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.
Ruby Jam Tommorrow!
October 13, 2006
We have a good crew of folks for this Saturday's Ruby Jam. If you haven't sent me a check yet, there is still room for more folks, just drop me a line and let me know you are coming. Breakfast from Mudhouse, lunch from Christian's Pizza and coffee all day are included!
Here's the info:
Where: MUDHOUSE Smart room 213 West Main Street Charlottesville VA 22902 (on the west end of the Downtown Mall)
The smartroom is located above the coffee shop, the entrance is on the outside of the building to the left of the door into the coffee shop.
Schedule
- 9am - Breakfast
- 9:30-10am - Form Teams
- 10am - Hack.
- 12pm - Lunch
- 12pm-6pm - More hacking!
- 6pm - Team Presentations
- 7pm - Dinner at South Street
What to bring
- Your laptop with Ruby installed and ready to roll
- Stuff to write on
- Anything else that inspires you creatively! :^)
October Jam!
September 19, 2006
We are planning a Ruby Jam for October 14th! This is an opportunity to spend a day coding and meet fellow Rubyists. We did this back in January and it was a blast. Check out the RubyForge repo to see some of the projects we did last time.
The cost is $60 for the whole day. This is a great deal and includes breakfast and lunch. Click here for more info! There's a limited amount of space so be sure to get me a check to save your spot!
Battle of the Scaffolds
August 02, 2006
Join Eric Pugh of OpenSource Connections as he pits two competing scaffolds for quickly ripping out a CRUD interface: AjaxScaffold and Streamlined. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each. See the design choices the developers took to minimize the code intrusion of their tools into your application. See how much fun tabluar editing of data is when you have Ajax goodness!
When: August 9th 2006 6:30pm
Where: Darden School of Business Room 160 (map)
Food and drink will be provided by our sponsor.
