From riddochc at gmail.com Wed Jan 10 19:08:25 2007 From: riddochc at gmail.com (Chris Riddoch) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:08:25 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Introductions Message-ID: <6efbd9b70701101608k4b11faadpbc048612e6e8992e@mail.gmail.com> Hi, folks. I'm the organizer for the Boulder Linux Users Group, and have been using ruby for a couple years now. It's my scripting language of choice, these days. For some time now, I've been working on (and been stalled, for various reasons) a rails-based system that would be suitable for managing information about meetings, presentations, speakers, announcements, and so forth, for BLUG. It somewhat surprises me that this hasn't been done in a generic way. I'm sure most of us have plenty of work on our hands, but if anybody wants a quick one-off weekend project, there's definitely a need. And just think, you'd be helping out bdrg.rubyforge.org, too. -- epistemological humility Chris Riddoch From bwg1974 at yahoo.com Wed Jan 10 21:25:46 2007 From: bwg1974 at yahoo.com (Brian Gibson) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:25:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Introductions Message-ID: <20070111022547.71094.qmail@web54502.mail.yahoo.com> Are you handing this off or opening this to make it a group project? If it's the latter I'm in. I'm in charge of enough projects at work/personal that I don't want to take the helm of another, but certainly wouldn't mind hopefully stretching myself in a way that work or personal projects don't. Working with others is an opportunity to learn from others. Brian Gibson ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Riddoch To: bdrg-members at rubyforge.org Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:08:25 PM Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Introductions Hi, folks. I'm the organizer for the Boulder Linux Users Group, and have been using ruby for a couple years now. It's my scripting language of choice, these days. For some time now, I've been working on (and been stalled, for various reasons) a rails-based system that would be suitable for managing information about meetings, presentations, speakers, announcements, and so forth, for BLUG. It somewhat surprises me that this hasn't been done in a generic way. I'm sure most of us have plenty of work on our hands, but if anybody wants a quick one-off weekend project, there's definitely a need. And just think, you'd be helping out bdrg.rubyforge.org, too. -- epistemological humility Chris Riddoch _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list Bdrg-members at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com From riddochc at gmail.com Thu Jan 11 00:00:08 2007 From: riddochc at gmail.com (Chris Riddoch) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:00:08 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Introductions In-Reply-To: <20070111022547.71094.qmail@web54502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20070111022547.71094.qmail@web54502.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <6efbd9b70701102100k5355580dne3b9a3ef1d2cfa63@mail.gmail.com> On 1/10/07, Brian Gibson wrote: > Are you handing this off or opening this to make it a group project? Some of both. I'm interested in heading such a project, designing, some testing and whatnot, but I can't do the coding. I've already got a suitable database schema worked up, but creating the actual models and views and such are more than I can do myself. I'm all for a group project! All I need is a couple pairs of hands and we'd make pretty short work of it. -- epistemological humility Chris Riddoch From mghaught at gmail.com Thu Jan 11 00:54:10 2007 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:54:10 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th Message-ID: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> Hello Fellow Rubyists, I hope the new year has been treating you well. After a holiday break from our monthly Ruby meeting, the Boulder-Denver Ruby Group will be meeting on Wednesday, January 17th at 6:30pm (directions below). Bob Cotton will kick things off with his talk, Testing Web Applications using Selenium and Ruby. Afterwards Jeremy Hinegardner will do a talk called "The Little Things" : The other 80% of your project. Lesson and tools used in the making of keybox and hosting it on rubyforge. Tim and I are still working on planning out the next several meetings and we have a couple slots open. Feel free to email either of us with your talk ideas as we'd like to hear how you might be using Ruby. If I can remember, I'll bring some more O'Reilly Ruby books to hand out. I look forward to seeing you all next week. Cheers, Marty Directions: Collective Intellect 1414 Pearl St., Suite 200 Boulder, CO 80302 It is located on the East end of the walking mall above a store called "Baby Doll" on the South side. The Collective Intellect name is on the door of a stairway leading up to the office. URL to google maps: http://rubyurl.com/QO7 From kevwil at gmail.com Thu Jan 11 11:33:58 2007 From: kevwil at gmail.com (Kevin Williams) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:33:58 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Introductions In-Reply-To: <6efbd9b70701102100k5355580dne3b9a3ef1d2cfa63@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070111022547.71094.qmail@web54502.mail.yahoo.com> <6efbd9b70701102100k5355580dne3b9a3ef1d2cfa63@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <683a886f0701110833o5665032bi10b65c512c80bc66@mail.gmail.com> I might be able to spare a few cycles in the evenings. On 1/10/07, Chris Riddoch wrote: > On 1/10/07, Brian Gibson wrote: > > Are you handing this off or opening this to make it a group project? > > Some of both. > > I'm interested in heading such a project, designing, some testing and > whatnot, but I can't do the coding. I've already got a suitable > database schema worked up, but creating the actual models and views > and such are more than I can do myself. > > I'm all for a group project! All I need is a couple pairs of hands and > we'd make pretty short work of it. > > -- > epistemological humility > Chris Riddoch > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > Bdrg-members at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > -- Cheers, Kevin Williams http://www.almostserio.us/ "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic." - Arthur C. Clarke From quent at pobox.com Thu Jan 18 02:56:20 2007 From: quent at pobox.com (Quent Johnson) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:56:20 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th In-Reply-To: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> References: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> I finally made it to a meeting! It was a good one too. Both talks were very interesting and full of useful chunks of info. Thanks Bob and Jeremy! Also, thanks Bruce for your impromptu presentation. Food! There was food! There are companies now that sponsor meetings *and* supply food? I thought that was a thing of the past. The snow is melting, roads are clearing. Things are trending up :-) Quent Marty Haught wrote: > Hello Fellow Rubyists, > > I hope the new year has been treating you well. After a holiday break > from our monthly Ruby meeting, the Boulder-Denver Ruby Group will be > meeting on Wednesday, January 17th at 6:30pm (directions below). Bob > Cotton will kick things off with his talk, Testing Web > Applications using Selenium and Ruby. Afterwards Jeremy Hinegardner > will do a talk called "The Little Things" : The other 80% of your > project. Lesson and tools used in the making of keybox and hosting it > on rubyforge. > > Tim and I are still working on planning out the next several meetings > and we have a couple slots open. Feel free to email either of us with > your talk ideas as we'd like to hear how you might be using Ruby. If > I can remember, I'll bring some more O'Reilly Ruby books to hand out. > I look forward to seeing you all next week. > > Cheers, > Marty > > Directions: > Collective Intellect > 1414 Pearl St., Suite 200 > Boulder, CO 80302 > > It is located on the East end of the walking mall above a store called > "Baby Doll" on the South side. The Collective Intellect name is on the > door of a stairway leading up to the office. > > URL to google maps: > http://rubyurl.com/QO7 From mghaught at gmail.com Thu Jan 18 12:33:19 2007 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:33:19 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th In-Reply-To: <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> References: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> Message-ID: <57f29e620701180933m277d092bm9f95962a770cbb7a@mail.gmail.com> On 1/18/07, Quent Johnson wrote: > I finally made it to a meeting! It was a good one too. Both talks were very > interesting and full of useful chunks of info. Thanks Bob and Jeremy! Also, > thanks Bruce for your impromptu presentation. > > Food! There was food! There are companies now that sponsor meetings *and* supply > food? I thought that was a thing of the past. The snow is melting, roads are > clearing. Things are trending up :-) Quent, Glad you could make it. We did have a good time last night so thanks to all the BDRG regulars and newcomers who made it last night. As for the food and space you can thank Collective Intellect and their generosity. They have been providing both a space for our meetings as well as food to keep us from getting hungry since last February. We also need to thank O'Reilly for the two books we gave away last night. I still have enough to do another round. Hopefully I can get some newer books in to continue to book hand-outs in March and beyond. One more thing I wanted to mention to the list was about the Mountain West Ruby Conference. It is a new annual regional Ruby conference being held this year in Salt Lake City on March 16th and 17th. It should be two days of interesting Ruby presentations, panels and discussions. I would like to get an informal count of anyone considering attending. More details such as the speaker list and the conference details should be finalized in the next few weeks. Please email me off list if you're considering it. Otherwise, we'll see most of you in February for our next meeting. It will happen on the usual 3rd Wednesday of the month, Feb 21st. Cheers, Marty From riddochc at gmail.com Thu Jan 18 16:34:32 2007 From: riddochc at gmail.com (Chris Riddoch) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:34:32 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th In-Reply-To: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> References: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6efbd9b70701181334k388b86cevcc69b04ef29b33bb@mail.gmail.com> On 1/10/07, Marty Haught wrote: > Hello Fellow Rubyists, > > I hope the new year has been treating you well. After a holiday break > from our monthly Ruby meeting, the Boulder-Denver Ruby Group will be > meeting on Wednesday, January 17th at 6:30pm (directions below). Blarg. My brain, once again, calculated the 17th as a Thursday before I looked more carefully at the actual announcement... today. I'm sorry I missed it, especially since it seems some folks were willing to talk about the project I had in mind. Next time, I guess. -- epistemological humility Chris Riddoch From bob.cotton at rallydev.com Thu Jan 18 17:12:25 2007 From: bob.cotton at rallydev.com (Bob Cotton) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:12:25 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Slides from my talk Message-ID: The slides from my talk are available here: http://www.testarchitecture.com/DBRUG_Selenium.pdf Two questions: 1. Jeremy, can you post your slides? 2. What was the name of the project that Bruce was talking about? Thanks for the great audience. - Bob -- Bob Cotton Test Architect -- Rally Software -- rallydev.com http://www.testarchitecture.com/blog From tony at clickcaster.com Thu Jan 18 17:16:16 2007 From: tony at clickcaster.com (Tony Arcieri) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:16:16 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Slides from my talk In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 1/18/07, Bob Cotton wrote: > > 2. What was the name of the project that Bruce was talking about? > Indi? (getindi.com) What I was really curious about was that ActionScript compiler tool. It sounded like it was called "Haxie" but I can't find anything on it. -- Tony Arcieri ClickCaster, Inc. tony at clickcaster.com (970) 232-4208 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/bdrg-members/attachments/20070118/af79f9fc/attachment.html From kevwil at gmail.com Thu Jan 18 17:32:21 2007 From: kevwil at gmail.com (Kevin Williams) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:32:21 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Slides from my talk In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <683a886f0701181432w3809eb67l5b8c40733dece6e1@mail.gmail.com> That would be http://haxe.org, the successor of http://www.mtasc.org. Anyone using Indi? I'm "kevwil" in Indi. On 1/18/07, Tony Arcieri wrote: > On 1/18/07, Bob Cotton wrote: > > 2. What was the name of the project that Bruce was talking about? > > > > Indi? (getindi.com) > > What I was really curious about was that ActionScript compiler tool. It > sounded like it was called "Haxie" but I can't find anything on it. > > -- > Tony Arcieri > ClickCaster, Inc. > tony at clickcaster.com > (970) 232-4208 > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > Bdrg-members at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members > > -- Cheers, Kevin Williams http://www.almostserio.us/ "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic." - Arthur C. Clarke From jeremy at hinegardner.org Thu Jan 18 13:29:52 2007 From: jeremy at hinegardner.org (Jeremy Hinegardner) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:29:52 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th In-Reply-To: <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> References: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> Message-ID: <20070118182952.GA11080@hinegardner.org> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:56:20AM -0700, Quent Johnson wrote: > I finally made it to a meeting! It was a good one too. Both talks were very > interesting and full of useful chunks of info. Thanks Bob and Jeremy! Also, > thanks Bruce for your impromptu presentation. Glad you could make it Quent. Most of the tools I mentioned last night are on the keybox credits page: (webgen, fyre, flowplayer, xvidcap, etc) - http://keybox.rubyforge.org/credits.html Some of the other items I mentioned: - OSWD - http://www.oswd.org - Open Web Design - http://openwebdesign.org - stock.xchng - http://www.sxc.hu - flickr createive commons licensed photos - http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced - Open Stock Photography - http://www.openstockphotography.org/ - ffmpeg - http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ enjoy, -jeremy -- ======================================================================== Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy at hinegardner.org From bruce at codefluency.com Thu Jan 18 19:49:34 2007 From: bruce at codefluency.com (Bruce Williams) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:49:34 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th In-Reply-To: <20070118182952.GA11080@hinegardner.org> References: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> <20070118182952.GA11080@hinegardner.org> Message-ID: Here's the link to Rich Kilmer's "indi" application I talked about last night (exactly how did I get wrangled into a presentation, again?), it's available for Windows and Mac OSX (Linux soon, I'm guessing): http://getindi.com Keep in mind, of course, that the application is in beta and is under heavy development, etc, etc. My "indi address" (account name) is "bruce" if anyone gets into it enough to create direct/group channels. --- Bruce Williams http://codefluency.com From bruce at codefluency.com Thu Jan 18 19:55:06 2007 From: bruce at codefluency.com (Bruce Williams) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:55:06 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] BDRG - January Meeting - Jan 17th In-Reply-To: References: <57f29e620701102154y59e6ad11l10c988835f2d7986@mail.gmail.com> <45AF2824.6040406@pobox.com> <20070118182952.GA11080@hinegardner.org> Message-ID: On 1/18/07, I wrote: > Linux soon, I'm guessing (to follow-up) Just talked to Rich, and he said the Linux version of indi will be released with the next beta release, 2 months from now. --- Bruce Williams http://codefluency.com From jeremy at hinegardner.org Mon Jan 22 20:36:45 2007 From: jeremy at hinegardner.org (Jeremy Hinegardner) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:36:45 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Slides from my talk In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20070123013645.GL11958@hinegardner.org> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:12:25PM -0700, Bob Cotton wrote: > 1. Jeremy, can you post your slides? http://www.hinegardner.org/presentations/the-little-things/the-little-things.pdf enjoy, -jeremy -- ======================================================================== Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy at hinegardner.org From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Jan 22 23:10:17 2007 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:10:17 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Mountain West RubyConf Registration open Message-ID: <57f29e620701222010m41343000y33f694e09eef6965@mail.gmail.com> Hi Guys, For those of you who didn't catch the announcement on Ruby talk earlier read Pat's post on the MountainWest RubyConf. Registration is now open. Cheers, Marty Wow! After months of hard work (and some wondering whether we were going to be able to pull this off) the MountainWest RubyConf is officially on. Head over to our site (*sigh*, yes, it's an ugly little placeholder) and register: http://mtnwestruby.org/ There are just 250 seats (at $50 each), and everything looks like great skiing before and after the conference, so head on over, sign up, and make your plans to be at the best Ruby Conference ever to hit Salt Lake City. -- thanks, -pate From ara.t.howard at noaa.gov Tue Jan 23 11:32:27 2007 From: ara.t.howard at noaa.gov (ara.t.howard at noaa.gov) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:32:27 -0700 (MST) Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby is in your garage Message-ID: hi all- those of you who know me won't be suprised to find out i've never bought a peice of computer equipment in my life. i've always hobbled along on yesterday's technology using free software and a little tlc. anyhow, i'm in the process of migrating codeforpeople http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby onto a new server. thing is, i don't yet have a new server. i thought a general shout out to this group might bring some old linux box that's been replaced with a shiny new mac or a laptop with a broken screen out of the woodworks to stand in for this stalwart of ruby lib servers. wherever it may be, it has a loving home awaiting on rack 3a in the server room - aka the wine box in my office closet. ping me on or offline if you have such a beast and would like to donate to the codeforpeople cause. cheers - and sorry for spamming you all! -a -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. - the dalai lama From jeremy at hinegardner.org Tue Jan 23 14:33:51 2007 From: jeremy at hinegardner.org (Jeremy Hinegardner) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:33:51 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Slides from my talk In-Reply-To: <20070123013645.GL11958@hinegardner.org> References: <20070123013645.GL11958@hinegardner.org> Message-ID: <20070123193351.GY11958@hinegardner.org> Bob also reminded me that I should also post the sample optparse.rb file that I was using. So here it is. http://www.hinegardner.org/presentations/the-little-things/optparse.rb enjoy, -jeremy -- ======================================================================== Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy at hinegardner.org On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:45PM -0700, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:12:25PM -0700, Bob Cotton wrote: > > 1. Jeremy, can you post your slides? > > http://www.hinegardner.org/presentations/the-little-things/the-little-things.pdf > > enjoy, > > -jeremy > > -- > ======================================================================== > Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy at hinegardner.org > > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > Bdrg-members at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members From david at collectiveintellect.com Wed Jan 24 23:36:48 2007 From: david at collectiveintellect.com (David Clements) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:36:48 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Collective Intellect is looking for a Junior Ruby/Rails developer Message-ID: <1B597386-A537-4EE1-9D07-709B013D9E77@collectiveintellect.com> Hey all, Collective Intellect is continuing to grow and we are looking for a Junior Ruby/Rails developer. It is a great opportunity to work with Ruby full-time for a well funded and growing start-up in downtown Boulder. Our current need is to help us round out the Web Application Development team . Currently we are creating internal and external apps and datafeeds leveraging Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, Linux and MySQL. We are really looking for someone who fits in well with the team and has strong development skills, so you don't need to know the whole stack however you will get the opportunity to learn it. Having a commitment to testing lends itself to a great fit as well. The office encourages healthy rivalries across the foosball table and ocassionally we grab the office Eldora passes and head up for a powder day. Dev team is all on Macbook Pro's and we have the desks by the windows! So shoot us an email and let us know what you story is and where you might fit in. My name is Dave Clements ( david at collectiveintellect.com) I am UI team lead, and Greg Greenstreet (greg at collectiveintellect.com) is the VP of engineering. Copy us both. Thanks and please pass this on to anyone you know who might be a good fit, Dave From pjones at pmade.org Wed Jan 31 23:19:00 2007 From: pjones at pmade.org (Peter Jones) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:19:00 -0700 Subject: [Boulder-Denver Ruby Group] Availability of Speaking Slots, and a Shameless Plug Message-ID: <28C4835D-8F02-4F6E-AC8D-DDFE5C96DCB5@pmade.org> First the shameless plug. I've just released a rails application that I'm very excited about called Devalot. It's a social networking app for software development projects akin to Trac or Collaboa. I have it running at http://software.pmade.com/ if you want to check it out. Now that I've released Devalot, I have a few extra cycles so I'd like to take on one of the next available speaking slots for the group meetings. I have a few topics in mind: * Rails Gotchas: Edge cases where the rails magic makes it hard to get things done * An introduction to plugins I haven't yet released for tagging, forms and interactive table generation * Random Ruby topics from the audience? Sounds fun to me. Peter Jones President, pmade inc. Contact: pjones at pmade.com | 303-669-2637 | aim - ttyaim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/bdrg-members/attachments/20070131/0479fe79/attachment-0001.html