No Meeting Tonight Due To Weather
February 13, 2007
The weather forecast is showing freezing rain starting around 6pm and continuing through the evening. Based on that, I would like to reschedule the meeting to Feb 28th. Erik can't make that date but hopefully we can get him to come and show his work at the March meeting.
So no Ruby Jam tonight! Next meeting Feb 28th 6pm, same location!
Meeting January 10th 2007
January 03, 2007
Our next meeting will be on January 10th at 6pm. Come on out and check out the cool projects folks are working on!
11/8 Meeting Summary, Next Meeting 12/13
November 15, 2006
Our meeting on 11/8 was great! Ed and I worked some more on the Pixel Dust Games framework. I am currently porting an Asteroids clone I wrote in Java over to Ruby, so we worked on that. Jamie Orchard-Hays gave us a nice overview of ActiveResource and Rails 1.2. Chris Hapgood and Eric Pugh contributed greatly to the discussion. I learned a lot and I thank everyone for being willing to share their knowledge.
Our next meeting will be on December 13th. Note we are starting at 6pm next time. In general, our meetings will fall on the second Wednesday of each month. Hope to see you there!
Next Ruby Code Jam 11/8/06
October 20, 2006
The next Ruby Code Jam meeting will be Wednesday November 8th at 7pm at the Ten Flavors Studio on the downtown mall. This meeting will be more of a code jam than a formal presentation. Please bring your laptop and technologies you want to show off or code that you want to jam on! We will have wireless Internet. Also please drop me a line if you are coming so I can get a headcount for pizza. Directions to the space are here.
My Ruby Jam Report
09:23 AM
Thanks to everyone who came out Saturday! It was a good day of hacking and it went fast as it always seems to. Present at the event were Keith Bennett, Chris Hapgood, Mike Perz, Colin Steele, Ed Zavada, and myself.
We broke into two project teams. One project team worked on Ruby bindings for Ed's high performance graphics engine. The second team worked on troubleshooting and extending Chris' photo tagging software he is porting to the web. Ed, Colin, and Keith worked on the graphics lib bindings. I worked on the second team with Mike and Chris.
Chris had taken the app pretty far already and we just sort of picked up where he had left off in his own work and started peer programming it. We put the code up on a large flat panel and took turns driving the keyboard. It was educational to see somebody else's approach to AJAX in Rails and to have them right there to explain their code. After a summary of the architecture given by Mike, we worked on the first problem, completing the round trip on a user interaction he was currently coding. It was a somewhat complex user interaction. I introduced him to JSON for data transmit and I learned about some very useful (some would say basic) tools that I have been overlooking. (like the Firefox DOM Inspector!) My life is so much better now. ;^) Also, we checked out the MS JS debugging environment. We stopped coding for a while and just exhanged knowledge. I introduced the group to Yahoo's UI platform. We talked about Web Services with REST. The last problem we worked on was tracking down some crazy browser specific bugs in the javascript mouse event handling code. Learned lots of in and outs of Prototype's mouse handling tools.
