[rails-oceania] Re: Questions about recruiters in AU

2016-02-23 Thread Matt Allen
lps! Matta Matt Allen Melbourne | lookahead.com.au | 0413 777 771 On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 9:49:30 PM UTC+11, Adler Hsieh wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > My name is Adler, will be moving to Melbourne in May and looking for a mid > to senior level Ruby on Rails job. In addition to

[rails-oceania] Re: [JOB] Senior Ruby dev - monitoring tools

2016-02-21 Thread Matt Moor
Thanks for the enquiries and applications folks, this role has been filled. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr.

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Senior Ruby dev - monitoring tools

2016-02-01 Thread Matt Moor
age, mentor and coach our staff to bring the following *attributes* to the fore: Striving for excellence, fun, ethical, compassionate, tolerant, resourceful, objective, enthusiastic, niceness. To discuss the role further, give our internal recruiter, Sarah Gawman a call or email (sarah

Re: [rails-oceania] Broadening skills

2015-11-30 Thread Matt Stone
If you develop on a mac - why not try Swift? rgds, - matt > On 1 Dec 2015, at 10:45 AM, David Parry wrote: > > >> On 1 Dec 2015, at 10:13 AM, Rohan wrote: >> Front end - maybe a promising post-angular JS framework > > React and/or RxJS. > > >> New

Re: [rails-oceania] Will a Computer Science Degree make me a better programmer?

2015-09-01 Thread Matt Stone
l show the people who are doing the hiring what you can do. If you find something you like doing, keep doing it, you will probably do it better than most. Spend your time wisely and you will make your own opportunities [I think I’ve just become my dad]. rgds, - matt. ps. as an aside, I also r

[rails-oceania] Melbourne RORO Notes - June 24, 2015

2015-06-24 Thread Matt Allen
* Harley remote team, 4 people around the world. Looking for a Ruby dev from Melbourne. Music related thing, working with spotify and rdio API. sedmanhar...@gmail.com  * Gareth from Ferocia. We build bank stuff. Looking for a senior dev, hopefully Ruby. Core banking! he...@ferocia.com.au * Mat

[rails-oceania] Melbourne RORO Meetup Notes - March 2015

2015-03-28 Thread Matt Allen
is unrelated.   * Matt Allen - lookahead.com.au - Building out some great teams at the moment. Even we are full stack, front-end, Ruby/backend, devops recruiters. All built software in the past. March Talks:   * Michael Kempster, Vasko Traikovski and Andre Vidic - Bike Trip Planner   * Gareth

Re: [rails-oceania] New Melbourne Ruby Organisers

2015-02-09 Thread Matt Allen
been. - Matta --  Matt Allen 0413 777 771 On 10 February 2015 at 2:10:38 pm, Mario Visic (ma...@mariovisic.com) wrote: Dear Melbourne Ruby Community Many months ago Pat Allan and myself took over from David Goodlad and Justin French as the organisers of the Melbourne Ruby meetups. During our

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby Tonight (24 September 2014)

2014-09-25 Thread Matt Allen
and save making that rod for you own back down the track. Matta --  Matt Allen 0413 777 771 On 25 September 2014 at 3:57:25 pm, Mark Ratjens (m...@ratjens.com) wrote: My two-cents-worth... these both looked like high-quality presentations, would've loved to have seen them live. -- You rec

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Remote Rails developer - Full time - Salary based on experience

2014-02-17 Thread Matt Allen
Hey All; As most of you know, we only post certain jobs that are “a bit different” to the list. We thought this one ticked the box --- We’re working with a team that’s producing a web platform to go alongside their IPTV channels here in AU, along with Singapore, the US and the UK. We’re l

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Stripe technical evangelist and support developer

2014-01-28 Thread Matt Allen
Hey all,   In case you haven't heard, just wanted to let you all know that Stripe.com is entering the Aussie market in a pretty significant way. Last week, they announced that they've raised $80M USD on a $1.75B valuation, pretty impressive for a company that’s codebase is still predominately Ru

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Rails developer - Sydney CBD

2013-11-05 Thread Matt Allen
oking at your code, rather than years experience to determine what level you're at. If you like food or coffee, we can go chat over one of those. You can find me on twitter at @mattallen or email ma...@lookahead.com.au or you can even call me on 0413 777 771.  --  Matt Allen 0413 777 771

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Australia AGM minutes - 3rd November 2013

2013-11-05 Thread Matt Allen
awesomeness that the Ruby community has achieved in Australia. Matta --  Matt Allen 0413 777 771 From: Lachie Lachie Reply: rails-oceania@googlegroups.com rails-oceania@googlegroups.com Date: 5 November 2013 at 11:34:11 am To: Ruby on Rails Oceania rails-oceania@googlegroups.com Subject:  Re

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Australia AGM minutes - 3rd November 2013

2013-11-05 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Martin; Yes, I got elected president and am very honoured. I think the official hand over date is Jan 1 2014. Until then, Ben Schwarz is your man :) Matta --  Matt Allen 0413 777 771 From: Martin Stannard Martin Stannard Reply: rails-oceania@googlegroups.com rails-oceania@googlegroups.com

[rails-oceania] Ruby Australia AGM minutes - 3rd November 2013

2013-11-04 Thread Matt Allen
Hi All; Thanks to those of you who attended the AGM this past weekend at RailsCamp. Here are the minutes as taken by me. Thanks, Matt Allen Sunday Nov 3, 15:37 Pat Allan intro to Ruby Australia and what we

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Australia SGM @ Railscamp 14

2013-10-08 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Ryan; I'll do it. Matta Matt Allen 0413 777 771 On 9 October 2013 at 3:21:56 PM, Ryan Bigg (radarliste...@gmail.com) wrote: Small note: I'll be absent for this camp and so I will need someone to play Secretary for me. Any volunteers? For those of you who are members of Ruby

[rails-oceania] Re: Face-to-face RoR training in Sydney?

2013-09-18 Thread Matt Plant
specific ones. https://generalassemb.ly/education?where=sydney Matt On Monday, September 16, 2013 10:35:22 AM UTC+10, sydsider wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for beginner's face-to-face training in Sydney - are there any > courses available at a reasonable price? > >

[rails-oceania] Application Data Analytics

2013-09-16 Thread Matt Plant
assist in data aggregation or visualisation? Third party applications? In the past I've personally only data warehousing software, which I never found particularly easy and usually complete overkill for what I needed. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Matt -- You received this message be

Re: [rails-oceania] Rorosyd is on next week. Tuesday 10/9

2013-09-03 Thread Matt Delves
If any of you Sydney RoRo people are interested in hearing a lightning talk about getting started with Ember.js and rails, I'm happy to give the same talk that I did down in Melbourne last week as I'm going to be Sydney for RoRo. Thanks, Matt. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Sep 201

Re: [rails-oceania] Archiving a Rails page render

2013-07-15 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Greg; The PDF things that have been mentioned are good. If you're going dow that route look at DocRaptor (http://docraptor.com/plans) it's a service that sits on top of http://www.princexml.com/ which could also do exactly what you're after but is pretty pricey for server instances. Matta

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Senior Rails Dev - Sydney - $110K+super

2013-06-02 Thread Matt Allen
from junior to mid level to senior. We won't be spamming the list with all of them but we'd encourage you to keep an eye on our twitter account @LookaheadSearch or our jobs page http://www.lookahead.com.au/jobs if you're thinking of making a move. Matt Allen @mattallen Loo

Re: [rails-oceania] Best community ever?!

2013-03-12 Thread Matt Allen
On 13/03/2013, at 1:54 PM, Lachlan Hardy wrote: > We love you too, Charlie! > > to be honest, I have no idea how we all lucked into such an amazing community > of talented lovely people who have become such good friends. I don't know > what our secret sauce is, but I'm glad we have it. > >

[rails-oceania] Re: [OT] Founder Institute Sydney

2013-02-17 Thread Matt Allen
Just on this note There's an info session on tonight in town. If you're curious, go along and talk to Tom and Ben, the directors. Tell them I sent you :) http://fi.co/e/2545 Cheers, Matta Matt Allen 0413 777 771 On 18/02/2013, at 12:20 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > Hey All; >

Re: [rails-oceania] [OT] Founder Institute Sydney

2013-02-17 Thread Matt Allen
Hi Jon; Weird, here it is: http://fi.co/apply/141 Cheers, Matta Matt Allen 0413 777 771 On 18/02/2013, at 12:24 PM, Jon Rowe wrote: > I've been curious about this for some time but that link always seems to go > to the 2012 class for me… > >

[rails-oceania] [OT] Founder Institute Sydney

2013-02-17 Thread Matt Allen
ng a supportive local ecosystem where great startups can flourish. You can apply here: http://FI.co/join/mentor-Matt_Allen If you sign up via that link, you'll save the $1000 entry fee. Matta Matt Allen 0413 777 771 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: [rails-oceania] [JOB] Looking for a ruby developer in Sydney

2013-01-06 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Wei Lu; So ... how much influence do the Ruby geeks have on the rollout plans ;) "Will work for low latency and fat pipes" Cheers, Matta Matt Allen 0413 777 771 On 07/01/2013, at 2:29 PM, Wei Lu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > My name is Wei Lu. I am current

Re: [rails-oceania] Sub-second timestamps in Postgres

2012-11-29 Thread Matt Allen
OK, turns out I was just not thinking it through. if you were to hand in a decimal, like 1354246278.761 to rails and your DB column is a timestamp type. It Just Works™ Model.create column => Time.at(timestamp.to_f).utc Will do it for you. Sorry for the noise. Cheers, Matta Matt Alle

[rails-oceania] Sub-second timestamps in Postgres

2012-11-29 Thread Matt Allen
Afternoon All; Has anyone stored sub-second timestamps in Postgres? and then used them in rails? Any gotchas I should be looking out for? Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

2012-10-24 Thread Matt Allen
I am. I use it about 50/50 stand alone and driving a 27" thunderbolt monitor in my office, or the kids iMac at home (as a monitor) I have the tricked out 4GB model and it does go to swap, but you barely notice. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 On 25/10/2012,

Re: [rails-oceania] Running Rails on Linux

2012-08-01 Thread Matt Stone
+ 1 Mikel. Life is to short to become a centos admin. Unless you like that sort of thing. Maybe I'm just getting older, but for me, the thrill of hacking around on various shades of unix has well and truly left the building. Rgds, - Matt. Sent from my iPad On 01/08/2012, at 5:42 PM,

[rails-oceania] Looking for something to do ...

2012-07-30 Thread Matt Allen
o forth. Also, we just became the first non-NZ certified Xero developer, so if anyone has clients that use Xero and need to integrate to the API, i'd be happy to chat. http://www.xero.com/advisors/solutions/custom/ Probably best to reply off list. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlog

Re: [rails-oceania] asurepay.cc

2012-06-23 Thread Matt Allen
ntID I can loan for for a small fee ;) Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 On 24/06/2012, at 10:55 AM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but has anyone had experience with www.asurepay.cc ? I'm > looking to accept recurring payments on a saas project

Re: [rails-oceania] Timeline library

2012-06-18 Thread Matt Allen
That's the one. Thanking you kindly. Matta On 19/06/2012, at 1:56 PM, Ivan Vanderbyl wrote: > I believe you're after this one https://github.com/inspire9/eventifier > > — Ivan > > On 19/06/2012, at 1:48 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > >> Afternoon All; >>

[rails-oceania] Timeline library

2012-06-18 Thread Matt Allen
Afternoon All; On Sunday night at railscamp someone presented a library they wrote to make event based timelines in a rails app on Sunday night. Anyone remember what it was? Cheers, Matta -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" gr

Re: [rails-oceania] [railscamp] Railscamp 11 Tickets

2012-04-18 Thread Matt Allen
Some people code, others do not but there isn't much of a structure around either activity, it is what you make of it. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 On 19/04/2012, at 2:58 PM, Lachlan Bowes wrote: > Hello > > Is this something that all levels of R

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Frontender to work on Practice Ignition

2012-04-11 Thread Matt Allen
ou're keen, grab me or Guy and we'll get chatting. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 -- 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@goo

Re: [rails-oceania] Call for speakers: Rorosyd — Tuesday April 10

2012-04-09 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Steve and Gang; I've popped my name down for a 5min lightning talk entitled "Startups and You, a Founder Institute redux" Hope it's not too far off topic and I think i'll have a few other people who are doing Founder Institute with me there in case any of you want to ask questions. Matta

Re: [rails-oceania] Small Rails Job

2012-02-27 Thread Matt Allen
> Had a plumber around today > > Not a big job, probably just Refinery with a nice skin and a contact form > with a blog. You sure he said Blog, not bog? Sorry :) Matta -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To pos

Re: [rails-oceania] Freelancing for idiots

2012-02-23 Thread Matt Allen
On 24/02/2012, at 2:28 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: > Anybody in Sydney available for a meetup next week to chat about this in > person (or online... ). Kinda interested to see how this could flesh out. > (I'm more interested in interesting projects outside of my day job... since > some of my outsi

Re: [rails-oceania] Freelancing for idiots

2012-02-21 Thread Matt Allen
On 22/02/2012, at 10:36 AM, Matt wrote: > Would be good we could create a team of at-home freelancers, where all > members search for contracts which are pushed to the team. Team > members can then choose which projects or Github issues to work on, > bill for time done and live the dr

[rails-oceania] Re: Freelancing for idiots

2012-02-21 Thread Matt
Would be good we could create a team of at-home freelancers, where all members search for contracts which are pushed to the team. Team members can then choose which projects or Github issues to work on, bill for time done and live the dream ;) On Feb 19, 8:43 pm, Anthony W wrote: > Hello, > > Due

[rails-oceania] [NEEDS JOB] 1yr experience RoR dev moving to Melbourne

2011-12-27 Thread Matt
I'm a passionate rails developer with 1 year experience currently looking for a job in Melbourne (moving there on the 20th of Jan). I have experience in front end (HTML/Haml, CSS/Sass, Javascript/ Coffeescript) and back end (Rails, Mysql, Rspec). I am open to any kind of offer, though would be a b

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Australia

2011-12-12 Thread Matt Allen
Well done guys! I, for one, welcome our new corporate over-lords. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 On 13/12/2011, at 9:58 AM, Keith Pitty wrote: > Next month the tenth Australian Rails Camp will be held in the Adelaide > Hills. This landmark event is testim

Re: [rails-oceania] Validation on custom action

2011-11-29 Thread Matt Allen
_with DropValidator, :on => :update is the right way, I believe. Others may disagree. Cheers, Matta Matt Allen m...@devlogic.com.au 0413 777 771 On 30/11/2011, at 1:04 PM, Craig Read wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > First post from a rails newbie, so please excuse me for asking really b

Re: [rails-oceania] Start Up Partner Emails

2011-11-14 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Pat and RORO crew; How about this: Pin a "looking for a tech co-founder / startup looking for help" post to the top of the group like the jobs one. They should prefix their posts with something [startup] maybe? that way the people the really don't want to see them can filter them out. I

[rails-oceania] [WORK WANTED] Part-time senior Rails geek.

2011-10-25 Thread Matt Allen
them with ease. * 1, 2 or 3 days a week, preferably remotely. I have my own office in the Southern Highlands of NSW. Skype has done well with my previous remote (international) clients If you're keen, or know anyone who is, please feel free to contact me off-list. Thanks, Matta Matt Allen

[rails-oceania] Re: Looking for a test set-up critique

2011-09-10 Thread Matt
Stuart I did some research on the current practices as I wanted to know too - wrote up my findings here: http://webtempest.com/ruby-on-rails-3-testing-getting-into-the-groove/ On Sep 10, 3:53 pm, Stuart Liston wrote: > Hi ladies and gents > > I joined this group a few week ago and keep an eye on

Re: [rails-oceania] Memcache key and value?

2011-08-22 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Denny and Nath; The other thing you'd do in dev mode, is to run it in non-daemon mode with -v and it'll spit out all the logging. That'll include hits, misses and keys. Matta On 22/08/2011, at 11:08 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > While Matt is correct that memcached shou

Re: [rails-oceania] Memcache key and value?

2011-08-22 Thread Matt Allen
Hi Denny; You can't. Generally you'll be using some sort of known, reproducible composite key to retrieve the data you need. An example of this that i've used in the past for some fragment caching is a combination of model class name + id or controller name + model + id. Hope that helps, Matta

Re: [rails-oceania] ActiveRecord and de-normalisation?

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Sonia; You wont be able to get a 'where category = "red"' out of that. Back in the bad old days (read 1998) we used to do that by wrapping each category in [], so you'd have '[red][green]' then you'd say where category like '%[red]%' You should probably index that field if you go that way,

Re: [rails-oceania] ActiveRecord and de-normalisation?

2011-08-11 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Sonia; You wont be able to get a 'where category = "red"' out of that. Back in the bad old days (read 1998) we used to do that by wrapping each category in [], so you'd have '[red][green]' then you'd say where category like '%[red]%' You should probably index that field if you go that way,

[rails-oceania] Re: RORO Sydney: Tuesday the 9th of August (Tomorrow night)

2011-08-07 Thread Matt Allen
Good Monday Morning to all; Just a reminder that we're on for tomorrow night. Anyone else want to step up and talk about something that'd interest us tomorrow night? So far we have Ryan Bigg talking about Twist, his book review application. Cheers, Matta On Aug 2, 8:44 am, Matt Al

[rails-oceania] RORO Sydney: Tuesday the 9th of August

2011-08-01 Thread Matt Allen
Hi everyone, It's nearly time for rorosyd again, next Tuesday August 9, 6:30 for a 7pm start at the Trinity:http://tinyurl.com/6emfna No talks lined up so far, if you've been thinking about showing us something, now's the time to step up. Head over to the wiki - https://github.com/rails-oceani

Re: [rails-oceania] real limits of free Heroku app?

2011-06-01 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Korny; I have several apps deployed onto Heroku and have only ever gotten an error once. You get a single dyno for free which will buckle under a certain amount of traffic, it's not like a single mongrel or whatever but it's pretty close as far as I can tell. You'll get an email if it hits it

Re: [rails-oceania] Rackspace is closing down Slicehost

2011-05-11 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Mark Ratjens wrote: > Octopus has been unsatisfactory for one of my clients, who has had to > tolerate an environment where cron tasks don't work. This has been the case > for well over 12 months without explanation and we are currently moving to > Rackspace. Andy

Re: [rails-oceania] Rackspace is closing down Slicehost

2011-05-11 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Daniel N wrote: > I've got slices with Octopus vps (Sydney) and their prices are pretty sweet. > http://octopus.com.au/main/vps_plans > On 11 May 2011 16:58, Paul Annesley wrote: +1 on that. Andy Snow is a long time member of our RORO community. He's too modest t

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

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Ringo wrote: > > We have 3 guys from Salesforce.com/Heroku coming to give a 10-15 > minute presso on Heroku.  It'll be weighted heavily towards the geeky > aspects of the service as opposed to being a marketing spiel. > > That's not what we got. Hey Steve;

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

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Grimm wrote: > I've got a dodgy memory, but didn't they say at the start of the talks > that they had hoped to bring in a Ruby top gun to talk, but they > weren't able to do so? > They did. They're actively working on getting him out here for RailsCamp.

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

2011-04-12 Thread Matt Allen
ue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > Evening All; > > We have a bit of a special event coming up on for the next Sydney RORO > which is on Tuesday the 12th of April. > > We have 3 guys from Salesforce.com/Heroku coming to give a 10-15 > minute presso on Heroku.  It

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

2011-04-06 Thread Matt Allen
And keeping with our Heroku theme we now also have: Mikel Lindsaar - StillAlive addon for Heroku (in alpha testing) http://rubyonrails.com.au/2011/4/6/sydney-meetup-april-2011 Matta On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > Luke's talk on using Simpleworker from Heroku is

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

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Allen
; > 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,

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

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Allen
In attendance we'll have: 1. Derek Laney Principal Sales Engineer 2. Clayton Brown Senior Platform Sales Engineer Kevin Akermanis, Corporate Sales Engineer, will also be attending but as a guest rather than as a speaker. They can help put some technical context behind the Heroku acquisition by

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

2011-04-05 Thread Matt Allen
Evening All; We have a bit of a special event coming up on for the next Sydney RORO which is on Tuesday the 12th of April. We have 3 guys from Salesforce.com/Heroku coming to give a 10-15 minute presso on Heroku. It'll be weighted heavily towards the geeky aspects of the service as opposed to be

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Web Developer - Agile Developer - AUSTRALIA

2011-03-20 Thread matt@trike
Or direct to us at j...@trikeapps.com. Fred, which part of our conversation about any rubyists you *already had on your books*, or your expertise finding foreign rubyists and helping them with visa sponsorship do you think covered you copying our existing ad onto an Australian ruby board? -- M@ -

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: @Plus2 Beers [was: A Rubyist in Sydney]

2011-02-20 Thread Matt Allen
I reckon we'll be easy enough to identify /me leaves that hanging. anyone? :) Matta PS. DM on twitter if you can't find us. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Alex MacCaw wrote: > That sounds excellent, I'll be there! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

[rails-oceania] @Plus2 Beers [was: A Rubyist in Sydney]

2011-02-20 Thread Matt Allen
Hi Alex; This is an open invitation to you and everyone else. Could be a good time to catch up with some local rubyists. "@plus2: Join us as we farewell @dylanfm & @brettgoulder (heading o/s) & @mattallen (startup land). Sat 26 Feb - 6pm @ thelocal taphouse." http://twitter.com/benwebster/status

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Rails Contracting in London

2011-02-15 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Pat Allan wrote: > It seems there's generally a Ruby developer shortage - NYC, Chicago, London, > Melbourne, Sydney... at what point does such an unbalanced employment market > become a liability? I'd say that we're slap bang in the middle of lag that happens w

Re: [rails-oceania] Insurance for consultants/contractors

2011-01-12 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Mike; I recently bought a similar policy from bizcover.com.au. Spoke to them on the phone and they were polite, helpful and responsive. Not sure they'll be any cheaper, I think my policy was a similar price. Matta On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mike Bailey wrote: > This site quoted me

Re: [rails-oceania] has many, belongs to just doesn't do it.

2010-12-01 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > Hi Rim; > > > what you want is this: > > @sock = current_user.socks.new(params[:sock]) > On second thoughts, it might be @sock = current_user.socks.build(params[:sock]) Matta -- You received this message because you

Re: [rails-oceania] has many, belongs to just doesn't do it.

2010-12-01 Thread Matt Allen
spin and let me know how you go. Matta On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Rimian Perkins wrote: > Hi Matt, > > I didn't know about Gist. What a good idea! > > Here 'tis: https://gist.github.com/723238 > > I plonked both my models and controllers and the form in views/

Re: [rails-oceania] has many, belongs to just doesn't do it.

2010-12-01 Thread Matt Allen
Hi Rim; Any chance you could throw up a Gist for us to have a look at? (http://gist.github.com/) I reckon one of us will nail it if you could put up your models, the controller you're going through and the form you're using it submit the data. Cheers, Matta On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Rimia

Re: [rails-oceania] Current Deployment OS of Choice

2010-11-27 Thread Matt
might get that vibe from - it does receive regular updates though and is very pleasant to work with. The documentation is also reasonably up-to-date on a myriad of different packages and server setups. -Matt On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, freshto...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Mikel, > > I&#

Re: [rails-oceania] Suggestions for a good rails-based commerce package?

2010-11-26 Thread Matt
Do you need to host it yourself? Shopify seems to be quite popular at the moment and has integration with eWay and SecurePay (I'd be looking at the latter personally). -Matt On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, chris hulbert wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm after suggestions for a good r

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Receiving Email

2010-11-14 Thread Matt
This is one of those areas that becomes tricky quite quickly - the Mail gem is doing some nice work here, as is the mailman gem from the RSOC project - dunno if you've looked at those yet, but if not, worth a look :) -matt #railscamp On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Chris Herring wrote: >

[rails-oceania] Re: Free Rails Camp 8 Ticket up for grabs

2010-11-10 Thread Matt Allen
And the ticket is gone. See you all tomorrow arvo! Matta -- 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 this group, send email to rails-oceania

[rails-oceania] Free Rails Camp 8 Ticket up for grabs

2010-11-10 Thread Matt Allen
Hey All; My wife was going to come and hang out with us all this weekend, but due to sick families she can no longer make it. Since our company Dev Logic has already paid for the ticket, we figured there might be someone who would like to go but wasn't able to find the cash for it. Given that, a

Re: [rails-oceania] Where's the old rails guide?

2010-08-31 Thread Matt
It was at http://guides.rubyonrails.org about 2 hours ago... On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Now that rails 3 is out and everyone is excited, does anybody know where's > the 2.3 guide went? > > Thanks heaps. > Joshua > > -- > http://twitter.com/scrum8 >

Re: [rails-oceania] connect to gmail through a squid proxy in a rails app

2010-08-02 Thread Matt Allen
Gday Robbie; We're using this http://postageapp.com in production, it might help your cause. Matta On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > Hi folks, > > My rails 2.3.5 app is sitting on a sandboxed server that allows outbound > access only through a squid proxy server. I'd like

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

2010-04-28 Thread Matt Allen
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Kirill Radzikhovskyy wrote: > We've tried and used almost anything available. > Prince is good. .. snip .. > alternatively, use prince and pipe it through cups pdf to get rid of P mark > in top right corner. > :P Of course, you're talking about piracy there. I as

Re: [rails-oceania] Before_filters on "re-rendered" methods - what is the correct RAILS way?

2010-03-15 Thread Matt Allen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote: Trying to cram the flow of a typical website into "clean" controllers (i.e. list, show, destroy, new, create, edit, update only) is madness. Madness! Couldn't agree more. It's *very* difficult to shoe-horn a large real-world app into a RESTf

Re: [rails-oceania] Conferences for 2010

2010-03-02 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Dave; I plan on heading to Ruby Kaigi and then spending another few weeks there with my family. There were great reports about this conference last year and I can't wait to go. Matta On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Dave Newman wrote: > I've been thinking about which conferences are looking

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

2010-02-18 Thread Matt Allen
u have not already, remember it'll be $10 for beer + pizza, Plus2 will cover any more costs. Matta On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > We (Plus2) are going to cover any costs for food and beer over and above $10. > > So, it'll be $10 for Pizza from Crust + beers.

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

2010-02-17 Thread Matt Allen
We (Plus2) are going to cover any costs for food and beer over and above $10. So, it'll be $10 for Pizza from Crust + beers. Matta On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Josh Price wrote: > Hello hackers, > Plus2 is generously hosting the next Sydney Hack Night next Tuesday. The -- You received thi

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

2010-02-14 Thread Matt Allen
I'll throw my vote in for allowing job posts and disallowing replies(if possible). The way I see it is this, if the job poster sends through an ad for a job and leaves out important information then one of two things will happen, either they'll get no replies and hopefully re-read their email and

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

2010-01-22 Thread Matt
gt; ... Hosting environment? > "preloved" server - Dell PowerEdge 1850 colo'd here in Perth > ... tail -f or another log viewer? > tail -f of course - it just works :) Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby o

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: Request for stickers

2010-01-10 Thread Matt Allen
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Andrew Grimm wrote: > (Preferably something that is work safe, so nothing mentioning > forking, pasties or peepcode please) Do you work for the Pope Andrew? :) I'm sure I have a webjam sticker or 2 kicking about in my bag, hit me up on Tuesday night, unless webja

[rails-oceania] rails dev positions available

2009-12-21 Thread Matt
so we're not a fragile startup. The office is in South Yarra. We're looking for permanent people not contractors. If you're interested shoot me an email with your cv and a brief description of who you are and what you've done. matt.s.fitzger...@gmail.com No recruiters - can

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Julio; It really is insane, I used xbenchmark on my 2009 13inch MBP and got this: http://skitch.com/mattallen/nm97h/untitled The slow one is the old HDD out of it, mounted in an Optibay where the superdrive once was. Mine's an 80GB Intel, with the OS, Documents, code and Apps I have 43GB le

[rails-oceania] Re: [railscamp] Are all the bunks singles?

2009-10-16 Thread Matt Allen
I believe there is an unspoken rule that the "hosting" state provide the Guitar Hero/Rockband setup, saves shipping it interstate. That said, I hope some Victorian people have The Beatles Rockband, I'm addicted to that game atm and would love to get all 6 roles going at once (3 x vocal + 2 x guita

[rails-oceania] Re: ActiveResource

2009-10-01 Thread Matt Allen
Hi James; Very timely post to the list. I am currently working on an app for a client that talks to their system through ActiveResource. It's not difficult to work with, but the gotchas are many. Things like you can't use regular relationships, has_many, belongs_to and their cousins don't work b

[rails-oceania] Re: Why does your rails apps does not use javascript widgets

2009-10-01 Thread Matt Allen
Hi Josh; I think that because Prototype is the "default" javascript framework that a lot of Rails apps would just run with the given ball, especially apps that are being written by a newer Rails developer. That said, I tend to agree with Ben S. We use jQuery in all our apps now due to it "feeling"

[rails-oceania] Re: hosting providers

2009-09-23 Thread Matt Moor
Erg, reply-to FAIL! Sorry guys. That was obviously meant for Marty. *redface* On 24/09/09 12:45 PM, Matt Moor wrote: > Hi Marty, > > My day job is at Bulletproof Networks - we specialise in hosting high > availability sites (including Movember, Angus& Robertson and > Whirlpo

[rails-oceania] Re: hosting providers

2009-09-23 Thread Matt Moor
Server-Hosting/Dedicated-Server-Products.aspx If you're interested, drop us a line via the website or via sa...@bulletproof.net with a CC to myself. Cheers, Matt On 22/09/09 8:15 PM, Marty Andrews wrote: > I'm sure I've seen this conversation before, but a quick search of the >

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

2009-09-14 Thread Matt Allen
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Lachie wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Matthew Winter > wrote: > > > > If you come along to any of the ruby meetups in any of the cities, > you'll soon discover that although the "man on the street" might vary > in affect from town to town, the rubyis

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Hackfest is go!

2009-08-13 Thread Matt Allen
Anyone have a good Duck buttering recipe? Matta On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ben Schwarz wrote: > > Just a reminder that this is only a mere week away. So start buttering > up your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/duck this weekend! > Enjoy the sunshine this weekend. > > > - > > On Aug 7, 2:43 pm,

[rails-oceania] Fwd: LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf: Call for Presentations now open

2009-08-11 Thread Matt
-- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Neugebauer Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM Subject: Fwd: LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf: Call for Presentations now open To: matt...@gmail.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Neugebauer Date: Wed, Aug 12

[rails-oceania] Re: Invoicing apps

2009-08-10 Thread Matt Allen
: > Have Xero announced their bank integration? Which banks do they support > automatically? > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Matt Allen wrote: > >> Gday Mike; >> Since starting my new company in July, I have been using xero.com and to >> be honest, it makes acc

[rails-oceania] Re: Invoicing apps

2009-08-10 Thread Matt Allen
Gday Mike; Since starting my new company in July, I have been using xero.com and to be honest, it makes accounting *awesome*. They are a NZ based company and really great on the support if you need it. It's a full on accounting system that slurps in your bank records and does reconciliation autom

[rails-oceania] Re: rorosyd, next meetup this coming Tuesday, August 11

2009-08-10 Thread Matt Allen
> > // Lightning Talks > > - Martin Stannard : "RubyKaigi Reminiscence" > - Hugh Evans : "One-Nine Time" > > // Presentations > > - Matt Allen : "Making Firefox dance with Cucumber, Webrat and Selenium" > - Lachie Cox : "CouchDB"

[rails-oceania] Re: Quickie view question

2009-08-05 Thread Matt Allen
Hi Sven; I'd be pushing that down into the computer model. You'd be aiming for something like <%= h computer.last_login_displayname if computer.has_lastlogin? %> You could then test each of those methods independently. You could probably even remove the "if computer.has_lastlogin?" if the "last

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