Good list Mark! "Best practice for Rails Views" is a bit like "how to write good codez", but I'll take any opportunity I can get to lay down some of my opinionated view-fu, so I have an idea...
How about you show me some code that's giving you pain, and if I can make the pain go away, I'll do a preso on it. Code review is awesome, and quick presentations are awesome, and learning about other people's approaches is awesome, so the idea (to me) seems, err, awesome! Might inspire a whole new breed of mini-presentations on cleaning up the stuff we already have, might fail miserably ;) And I think this could extend a little outside of Ruby, like into the Javascript messes that I write for which I'm sure someone could should me a better way ;) --Justin On 27/01/2009, at 1:16 PM, Mark Mansour wrote: > > I'd like to hear about > > Ruby > - rack and what can be done with that > - Australian ecommerce ruby integration > - ruby fibers > - other Ruby 1.9 stuff > - best practice for Rails Views - damn these things are brittle (at > least the way I do it!) > - IM integration with Ruby > - ruby and natural language processing > - Prawn pdf writer > - Talk on metaprogramming in ruby > - geospatial ruby > - Chef, Sprinkle, Deprec and Capistrano - ruby deployment and > management landscape - what to use and when? > > Not Ruby - but useful > - how to create your own startup - more than code > - cloudkit and/or couchdb and/or 10gen (schemaless datastores) > - browser Canvas layers and how to use them > - Usability - grids, fonts, layouts, colour > - caching strategies for high performance (not just rails, but ESI, > Squid, javascript for dynamic stuff, etc) > - how to tune a database > > What about how to pimp the Melbourne/Oceania crew. There are so many > good things coming out of here that it would be nice if there was a > brand that we used regularly (kinda like seattle.rb). Dunno what > peeps think about this. > > I'll stop now. > > Mark > > On Jan 14, 4:54 pm, Pete Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: >> A few of us (myself, Mike Bailey, Ryan Allen, and Nick Marfleet) got >> together at SCT on Monday night, to plan another Ruby Nuby Night. We >> bounced around some ideas, and started making a list of topics worth >> including. >> >> As we were doing it, we realised something: we're not nearly as >> excited as we were 18 months ago (when the last Nuby Night was held) >> about what's happening in the Ruby space, or about working with Ruby. >> We feel like things have flattened out, there's less interesting >> innovation going on, and there are even a few potential shark-jumps >> happening. >> >> That said, there's still a lot of cool stuff out there, and we all >> think the roro community is full of amazing people. Given it's the >> start of a new year, now seems a good time to take stock, and harness >> the brains of those amazing people to work out how we can keep >> everyone involved and excited this year. >> >> So, for the next Melbourne meeting, we're only going to have one >> speaker, and I want to spend the rest of the time having a meta- >> discussion about the state of the Ruby world, and about the Melbourne >> roro group. >> >> I'm setting you all some homework in preparation for the meeting. >> Please come along having thought about the following things: >> >> 1. What do you think are the best things (products, tools, ideas, or >> anything else) to come out of the Ruby world in the past couple of >> years? >> >> 2. What are the most exciting and inspiring things you've come across >> in the past couple of years? This can be Ruby or non-Ruby, techie or >> non-techie...anything that's got you excited and motivated. >> >> 3. What are the up-and-coming things you're excited about this year? >> >> If you have any general thoughts about how we can improve the group, >> please bring those along too. >> >> (And feel free to discuss all this on the list in the meantime.) >> >> - Pete > > --- Justin French [email protected] http://justinfrench.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
