Howdy, Last Thursday was the inaugural Iron Hacks night for the Melbourne Ruby group; the turnout was small but I think its fair to say that fun was had by all.
The mystery ingredient was Bonjour and it was used to tasty effect on a number of different projects. Xavier Shay cooked up the Curlophone orchestra and took out the top prize of the Ruby spoon + a $100 Threadless voucher to boot - http://github.com/xaviershay/curlophone-orchestra/tree/master. Pete Yandell and Matt took out second with their MacRuby bouncing balls demo. Daniel, George and Mark Ryall added private messaging support to Injour, dubbed G'Day or Bongiourno. Adam, Mick and Josh gave us Jourguide. John whipped up Pagejour. Honourary last place goes to Ryan for not even showing up despite promising to give everyone a sound paddling. Thanks to the ever generous Thoughtworks (who provide us with sustenance and a venue every month), http://www.thoughtworks.com. Thanks also to Stateless Systems, makers of bugmenot.com, beatmyprice.com and others - http://www.statelesssystems.com. This local Melbourne startup provided us with the $100 Threadless voucher and they are also hiring - see the job description at the end of this message. Once everyone sends through the links to their projects I can put up an entry in place of the analogue blog. Also, if there are any volunteers to run next month's meeting (you choose the format), please get in contact with Pete Yandell. Thanks, Brent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And here's the job description from Bevan Clark: We are looking for a like minded Ruby programmer who really wants to engage in the craft by hacking code with our small team at statelesssystems.com Ruby is typically our weapon of choice, the work is interesting, all in house, very rarely generic CRUD applications and we contribute back to the community where we can. Our last application beatmyprice.com used Merb, Memcached, DataMapper, Sphinx and Nokogiri to name a few goodies and during development we wrote and released 6 Ruby libraries and 5 JQuery plugins between the four of us. Both the ideal workplace and ideal work are a matter of opinion but if the idea of hacking code with us sounds at all interesting drop me an email and we can organise a full wine and dine tour, or a coffee and sandwich if you prefer. Rest assured, we are profitable, we pay well and we have no suits on the team. Send a mail to bevan (@) statelesssystems.com if you're interested. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
