Re: [rails-oceania] [MEL] How to get Ruby employment with limited Ruby but plenty of programming experience

2014-07-31 Thread Luke Chadwick
email (luke.chadwick at rea-group dot com) with your Resume and I'll put it in front of the managers here :) Regards, Luke -- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61402203606 skype: luke.a.chadwick github/twitter: @vertis On Thu, Jul 31, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Marky Mark wrote: I&

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby - Wednesday June 25th

2014-06-26 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi Everyone, If anyone is interested in seeing the example from my talk, it can be found at [1]https://gist.github.com/vertis/667e7dcd3ff6eeb25d5b Regards, Luke -- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61402203606 skype: luke.a.chadwick github/twitter: @vertis On Wed, Ju

Re: [rails-oceania] Railscamp NZ ticket up for grabs

2014-03-03 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi All, I also have a ticket to Railscamp NZ and I'm not going to be able to go. Drop me an email if you'd like the ticket. Regards, Luke Luke Chadwick Rubyist and DevOp Phone: +61402203606 Skype: luke.a.chadwick Twitter/GitHub: @vertis On 3/03/14 3:21 PM, Nathan S wrote: Hi

[rails-oceania] [Off Topic] FTTH Petition

2013-09-12 Thread Luke Chadwick
Can I encourage you all to sign the FTTH petition if you haven't already. http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/the-liberal-party-of-australia-reconsider-your-plan-for-a-fttn-nbn-in-favour-of-a-superior-ftth-nbn -- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61402203606 skype: luke.a.chadwi

Re: [rails-oceania] Railscamp XIV Scholarship sponsoring

2013-08-25 Thread Luke Chadwick
I would be more than happy to sponsor a Student/Newbie ticket. -- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61409075513 skype: luke.a.chadwick github/twitter: @vertis On 23/08/13 5:05 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: > Hey kids, > > Just because I hadn't seen a lot of traffic flyin

[rails-oceania] [Event] Agile battle of the bands for charity

2013-07-30 Thread Luke Chadwick
on't worry, I'm attending not performing. -- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61409075513 skype: luke.a.chadwick github/twitter: @vertis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe fr

[rails-oceania] Fwd: [RG SoC Community] Looking for a coach in Brisbane

2013-06-05 Thread Luke Chadwick
As Steven Farlie mentioned, Rails Girls Summer of Code will be starting shortly. FYI We have a couple of participants in Brisbane looking for a coach. Regards, Luke Original Message Subject:[RG SoC Community] Looking for a coach in Brisbane Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:45

Re: [rails-oceania] Recent Rails vulnerabilities have led to servers being used in botnets

2013-05-29 Thread Luke Chadwick
://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61409075513 skype: luke.a.chadwick github/twitter: @vertis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby May meetup

2013-05-23 Thread Luke Chadwick
.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- --- Luke Chadwick Rubyist & DevOp phone: +61409075513 skype: luke.a.chadwick github/twitter: @vertis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &qu

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby - Call for speakers

2013-03-25 Thread Luke Chadwick
I don't know if we have enough talks yet, but I'm happy to do one on getting started with Elastic Map Reduce and Pig if people are interested. - Luke On 21 March 2013 08:41, markbrown4 wrote: > d3 it is. 7 minutes should be plenty. > > > On Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:14:17 UTC+11, Mario Visic wr

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Moving to Sydney

2013-03-14 Thread Luke Chadwick
And I can vouch for parndt. Anyone he says is a nice guy is probably a nice guy. On 15 March 2013 08:52, parndt wrote: > I can vouch for Garrett.. he's a nice guy :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To unsubscri

Re: [rails-oceania] Mentor for beginner level

2013-03-05 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hey Liam, I'm happy to help. I am available most evenings, and can spend as much time with you on TeamViewer/Skype as you need. I don't take payments for my mentoring. Regards, Luke -- email: luke.a.chadw...@gmail.com phone: +61402203606 twitter: @vertis skype: luke.a.chadwick On 5 March 201

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Greetings from Poland

2012-12-19 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi Krzysztof, Welcome. As Daniel said, there is plenty of work in either Melbourne or Sydney. I'll mention you to a few of the Managers where I work. Regards, Luke On 19 December 2012 23:17, Daniel wrote: > On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:32:58 AM UTC+11, Krzysztof Kotlarek > wrote: >

Re: [rails-oceania] [RaisRumble] faxitforme.com

2012-10-15 Thread Luke Chadwick
Favouriting is voting. I've had a discussion with the organisers about how unclear that is. - Luke On 16 October 2012 12:10, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > Same question I asked Thomas: vote where? > > Is favouriting the same as voting? > > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012

[rails-oceania] [RaisRumble] faxitforme.com

2012-10-15 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi All, I'd just like to introduce the app I built for RailsRumble, https://faxitforme.com If you like the app, please vote for it (favorite) at * http://railsrumble.com/entries/2* Regards, Luke -- email: luke.a.chadw...@gmail.com phone: +61402203606 twitter: @vertis -- You received this m

Re: [rails-oceania] Railscamp9 projects

2011-06-15 Thread Luke Chadwick
The projects/gems that I was working on at railscamp were: Flynn (http://github.com/vertis/flynn) Command line tool designed to make setting up a variety of projects easy. The ruby based projects, install the gem dependencies into a separate ge

[rails-oceania] Railscamp9 projects

2011-06-14 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi All, The demos went so quickly on Sunday night I missed more than half of the names. If you have a project that you worked on at Railscamp can you please share the link to Github and/or where we can access your project. Regards, Luke -- email: luke.a.chadw...@gmail.com phone: +61402203606

Re: [rails-oceania] Introducing: offline

2011-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
orny > > On 9 June 2011 12:16, Luke Chadwick wrote: > >> It's an interesting use case. Because 'git clone --mirror' creates bare >> repositories, offline isn't currently ideal for browsing. You could add a >> command that doesn't add the --mirror f

Re: [rails-oceania] Introducing: offline

2011-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
" right now...) > > > On 8 June 2011 21:54, Andrew Grimm wrote: > >> Thanks for working on this, but expand the elevator pitch. What's the >> advantage of offline over bananajour? That it's non-bonjour dependent? >> That it "Just Works" (TM)? &g

Re: [rails-oceania] Introducing: offline

2011-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
ne over bananajour? That it's non-bonjour dependent? > That it "Just Works" (TM)? > > Andrew > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Luke Chadwick (mailto:luke.a.chadw...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > Hey All, > > I've been preparing for Railscamp 9, and while

[rails-oceania] Introducing: offline

2011-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hey All, I've been preparing for Railscamp 9, and while there should be 3g internet, I've been downloading things I think I'll want. In order to mirror github projects I created a gem called offline. You can use it to mirror all of a users public repositories, or just a selection: $ offline m

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

2011-04-05 Thread Luke Chadwick
Funny, I was going to offer to do a talk about using simpleworker from heroku. On 6 April 2011 10:08, Matt Allen wrote: > In attendance we'll have: > > 1. Derek Laney > Principal Sales Engineer > > 2. Clayton Brown > Senior Platform Sales Engineer > > Kevin Akermanis, Corporate Sales Engineer, w

Re: [rails-oceania] Canonical accepted method for headless cucumber and capybara on Hudson?

2010-12-01 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi Daryl, Both the capybara-envjs and the Akephalos gems can be used instead of selenium to provide capybara javascript drivers. Since they do not launch a browser they can be run in a headless environment more easily. In my experience they're not *quite* as good as running in an actual browser

Re: [rails-oceania] rorosyd is on next week! (call for speakers)

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hey All/Jason, Assuming that no-one objects, I'm happy to do a presentation on Mongoid. Essentially how to use Mongoid and a quick look at a production ready Rails3/Mongoid app (including switching out gems that would otherwise require active_record). Regards, Luke On 2 November 2010 08:27, J

Re: [rails-oceania] Looking for a RoR tutor to do a code review in Sydney

2010-09-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi Aymeric, Do you come to the RORO meetups? The next one is this coming tuesday. I would be happy to spend time with you before or after the meetup reviewing your code. Regards, Luke On 9 September 2010 13:34, Aymeric wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am mainly a .NET developer but I started usi

Re: [rails-oceania] CrisisCamp PkFloods in Sydney this weekend

2010-09-06 Thread Luke Chadwick
Yep, Assuming I find/amgiven something useful to do. - Luke On 2 September 2010 14:39, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > Planning on going. Are ye doing the 2 full days? > > Jonathan > > Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Luke Chadwick wrote: > >> I'm all signed up. Who

Re: [rails-oceania] CrisisCamp PkFloods in Sydney this weekend

2010-09-01 Thread Luke Chadwick
I'm all signed up. Who else is coming? - Luke On 1 September 2010 13:51, Shoaib Burq wrote: > Hey folks > > Some of you may be interested in coming along the the CrisisCamp this > weekend in Sydney > > To see the kind of things we will be working on please see: > http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/

Re: [rails-oceania] Lunchtime (brown-bag) presentations in Sydney

2010-08-31 Thread Luke Chadwick
Yeah, I'm in as well. Might try to drag the REA people along. On 31 August 2010 12:15, David Parry wrote: > On 31/08/2010, at 12:08 PM, Ben wrote: > > I'd like to run some here at the studio (Lacey St Surry Hills)... is > > anyone interested in coming / presenting? > > Hell, yeah! > > -- > You r

Re: [rails-oceania] Haskell hackathon, this weekend

2010-07-13 Thread Luke Chadwick
I think you're lost ;) - Luke On 14 July 2010 09:38, Mark Wotton wrote: > Starting this friday and continuing on to the weekend, there'll be a > Haskell hackathon at UNSW, as anyone who witnessed my feeble attempts > at advocacy last night should know. More details: > > http://www.haskell.org/

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-14 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hi everyone, Just wanted to thank you for your feedback so far. Because I think the feedback has been excellent, and the need is certainly there, I have committed myself to moving forward with organizing the Ruby conference. I will be sending out other emails to get suggestions and help with de

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-09 Thread Luke Chadwick
May! Yes, we are pretty remote, so most of us don't >> > > get >> > > to these conferences often (or at all), but the same will apply for those >> > > outside of Australia who we'd like to have come along to our conference. >> > >> > >

Re: [rails-oceania] RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
Rubyists in the world. >> - Because there is no good reason why we shouldn't have one. >> >> On 9 June 2010 12:08, Pat Allan wrote: >>> You didn't answer my question, though ;) >>> >>> Why do we need a conference? >>> >>> -- &

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
rness and representing community, it > shouldn't default to being in Sydney without a discussion. I'd be > interested in an Oz conf. in general, though. > > On Jun 9, 10:56 am, Gareth Townsend wrote: >> I would attend one in Melbourne! >> >> *dons flame retarda

Re: [rails-oceania] RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
2010 12:08, Pat Allan wrote: > You didn't answer my question, though ;) > > Why do we need a conference? > > -- > Pat > > On 09/06/2010, at 11:47 AM, Luke Chadwick wrote: > >> Hey Pat, Ben, >>   Thanks for your input. I'm at least abstractly aware of wh

Re: [rails-oceania] RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
7;s a need. And, should this happen, I > just think the target from the start should be to run something a cut above > normal. Hell, a cut above great. > > -- > Pat > e: p...@freelancing-gods.com      || m: +614 1327 3337 > w: http://freelancing-gods.com   || t: twitter.com/pat >

Re: [rails-oceania] RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hey Ben, I did have a quick look through previous discussions before I posted, and I believe that you had shown interest in the past (in perhaps even organizing the event). I'm curious as to why you now don't see a place for a formal conference with booked speakers, in addition to Railscamps. R

Re: [rails-oceania] RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
June 2010 10:56, Gareth Townsend wrote: > I would attend one in Melbourne! > > *dons flame retardant suit* > > > > On 09/06/2010, at 10:48 AM, Luke Chadwick wrote: > >> Hey Everyone, >>     I discovered, in a discussion last night at the Sydney Meetup,

[rails-oceania] RubyConf Oceania - Expression of Interest

2010-06-08 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hey Everyone, I discovered, in a discussion last night at the Sydney Meetup, that there has never been a Ruby/Rails Conference in Australia. I find this to be sad, and want to rectify the situation. I am happy to take a hand in starting to organize an event if there is interest in actually se

Re: [rails-oceania] The Great Debate

2010-04-20 Thread Luke Chadwick
It would be a good thought if it wasn't composed on an ipad ;) - luke On 21 Apr 2010 12:10, "Gareth Townsend" wrote: Just had an idea pop up in the CLEAR office for some of the next ruby meet ups. Let's have a debate, using a real debate format. No-SQL vs. SQL Haml vs. Erb Etc. Let's get sm

Re: [rails-oceania] Social Network Platform

2010-03-19 Thread Luke Chadwick
Have you seen http://communityengine.org? It's a rails based social network. Not sure it has what you need, but it's worth a look On 20/03/2010 3:44 PM, "Dave Newman" wrote: Hey Gang, Client of mine is looking to get some socialy stuff up and running and I'm looking around to see if there's som

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

2010-03-14 Thread Luke Chadwick
Maybe the next hack night should be dedicated to building tools to help us decide what to do on hack night. On 15 March 2010 11:49, Mark Wotton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Cameron Barrie > wrote: > > For me the hack night we had here at Snepo was great. Only thing was how > > lon

Re: [rails-oceania] Hack nights, meet-ups and conferences @ home... interested?

2010-03-11 Thread Luke Chadwick
I'm in Sydney, but would love to be involved in more virtual events. What technologies would you suggest using? - Luke On 12 March 2010 14:46, Robert Gravina wrote: > On 12 March 2010 11:25, chrisjacob wrote: > > Live video broadcasting. Stay at home. Connect Globally. > > > > Would love to co

[rails-oceania] [JOB] JRuby on Rails

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Chadwick
Hey All, I'm passing on a request from the recruiter for one further candidate for a role that I've applied for (and look likely to get). The company in question has been looking to fill 3 positions, they've hired one person, and will likely be making me an offer on Monday. Sima has asked me to

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Testability Driven Development

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Chadwick
> > > > Unfortunately software doesn't last as long as a wonderfully crafted > chair, but this doesn't mean the same attention to detail shouldn't > take place; but it should occur with an awareness of the medium of > work. The value is instead, I think, in how many people can use what > you create