Thanks again Brent for organising the night - the Iron Hacks idea was a work of genius as were the curlophone, pagejour and the macruby bouncing balls.
I'll get around to putting our extensions into our fork of injour sometime soon. I still have some enthusiasm for creating blimjour (an audio equivalent of _why's blimlimb using bonjour, text to speech and spoken word instead of irc - like a talking curlophone orchestra) - if anyone has the time or inclination feel free to take what i'd expect to be some serious accolades. Mark. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Brent Snook <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
