Videos from the October and November Sydney meetups have been uploaded to Vimeo for your viewing pleasure: http://vimeo.com/channels/rorosydney
## From the October meetup we have: Chris Lloyd: The pub at the end of the universe Chris paints a picture of a future where Ruby no longer has a place and client-side Javascript rules all. http://vimeo.com/7862027 Richard Heycock: bookmarker Richard demos his bookmark managing gem: bookmarker. Bookmarker stores your pages for offline reading, provides a full-text search index and a command line interface. http://vimeo.com/7862409 Rex Chung: Ankoder Rex presents on his video-encoding application service for Rails developers: Ankoder. http://vimeo.com/7864779 Myles Byrne: Exemplor Myles announces his gem exemplor, a new way of writing tests. Myles explains how exemplor tries to strike a balance between developing using examples, "puts" and having full-blown suite of regression tests. http://vimeo.com/7866214 Tim Lucas: Tweeps Tim demos Tweeps, the twitter directory application built for the Web Directions South 2009 conference. Tim shows how you could structure a larger Sinatra application with examples of rake console, rake deploy, speeding up the shotgun reload process and more. http://vimeo.com/7868383 ## From the November lightning-talk meetup we have: Charles Dale: Intro to Flex for Rails devs Charles gives us an intro to Flex and Rails with their application BeQIK. He shows us ActiveRecord extensions for adding batch importing AR models, the Rails XML rendering and the Flex MXML and ActionScript services and data grids that present the UI. http://vimeo.com/7871656 Myles Byrne: fancystruct Myles introduces his latest gem, fancystruct: a better alternative to Ruby's built-in Struct and OpenStruct classes. http://vimeo.com/7870382 Mark Bennett: Annotate those models Mark shows how to use the annotate gem to add database column documentation to your ActiveRecord models. http://vimeo.com/7870293 Gabe Hollombe: Firebug Tips and Tricks Gabe shares some oft-missed features hidden away in Firebug and its various plugins. He mentions directly adjusting elements layout using the layout pane, the cookies firebug plugin,the jQuery firefox plugin to see events bound to elements as well as logging all events emitted from an element, and how to debug using the debug and debugger statements. http://vimeo.com/7870114 Keith Pitty: Rake, Unfuddle and Net::FTP Keith shares tips and tricks from how he's used Rake, Unfuddle and Net::FTP on the Reading Eggs project to streamline collaboration around content creation. http://vimeo.com/7869926 Andrew Grimm: Declare War on Everything with Chaser Andrew describes his newly released gem, Chaser, a pure-Ruby mutation testing tool. He demos mutation testing with Chaser in Exemplor examples. http://vimeo.com/7869201 James Sadler: bigbananajour James launches bigbananajour, bananajour's larger cousin that mirrors of all the git repositories shared on the LAN. http://vimeo.com/7869025 Damien Le Berrigaud: Happy Mapper (fork using Nokogiri) Damien demos Happymapper's XML to Object mapping capabilities, and his fork of it which replaces Hpricot with Nokogiri and allows for parsing of dirty HTML. http://vimeo.com/7868907 Toby Hede: Intro to MongoDB Toby gives an introduction to MongoDB, a key-value document store supporting JSON, dynamic queries, indexing and query profiling. http://vimeo.com/7868711 and last but not least: Taylor Luk: Fast Couching Taylor shares some tips and tricks on getting good performance from your CouchDB databases. Taylor covers bulk_save for efficiently inserting large amounts of data, using your own intelligent sequence IDs for improved B-tree storage and smart timebased-size searches, and optimising view performance. http://vimeo.com/7868655 -- tim -- 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.
