[rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby - Wednesday July 30th

[Pat Allan]

Hello everyone

The Melbourne Ruby meet returns next week on Wednesday night (the 27th August), with our usual array of entertaining talks, delicious food, tasty beverages, and delightful company.

WHEN: Wednesday 27th August, arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start, wrapping up around 9pm.
WHERE: Inspire9, Level 1, 41-43 Stewart Street
WHAT: Three speakers, plus socialising, good food (not pizza) and drinks.

Our line-up this month is:
* John Barton - Comparing the Go scene to Ruby
* Jared Shay - Learning Rails in the deep end
* Daniel Heath - Postgres full text-search (15 mins)

All of these details are repeated on Meetup, for those who prefer that as their source of event information:
http://www.meetup.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Oceania-Melbourne/events/188820562/

Yet again, food is sponsored by Envato, Lookahead Search and Redbubble, and the drinks by Zendesk.

If you've any questions or thoughts, get in touch - we're looking forward to seeing you all there :)

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Mario & Pat

[Pat Allan]

Hi all

Thanks for coming along tonight - it was a great evening.

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Sponsors:
* Thanks to Envato, Lookahead Search and Redbubble for filling us with delicious food!
* Thanks to Zendesk for the tasty beverages!

Welcome!

Upcoming Melbourne Ruby Events:
* Hack Night - Tuesday 9th September
* InstallFest - Thursday 18th September
* Presentations Night - Wednesday 24th September
* Octobers Ruby newbies lightning talks night - Wednesday October 29th
https://github.com/rails-oceania/roro/wiki/Melbourne-Ruby-for-Newbies-night---take-two

Other Upcoming Events:
* Web Directions South - Sydney, October 30th-31st.
Use code MELBOURNERUBY for Silver Experience at Classic Experience price.
* Rails Camp Australia 16 - Perth, November 14th-17th 2014.
* RubyConf AU - Melbourne, February 4th-7th 2015.

News:
* Rails 4.2.0 beta 1
* Rails security patches - 4.1.5, 4.0.9

Hiring:
* Michael from Trike Apps - looking for experienced web developer, 4+ years experience, based on Smith St mi...@trikeapps.com
* Jo from Lonely Planet - looking for senior developers, working with Rails, but you don't need to know it. More holidays joanne....@lonelyplanet.com
* Kathryn from C3 Business Solutions - looking for mid-senior Ruby devs, fancy clients, c3ca...@c3.com.au
* Mike from RealEstate.com.au - looking for devs, lots, especially courageous senior devs mike.w...@rea-group.com
* Lance from reInteractive - senior devs, Ruby, iOS/Android, remote work wo...@reinteractive.net
* Raef from TeamApp - looking for mid-senior Rails developers, remote work jo...@teamapp.com
* Tom from Papercloud - looking for Rails devs, devops, iOS, Android, t...@papercloud.com.au
* Joe from RedBubble - looking for 30-40 new people, devs, team leads, managers, designers, all the things joe.w...@redbubble.com
* Matt from Lookahead - recruiters with contract, permanent roles, mid through to senior, happy to chat with potential employees ma...@lookahead.com.au

This month:

* John Barton - Comparing the Go scene to Ruby
* Jared Shay - Learning Rails in the deep end
* Daniel Heath - Postgres full text-search (15 mins)

Next month:
* Doug English - Colour modelling (20 mins)
* Justin Morris - <TBD>
* Julian Doherty - Ruby, Concurrency, and Monoids

[Erik Froese]

Thanks Pat, it was a great night.