From mgehard at pivotallabs.com Thu Sep 2 14:19:39 2010 From: mgehard at pivotallabs.com (Mike Gehard) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:19:39 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Stay with a local program for Moutain.rb conference Message-ID: Greetings all, We are still looking for people in the Boulder area that have extra space available to host a visiting Rubyist for the Mountainrb conference's (http://mountainrb.com) stay with a local program. Please let me know if you are interested in hosting an out of town guest for the conference or if you are an out of town guest that would like to stay with a local. Really the only qualification is that it is easy to get from your place to downtown Boulder, where the conference events will be held, so it is easy for the out of town guests to get to/from the conference. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Gehard Pivotal Labs Boulder (970) 471-9835 | (303) 857-5980 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mghaught at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 18:52:44 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:52:44 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] mountain.rb update Message-ID: Hey Everyone, Things have come a long way since the seeds of mountain.rb were planted in the spring. It's been a ton of work but I've enjoyed it thoroughly (the loss of billable hours, not so much). I just pushed another update to the site including more wonderful sponsors and some much needed design love on the site. The most exciting update is that we'll be doing a charity workshop on Ruby and Ruby on Rails on Wednesday the 6th at Chautauqua. It'll start at 9am and go until 4pm. Lunch will be provided. We're still ironing out all the details but essentially it'll be geared towards those wanting to learn Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Those will light experience will also benefit from attending as well. Space will be limited. I will post more on it once we've finalized the workshop. It'll be a great way to kick off the conference as well as support local charities. Early bird pricing ends on Monday the 6th at 11:59pm. Please go and register if you haven't already. http://mountainrb.com/register Though I may be a bit biased, I think this conference is going to be awesome. We've got top notch Rubyists flying in from around the world to spend half a week in Colorado. The mix of sessions both on the art and craft of software and technical Ruby is compelling. I'm getting creative with the session format so expect to see some new ideas from your typical conference. The biggest focus of the conference format is on community. I'm structuring ample time between sessions so you can mingle with fellow attendees and speakers. We're also working on a full day schedule of events both in the Boulder Theater and around downtown Boulder that will give you more social time as well as hackfests. Oh, and we're planning some really fun parties after hours too. I wanted this conference to stimulate the mind, get people talking and have a great time with their fellow Rubyists. A few people have asked me why I decided to go forward with the conference. The main answer is I wanted to bring a top notch Ruby conference to Colorado so our vibrant Ruby community here could attend without getting on a plane. Registrations have been a bit sluggish and I'm not sure if that's because there's little interest or if folks are just procrastinating. I won't lie and tell you the workload has gone well beyond what I expected. Whether I decide to do this again next year will hinge on the sort of interest there is from the local community. So please don't miss this golden opportunity to come hang out with your fellow Rubyists to learn and have a great time. If you know you're not coming, I'd love to hear your feedback on why not (offlist please). I know I can't make an event for everyone but it's always healthy to hear any criticisms. Cheers, Marty Haught @mountainrb http://mountainrb.com From mghaught at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 19:24:23 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:24:23 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - September Meeting - Sep 21st Message-ID: I wanted to announce the details of our September meeting before we got too far into the month. It'll be on Tuesday, September 21st at 7pm in the Everlater/Gnip space. We have two new speakers presenting at the meeting. Jeff Sutherland will give a ?Easy as Pie Charts and Reports? talk. High charts, ruport and more will be covered to build non-flash/crazy SQL to build your nice visual reports. Following that Gerred Dillon will present on ?Node.js and You?. Should be a fun night so mark your calendars. Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org From prakblr at yahoo.com Tue Sep 7 00:30:04 2010 From: prakblr at yahoo.com (Prakash N Murthy) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] A couple of goodies from Ruby Hoedown in Nashville Message-ID: <292639.3707.qm@web65401.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Hi All,? Hope the wildfire close to Boulder hasn't caused too much damage.? I was at the?Ruby Hoedown?in Nashville last week; it was a well-ogranized conference, and I had a great time. There are a couple of awesome items from this conference that I wanted to share with fellow rubyists:?Jim Weirich performed 'Has Anyone Seen My Code' ?- the song he wrote as part of his Why-Day celebrations; in case you haven't seen it yet, check out?this one minute video on YouTube.?Glenn Vandenburg delivered a masterful keynote to end Ruby Hoedown, the title of his talk being ' Real Software Engineering'. It was an amazing talk exploring the nature of software engineering, and is a must for every software engineer. While the keynote at Ruby Hoedown wasn't recorded, GLV had given the same talk at the Lone Star Ruby Conference the previous week; and?the video of that talk is available online. It is 52 minutes long; time spent watching it will be an hour well spent!I have put more notes and links to talks on?my blog; do check it out if time permits.? Finally, hope you folks took advantage of the early bird pricing which ends today, and signed up for our very own?Mountain Ruby?conference!? --? Cheers, Prakash N Murthy (347) 228 3993 http://twitter.com/_prakash -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mghaught at gmail.com Tue Sep 7 23:08:04 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:08:04 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Fwd: Check Out JRubyConf Updates! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Everyone, Bryna over at Engine Yard asked if I'd pass this along to the group to mention that latest with JRubyConf that is happening a little less than a month from now in Ohio. Note our very own Jeremy Hinegardner will be speaking. Cheers, Marty ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bryna McCarty Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:38 PM Subject: Check Out JRubyConf Updates! To: Marty Haught Hello Marty, I?m hoping you and your user group would like to know what the final speaker list for?JRubyConf 2010?in Columbus, OH, October 1-3 has shaped up! We?re pleased to be providing a great list following industry experts who will speak on the following and topics: Presenters & Topics: Glenn Vanderburg: ?Real Software Engineering Jim Weirich: ?Why Don't We Do It Like This? Chad Fowler and Rich Kilmer: ?So You Think You Need a Rewrite? Keavy McMinn: Must. Try. Harder. Jeremy Hinegardner: Extending JRuby Brian Swan: Mocks Suck (and what to do about it) Bernerd Schaefer: Bringing Java to the Ruby World David Bock: JRuby - Making the World Safe For Democracy Nick Sieger, Matt Yoho, and Marc Peabody: JRuby and Rails from the Ground Up Chris Nelson and Dog Alcorn: Digging into Rails 3 Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien: Ruby Koans (Introduction to Ruby) We?re also have a special $50 discount for you and your group members ? simply use the code?USERGROUP2010, or register at: http://jrubyconf2010.eventbrite.com/?discount=USERGROUP2010 Finally, Amazon Web Services will also be sponsoring a special whisky-tasting event for all attendees to enjoy! If you?re a fan of Ruby, Java or JRuby, we?d welcome your help spreading the word about JRubyConf 2010 and hope to see you there! Thanks, Bryna -- Bryna McCarty bmccarty at engineyard.com From ara.t.howard at gmail.com Fri Sep 10 11:33:11 2010 From: ara.t.howard at gmail.com (ara.t.howard) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:33:11 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] if you release gems you need to know about this Message-ID: this problem has existed ever since gemcutter decided that multi-master syncing was just something one would whip up in an afternoon. pass it on: http://help.rubygems.org/discussions/problems/318-original-sync-to-rubyforge-never-worked-what-now food for thought the next time one is thinking "oh this will be easy to write over in ruby!" -- -a From mghaught at gmail.com Tue Sep 14 19:12:44 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:12:44 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Rails Quickstart workshop Message-ID: Hey Everyone, I finally posted the details on the charity workshop for learning Rails in a day. It's part of the mountain.rb Rubyfest in Boulder on October 6th. bit.ly/d8RKAZ I'd encourage you tell anyone you know that is interested in Rails but hasn't really done much with it yet. Space will be limited so once we open registration it'll go fast. Also, we're looking for a few experienced Rails devs to volunteer as assistants. Please email me offlist if you are willing to help out from 9am to 4pm. Cheers, Marty From prakblr at yahoo.com Thu Sep 16 01:05:59 2010 From: prakblr at yahoo.com (Prakash N Murthy) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Fwd: Seeking Freelance Rails Developer Message-ID: <902688.82390.qm@web65404.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> For the Rails developers in Boulder Ruby group who haven't subscribed to Derailed mailing list. (There must be a couple of people like that, no?) Cheers, Prakash N Murthy (347) 228 3993 http://twitter.com/_prakash ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Dorkin Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM Subject: Seeking Freelance Rails Developer To: DeRailed - Denver Rails UG We're hiring a freelance Developer for BiggerPockets.com, a Denver- based national real estate investing platform (57,000 members/ 1,000,000 monthly page views) built on Ruby on Rails. We're looking for someone who has coding skills, creativity, reliability, the ability to keep deadlines, a strong work ethic, and the willingness to share their opinions. We're looking for someone who can provide between 20 - 30 hours for this contract telecommute position. (will consider as little as 10 hrs as well) Required Skills: Your duties will be to develop, design, test and deploy new features for the website (both front and back end) You will need to be well versed in the technologies that comprise the environment hosting the app (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Memcached, Phusion Passenger / mod_rails). Familiarity with Capistrano, Git, GitHub, SVN, Unfuddle, GetExceptional, NewRelic You will need to be able to work on any side of the application, including UI Desired skills: Experience in managing servers and handling scalability CSS (comfortable chopping a PSD) HTML/Javascript/AJAX/MySQL Experience with scripting Understanding of web based protocols such as HTTP, SSL, SSH, SFTP Strong database skills (creation, optiimization, etc.) Knowledge of important protocols such as OAuth Knowledge of APIs - both implementation and creation ********** If you're interested, please provide us with a resume, cover letter, your hourly desired rate, a list of any URL's you've worked on (including your role), and any code (open source) that is not protected by NDA so we can evaluate your skills (Github account URL, please). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DeRailed - Denver Rails UG" group. 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Zencoder, http://zencoder.com, is generously sponsoring the meeting, providing awesome local craft beer. Check them out if you need video encoding for your application. Cheers, Marty http://boulderruby.org Directions: Gnip/Everlater 1601 Pearl St Boulder, CO 80302 Use the Pearl St entrance and head upstairs. The door is just between Foolish Craigs and Aji and to the east of the NE corner of 16th and Pearl. URL to google maps: http://bit.ly/bv4cvN From ryan at angilly.com Tue Sep 21 14:18:01 2010 From: ryan at angilly.com (Ryan Angilly) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:18:01 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Off Topic - Looking to join a Summit county ski house Message-ID: Hey guys, This is off topic, but I just moved here a couple months ago, and I'm looking to get into a ski house in Summit county this winter. I'm 27, not married, a pretty good skier, and have been known to party when the opportunity presents itself. 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Named Scopes - http://paulsturgess.co.uk/articles/show/90-using-named-scopes-named_scope-in-ruby-on-rails Ruport - http://www.rubyreports.org/ruport.html High Charts - http://www.highcharts.com/ Pie High Gem - http://rubygems.org/gems/pie-high - Jeff Sutherland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jefferey.sutherland at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 14:08:04 2010 From: jefferey.sutherland at gmail.com (Jefferey Sutherland) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:08:04 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Reports on Rails Links In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: My bad. Slides are located at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11413259/Reports_on_Rails.pdf. - Jeff On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Justin Smestad wrote: > Any slides? > > > Regards, > Justin Smestad > ------------------------------ > justin.smestad at gmail.com > > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Jefferey Sutherland < > jefferey.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone: >> >> Thanks for the invitation to speak last night. 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URL: From mghaught at gmail.com Thu Sep 23 11:27:22 2010 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:27:22 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] mountain.rb Charity Rails Workshop open Message-ID: Hey All, I just opened registration for mountain.rb's charity Rails workshop. Please pass this along to anyone you know that's interested in Ruby or Rails but doesn't have much for experience. Space is limited so don't delay or else there won't be room. http://mountainrb.com/workshop Cheers, Marty