Ruby Ireland hits the big time

[qamir....@gmail.com]

Hi All,

Thanks to everyone for coming along last night. I really enjoyed the
evening; & great to see lots of new faces too. I even got to busk on
grafton street , no really I did, the cameraman (Niall), couldn't
operate the camera :) so my accoustic version of master of puppets
won't make it onto youtube, come to think of it, it was probably a
good thing.

Anyhow thanks to Fergal & John for doing the presentations & Ana for
the summary
of railsconf & to Aidan for ruby/rails books.

It was suggested last night, by Paul I believe, to do short several
short presentations; would everyone
by ok with that type of format?

If you're all cool with, can I ask everyone to think of a topic they'd
like to present on, or a topic you want someone else to present on,
let's try and get a list of the presentations out early.

So to get the ball rolling does anyone have preference on seeing
anyone of these topics?

Outsourcing
Rails workshop for beginners

Also I'm working with Hobo at the moment on a project so hopefully by
the next meeting I can give you my opinion of it.

I've set a facebook group also, called Ruby Ireland, so we can put our
faces & upload photos from the meetings and so on.

Q

[John Ward]

Hi,
You can see the slides here.

http://thinedgeofthewedge.blogspot.com/2007/06/amazon-ec2-rails.html

I'm using slideshare, which is a youtube for presentations. I have
setup a rubyireland group that we can all join for sharing
presentations.

John

PS: This is my 3rd time to post this message. It keeps disappearing into the ether.


qamir....@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

Thanks to everyone for coming along last night. I really enjoyed the
evening; & great to see lots of new faces too. I even got to busk on
grafton street , no really I did, the cameraman (Niall), couldn't
operate the camera :)  so my accoustic version of master of puppets
won't make it onto youtube, come to think of it, it was probably a
good thing.

Anyhow thanks to Fergal & John for doing the presentations & Ana for
the summary
of railsconf & to Aidan for ruby/rails books.

It was suggested last night, by Paul I believe, to do short several
short presentations; would everyone
by ok with that type of format?

If you're all cool with, can I ask everyone to think of a topic they'd
like to present on, or a topic you want someone else to present on,
let's try and get a list of the presentations out early.

So to get the ball rolling does anyone have preference on seeing
anyone of these topics?

Outsourcing
Rails workshop for beginners

Also I'm working with Hobo at the moment on a project so hopefully by
the next meeting I can give you my opinion of it.

I've set a facebook group also, called Ruby Ireland, so we can put our
faces  & upload photos from the meetings and so on.

Q


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[Ronan Mullarkey]

re: topics I'd like to see someone else present on ;-)

perhaps slightly frivolous....but I'd like to see spots on 'look how
cool my dev. env. is"..maybe short presentations for each of
texmate/eclipse/netbeans6+/emacs/ komodo/intellij/ even ironruby in
Visual Studio 2008 (if you can stick the hecklers). Extra marks for best
rails .rhtml support.

Also, with JRuby reaching 1.0 yesterday, I love to hear someone talk on
JRuby's potential as a first class citizen of the Java VM. ie jruby
compilation - where is it going, and "why jruby will never be as fast as
java" - if that is the case...

thanks again for a great evening.
-Ronan Mullarkey

[Colm]

Hi Qamir & everyone,

really enjoyed my first ruby Tuesday. Great organization and group!

>
> If you're all cool with, can I ask everyone to think of a topic they'd
> like to present on, or a topic you want someone else to present on,
> let's try and get a list of the presentations out early.
>

As I am way too green to present yet, some topics I would like to see
someone else present on are:
-- cool ruby technologies, radrails, jruby, etc. Fairly technical
(code walkthrough) level.
-- experience stories; if someone has built a cool app (personal
interests/faves include things like video/image collecting/processing,
development plugins, parsing technologies (e.g. ANTLR))
-- benchmarking/performance stories; something I'm interested in is
how does rails compare to other web environments in terms of
performance, scalability? What are current limitations (I heard
something about a "threading issue" on Tuesday that got my
interest)...

[Fintan Palmer]

Well now I'm really disappointed at missing another one...  Nothing I could do about it though, I was sick in bed feeling sorry for myself :-)  Hopefully I'll see you all again at the next one.

Fintan

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[pabcas]

Regarding the short presentations, it's not my idea!

When I was in California, I went to Super Happy Dev House and they had
them ... they're called "Lightning Talks"

Here's the link to the one I went to ( the bit about Lightning Talks
is about half way down the page)

http://superhappydevhouse.org/SuperHappyDevHouse17

Paulo

On Jun 15, 4:50 pm, "Fintan Palmer" <fpal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well now I'm really disappointed at missing another one... Nothing I could
> do about it though, I was sick in bed feeling sorry for myself :-)
> Hopefully I'll see you all again at the next one.
>
> Fintan
>

> IM (MSN): fpal...@gmail.com
> skype: fintanp

[Colm]

Another idea that could be stolen from California is the code jam; the
San Francisco Ruby group has meetup where everyone brings their laptop
and works on code, project, whatever, and take an active interest in
what other folks are up to... People on different levels would
gravitate together, could be a great way ot learn/exchange info, could
we make something like that work?

[John Ward]

Another possibility is to start one, or many group projects that further
the art of web development.

These projects would be non commercial and opensource. If Qamir succeeds
in getting sponsorship we could put it towards kit.

[Andrea]

i really like this idea, I actually was saying this to Oliver, I think
its easier to learn if you work towards something
and reading other people's code.

however, i think the presentations should keep going, it would also be
great if the slides can be downloaded from somewhere before the
presentation
so we can have a read before hand, this could generate more
interesting questions/discussion

if i can be of any help, please let me know.
Cheers

Andrea

On Jun 18, 10:06 pm, John Ward <john.w...@cengal.com> wrote:
> Another possibility is to start one, or many group projects that further
> the art of web development.
>
> These projects would be non commercial and opensource. If Qamir succeeds
> in getting sponsorship we could put it towards kit.
>
>
>
> Colm wrote:
> > Another idea that could be stolen from California is the code jam; the
> > San Francisco Ruby group has meetup where everyone brings their laptop
> > and works on code, project, whatever, and take an active interest in
> > what other folks are up to... People on different levels would
> > gravitate together, could be a great way ot learn/exchange info, could
> > we make something like that work?
>
> > >
>
>

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[Ronan Mullarkey]

Following on from John's excellent EC2 presentation last month, here's
something of interest....

from...
http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-on-rails-image-for-amazon-ec2-540.html

Paul Dowman has put together a feature-packed Ruby on Rails focused
"appliance" for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud - effectively an
on-demand, flexible VPS service). Those who know what they're doing can
try it out right away, using the AMI id: ami-4e907527.

The image is built upon Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), Rails 1.2.3, Ruby 1.8.5,
MySQL 5, and includes the EC2 command line tools along with automatic
backup of MySQL databases to S3 every ten minutes. Applications are
served up using Mongrel clusters behind Apache 2.2. Paul's blog post
includes more details and a guide of how to use it.

-Ronan

[niall larkin]

Way cool. Great catch and pass Ronan

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[John Ward]

Hi Ronan,
Thanks for the positive review :)

I had used a previous version of Paul's image for Feisty Fawn. You'll
see a comment on his blog post about setting up mongrel cluster by me.
He really is moving this one forward so great place to get started.

John

[James Kennedy]

Hey John -

I've been meaning to get around to congratulate you on the
presentation. It really was cool. I had a real fit of the 'yeah,
buts' on the night. I've been wracked with guilt about it. There you
guys were - provided wine, ruby and song and all I could do was stick
my oar in. So - anyway - in a bid to re-align the universes karma
score in my favour I've posted a review of 'Rails Recipies' for anyone
who is interested. You can check it out at http://www.smartnote.ie/wordpress/archives/75.
If you don't want to check it out just know its a must read as long as
you know which was is up rubywise.

I was blown away by the event you organised. It was a fantastic
evening and I'm looking forward to the next one.

Someone mentioned a collaborative project. I couldn't find ruby html
helpers for mootools. This might be a good first contribution?

cheers

James

On Jun 25, 4:31 pm, John Ward <john.w...@cengal.com> wrote:
> Hi Ronan,
> Thanks for the positive review :)
>
> I had used a previous version of Paul's image for Feisty Fawn. You'll

> see a commeHnt on his blog post about setting up mongrel cluster by me.

> He really is moving this one forward so great place to get started.
>
> John
>
> Ronan Mullarkey wrote:
> > Following on from John's excellent EC2 presentation last month, here's
> > something of interest....
>
> > from...
> >http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-on-rails-image-for-amazon-ec2-540.html
>
> > Paul Dowman has put together a feature-packed Ruby on Rails focused
> > "appliance" for Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud - effectively an
> > on-demand, flexible VPS service). Those who know what they're doing can
> > try it out right away, using the AMI id: ami-4e907527.
>
> > The image is built upon Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), Rails 1.2.3, Ruby 1.8.5,
> > MySQL 5, and includes the EC2 command line tools along with automatic
> > backup of MySQL databases to S3 every ten minutes. Applications are
> > served up using Mongrel clusters behind Apache 2.2. Paul's blog post
> > includes more details and a guide of how to use it.
>
> > -Ronan
>
> > >
>
>

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