patch, extend and collaborate in such an environment are highly valuable. That being said, it won't cause any harm either ;) -- On Feb 21, 8:11 pm, Josh Price wrote: I think the more balanced answer is that it depends on t

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Certification and training courses

On 21/02/2010, at 9:24 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote: If certification provides a milestone for learning developers to work towards then we get good applicants to jobs as a side effect anyway. I think the most useful aspect of any kind of certification is exactly as you put it: a milestone.

Re: [rails-oceania] Certification and training courses

I think the more balanced answer is that it depends on the context. Like others, I'm generally quite skeptical of certifications as a rule. In your case however, I think a certification may make a lot of sense. As a newcomer and non-programmer, a certification gives a potential employer some mi

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

On 19/02/2010, at 2:42 PM, David Lee wrote: > Thanks for the background. I'm on the waiting list; if I can make it I'll try > to find something fun and tangentially related to my hands-off projects to > hack on, and treat it as a research spike. That's probably the best approach. With any lu

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

There's no stated goal for the Hack Nights, but it might be worth explaining how they've worked so far. The emphasis is on working collaboratively on the kinds of things that you probably aren't able to do in your day job. A lot of the things we've worked on are experimental, useful, fun and pe

[rails-oceania] Sydney Hack Night - Tuesday 23rd Feb

Hello hackers, Plus2 is generously hosting the next Sydney Hack Night next Tuesday. The details are as follows: Tuesday 23rd February, 6pm til 10ish Level 3, 2 Lacey St Surry Hills The lift is old-school, walk up the stairs. Call Matta on 0413 777 771 if you need anything. There'll be some bee

Re: [rails-oceania] Readable regular expressions

On 17/02/2010, at 4:43 PM, Chris Lloyd wrote: > On 17 February 2010 16:23, Josh Price wrote: > I hope to give a lightning talk on this very topic at the next Sydney RORO. > > Lightning talk on Treetop? I'm sure you could fill a full talk ;) A full talk and more! However I p

Re: [rails-oceania] Readable regular expressions

For pure regex I prefer Nathan's approach myself, since I actually find it more readable. One thing to note is that if your Regular Expressions get much more complicated than the date example, it might be a sign that you need a different tool. I've found Treetop really nice for those situations

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: JS Testing in Rails apps

On 28/01/2010, at 2:48 PM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > For anyone who's curious, here's what I've ended up with thus far: I'm using > Watchr to watch the appropriate files for JS testing. Now, I'm using a js > library that causes env.js to barf when it tries to run the file in its > headless brow

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: First Sydney Hack Night of 2010

> I've gotten snowed under here at work and am gonna have to bail :( > So please advertise my spot, I'll take my name off the wiki. No worries. Consider it advertised! First to put their name on the wiki gets the spot. http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/Rorosyd_hack_meetup#Next_Ruby_Hack_N

[rails-oceania] Re: First Sydney Hack Night of 2010

Just in case you missed my reminder tweet, and you'd forgotten. Hack Night is on tonight! (Bring your laptops, project ideas and anything else you think you might need...) Josh On 19/01/2010, at 10:55 AM, Josh Price wrote: > Hello hackers, > > It's been a great start t

Re: [rails-oceania] Your favourite Ruby development setup

I've been using GitX (http://gitx.frim.nl/) for repo viewing and it's excellent. I especially like the clear diffs and branch views. Josh On 23/01/2010, at 7:16 PM, Xavier Shay wrote: > I'm the same as other folk, except no one has mentioned 'tig' yet, a terminal > app to view git repos. Also

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Your favourite Ruby development setup

Thanks mate, I knew there was a way, just hadn't found it in the help yet... ;) Cheers, Josh On 23/01/2010, at 5:55 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Josh Price wrote: less + 'G' or 'F' is always easier for me to track down a stack tra

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Your favourite Ruby development setup

Agreed, this is a great thread! Lachie, I owe you a beer for http://github.com/lachie/ruwin I've been gagging for something like this for years. I spend the first few minutes of every morning repositioning windows so that they're in the right place when I reconnect to an external monitor. > W

Re: [rails-oceania] Notes from an upgrade to Rails 3

Thanks for the informative writeup! Lack of RSpec support is likely to be a problem for most of us. I for one won't upgrading anything important without my test suite... No rspec, rspec does not work on Rails 3, the rumor is that it will be supported in the rspec 2 time frame. Josh On 20/0

[rails-oceania] First Sydney Hack Night of 2010

Hello hackers, It's been a great start to the year for Ruby, and we've started like we mean to continue. We've secured an awesome venue thanks to Cameron Barrie and Snepo. So without further ado I'd like to announce the first Sydney Ruby Hack Night! Wednesday 27th January, 6pm til 10ish Snepo

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: OT: How to implement monthly contributions for charities

And only seems to support US Dollars at the moment. http://support.chargify.com/faqs/billing-payment/does-chargify-support-collecting-foreign-currencies On 18/01/2010, at 4:26 PM, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > Ben, chargify still requires the use of a payment gateway. > > 2010/1/18 Ben Schwarz : >>

[rails-oceania] [Job] Rails developer - permanent role

Hello, I mentioned this at the meetup on Tuesday, but thought I'd repost some more details here for the benefit of those who weren't there. A client of mine, SiteMinder (http://www.siteminder.com.au) is currently looking for a permanent Rails developer in Sydney. They're a small but rapidly gr

Re: [rails-oceania] require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'foo')

On 23/12/2009, at 12:39 PM, Chris Lloyd wrote: > I can only dream about require one day working like: > > require :spec_helper# Uses $: > require '../spec_helper' # Path relative to __FILE__ That would be *awesome*. Josh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [rails-oceania] javascript framework for rails

JAML is a version of HAML in Javascript http://github.com/edspencer/jaml Josh On 08/12/2009, at 1:20 PM, David Lee wrote: > Gabe, thanks for the link. I think JS templating for jQuery is a great idea. > > Now if someone could just implement HAML in JS, it'd be impossible to render > structura

Re: [rails-oceania] Fish Shell

ons are OFF THE HOOK >>> >>> type ls >>> >>> on my machine i get back >>> >>> ls (List directory contents) lsip(sudo lsof | grep -i >>> ipv4 ) lsof (List open files) >>> lsbom (List contents of a bom

[rails-oceania] Fish Shell

Fish friends, Yesterday I tried fish for the second time. This time it's in earnest. Converting from bash required a bit of rejigging my bash profile and reprogramming my aliases. This was all fine, but other than a nicer scripting language, autocompletion and a sprinkling of colour, I couldn't

Re: [rails-oceania] Javascript and Ajax testing with Cucumber, RSpec and Webrat ?

I'm with Gareth on this. Unit test your JS, and even if you use BlueRidge to remove the DOM from the equation, you'll eventually have do it in each browser. I really like ScrewUnit, but there are other frameworks out there. The problem with JS tests is it's fairly funky to include these in

[rails-oceania] Re: How do you describe the fields in your database?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, James Healy wrote: > > Josh Price wrote: > > Does anyone still use the annotate models plugin? > > > > http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/annotate_models > > > > It takes your schema and put it as a comment block at

[rails-oceania] Re: How do you describe the fields in your database?

Does anyone still use the annotate models plugin? http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/annotate_models It takes your schema and put it as a comment block at the top of your model classes. Combined with migration-based comments this might work for you. When I used this a while back I found keep

[rails-oceania] Re: rorosyd: Inaugural Ruby Hack Night

Thanks everyone that came to the Hack Night and made it such an enjoyable evening of hacking! A quick rundown for those unfortunate enough to not have made it. 16 hackers turned up (a good manageable number) and we used the OpenHack format: As we waited for stragglers to arrive we had beer and p

[rails-oceania] Re: rorosyd: Inaugural Ruby Hack Night

the same thing here? > > PS how hard is to park in that neck of the woods?? > > Cheers, > Daniel > > 2009/10/28 Josh Price > Just a quick reminder about the Hack Night tonight. > > Don't forget to put your name on the wiki if you haven't already: >

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