Melbourne Roro Meetup Notes

[David Goodlad]

Hi All

We had a great turnout to the meetup on Thursday evening, thanks to everyone who attended, and to our five (!) speakers for keeping us entertained. We're working to get the filmed presentations up as soon as possible; meanwhile, here are the notes from the evening:

# Melbourne Roro October 2012

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## Sponsors

* Thanks to Inspire9 for the awesome venue and drinks!

* Thanks to Envato for the pizza!

* Thanks to OrionVM for filming the talks!

## News – The Analogue Blog

* Ruby 2.0 feature-complete

* Rails Rumble happened!

  * Luke Chadwick did well with faxitfor.me !

* RailsCamp in Tasmania

* Justin tells us that there's a video on the internet

  * "A Whirlwind Tour of Rails 4". Google it.

* Ruby Tapas - Avdi Grimm - short ruby screencasts

* Ruby-to-Javascript compiler called Opalrb - wow.

* JRuby 1.7

  * Uses InvokeDynamic for crazy speeds

  * 1.9.3 compatible

* New MRI patchlevel - 1.9.3p286 w/ security fixes. Do it.

* JSConf happening in Sydney, on 15 November

  * Brendan Eich - creator of JavaScript

  * @isaacs - node maintainer, npm inventor

  * Two parties, no need for more details.

  * Coupon code! "RORO" gives early-bird pricing!

  * <high voice> going to be awesome!

## Talks for Next Month?

* Josh Basset should talk, probably about something he doesn't

  understand yet.

* David Goodlad, because heckling.

* Andy Kitchen

## Hiring & Hunting

* Internet Business Systems is hiring senior & junior rails devs

  - talk to Michael Pitman

* Envato is hiring

  - building a new team, lots of challenges for great rails devs

  - 3 teams, at least 2 are hiring

  - big scaling, and green-fields

* Steve Gilles is here from Sydney, and is awesome.

  - hiring for client(s) in NYC

  - lots of work in SYD/MEL, too

Looking:

* Aidan Green - UX designer, front-end dev: aidan.id.au

* Casey Leask - is a Rails, front-end and responsive web dev

## Presentations

* Zeus – Ben Hoskings

* Declarative Cucumbers – Mario Visic

* Turbolinks and Other Rails 4 Stuff You Can Use Now – Gareth Townsend

* Fresh Redis – Julian Doherty

* Crashlog – Ivan Vanderbyl

## PIZZA.

– Dave & Justin

[Duncan Bayne]

 

## Talks for Next Month?

* Josh Basset should talk, probably about something he doesn't

  understand yet.

* David Goodlad, because heckling.

* Andy Kitchen

I was originally planning to give a short talk on programmable interfaces last month but ended up missing the meetup - is there space for me to squeeze in tomorrow or will it have to be the next one?

[Gareth Townsend]

Pretty sure RORO is next week on the 29th…

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[Duncan Bayne]

> Pretty sure RORO is next week on the 29th…

Ah, that'll be my poor Google Calendaring.  "fourth Thursday of every month" is not the same as "last Thursday ..."  Thanks for the heads-up :-)

Either way the question still stands.