279 members, where is everyone?

[Jonathan Clarke]

Just after looking at the groups membership, apparently there are over
279 individual members. Can you all stand up and introduce yourself
please? The same reliables post here, week in, week out. Lurking is
no longer acceptable. Get active and get involved. Even if you are
not in Dublin, organize a meetup locally....all you need is one other
developer to get a chapter started.

People have been talking about why there has not been any regular
meetups, it's up to you as a community member to get up and get
organized. Write a post on the list, and lets get this community
moving again.

Jonathan

[Simon McCartney]

On 07/12/2009 22:15, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> Just after looking at the groups membership, apparently there are over
> 279 individual members. Can you all stand up and introduce yourself
> please? The same reliables post here, week in, week out. Lurking is
> no longer acceptable. Get active and get involved. Even if you are
> not in Dublin, organize a meetup locally....all you need is one other
> developer to get a chapter started.

I'm a full time SA, focussing on FLOSS systems, my day job involved
running a large LAMP/SIP stack for www.atg.com, no ruby in the day job.

In previous incarnations I've used Ruby on Rails to build web services
interfaces to OpenX
http://www.mccartney.ie/wordpress/2008/06/21/rapid-web-service-integration-slides/

I built a call tracking app in RoR/ActiveScaffold for a local youth
helpline, sadly it was abandoned after I the original IT supplier
http://github.com/simonmcc/lifeline

I also built a RoR/ActiveScaffold app to manage a multi-server
installation of Scalix for a major contact centre. (really just a web ui
around some ssh and db magic, used to manage sendmail mail routing &
masquerading, it's in private svn at the moment, I can push it to github
is somebody is really interested).
http://www.scalix.com/

Some other POCs also completed in RoR, like a Mobile Money Transfer
system that used a combination of SMS/WAP Push & WAP to coordinate
transactions in a virtual bank.

As for local meetups, I sat beside David Rice at OpenTurkey a couple of
weeks back :-)

McC

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[Jonathan Clarke]

Thanks for getting us started. May as well get myself introduced too.

Full time ruby developer for a media company based out in Australia.
Based in Sydney for the time being but have aspirations of heading
towards south Asia to ply my trade in the coming year. Currently doing
my Masters in Software out of NUI Galway and with exams happening
right now I'm keeping very busy. I've been developing in Ruby since
2005, have been lucky to find full time corporate gigs in Ireland,
China and Australia so far that allow me to code in the language.
Since coming to Australia I've been welcomed into the Sydney ruby
community, I've been to a number of railscamps over here (best idea
ever) and think it's fantastic that a programming language can attract
so many interesting people from all walks of life. Would love to get
one up and running in Ireland next year. (beer, code, code and great
people in the middle of no-where, can't beat it)

Currently working on my startup in my thesis aimed at the non-profit
sector which I'm aiming to launch Q4 2010.

So thats me, hit me up at http://www.twitter.com/beilabs

Jonathan

[Simon McCartney]

This is a reminder as to why I need to proof read twice before clicking
send. The following are operations are needed to make sense of this email:

s/involved/involves/
s/I /I left /


McC

On 07/12/2009 23:48, Simon McCartney wrote:
> On 07/12/2009 22:15, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
>> Just after looking at the groups membership, apparently there are over
>> 279 individual members. Can you all stand up and introduce yourself
>> please? The same reliables post here, week in, week out. Lurking is
>> no longer acceptable. Get active and get involved. Even if you are
>> not in Dublin, organize a meetup locally....all you need is one other
>> developer to get a chapter started.
>
> I'm a full time SA, focussing on FLOSS systems, my day job involved
> running a large LAMP/SIP stack for www.atg.com, no ruby in the day job.
>
> In previous incarnations I've used Ruby on Rails to build web services
> interfaces to OpenX
> http://www.mccartney.ie/wordpress/2008/06/21/rapid-web-service-integration-slides/
>
> I built a call tracking app in RoR/ActiveScaffold for a local youth
> helpline, sadly it was abandoned after I the original IT supplier
> http://github.com/simonmcc/lifeline
>
> I also built a RoR/ActiveScaffold app to manage a multi-server
> installation of Scalix for a major contact centre. (really just a web ui
> around some ssh and db magic, used to manage sendmail mail routing&
> masquerading, it's in private svn at the moment, I can push it to github
> is somebody is really interested).
> http://www.scalix.com/
>
> Some other POCs also completed in RoR, like a Mobile Money Transfer

> system that used a combination of SMS/WAP Push& WAP to coordinate

[Paul Campbell]

I'd also love to hear about what people are doing. Even links to
github profiles would be great.

I'm http://github.com/paulca

I've done a bunch of tiny plugins, but my most notable contribution
(since leaving Contrast) I guess would be the Rails Development
Directory ( http://www.railsdevelopment.com ) ... which is an open
source app ( http://github.com/engineyard/rails_dev_directory/ ) that
I built with Engine Yard.

I spoke at Rails Underground in London (
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/paul-campbell-productive-rails-development-and-client-happiness
) and Amsterdam Ruby fairly recently. Hoping to speak at at least one
2010 conference ... lots of submissions to be done, wish me luck!

I also built Easons website back in the day ( http://www.eason.ie )
which is still live and it's completely Ruby / Rails.

P

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[Denis Hennessy]

Seeing what people are up to is a good idea - I think a lot of people get a lot from just eavesdropping on conversations so I wouldn't worry too much about the talker-to-listener ratio.

Anyways, some information about me:

I do Rails (and some iPhone) development through Peer Assembly Ltd (along with Sheldon Conaty who's also lurking here).

Interesting links:

http://peerassembly.com
http://www.railsdevelopment.com/developers/peer-assembly
http://github.com/dhennessy
http://twitter.com/denishennessy

We've developed some rails apps for ourselves (http://statushub.com, http://comingsoonapp.com, http://clikboard.com) as well as clients (http://shareonce.com, http://socialorbits.peerassembly.com/)

I'd be interested in a meetup for pints before Christmas although I haven't made it to any of the meetings in a while.

/dh

[matt]

Heres me introducing myself too;

Working (in Dublin) for the last couple of years on ticketsolve.com
(with Ruby/Rails) - prior to that I was in London doing non-rails
stuff with the BBC - and waa-ay back before that I worked for Front
(http://designbyfront.com) in Belfast during its startup days.

blog: http://matthewhutchinson.net (just started posting again here
after a long break)
git: http://github.com/hiddenloop (some projects of mine)

Projects;

In my spare time I've been tinkering away for the last year or so - on
a Rails powered cms - Bugle (http://bugleblogs.com)
Also hoping to release some parts of this app as open source on github
over time.

http://thefilmtalkbot.hiddenloop.com/ -- an EventMachine twitter
stream watcher with some cleverness, sitting in a Rails project - very
much a sandbox for trying stuff out at the moment.

I attended a few Ruby Ireland meet-ups way back in 2007/2008 - but
have been guilty of lurking here in the group since then. Happy to
try to make more of an effort in the future, on the new site, in irc,
or attending meet-ups or whatever.

Cheers,

Matt

[hopeless]

I have a background in AI/data mining research, both commercial and
academic, but I now have a disasterously boring job as a corporate
Java engineer (and I don't even get to do that as I've been moved into
testing. Grrr). Anyway, as a way of outsetting the day-job I've been
developing with Ruby-on-Rails in my spare time for about 2 years now.

My main focus is http://shutterscouts.com, an idea notebook and
weather forecasting service for photographers (which I must open
soon).
About a year ago, I built http://dualpricing.ie as a little
distraction (and I've mostly neglected it since. tut tut)

There were also a few other private apps such as a icon-based start
page, notebook and personal finance app but I've since ceased
development/hosting of these

I live in Cork.

[SteveQ]

Hello everybody

I thought I'd turn up to the support group for lurking Rails
developers.

I'm Steve Quinlan, and I make software. (*Hi Steve*). I've been J2EE
free for 2 years now.

I'm making software professionally about 13 years - half of that time
has been spent as an Agile/XP developer - writing 1000s of tests
first, mercilessly refactoring, and delivering valuable working
software frequently.

I work for Kablingy (http://kablingy.ie/) and we use Rails for almost
all of our software. <pitch> We specialise in turning our clients
ideas into software products that will make them *money*, as soon as
possible.</pitch>

In a past life I worked with or for IBM, 3Q, Exoftware, Vivendi.

Here's some Rails software we're working on right now:
My Live Dojo - Learn and grade in martial arts over the internet
through high quality video and instruction - Currently work in
progress
Overtake - An online service where you can rent a website, content
management system, online shop and blog - starting at €20/month. We've
currently about 80 private (and paying) customers - aiming to open it
to public by Spring '10

Rails software we've built for clients in the past:
http://comicsalive.com - This is a Rails app for an English language
school which allows students to learn English over the internet
through graphic novels
http://alphalingo.ie - Allows Irish secondary level students to learn
the German syllabus through high quality graphics and movies
http://cvcafe.com/ - Build your CV Online. We built this a couple of
years back.

Inhouse Rails software:
We built a Rails app to monitor credit control for a civil engineering
company
We started the development phase of a project tracking tool service
for our friends at Contrast.

My twitter username: @stevequinlan
My rather anemic github page: http://github.com/stevequinlan/
Our Website: Kablingy (http://kablingy.ie)
Company Blog: http://kablingy.ie/blog


Thanks for your time.
Steve

[KJF]

Hi guys, a quick introduction.

By day working in Dublin for a logistics company mainly on embedded
systems projects, so mostly C and C++ with a sprinkling of ruby here
and there.
By night I have a couple of rails websites I work on. In the wild are
http://www.lost.ie and http://www.parkit.ie.

Hard at work at the moment on a media related site which should see
the light of day in the next few weeks. (More on that when it's
live!).

Thanks,

Kevin.

website: http://www.tinktank.ie
twitter: @kevinfagan

On Dec 9, 12:45 pm, SteveQ <steve.quin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody
>
> I thought I'd turn up to the support group for lurking Rails
> developers.
>
> I'm Steve Quinlan, and I make software. (*Hi Steve*). I've been J2EE
> free for 2 years now.
>
> I'm making software professionally about 13 years - half of that time
> has been spent as an Agile/XP developer - writing 1000s of tests
> first, mercilessly refactoring, and delivering valuable working
> software frequently.
>
> I work for Kablingy (http://kablingy.ie/) and we use Rails for almost
> all of our software. <pitch> We specialise in turning our clients
> ideas into software products that will make them *money*, as soon as
> possible.</pitch>
>
> In a past life I worked with or for IBM, 3Q, Exoftware, Vivendi.
>
> Here's some Rails software we're working on right now:
> My Live Dojo - Learn and grade in martial arts over the internet
> through high quality video and instruction - Currently work in
> progress
> Overtake - An online service where you can rent a website, content
> management system, online shop and blog - starting at €20/month. We've
> currently about 80 private (and paying) customers - aiming to open it
> to public by Spring '10
>

> Rails software we've built for clients in the past:http://comicsalive.com- This is a Rails app for an English language

> school which allows students to learn English over the internet

> through graphic novelshttp://alphalingo.ie- Allows Irish secondary level students to learn
> the German syllabus through high quality graphics and movieshttp://cvcafe.com/-  Build your CV Online. We built this a couple of

[Paul Nelligan]

Hi All

I've been working on a web app for musicians called audiofu which is a personal project, Should be beta-ready early next year. I'm also working on a RoR SaaS billing/report generation application and have built several CMS's for small businesses (also in Rails) to support my personal-project-building habit :)

Kevin, would like to know a bit more about your media app if possible.

cheers

Paul

[Tony Byrne]

Hi all,

I turn my back for a second and all of sudden this group goes supernova. Nice to see y'all.

I'm Tony Byrne and I've been working as a software developer since 1995, all of it in Internet related companies. In that time I've worked with C, Java, Perl and Ruby. For the last 2 years I've been working with Rails at insure.ie as head of app development.

Since I joined insure.ie, our team replaced a rather bug laden mess of .net code with a Rails app as well as redesigning the site. Ruby and Rails has been a massive success for us and we've completely turned the company's technology around to the point where ideas can be turned into running features very quickly.

Regards,

Tony.

[Mick]

Hi all,

I'm Michael, or more commonly known by a string of profanities!

I'm a final year student in Computer Applications, DCU. For some
reason I seem to be drawn to languages that people don't seem to want
to know about -in college anyway-... Haskell & Ruby. I made a file
manager in Haskell last year for my third year project, which is here:
http://projects.haskell.org/haskellfm and released a Haskell library.
I worked on internship at Amazon for six months this year, which is
where I was introduced to Ruby and Rails. I'm not a big Rails user,
but use Ruby for nearly everything I can.

For my final year project this year, I'm working on optimizing one of
the Haskell compilers, but am interested in working on other things on
the side. I've an interest in metaprogramming, albeit not a well
developed one at the moment, and an interest in *nix utilities. I'm
also interested in finding something to make me get more familiar with
Rails.

Sin é!

Mick

[Paul Campbell]

> to know about -in college anyway-...  Haskell & Ruby. I made a file
> manager in Haskell last year for my third year project, which is here:

_Very much_ in college, Mike. RubyConf this year sold out in hours and
the message board at the conference was mainly jobs jobs jobs. The
average Ruby salary in SF right now is $100k + ... It's hot hot hot.

> http://projects.haskell.org/haskellfm and released a Haskell library.
> I worked on internship at Amazon for six months this year, which is
> where I was introduced to Ruby and Rails. I'm not a big Rails user,
> but use Ruby for nearly everything I can.
>
> For my final year project this year, I'm working on optimizing one of
> the Haskell compilers, but am interested in working on other things on
> the side. I've an interest in metaprogramming, albeit not a well
> developed one at the moment, and an interest in *nix utilities. I'm
> also interested in finding something to make me get more familiar with
> Rails.
>
> Sin é!
>
> Mick
>
> On Dec 9, 4:11 pm, Tony Byrne <tonyby...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I turn my back for a second and all of sudden this group goes supernova.  Nice to see y'all.
>>
>> I'm Tony Byrne and I've been working as a software developer since 1995, all of it in Internet related companies.  In that time I've worked with C, Java, Perl and Ruby.  For the last 2 years I've been working with Rails at insure.ie as head of app development.
>>
>> Since I joined insure.ie, our team replaced a rather bug laden  mess of .net code with a Rails app as well as redesigning the site.  Ruby and Rails has been a massive success for us and we've completely turned the company's technology around to the point where ideas can be turned into running features very quickly.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tony.
>

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[Mick]

Heh, I should clarify so... my college!

Mick

On Dec 9, 7:48 pm, Paul Campbell <p...@rslw.com> wrote:
> > to know about -in college anyway-...  Haskell & Ruby. I made a file
> > manager in Haskell last year for my third year project, which is here:
>
> _Very much_ in college, Mike. RubyConf this year sold out in hours and
> the message board at the conference was mainly jobs jobs jobs. The
> average Ruby salary in SF right now is $100k + ... It's hot hot hot.
>
>
>
>
>

> >http://projects.haskell.org/haskellfmand released a Haskell library.

> p...@rushedsunlight.com

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[Paul Campbell]

What kind of stuff did you do in college? I never took CS.

Did you do any TDD / agile / pragmatic stuff at all?

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[ciara...@gmail.com]

Hi All,

Nice to see some activity here and on IRC, congrats for giving it a
bit of a kick start Jonathan!

My name is Ciaran Lee, I am a rails developer and tech lead at
RateMyArea http://ratemyarea.com

I have been working with rails for 2 and a half years, having dabbled
with it (ie repeatedly built tiny blog apps) for a year or so before
that. I have a github profile http://github.com/ciaranlee but am
ashamed to say that I haven't yet done anything of note.

I've been to a bunch of ruby meetups, and presented twice (first about
haml+sass and secondly about some things I have learned working on
RateMyArea - mainly caching + search stuff).

I really liked the coding brunches, but they fizzled out pretty fast,
the meetups were great too but as I don't work in the centre of town
any more it can be difficult for me to make it in for 19:30!

C

[David Rice]

Hey guys,

Good to see some familiar (and some unfamiliar) names crop up... What
a difference one well targeted rant can make.

My urls;

http://github.com/davidjrice
http://davidjrice.co.uk

Have been "getting the head down" and focusing on a few interesting
projects since parting from Contrast. Since creating Exceptional, my
most notable contribution to OS would be the Realex implementation for
active_merchant. A bunch of other OS code there, a bunch that I still
need to find a hack-a-day to get it releaseable!

Planning on heading to a few conferences next year (missed the boat on
RubyConf) would love to speak at one of them too!

Best,
Dave

On Dec 9, 11:31 pm, "ciaran....@gmail.com" <ciaran....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Nice to see some activity here and on IRC, congrats for giving it a
> bit of a kick start Jonathan!
>
> My name is Ciaran Lee, I am a rails developer and tech lead at

> RateMyAreahttp://ratemyarea.com

>
> I have been working with rails for 2 and a half years, having dabbled
> with it (ie repeatedly built tiny blog apps) for a year or so before

> that. I have a github profilehttp://github.com/ciaranleebut am

[James Kennedy]

Hi All

My name is James and I'm only in Ireland for part of the year but I
keep a watchful eye on the Ruby Ireland list. My day job is www.piehole.ie
which is a rails site. I've also written agtweet.com and I have a
blog at www.jameskennedy.ie although that's a boring old PHP wordpress
blog so nothing to see there.

I like rails can I can prototype stuff quickly which suits my
attention deficit. My new years resolution is to test more / at all
(not cool I know ;)

James

On Dec 10, 7:54 am, David Rice <davidjr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Good to see some familiar (and some unfamiliar) names crop up... What
> a difference one well targeted rant can make.
>
> My urls;
>

> http://github.com/davidjricehttp://davidjrice.co.uk

[Steve Doyle]

Hi all,

Nice to see some good activity here.

My name is Stephen Doyle. I'm based in the West of Ireland and my day
job is in the realm of embedded software development. I find Ruby
great for processing log files, automation, etc. and haven't done too
much with rails beyond a few simple web sites to see what RoR was all
about.

I maintain a blog at http://softwareramblings.com which hasn't gotten
a huge amount of attention recently, but it's already on the new years
resolutions list!

Nice to meet you all!

Steve

[jkr...@gmail.com]

Hey all,

I'm an American, president of a Railsy software company based in the
states in snowy Colorado. My main research interests are Rails as a
front end to visualization and web analytics -- with ties into noSQL
databases in Amazon's cloud, with Hadoop and things like that. I
believe that Google has introduced a "golden age" of analytic and
visual software, and while they're practically anti-semantic and work
on only a single immense data store, the companies that follow in
Google's footsteps will likely be far more richly semantical and tie
together disparate data stores that are popping up like mushrooms
practically everywhere.

I'm descended from Gavighans from the northwest of Ireland; Sandyhill
and Charlestown south of Sligo. I follow Ruby Ireland for the quality
of the postings, while waiting and investigating future status under
the "Grandmother rule." I'm 20 months into it, and I figure I'm
bound to hear something *eventually*. In the meantime I follow the
group and hope to attend before too long. I'm grateful to Ana Nelson
for her presentation and help on some specific problems I was working
on a year ago. I wish you all well, and look forward to
contributing more back to the group.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,

John

[seth]

Hiya,

Recently arrived in Dublin from San Francisco where I was running a
small rails dev team (at times just myself) at our small web
consultancy (http://radicaldesigns.org/). Built my first rails app
(http://theballot.org/) in 2006. Other projects included a
distributed event management and reporting system (first deployed for
http://events.stepitup2007.org/) and the inevitable "we want facebook,
but for ___" (http://network.greenchange.org/).

I'm a big fan of Agile and TDD. I taught an all-day Rails workshop in
June with RailsBridge (http://wiki.railsbridge.org/projects/
railsbridge/wiki/Workshops). I like playing with the new hotness,
lately I've been trying Clojure, but probably need a hacking partner
to take it any further.

Looking forward to the next meetup.

Seth

http://github.com/sethwalker
@seth_walker on twitter (tho i post just about never)

On Dec 7, 10:15 pm, Jonathan Clarke <clarke.jonat...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jonathan Clarke]

Most devs are trying to move from Dublin to San Fran, oh the irony....

Added you to the twitter list, welcome aboard and I hope the guys/girls get to greet you in style at the next meetup.

Jonathan

2009/12/19 seth <seth.h...@gmail.com>

[seth]

Thanks! I can appreciate the irony, allow me to propose one in return
- probably the best route for developers to SF is to substantially
contribute to building up their local tech industry, which then
suffers when they leave.

I was never much a part of the tech scene in SF anyway, aside from
having a few friends who worked at the Goog. But it's still a lovely
place to live.

seth

[Phil]

Am not a developer, but am looking for some advice on Ruby. Just read
37 Signals'
book, Getting Real, and am in the process of working through Balsamiq
Mockups
for my site http:www.tapmap.com and would love to meet up with a local
developer
to hear thoughts/opinions on the best way to go forward. Its a
solution for local retailers
I have support from Enterprise Ireland and am on the Endeavour Program
(http://www.endeavour.biz)
as well as from local retailers in the UK and Ireland.

[Richard Conroy]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Phil <phi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Am not a developer, but am looking for some advice on Ruby. Just read
37 Signals'
book, Getting Real, and am in the process of working through Balsamiq
Mockups
for my site http:www.tapmap.com and would love to meet up with a local
developer
to hear thoughts/opinions on the best way to go forward. Its a
solution for local retailers
I have support from Enterprise Ireland and am on the Endeavour Program
(http://www.endeavour.biz)
as well as from local retailers in the UK and Ireland.

I spotted that you are hiring on your /jobs page. You should post the position to

http://rubyjobs.ie/ if you haven't closed the position yet. 

 

On Dec 7, 10:15 pm, Jonathan Clarke <clarke.jonat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just after looking at the groups membership, apparently there are over
> 279 individual members.  Can you all stand up and introduce yourself
> please? The same reliables post here, week in, week out.  Lurking is
> no longer acceptable. Get active and get involved.  Even if you are
> not in Dublin, organize a meetup locally....all you need is one other
> developer to get a chapter started.
>
> People have been talking about why there has not been any regular
> meetups, it's up to you as a community member to get up and get
> organized. Write a post on the list, and lets get this community
> moving again.
>
> Jonathan

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