pdxruby Google Group

Re: [pdxruby] MEETING: Tuesday, January 5th, 7pm, RHT

geek...@gmail.com (Sam Livingston-Gray) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:23:33 UT

New slogan! "Ruby: She'll eat your eye out!" (Also known as "garbage collection.")
[Note for the voices outside my head: this references [link] ]
-Sam

Re: [pdxruby] MEETING: Tuesday, January 5th, 7pm, RHT

jdcohen...@gmail.com (Joseph Cohen) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:19:13 UT

Should there be a mascot? See here:
[link]

Re: [pdxruby] MEETING: Tuesday, January 5th, 7pm, RHT

geek...@gmail.com (Sam Livingston-Gray) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:47:05 UT

Sure. Just as soon as you explain to me what a "DSL API" is. Do you mean you want a compare/contrast on:
- so-called "internal" vs "external" DSLs, or
- Ruby-style block abuse vs. a more Java-like API, or
- abused blocks that take arguments vs. abused blocks that use instance_eval? (the latter, btw, is what I picked; the hack I used takes advantage of instance_eval.)

Re: [pdxruby] MEETING: Tuesday, January 5th, 7pm, RHT

i...@pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:13:13 UT

This is a useful technique, hope you can come to the meeting to present it.
And for making that declaration, you are also tasked with explaining at
the meeting how a DSL API is different than a non-DSL API and what the
pros/cons of each option are. :D
-igal

Re: [pdxruby] MEETING: Tuesday, January 5th, 7pm, RHT

geek...@gmail.com (Sam Livingston-Gray) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:57:52 UT

I may or may not be able to make it. But, if I do, I'd be happy to talk about a moderately clever technique I used to build what Rubyists call an "internal DSL"*, which allows methods to be defined in one block and invoked from child blocks.
-Sam
* (and everyone else just calls "an API")

MEETING: Tuesday, January 5th, 7pm, RHT

i...@pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:39:38 UT

The next Ruby Brigade meeting is coming soon. If you have a suggestion for a technical talk, discussion topic, questions you want answered, a group activity to do, etc ... please reply and prepare. You're also welcome to post suggestions at any time during the month.
I'd be particularly happy if we could get more 3-10 minute talks that quickly and casually showcase a method, tool, library or coding technique.

Re: [pdxruby] Contract to Hire Ruby on Rails Developer in Portland, OR

gmhaw...@gmail.com (Maher Hawash) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:52:08 UT

Hi Kendall,
Thank you for the information. I am interested in pursuing this
opportunity and explore
the potential for a match. I am specially interested in the start up
aspect of this
opportunity.
I have attached my resume for consideration. I live in Portland, and am open
for a meeting next week. I have the Ruby on Rails, Javascript experience and

Contract to Hire Ruby on Rails Developer in Portland, OR

kend...@atsigroup.com (KendallATSI) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:42:20 UT

Looking for a Ruby on Rails Developer open to working in a start up
environment. The client office is located in downtown Portland. Must
be local and available to interact with product development team.
This role will be the sole developer working on a Restaurant POS
system utilizing cloud computing (SAAS). Besides Ruby on Rails, must

[Fwd: PDXScala Meeting, Thursday 7PM, 12/17 @ AboutUs]

i...@pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:48:44 UT

Dear pdxruby and pdxfunc,

There's a new user group in town that you may be interested in:
pdxscala. I've been writing small Scala apps and have mostly liked it so
far. The language seems to combine many features I like about object
oriented, functional , dynamic and type-safe programming on a fast,

[JOB] Web Developer position at Second Story

david.bre...@gmail.com (David Brewer) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:27:50 UT

Hi everyone -- I'd like to pass this job listing from Second Story (where I
work) on to the list. It's not specifically a Ruby position, but we like
flexible programmers who keep up to date and Ruby knowledge is a symptom of
that. This is a full-time position. If you know anyone else who might be

OT: "DRDB HA Clustering on Commodity HW", PLUG AT, Wed. Dec. 16th

i...@pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:16:46 UT

[link]

Dear Portland Ruby Brigade and Portland Pythoneers,

There's an upcoming talk at PLUG AT that I think some of you will be
interested in: "DRDB HA Clustering on Commodity HW". I've been using
DRDB for years on cloud, virtual and physical servers to provide

Full-Time Web Application Developer Needed

johnwil...@gmail.com (John Wilger) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:01:36 UT

Hello everyone,

The company I work for, TSSI, here in Portland is looking to add a
full-time developer to our team. Here's the official job description
(and feel free to forward this on to people who may be interested but
aren't on this list):

Location: On site in Portland, Oregon
Position: Full-time employee

Re: Winter Coders Social, Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6-11pm

i...@pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:40:09 UT

Today!!

-igal

Calagator code sprint: Saturday, December 12, 10am-5pm at NedSpace Old Town

i...@pragmaticraft.com (Igal Koshevoy) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:32:05 UT

From [link]

Help us improve Calagator -- join us for a code sprint.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even those that haven't been at a
code sprint before. These events are great for learning more about
creating software, agile development, Ruby and Rails, and finding ways

Rails developer / evangelist needed next week

keeferna...@gmail.com (Keith Steele) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:52:18 UT

Hello everyone,

I am a partner is a small development firm downtown (
[link]). We are primarily a .NET shop and have a sidebar
opportunity that has come up that I'm hoping one of you can help us with.
We have been approached by a firm that wants us to develop small
interactive web prototype sites for their customers. Each prototype may