I reckon this is an awesome idea. Code cleanz'r'us. I'm sure I've got something I can volunteer.
On Jan 27, 3:03 pm, Justin French <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
