This month we do have a treat for you. The irrepressible Dr Nic (@drnic) is going to be talking at Ruby Ireland via Skype linkup on the subject of Code Generators! Engine Yard, thanks to courtesy of Eamon Leonard and his crew, are supplying the venue… the speaker… and the beer… at their superbly kitted out HQ on Barrow St, for what promises to be a turbo-charged event. So what’s all this about Code Generators you may ask? Well, Dr Nic’s interest in this has recently been piqued when looking into some of the magic behind railswizard.org. Make it down to Barrow St on Thursday April 19th (it’s sooner than you think!), lay back on the treatment table and let …
Meetups
RI Meetup: Chris McGrath on i18n, 22nd Nov @TwistedPepper
The countries of Europe might be squabbling over their respective grievances with each other at the moment. But at Ruby Ireland we’re looking to get on with our neighbours and give them a super fantastic user experience, as Chris McGrath talks internationalization. It all goes down at the Twisted Pepper, which is located at 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1. Things as usual kick off at 7pm. Don’t be a stranger, head down to the locale (groan!) and meet the Ruby community on Nov 22nd and find out how easy it to make your site across borders!
September_11 on Ruby Ireland
After the fantastic meetup at the end of August (thanks again to @Logentries and Engine Yard for a fantastic night!), we will gather again on Thursday 8th September from 7pm at AMWorks for another Ruby Project Night. All welcome so hope to see some of you there!
Ruby Ireland August Extravaganza
Who said August is a quiet month? Well, we have not one but two sessions for you! On Tuesday August the 30th (UPDATE: the venue is The Twisted Pepper on 54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 – directions ) the guys from JLizard, an Irish start-up founded in 2010 by Viliam Holub and Trevor Parsons, will be presenting Ruby Logging … its a gem! LogEntries.com is their cloud logging analytics for Heroku, Engineyard or your own server, and the talk promises to be an interesting one. They’ll be discussing some of the challenges with managing and analysing logs on both the small and large scale and show how Ruby dev’s can integrate with their solution via an Open Source Ruby …
Ruby Project Nights at amworks.ie
Last month the Ruby Ireland mailing list was hit with great news: Alan from amworks invited everybody to join in a Ruby Project Night on the evening of the 16th of June. The rules were fairly simple: Come work on your Ruby on Rails projects, get programming help, help others, and hang out. We’ll have a multi-screen wireless projector for showcasing your project or problem solving. And so we did… well, a bunch of us anyway! While some people decided to work on their own projects, some others joined efforts to create a gem for rails 3, something that none of us had had the chance to do before. After a bit of discussion, we finally settled on the idea …
The “Tantalizing Tapas” Flavoured Event
Are you interested in MongoDB, Rack and Sinatra? And some Web APIs and tapas for good measure? Well then you’ll be super-excited to hear that on Tuesday May 10th, Oisin Hurley will be giving a talk on “Constructing Web APIs with Rack, Sinatra and MongoDB”. And yes there will be some tasty free tapas thrown into the bargain too! The speaker, Oisin Hurley, is a Rubyist and veteran of the Irish software sector. So digest what he’s got to say as we feed you at the Seagrass restaurant on South Richmond Street ( directions ). Just in case you read that last paragraph too quickly – watch out that the event has changed from last month’s venue! If you’re really …
Build it, bill ‘em, bill ‘em again…
So one of the big things to come out of the success of the recent e-commerce talks is that there is a very real level of community interest in learning, contributing and sharing e-commerce knowledge and practices amongst members. Several people have mentioned that there is a lack of information on areas such as recurring billing, which seems to be for a variety of reasons. In his excellent talk at Ruby Ireland last week, Matt Hutchinson helped to close some of that information gap. He’s kindly posted a write up on his blog and made the slides available online. As Matt noted, a lot of apps probably die before they get to the billing stage. And for those that do …
Recurring Billing with Active Merchant
Matt Hutchinson presents his work on recurring billing with Active Merchant at this months Ruby Ireland meetup, which will be held at Twisted Pepper (54 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1). The event will go ahead on Tuesday, 12th of April at 7pm. This continues the e-commerce theme of last month, so now you’ve no excuse not to be a Ruby-based Internet millionaire! Active Merchant is an extraction from the e-commerce system Shopify and you can find out more at ActiveMerchant.org If you could indicate your attendance for this event then you are awesome. But we’ll still love you even if you don’t : -) Ruby Ireland is proudly sponsored by Jolt Online Gaming! And thanks to dediserve for hosting rubyireland.com
Irish Geeks keep Focus with Charity Fundraiser
What with all the furore around cyberhackers giving some of the world’s largest governments and companies the willies this week, you’d forgive non-techies for running hysterically in the other direction at the sight of someone whipping out a laptop beside them in the cafe. Thankfully, not all us geeks are quite so malevolent, a fact highlighted at a charity night organised by geeks in aid of Focus Ireland in Dublin this week. The Pub Quiz for Techies that Wanna Read Real Good and Do Other Stuff Real Good Too was the name of the event (inspired by the school at the end of the Ben Stiller’s comedy classic, Zoolander). It lined up techies from around Ireland, who fancied their chances …
The heedful hacker – redux
I’m delighted that Security Ninja David Rook will be giving a talk at the next Ruby Ireland meetup, he had to postpone his talk in November but was dying to come back to give his talk. So he’ll be back in Jan 2011 As usual it’s on in the trinity capital hotel at 7pm on Nov. 11th avec food & beer. Hope to see you all there. Q.
