Re: [rails-oceania] [JOB] Full Stack Ruby Developer - American Startup building a branch in Australia. Sydney CBD Based initially, Short travel to Hong Kong necessary to meet the team initially.

2017-03-08 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Agreed, $500/day is unrealistic for senior ruby engineer with the additional skillset required. At least $850 and potentially north of $1000 would be more realistic. It's a contractor's market over here, demand for tech talent is extremely high and there's very limited supply. On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 a

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne RORO talk topic?

2014-04-15 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
I'd love to hear about scaling teams *and* moving away from factories. Also, +1 for arranging to have them recorded, if possible. On 16 April 2014 14:47, Tom Adams wrote: > Agreed, being in Brissie I'd love to watch the scaling one. > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Rob Howard wrote: >> >>

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp Melbourne, June 21—24

2013-05-17 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Nah, at Rails Camp it would be something written in Go that compiles to asm.js. On 17 May 2013 17:00, Ben Taylor wrote: > BTW, I wonder if ballot is the wrong word? It's not really a vote. > > In this case, perhaps the one doing the voting is Rails itself. Making > this a true Rails Camp. > > A

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: RoRo Talks

2013-02-03 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Conclude vos ingeniosi bastardus On 4 February 2013 17:10, Mark Wotton wrote: > quod licet iovi, non licet bovi. > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:30 AM, freshto...@gmail.com > wrote: > > My angular.js talk made heavy use of reveal.js transitions. I am totally > > unasha

Re: [rails-oceania] Hacknight going ahead?

2013-01-28 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Forget hack night, if Godzilla were to attack I'd be taking the best Instagram photos ever. On 29 January 2013 11:01, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Looking at the BOM radar[1] there is no evidence of severe weather, or > Godzilla attack[2]. As such the hack night is still on. > > Even if the weather g

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: RoRo Talks

2013-01-22 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
My angular.js talk made heavy use of reveal.js transitions. I am totally unashamed ;) On 18 December 2012 17:52, Jon Rowe wrote: > The wiki[1] > > [1]https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/tips-for-giving-a-talk > > Jon Rowe > - > m...@jonrowe.co.uk > jonrowe.co.

Re: [rails-oceania] One database - multiple applications

2012-08-01 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
I also favour this approach. My first encounter with Ruby & ActiveRecord was exactly this. In 2006 I worked for a company with a suite of Java applications sitting on top of a common database, which was managed with hand-rolled raw SQL scripts. One of our sysadmins suggested we use ActiveRecord

Re: [rails-oceania] 0x10c Hack Night

2012-04-17 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
I was going to suggest this but it slipped my mind... awesome! On 16 April 2012 17:21, Josh Price wrote: > 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 Fa

Re: [rails-oceania] [Off topic] Snow hack in NZ in July

2012-02-28 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
I'm interested, but it'll be a month or two before I know for sure that I can commit to anything. I haven't been snowboarding for ages - it's an itch that needs to be scratched for sure. On 27 February 2012 15:20, Daryl Manning wrote: > OK, not really a hack event, but a number of devs at RCNZ m

Re: [rails-oceania] [Hack Day] Music Hack Day Sydney

2012-02-21 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
I'm in! On 22 February 2012 13:43, Lachlan Hardy wrote: > Wanna come play with Si and I? We're still trying to come up with an > idea as well, but whatever it is, he'll make it look pretty! > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM, freshto...@gmail.com > wrote:

Re: [rails-oceania] [Hack Day] Music Hack Day Sydney

2012-02-21 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
This sounds awesome. Would anyone like to buddy-up? I lack an idea but I can code :) -- James. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [rails-oceania] Freelancing for idiots

2012-02-19 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi Andrew, There's plenty of work out there, it's simply a matter of finding it. Of course, where you are based is a factor - not all companies are progressive/flexible enough to permit off-site work. I recommend that you give Steve Gilles a shout. He'd be quite happy to give you some free advic

Re: [rails-oceania] Parsing Ruby to an AST representation

2012-01-27 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Thanks Nicholas, that's precisely what I need. On 27 January 2012 19:02, Nicholas Jefferson wrote: > I want to take a Ruby expression (as a string) and parse it to an AST or >> sexp representation, make some modifications, then 'compile' it back to >> Ruby again. >> >> This must work on Ruby 1.9.

[rails-oceania] Parsing Ruby to an AST representation

2012-01-26 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi All, I want to take a Ruby expression (as a string) and parse it to an AST or sexp representation, make some modifications, then 'compile' it back to Ruby again. This must work on Ruby 1.9.2 +. So far ruby_parser looks like it will get me an sexp, but won't round trip. Any ideas? Thanks :)

Re: [rails-oceania] Flights to Railscamp NZ?

2012-01-16 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
It's now writable :) On 17 January 2012 12:34, Daryl Manning wrote: > Think you need to make the document writeable... I've got view only at mo. > > D > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:31 AM, freshto...@gmail.com < > freshto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>

Re: [rails-oceania] Flights to Railscamp NZ?

2012-01-16 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Here's the Google doc. I've yet to fill in my details (because I haven't booked flights yet) but will do ASAP. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M9g-RXjfIo_vWEwug5SUixtWtaJ5BmBpIWxGs-VELT8/edit On 17 January 2012 12:26, freshto...@gmail.com wrote: > Will post google

Re: [rails-oceania] Flights to Railscamp NZ?

2012-01-16 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Will post google doc here in a sec :) On 17 January 2012 12:19, Rimian Perkins wrote: > Hi, > > I would open a google doc but I'm in the labour ward waiting for a baby. > > Can someone do that pretty please? > > Cheers, > Rim > > > > > > On

Re: [rails-oceania] Flights to Railscamp NZ?

2012-01-16 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
I still haven't booked my flights so this would be good to know On 17 January 2012 07:23, Rimian Perkins wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a list of people and which flight s to Railscamp NZ? > > Hope all is well, > Rim > > > > > > - > Rimian Perkins > http://

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Australia

2011-12-13 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Fantastic work, guys! On 14 December 2011 08:59, Gabe Hollombe wrote: > Thanks for stepping up and getting this done, gents. We all owe you a big > bucket of praise. > > /me passes his bucket of praise to each of you. > > -g > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Non-blocking Callbacks

2011-12-01 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
1 at 4:09 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > > On 02/12/2011, at 3:47 PM, freshto...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi Dmytrii, > > On 2 December 2011 15:37, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > > > On 02/12/2011, at 3:16 PM, Dave Newman wrote: > > > You could use eventmachine. >

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Non-blocking Callbacks

2011-12-01 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi Dmytrii, On 2 December 2011 15:37, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > > On 02/12/2011, at 3:16 PM, Dave Newman wrote: > > > You could use eventmachine. > > > > EM uses Threads under the hood. So it's doesn't seem to be cheap. No - it works like node.js. It uses event-driven I/O based on epoll, whi

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

2011-10-21 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi Ben, This is not an experts-only event! All levels of experience and ability are welcome, and it's also language agnostic. Granted, most of the people there will be Ruby/Javascript/CoffeeScript web developers, but don't let that put you off :) Don't worry too much about whether or not you're a

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

2011-08-25 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
On 26 August 2011 16:28, Scott Harvey wrote: > > So you keep your Rails models as simply a data-access later, and move all > > domain logic to a mirrored set of classes that are easy to unit test in > > isolation? > > Yeah, that's how I understand it. > > I think naming the mirrored classes might

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

2011-08-25 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
So you keep your Rails models as simply a data-access later, and move all domain logic to a mirrored set of classes that are easy to unit test in isolation? On 26 August 2011 16:15, Scott Harvey wrote: > > However, due to Rail's tight coupling of the models and the database > layer I > > will co

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

2011-08-25 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Stubbing does not have to contradict the 'R'. Stubbing isolates of the code under test. This is great for unit tests, where a *unit' of code is the thing being tested. *Not* every layer under it. If one of my unit tests fails, it's because the code is broken *at the level that I'm testing*, not dee

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

2011-08-25 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
On 26 August 2011 15:03, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: 1. When rails 3 was released it could not boot even though all tests > passed. The reason was that boot-up process was stubbed (don't remember > exact details though). > [citation needed] (My main objection is with the word 'released', as if th

Re: [rails-oceania] Dirty data and lack of referential integrity

2011-08-12 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
ng to them would be table A left joined on table B where B.id is NULL or something like that! On 12 August 2011 17:45, freshto...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Daryl, > > I've had similar problems to solve in the past. The most robust way seems > to be to use SQL queries directly rath

Re: [rails-oceania] Dirty data and lack of referential integrity

2011-08-12 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi Daryl, I've had similar problems to solve in the past. The most robust way seems to be to use SQL queries directly rather than any munging scripts, but YMMV. Imagine you have two tables A and B and there is a relationship such that B contains a foreign key A_id supposedly pointing to records i

[rails-oceania] [off topic] MacBook Pro for sale

2011-08-11 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi all, I should have mentioned this at #rorosyd on Tuesday, but consumption of too many 'welcome back' beers meant I forgot... I have a 15" MacBook Pro for sale. Bought in July 2009, still has almost 1 year of AppleCare remaining. 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 15" glossy display, excellent condition. It

[rails-oceania] Rails Camp 9: How hard is it to return a form?

2011-05-16 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Keith, You should totally fill in the forms on behalf of all those that haven't returned it. Give them all a made-up and embarrassing condition, like severe adult-onset bed wetting or something. Or beer allergies. Whatever. Muah hah hah hah! James. On Monday, 16 May 2011, Keith Pitty wrote

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

2010-11-27 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
On 27 November 2010 18:51, Ivan Vanderbyl wrote: > Hi Mikel, > > I've been using Ubuntu Server as my deployment OS of choice for about 3 years > (before that CentOS), I find the community is very active and almost every > problem I've run into has been answered on a mailing list somewhere. > > I

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

2010-11-27 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
Hi Mikel, I've been using Ubuntu Server in production for the last four years or so, although I am sure Debian would be an almost identical experience for a server installation. I've familiar with administering it and every time I've had to use an RPM-based distro it just seems rough round the ed

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

2010-11-10 Thread freshto...@gmail.com
That's very generous Matt. I'm sure it'll get snapped up in a jiffy :) On 11 November 2010 11:27, Matt Allen wrote: > 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 pai