Malaysia.rb January 2008 Meetup

[Kamal Fariz]

Hi all,

Malaysia.rb kicks off 2008 with a bang! The January 2008 Meetup is
happening this Thursday and it's gonna seriously rock. Four reasons
why you shouldn't miss this meetup:

1. Meeting room with AV facilities and FOOD - MDEC has graciously
stepped up to sponsor this month's location.
2. Special guest, Colin Wong, a Malaysian ex-Googler turned investor.
Look out for his talk details below.
3. Free pre-meetup PeepCode screening of "Rails From Scratch Part I"
for early birds
4. Two free PeepCode episodes to be won

When:
Thursday, January 17th 2008, 8:00PM

Agenda:
7:00 - 8:00pm Pre-meetup PeepCode screening
8:00 - 8:15pm Opening by the Organizer
8:15 - 8:45pm "From Batu Gajah to Mountain View and Beyond" - Colin Wong
8:45 - 9:15pm "Rails Fragment Caching with Interlock" - Kamal Fariz
9:15 - 9:35pm Open Lightning Talks
9:35 - 9:45pm PeepCode episode lucky draw and close

Cost:
Free. No registration required, just come right in, have a seat, and
join the crowd. Invite your friends.

Contact:
kamal...@gmail.com
+60123099143

Where:
TBC pending final details - most likely Bintang Hotel at The Curve.
Will update ASAP.

Regards,
Kamal

[Kamal Fariz]

BTW, are there any topics you guys want to be covered? Just throw in
your suggestions. Then we'll try to match the topics to people willing
to present it either as a formal presentation or lightning talk at
this or future meetups.

Some potential topics:
- Ruby 1.9
- Rubinius
- Merb
- Capistrano

C'mon, you guys can do better than the list above. Let's hear 'em.

Regards,
kamal

[Ezwan Aizat Abdullah Faiz]

On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Kamal Fariz wrote:

>
> BTW, are there any topics you guys want to be covered? Just throw in
> your suggestions. Then we'll try to match the topics to people
> willing to present it either as a formal presentation or lightning
> talk at this or future meetups.
>
> Some potential topics:
> - Ruby 1.9
> - Rubinius
> - Merb

- I can do this
>
> - Capistrano
DataMapper
- I can do this as well

Sequel
Thin (HTTP Daemon)
Shoes

Regards,
Aizat

http://aizatto.com/ - sleep to the power of z -_-;^zzz

[tslim]

I hope it's recorded or something. So we over here at Sabah can keep
up to date with the stuff presented. hehe

On Jan 13, 11:13 pm, Ezwan Aizat Abdullah Faiz <aizat.f...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://aizatto.com/- sleep to the power of z -_-;^zzz

[Kamal Fariz]

> I hope it's recorded or something. So we over here at Sabah can keep
> up to date with the stuff presented. hehe

Currently it's not, but that's a damn fine suggestion. Anybody willing
to lug their videocam and tripod? We'll convert it and post it to
YouTube or something.

Regards,
Kamal

[Namor]

Yay! That would be cool

[Kamal Fariz]

Just a quick note that we have confirmed PJ Hilton as the location of
the January meetup. I'd like to kindly request that you RSVP your
attendance by replying to this thread (or if you are on Facebook,
confirm it there) so that we can properly estimate the number of
people coming.

If you are inviting a friend/friends do reply to this thread with the
number of people. Thanks.

Regards,
kamal

[Hwa, Yang Jerng]

I'd like to sign up 2 people, and tentatively a 3rd as well.

 

-yj

 

--
hwa yang jerng kuala lumpur 6016 235 2931

[Kamal Fariz]

Thanks Jerng.

Confirmed Attending:
- Alan Khi Kok Kin
- Arie Kusuma Atmaja
- Hwa Yang Jerng + 1
- Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin
- Kegan Gan
- Khailee Ng
- Paco Chin
- Rajaseelan Ganeswaran
- Saimer Moo

On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Hwa, Yang Jerng wrote:

> I'd like to sign up 2 people, and tentatively a 3rd as well.
>
> -yj

Regards,
Kamal

[Per...@gmail.com]

its Thursday T_T , work time cant apply leave from my boss T_T i hope
you guys can record this presentation and upload it on google video.

[Amir]

Please put my name Amir Haris

[Sum Wai]

I sign up for myself first, I'll ask whether any of my friends going

[Kamal Fariz]

Confirmed Attending:
1. Alan Khi Kok Kin
2. Arie Kusuma Atmaja
3. Hwa Yang Jerng + 1
4. Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin
5. Kegan Gan
6. Khailee Ng
7. Paco Chin
8. Rajaseelan Ganeswaran
9. Saimer Moo
10. Colin Wong
11. Jin Shien Ling
12. Amir Haris
13. Low Sum Wai
14. Nicolas Yip
15. Roslan Bakri Zakaria
16. Roni Shah Mustapha

Regards,
Kamal

[Saimer Moo]

+1 for my friend. Thanks. :)

--
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Best regards,
Saimer Moo

[Mika]

Me + 2

Cheers,

Mika

On Jan 15, 10:01 am, "Saimer Moo" <saimer....@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for my friend. Thanks. :)
>

[Kamal Fariz]

Thanks Saimer, Mika.

Confirmed Attending:
1. Alan Khi Kok Kin
2. Arie Kusuma Atmaja
3. Hwa Yang Jerng + 1
4. Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin
5. Kegan Gan
6. Khailee Ng
7. Paco Chin
8. Rajaseelan Ganeswaran

9. Saimer Moo + 1

10. Colin Wong
11. Jin Shien Ling
12. Amir Haris
13. Low Sum Wai
14. Nicolas Yip
15. Roslan Bakri Zakaria
16. Roni Shah Mustapha

17. Mika Somero + 2

Total so far: 21

> Me + 2
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mika
>
> On Jan 15, 10:01 am, "Saimer Moo" <saimer....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +1 for my friend. Thanks. :)
>>

Regards,
Kamal

[Ang Kian Meng]

Confirmed Attending:
1. Alan Khi Kok Kin
2. Arie Kusuma Atmaja
3. Hwa Yang Jerng + 1
4. Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin
5. Kegan Gan
6. Khailee Ng
7. Paco Chin
8. Rajaseelan Ganeswaran
9. Saimer Moo + 1
10. Colin Wong
11. Jin Shien Ling
12. Amir Haris
13. Low Sum Wai
14. Nicolas Yip
15. Roslan Bakri Zakaria
16. Roni Shah Mustapha
17. Mika Somero + 2

18. Ang Kian Meng

--
palm closed,
kian meng

[Kamal Fariz]

Confirmed Attending:
1. Alan Khi Kok Kin
2. Arie Kusuma Atmaja
3. Hwa Yang Jerng + 1
4. Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin
5. Kegan Gan
6. Khailee Ng
7. Paco Chin
8. Rajaseelan Ganeswaran
9. Saimer Moo + 1
10. Colin Wong
11. Jin Shien Ling
12. Amir Haris
13. Low Sum Wai
14. Nicolas Yip
15. Roslan Bakri Zakaria
16. Roni Shah Mustapha
17. Mika Somero + 2

18. Ang Kian Meng
19. Richard Azlan Abas
20. Aslak Gronflaten

Total so far: 24

Regards,
Kamal

[Kamal Fariz]

Presentation updates:

- Syed Talat Fakhri, MindValley's Mathematician, will take over the
2nd main presentation slot with an engaging talk on using higher
mathematics in your web 2.0 application. Bring your CRUD app to the
next level with Machine Learning with Support Vector Machines,
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) aka Latent Semantic Indexing and
clustering. I just made up that description, but those were the stuff
along the lines what we talked about over GTalk.

- Lightning Talk: Aslak Gronflaten will introduce Erlang to the
unwashed Ruby masses in his Lightning Talk

- Lightning Talk: Khailee will showcase BunchOut (http://kl.bunchout.com/
) and why Malaysia.rb members need to go out more often ;) Oh, and
maybe how a designer person like himself worked with Rails developers

- Lightning Talk: I will be doing a quick demo on how to make your
Rails app bloody fast with the help of memcache and the Interlock plugin

21. Stanley Chong + 1
22. Prashant Nadarajan
23. Tan Boon Teck
24. Lim Chee Aun
25. Andi Suswandi
26. Syed Talat Fakhri
27. Mohd Aidid

Total so far: 31

Regards,
Kamal

[Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz]

Lights, camera, action?

Can anyone bring a video camera?  Can MDEC sponsor one?

Regards,

Aizat

[Amir]

Hi,

Kamal can i put another +2 person? If yes please put the additional 2
person under my name Amir Haris. TQ

[Kamal Fariz]

Add +2 for Amir Haris

Confirmed Attending:
1. Alan Khi Kok Kin
2. Arie Kusuma Atmaja
3. Hwa Yang Jerng + 1
4. Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin
5. Kegan Gan
6. Khailee Ng
7. Paco Chin
8. Rajaseelan Ganeswaran
9. Saimer Moo + 1
10. Colin Wong
11. Jin Shien Ling

12. Amir Haris + 2

13. Low Sum Wai
14. Nicolas Yip
15. Roslan Bakri Zakaria
16. Roni Shah Mustapha
17. Mika Somero + 2
18. Ang Kian Meng
19. Richard Azlan Abas
20. Aslak Gronflaten
21. Stanley Chong + 1
22. Prashant Nadarajan
23. Tan Boon Teck
24. Lim Chee Aun
25. Andi Suswandi
26. Syed Talat Fakhri
27. Mohd Aidid

Total so far: 33

[Kamal Fariz]

Reminder, the meetup is today!

There will be a pre-meetup screening of a screencast that will show
you how to get started with Rails, beginning at 7 PM. Ideal for
newcomers.

Bring your namecard or scribble your name and email on a piece of
paper to enter into the lucky draw.

Oh, and we'll have a video camera to record the meetup, thanks to
Richard Azlan for lending it to us. Yay!

More info on where in PJ Hilton:
- Anggerik Suite 1 & 2, 2nd Floor, East Wing
- Go past the cafe to get to the elevator

28. Ashraf
29. Sam Ng
30. Asyraf Abdul Rahman

Total so far: 37

[Namor]

Wow 37 people :)

Hahha I really hope i could be there personally.. But at least there's
gonna be a video!

[Kamal Fariz]

Thanks everyone for coming. Personal thanks to the speakers: Colin,
Talat, Khailee and Aslak. Big up to the Technopreneur Development arm
of MDEC for hosting us. Respect.

I'll get the videos up as soon as possible, and also the presentation
slides.

If you blog about the event and/or took photos, please link it up.

Nor' Aini and Roni, you guys won yourselves a free PeepCode episode
each! Next month, I'll have more prizes to give away. If you want to
sponsor a prize, hit me up.

Regards,
kamal

Regards,
Kamal

[Hwa, Yang Jerng]

Great job guys. It was good to listen to you speak about the things you're passionate about.

My own work so far is mostly about quantifying human experience, and doing cultural anthropology - I like to figure out how people are programmed. There's a list of topics I like to discuss, in case anyone wants to talk more about math :) : http://hwayangjerng.blogspot.com

-yj

[Kamal Fariz]

Video of Talat's talk is now available at Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3475006785197550922&hl=en

Enjoy!

Regards,
kamal

p/s: I've got second half of Colin's talk and first half of Khailee's
talk. Converting ..

Regards,
Kamal

[Salocin Dot TEN (www.salocinten.bur.st)]

www.salocinten.info/node/94

[Namor]

Waiting patiently for the videos :)

[Kamal Fariz]

The videos are up: see them at my blog: http://blog.bitfluent.com

Regards,
Kamal

[Kamal Fariz]

If anybody is interested to be as leet as Talat :), check out this
blog entry which lists a bunch of other data processing techniques.

http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2008/01/pagerank-new-addition-to-your-data.html

Go forth and Wikipedia each of them :)

Regards,
Kamal