November’s meetup saw a great turn out to see two excellent talks by Declan McGrath & Ana Nelson covering scraper wiki & dexy respectively with a some deep conversations after over a beer or two. Here’s my round up of the evening: Scraper wiki – public web scrapers Scraper wiki is a tool that allows anyone to create scrapers with all the coding done in the browser, from the scraperwiki website here’s a quick about scraperwiki: Online code editor, write debug and run Python, PHP or Ruby in your browser ScraperWiki code libraries make scraping, parsing and geocoding simple Store data direct to the datastore API access to data in XML, JSON, PHP, YAML or CSV Schedule scrapers to re-run so …
Meetups
The heedful hacker – Principles of Secure Development
I’m delighted that Security Ninja David Rook will be giving a talk at the next Ruby Ireland meetup, I first heard of David a couple of years ago and then after going to one of his talks I realised how little I really knew about security! If you haven’t been to any of David’s talks before && || are a bit rusty when it comes to security you should come along. As usual it’s on in the trinity capital hotel at 7pm on Nov. 16th avec food & beer. Hope to see you all there. Q.
After the friendly fire…
Thanks to all who turned out to make last night a really fun Ruby Ireland meetup! About fifteen of Ireland’s finest Ruby developers made the epic trip to Doyles Bar, near Trinity College, Dublin! With the World Cup out of the way it was time to get back down to the serious business of discussing the latest topics in Rubyland and beyond. The dropping of the usual presentation slot seemed to be a welcome change, though we didn’t actually make it to the official Ruby Session itself – leaving the music aside to keep talking tech until the end of the night. There was plenty to talk about, not least a robust debate around future of privacy for the Facebook …
Ruby Ireland Meetup “Friendly Fire”, Aug 10th (Doyle’s Bar)
A little break from tradition of presentation-oriented meetups, the next Ruby Ireland meetup will be in Doyle’s bar (across from Trinity College), Dublin (www.doylesintown.com) from 6pm. But sure isn’t change as good as a holiday! Every Tuesday, Doyle’s have a “Ruby Sessions” music event. Looking at the RubySessions.com website, this week’s confirmed acts are Fiach, Jennifer Evans and Renny Field who will be playing from 9pm. For a bit of Ruby coding talk topped off by some top tunes, catch you in Doyle’s this Tuesday!
