From james at graysoftinc.com Thu Apr 1 18:21:42 2010 From: james at graysoftinc.com (James Edward Gray II) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:21:42 -0500 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] [ANN] Red Dirt Ruby Conference - Early Bird Registration Extended Message-ID: <825463EC-5E00-4178-9479-8DFB3FB008EC@graysoftinc.com> We've extended early bird registration for the Red Dirt RubyConf until Monday. This is the second time we've scrounged up the funds to forward the cheaper price to you. Register now so you don't miss the lower rate! Full details below. James Edward Gray II Red Dirt Ruby Conference May 6th and 7th, 2010 Cox Convention Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma http://reddirtrubyconf.com Early Bird Registration Deadline - Monday April 5th - http://reddirtrubyconf.com/register_to_attend We are happy to announce a stellar lineup of speakers for the first Red Dirt Ruby Conference to be held May 6th and 7th, 2010 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Together with our training partners, we will have 25 leaders in the Ruby community from across the country that will be presenting the most up-to-date content centered in four of the most important areas of active development in the Ruby community, the Ruby language itself, the Ruby on Rails framework, NoSQL databases, and web servers and hosting. We are also very happy to announce that Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers and Jim Weirich of EdgeCase will participate as keynote speakers. The complete program is below. The Red Dirt Ruby Conference will be held in downtown Oklahoma City, which is conveniently located in both the center of the midwest and the nation itself, making it an ideal location for a national conference. It is within a days drive from Dallas, Kansas City, Austin, Saint Louis, Memphis, Albuquerque, and Denver. Convenient direct flights from cities on both coasts to the Will Rogers International Airport are also available. Early Bird Registration Deadline - Monday April 5th - http://reddirtrubyconf.com/register_to_attend Conference Program: May 6th Dave Thomas - The Pragmatic Programmers - Living here in hell?Ruby and the search for perfection Jim Weirich - EdgeCase - (Parenthetically Speaking) Matt Yoho - Hashrocket - Ruby and the Unix Philosophy Tim Gourley - Engine Yard - Sinatra: Microapps Running on Rack Charles Lowell - The Frontside Software, Inc - Javascript and Friends: Scripting Ruby with JavaScript Glenn Vanderburg - Relevance, Inc. - Design and Modularity in Ruby Neal Ford - ThoughtWorks - Rails in the Large: How We're Building One of the Largest Rails Apps Andr? Arko - Engine Yard - Bundler: Painless Dependency Management Marty Haught - Haught Codeworks - Active Record Makeover: Rekindle the relationship Ben Scofield - Viget Labs - With a Mighty Hammer Ryan King - Twitter - Scaling with Cassandra Kyle Banker - 10Gen - John Taber - Tiger Nassau - Data Driven Applications with Ruby and MongoDB Will Leinweber - merge.fm - CouchDB, Ruby, and You Jeremy Hinegardner - Chief Architect, Collective Intellect - Plain Old Tokyo Storage John Woodell - Google - JRuby on Google App Engine Fernand Galiana - liquidrail llc - Rumble in the Jungle... Jade Meskill - Integrum Technologies - Redis To The Resque Corey Donohoe - Teamsters - The Rise of DevOps Training Program: May 7th James Edward Gray II & Glenn Vanderburg - The Ruby Your Mother Warned You About Gregg Pollack - Envy Labs - The Rails 3 Ropes Course Sean Cribbs - Basho - Introduction to Riak Jim Mulholland & Jason Derrett - Squeejee - Living Among the Clouds From mghaught at gmail.com Fri Apr 2 22:21:23 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:21:23 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Colorado Ruby Conference Design In-Reply-To: References: <57f29e621003292019i20acffe4p28a6d0e96c857303@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hey Everyone, I want to thank you all for emailing me back on the need for a designer for the upcoming Ruby conference in Colorado. I got an overwhelming number of contacts to sort through. One of the hardest things to do, especially with design, is narrow down the selection to one out of many great talents. I also wanted to mention that already the conference is shaping up nicely. I think it's going to be excellent and I recommend as many local Ruby/Rails folks put it down on your calendars as a must attend event. I'm not sure how many of you go to software conferences but I love them and having one local is a great deal. The dates for the conference are October 6-9th. Yes, that's four days! Actually the conference will mostly be two days (7th and 8th) but there will be official activities on both the 6th and 9th. The location will be in Boulder at the Boulder Theater. There are several other cool tech events happening that week in Boulder so it's going to be a rocking time with lots of social events/parties to meet others both local and from around the world. I'll post back as soon as we have a name and website as well as a general schedule of when a call for proposals will open up, registration and an official event calendar. Thanks for the support and I hope you all take advantage of this opportunity. Cheers, Marty From eric-lists at pumavision.net Mon Apr 5 13:04:07 2010 From: eric-lists at pumavision.net (Eric Weidner) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:04:07 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Looking for Senior Engineer with Ruby/Rails Experience - Broomfield, CO Message-ID: *PLEASE RESPOND TO jobs at openlogic.com* We are looking to add a Senior Engineer with Ruby/Rails experience to our dynamic team. Ruby/Rails is the primary technology space, but a technologist with a varied background and the ability to work in other languages, especially Java, is desired. Knowledge of developing for a high volume, high data production environments is desired as well. Thanks, Eric *Job Title:* Senior Software Engineer - Java/Ruby/Rails *Job Category:* Technical/Software *About OpenLogic:* OpenLogic is a leading provider of open source solutions that enable enterprises to safely acquire, support, and control open source software. OpenLogic provides enterprises with a certified library of open source software that encompasses hundreds of the most popular open source packages. With the broadest open source coverage in the industry, OpenLogic offers indemnification, updates, and enterprise-grade technical support backed by the OpenLogic Expert Community. The OpenLogic solution also enforces policies for open source components -- reducing the risk and maximizing the cost savings associated with using open source software. OpenLogic uses agile methodologies and technologies to foster highly collaborative, dynamic, and flexible development teams. *Position Overview:* OpenLogic is seeking a talented and experienced software professional to join its dynamic development team in the role of Senior Software Engineer. The successful candidate is expected to live and breathe open source projects. The ideal candidate will have an enterprise software development background and technical leadership skills in Ruby/Rails and related technologies as well as Java/J2EE and related technologies. *Responsibilities:* - Creating products that allow our customers to select, deploy, and manage Open Source software. - Developing enterprise software that supports high user volume and scales to large organizations. - Routinely using many different development applications and frameworks for enterprise, web, and GUI developers. *Qualifications:* The ideal candidate will have technical leadership experience in a small software development organization as well as strong technical knowledge/skills and expertise in developing complex infrastructure, web-based software and enterprise software. Experience in several of the following is required: - Demonstrated expertise in leading the design and development of highly scalable enterprise solutions is a must. - Ruby/Rails expertise is required. - Agile/Scrum development experience is preferred. - Java/J2EE experience is a plus. - Full SDLC from development to production deployment - Database schema design and usage: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle - Key open source projects: Ruby, Rails, JRuby, Glassfish, etc. - Enterprise integration: Single Sign On, LDAP - Open source project and community participation a plus Excellent communication skills are essential. Requires BS in Computer Science or related field. Candidate should have at least 10 years professional software development experience and 2+ years of enterprise-level Ruby/Rails experience. A background in other programming languages and open source projects is highly desirable. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Apr 5 18:03:22 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:03:22 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - April Meeting - Apr 20th Message-ID: The April edition of Boulder Ruby is visiting Ruby?s little cousin, javascript but not just plain ol? javascript but jQuery. Tim Pease will be doing his talk, ?jQuery - Adventures in Javascript? for our viewing pleasure. Furthermore, Chargify is sponsoring our meeting so we?ll have some food and beer available just before the meeting to celebrate. 7pm is our usual start but we?ll have the pre party there around 6:30pm. http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2010/04/01/april-2010/ We'll also have an update on the latest with the Ruby conference in the works for this fall. I look forward to seeing you all out at the meeting. Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org From brose at chargify.com Fri Apr 9 21:12:01 2010 From: brose at chargify.com (Brian Rose) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:12:01 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Chargify team visiting Denver and Boulder Message-ID: <115C4246-107A-4011-BBCA-FEC2F405AB09@chargify.com> Hi all, Next week, the Chargify team will be working in the Denver area. If you are interested in grabbing lunch with us or picking our brains about payment solutions, please let me know. We will be in LoDo most of the week. If there is interest, we would be very happy to organize a Chargify dinner one night downtown. Let me know if you are interested. On Tuesday, April 13, the Chargify team will be visiting TechStars in Boulder in the morning, taking a tour of the New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins at 4:30pm, and grabbing dinner in Boulder around 7pm for anyone who is interested (location TBD). If you would like to join us on the tour, please let me know ASAP. We have several tickets still available. If you are interested in joining us for dinner, please respond with your name and Twitter username so that we can notify you once we've picked a restaurant. If you have any restaurant recommendations, those are certainly welcome as well. Thanks, and we hope to see you next week! Brian Rose Web Applications Developer, Chargify.com From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Apr 12 15:47:32 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:47:32 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] RailsConf discount Message-ID: Hey Everyone, I probably should have sent this out earlier but our group gets a 15% discount off RailsConf registrations. So if any of you are thinking of going and don't have a better discount code, feel free to use this. RailsConf The Official Event for the Ruby on Rails Community Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and Ruby Central June 7-10, 2010 Baltimore, MD The user group discount is 15% code is RC10USRG. http://conferences.oreilly.com/rails/ Cheers, Marty From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Apr 19 23:44:55 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:44:55 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - April Meeting Reminder - Apr 20th Message-ID: Here's the next day reminder for our April meeting. We're holding it Tuesday April 20th. We have Jalino's pizza and beer provided by Chargify starting at 6:30pm. The usual meeting will begin some time after 7pm. The meeting's presentation is via Tim Pease on "jQuery ? Adventures in Javascript". I look forward to seeing you all there. Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org Directions: Collective Intellect 1433 Pearl St, Suite 200 Boulder, CO 80302 The office is behind and above Starbucks on Pearl. The entrance is on Pearl Street just east of Starbucks, behind the statue of the wolf. Come straight through all the doors. We meet on the second floor so take the elevator or if the doors are open, the stairway inside Collective Intellect. URL to google maps: http://rubyurl.com/pKfB From james at graysoftinc.com Tue Apr 20 21:19:33 2010 From: james at graysoftinc.com (James Edward Gray II) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:19:33 -0500 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] [ANN] Red Dirt Registration Ending Message-ID: Rubyists: Friday is the last day for normal registration to the Red Dirt RubyConf. We have everything locked-in and it's going to be an awesome event. Here are just a handful of the planned highlights: * Keynote speeches from Jim Weirich and Dave Thomas * Our themed program including Rails 3, NoSQL, and more * Panel discussions with all of the speakers * Expert trainings for the same topics the following day * Scaling presentations from Twitter and Google * Live recordings of The Changelog and Ruby 5 podcasts * A huge hackfest * An awesome location in Oklahoma City's "Bricktown" * Good food (Weird, right?) As you can see, we have the perfect tech storm planned. We're filling up, but we've planned carefully to make the best possible use of space and we can still squeeze some bodies in. You could still be one of those bodies: http://reddirtrubyconf.com/register_to_attend James Edward Gray II