Melbourne Meetup Notes June 2012

[David Goodlad]

Hi all

Here are my notes from the Melbourne meetup tonight. I'll post them on the Ruby Australia site asap!

For those of you who were there, thanks for attending, hope you had fun! For those who missed… Come next month! Thanks to all the speakers, and again to the sponsors.

Cheers

Dave

# Melbourne Roro June 2012

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## Sponsors

Massive thanks to our sponsors

* Inspire9 for the venue, and for drinks!

* Envato for pizza

## News: Analogue Blog

* Railscamp was a blast

  * Nigel, El Presidente, got funny

  * Ruby Australia SGM held

* Railscamp Tasmania in November

* GOOGLE GLASSES!

* Ryan Bigg releasing a new edition of Rails 3 in Action

  * Manning inaction

* Asset pipeline backported to rails 2.x

* AWS CloudFront endpoint in Sydney!

* rbfu for MORE RUBY VERSIONING!

## Hiring & Hunting

* Inspire9! (talk to Nathan)

  - JS: backbone, sinone, savvy w/ Ruby

  - Ruby, Ruby on Rails

* REA is hiring (talk to Chris Berkhout)

  - mid-to-senior Ruby devs, client/customer fous

* SilverPond ( speak to Jono)

  - more front-end js, some ruby

* DragonFly would like to speak to freelancers (speak to Sam)

* Locomote (speak to Andrew)

  - JS/Ruby devs

* Icelab (speak to Mike Morris, or jo...@icelab.com.au)

  - Ruby: mid-to-senior

  - 4-day week!!

* Lonely Planet (speak to Daniel Heath)

  - Join a team of 10-ish, adding 1-2 more

## Presentations

* Glen Maddern (AngularJS)

* David Goodlad (Ruby Packaging)

* Florian Hanke (modifying and reloading code in a running process)

* Fred Wu (Building Gems)

* Chendo (Shortcat)

## PIZZA.

[Justin French]

Thanks to Dave for stepping in at the last minute!

Justin

[Daniel]

Link for the rails 2 asset pipeline I mentioned on the analog blog: https://github.com/grosser/rails2_asset_pipeline 

[Samuel Richardson]

You can reach us (Dragonfly) on our website http://www.dragonflylist.com or via me.

Loved the Angular JS stuff but it makes me want to tear down everything I've built so far :(

Samuel Richardson
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748

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