Melbourne Ruby - Special newbies night (29 October 2014)

[Mario Visic]

Hi All

This is a special ruby meetup we have organised particularly for those that are

new to ruby and rails. We'll have a range of introductory 5 minute lightning

talks, plus socialising, food and drinks.

WHEN:  Wednesday 29th October, arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start, wrapping up around 9pm.

WHERE: Inspire9, Level 1, 41-43 Stewart Street

WHAT:  Speakers, plus socialising, good food (hopefully not pizza) and drinks.

Our line-up this month is:

  * Gareth Townsend     - 'inject is for wizards and other enumerables'

  * Darcy Laycock       - Learning by Doing: The stuff I learnt by screwing up

  * Natasha Postolovski - Learning to Love Tests

  * Rhiana Heath        - Looking back on what I learned during my first year of coding

  * Jared Shay          - The hardest code I now understand

  * Trung Lê            - Learning about Ruby modules

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/197668852/

Yet again, food is sponsored by Envato, Lookahead Search and Redbubble, the drinks by Zendesk, and the space by Inspire9. 

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

-- 

Mario & Pat 

[Pat Allan]

Thanks all for coming along last night - it was a great evening :)

Here are the notes:

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 11th November
* InstallFest - Thursday 27th November
* Presentations Night - Wednesday 26th November

Other Upcoming Events:
* Web Directions South in Sydney - October 30th-31st.
Use code MELBOURNERUBY for Silver Experience at Classic Experience price.
* Rails Camp Australia 16 in Perth - November 14th-17th 2014.
* RubyConf AU in Melbourne - February 4th-7th 2015.
* Global Day of CodeRetreat - Saturday, 15th November
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/global-day-of-code-retreat-melbourne-2014-tickets-12945944669

News:
* Ruby 2.1.4 was released to fix an XML exploit.
* Angular 2 has been announced, will be completely different to Angular 1.
* Raptor - a new Ruby web server - was announced, but not released. Apparently much faster, but we don't yet have access to it. Passenger Phusion v5 rebranded. Sources may be questionable.
* Emacs 24.4 was released.
* TextMate 2 is now in beta!

Hiring:
* Chris - Sendicate - looking for a newbie developer who wants to be awesome. geo...@sendicate.net
* Jared - Ferocia - work with banks. Looking for anyone, work with Rails & JS. ferocia.com.au
* James - Locomote - looking for two more developers, working in the travel industry. con...@locomote.com
* Joe - Redbubble - looking for devs with 5 years or more experience, ops, product stuff, all the things. joe.w...@redbubble.com
* Alec - Lookahead - looking for developers, all sorts of roles, levels, places. In particular, 3 month Rails contract, maybe permanent after that. al...@lookahead.com.au rexmortus on Freenode
* Daniel - realestate.com.au - hiring many roles (30?) - mid to seniors, Ruby is nice but not necessary. Big data stuff too. In Richmond, amazing building. erica...@rea-group.com

Talks:

* Rhiana Heath - Looking back on what I learned during my first year of coding

* Darcy Laycock - Learning by Doing: The stuff I learnt by screwing up

* Trung Lê - Learning about Ruby modules

* Natasha Postolovski - Learning to Love Tests

* Gareth Townsend - 'inject is for wizards and other enumerables'

* Jared Shay - The hardest code I now understand

Next Month:
* Dougal MacPherson - JavaScript tips for the ruby developer
* Duncan Bayne - Ruby OO Anti-Patterns
* Ivan Vanderbyl - Micro-services at DigitalOcean

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