[PDX.rb] Call for hackers: website codefest

I'd like to get an idea of who is interested in the weekend's festivities. To remind you, we're meeting this Saturday at 11am, and will hack until we've finished or have fallen asleep, whichever comes first (that probably means early that evening). The overall goal is to implement some f

[PDX.rb] Call for hackers: website codefest

[Resending to kohalabs list.] I'd like to get an idea of who is interested in the weekend's festivities. To remind you, we're meeting this Saturday at 11am, and will hack until we've finished or have fallen asleep, whichever comes first (that probably means early that evening). The overa

Re: [PDX.rb] Re: pdx.rb calendar online

please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if there's something you think would fit. I saw that you changed this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the website. Is this what we should use? No, that was my misremembering what we'd actually decided. Events@ is the right one to use. Sorry for the confusion. --Joh

[PDX.rb] Codefest wrap-up/summary

I've posted a (longish) article about the code|hackfest on pdxruby's shiny new blog system that Robby set up (ask me if you want a login!): http://blog.pdxruby.org/articles/2005/09/19/pdx-rb-codefest It's more about the process than the product, but I figure that you can just check o

Re: [PDX.rb] Next codefest? Ruby newbies welcome?

On Sep 21, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Preston Crawford wrote: I'm still learning Ruby. Mostly as a way to do Rails. I'm a Java developer. I'm interested in attending one of these and wondering when the next one is and if it would be bad to have people in attendance, such as myself, who are Ruby newb

Re: [PDX.rb] Ruby Trainers?

Also, if anyone knows of alternatives to Waitr for cross-platform browsers, let me know. It's not exactly the same thing, but WWW::Mechanize is pretty good for scraping and controlling websites. I've had a bunch of experience using it to implement front-ends and data-suckers for a client.

Re: [PDX.rb] Help needed for Katrina Relief Efforts

On Oct 11, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Aaron Huslage wrote: We need to build up some infrastructure to support our coordination efforts. Right now this includes databases for Volunteers, Equipment and Donations. Wow... this sounds like a cool project for a very worthy goal. Are you using anything curr

Re: [PDX.rb] November PDX.rb meeting

On Oct 17, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Ben Bleything wrote: - RubyConf 2005 post-mortem for those who couldn't go I'd love to do it, but unfortunately I probably won't be able to the meeting -- it's my wife's birthday. So unless she decides she wants to celebrate another night, I'll have to catch u

[PDX.rb] Fwd: [xpportland] Agile 2006 Rails Website Volunteers

Anyone interested? Begin forwarded message: From: John Goodsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: October 17, 2005 11:03:10 PM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [xpportland] Agile 2006 Rails Website Volunteers I'm looking to recruit a couple of experienced, Ruby on Rails, volunteers to help bui

Re: [PDX.rb] December meeting presentations?

John Labovitz mentioned he'd recap what he remembered from RubyConf. John- still up for that? Yup, if I can still remember any of it... ;) I can't say it'll be a very long tale, so maybe if some other folks are working on interesting stuff they'd like to present, they

Re: [PDX.rb] December meeting presentations?

On Nov 30, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Aaron Johnson wrote: I've been thinking about single sign on solutions for a group of rails applications. Can't say I'm an expert but would be willing to present various approaches in hopes to begin a discussion. I'd be interested in this. I've been dealing with

[PDX.rb] January meeting?

I haven't seen any chatter here on the list for a while -- hope everyone's having a good end-of-year time. Next Tuesday is Ruby Tuesday, I believe. Has anyone volunteered to be a speaker? If not, might I suggest an evening of lightning talks? These would be a little more than introductory

Re: [PDX.rb] January meeting?

It's great to see so much interest! Thanks to all who've volunteered. It looks like we have plenty of potential presentations. In order they were presented here on the list: - Darrin Eden on bumpr.com, "a free service storing track logs from your GPS device and rendering those track log

[PDX.rb] RubyCocoa docs

For you Mac application hackers out there, Tim Burks has been putting together a really nice Hieraki book on RubyCocoa. It's in development, but even in its current state, it's well worth a read: http://www.rubycocoa.com/an-introduction-to-rubycocoa (Note: I suggest pulling RubyCoco

Re: [PDX.rb] iCal and Ruby hacking?

On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Robby Russell wrote: We (PLANET ARGON) are using iCal with webdav to manage our individual calendars... but we're wondering if anyone knows how to use some of the sharing features of .MAC without .MAC. Tips, pointers, etc? .Mac hasn't been cracked yet, as far as

Re: [PDX.rb] iCal and Ruby hacking?

On Jan 14, 2006, at 9:19 AM, David Edwards wrote: http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/mac/tips/idisk/ This may be along the lines of what you're looking for? I was trying to figure out how to get .mac without .mac, and this made it to my list of things to look at when I have more time. Mmm, n

Re: [PDX.rb] February meeting

On Feb 5, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Don Park wrote: also, pdxruby.org still says the next meeting is november 2005. dev.pdxruby.org seems to work well. for those with the power: can it be put on the main url? Sorry, that's my fault (the current public page). This came up last time, and I forgot th

Re: [PDX.rb] Monthly Meeting Agenda

On Apr 2, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Caleb Phillips wrote: Does anyone have any agenda items they would like to propose? I had a chat with my O'Reilly contact, and can update the group on possible FOSCON connections/collaborations. I'd also like to ask for a small group of folks to volunteer to co

[PDX.rb] pdx.rb meeting(s) this Tuesday

I just posted two events on the pdx.rb site. Monthly Meeting http://pdxruby.org/events/show/6 It'd be great to actually have an agenda this time! I'm playing with some GPS tracking stuff that I might be able to show. Does anyone else have something they're working on that

Re: [PDX.rb] pdx.rb meeting(s) this Tuesday

On Apr 30, 2006, at 10:39 PM, Brandon C.S. Sanders wrote: I'm interested in the FOSCON/OSCAMP discussion and can make it at 6:30, but probably not sooner for the beer. Just to clarify -- beer & discussion at Lucky Lab at 6:30 for FOSCON- related stuff; then the general meeting at Freegeek a

[PDX.rb] Summary of last night's meeting

[This is also posted to the event page at .] Chris meta-presented his P8 presentation tool, an extension S5 with additions for collaboration. This was a loosely coupled, multidimensional talk combining Japanese linguistics, poetry, and Chris's impressions

Re: [PDX.rb] One week warning...

On May 30, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Ben Bleything wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006, Phil Tomson wrote: What's on the agenda for next Tuesday Night's meeting? I'd suggest more discussion n OSCAMP/ORE (OSCON Related Events) I'll let John have the final say but I know we're getting together ahead of tim

Re: [PDX.rb] One week warning...

On May 30, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Phil Tomson wrote: I think he was coming back on May 31. I suspect he's currently in transit. Although I certainly *feel* as if I am in transit, I am actually home. I decided to come back a couple of days early -- so arrived back yesterday morning. I'm stil

Re: [PDX.rb] One week warning...

On May 30, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote: Quite true. We're definitely in a grey area there. If we do continue to use it, we might want to contact O'Reilly and find out what their official view is on it. I've just done so. I'll let y'all know what I hear back. --John

Re: [PDX.rb] One week warning...

On May 30, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Phil Tomson wrote: It's that 'brand' part that's a bit worrisome given O'Reilly's actions concerning "Web2.0". According to my friend there (who is the VP of corporate communications, and knows the "Web 2.0" issue intimately): We won't send the goons on you. ;

Re: [PDX.rb] pdx.rb wiki

Part of the Rails app I made for my travels was originally done for a friend who wanted a website that was relatively easy to maintain, and strongly cross-linked. I ended up building him what is basically a wiki , but not quite as openly- editable as most wikis; it also doesn't *appear* li

[PDX.rb] FOSCON/OSCamp organizational meeting Tues. @ 6pm

Argh... Sorry about posting this so late, but I think most of the folks who were going to come probably know about it already. Anyway, the little group of us who are planning the FOSCON & OSCamp events for July will be meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, before the regular Ruby meeting, at around 6

[PDX.rb] Fwd: OSCamp space for Wed-Fri

There's been some talk going on recently about OSCamp on the planning list. This message from Allison was particularly interesting, so I thought I'd forward it on. Begin forwarded message: From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 6, 2006 2:30:49 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: [PDX.rb] Fwd: OSCamp space for Wed-Fri

On Jun 6, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote: This makes it sounds like there might be a possible place for FOSCON at the convention center seperate from the OScamp space. Am I reading this wrong? That's what I'm trying to find out. Will let you know when I get a response back from A

[PDX.rb] Reminder: OSCamp/FOSCON meeting tonight on IRC at 8pm

The planners of the OSCamp/FOSCON events will be meeting tonight at 8pm (PT) on IRC on #pdx.rb (irc.freenode.net). We'll be talking details of the two events, including: - updates of plans since the Tuesday meeting - ideas for OSCamp events: games, contests, shootouts, projec

[PDX.rb] Fwd: [OSCamp] Rooms and scheduling

Check the site below for what OSCamp is looking like. Look especially at Tuesday & Wednesday (daytimes), since that's when we'll be having our "official" RubyCamp events. I'm not actually clear on what "two sessions" means -- whether that's sequential, parallel, or something else. --John

[PDX.rb] Separate list for FOSCON planning?

Is anyone averse to setting up a separate mailing list for FOSCON/ OSCamp planning? Given that things are gearing up, and there are a lot of little bits of info flying around, it'd be good to disseminate that -- but not if people are annoyed to the point where they might unsubscribe from the

Re: [PDX.rb] Separate list for FOSCON planning?

I think the ayes have it. Let's set up [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use for event-planning throughout the year. I know we already have an [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it's just an alias that goes to (I think) me. Let's change this into a list, so the address still works for incoming suggestions (appro

[PDX.rb] Fwd: Cardinal

andal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 30, 2006 11:34:08 AM EDT To: John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cardinal I could do a quick 10 minute presentation on Parrot at the next Ruby meeting if you have space. (Is it on July 4th, or are you delaying it for the holiday?) It'd

Re: [PDX.rb] Fwd: Cardinal

Okay, Allison confirmed the talk for the meeting on Thursday. Also, she said: I'll plan to do a longer talk later, perhaps after we get a bit of Ruby running in the new Parrot compiler tools. --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby

Re: [PDX.rb] FOSCON IRC Meeting Monday

On Jul 11, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Audrey Eschright wrote: I don't see a time listed on any of the emails. When are we meeting, 7pm? I won't be able to meet at 7 (another face-to-face meeting I have to attend), but don't let that stop anyone from meeting. I can get back online after 9pm and s

[PDX.rb] FOSCON planning meeting this Saturday afternoon

We got a fair bit done in our IRC meeting tonight, but decided we needed a face-to-face meeting for efficiency's sake. http://www.pdxruby.org/events/show/15 I've tentatively set the meeting for 1pm at the Lucky Lab. Neither time nor location is set in stone, and since I'm the out-of

[PDX.rb] FOSCON page

During tonight's IRC meeting, we worked up an evolving page about FOSCON: http://oscamp.org/FOSCON --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby.org IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby

[PDX.rb] Fwd: [TxMt] TextMate Quiz no 1

For those puzzle-loving TextMate users among us... Begin forwarded message: From: Charilaos Skiadas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 14, 2006 8:03:45 pm PDT To: TextMate users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [TxMt] TextMate Quiz no 1 Hello all, I'd like to introduce you to the TextMate Quiz serie

Re: [PDX.rb] FOSCON planning meeting this Saturday afternoon

On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:00pm, Chris Dawson wrote: Is this still on? 1 pm at the Lucky Lab? Sigh, tomorrow is so busy: Mississippi Street Fair, FreeGeek party. Yes, still on -- unless everyone who wanted to come (all three of us!) decides that next week would be better, as Audrey suggested.

[PDX.rb] FOSCON needs your volunteer help!

And we'll even tell you what you can do! ;) I've put up a page of all the tasks we still need to accomplish before FOSCON: http://oscamp.org/FOSCON_volunteers I may be missing a few; please feel free to add new items where necessary. And of course, add your name to items that you

[PDX.rb] FOSCON flyer

We now have FOSCON flyers to satisfy the guerilla marketer in you! Please download, print out, cut (if needed), and put up at your workplace, cafe, swimming pool, or wherever you think your local Rubyists might be hanging out. Pocket-sized (1/4 letter-sized page, 4.25 x 5.5 -- cut in half

[PDX.rb] Updated FOSCON flyers

I just changed the FOSCON flyers to incorporate a mention of our other confirmed sponsors, Planet Argon. So if you've downloaded the flyer in order to print it, please fetch a new one. Thanks! http://blog.pdxruby.org/files/foscon_flyer_8.5x11.pdf http://blog.pdxruby.org/file

[PDX.rb] Fwd: get the word out

From Allison, about OSCamp. She's looking for bloggers during the event -- so if you're up to that, please send her links as things happen! Begin forwarded message: From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 20, 2006 11:34:31 am PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: get the word out

Re: [PDX.rb] FOSCON flyers - come and get 'em

On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:44pm, Patrick Curtain wrote: Can i suggest? Send out a PDF so we can each print and post them locally? :-) Already done. Well, not sending out a PDF -- I doubt it would get through to everyone. But you can find PDFs here: http://blog.pdxruby.org/files/fo

Re: [PDX.rb] Oscon Exhibition Hall Pass

So what’s the deal with the Oscon Exhibition Hall Passes? I remember hearing/reading that they were free. Anybody got the lowdown? They should be free, yes. But I'm not there yet; maybe someone else can give a more definite answer on how it works? --John __

Re: [PDX.rb] URGENT: We need a working projector for FOSCON

On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:29pm, Chris Dawson wrote: Does anyone have a projector? I think I recall someone saying they did. I would recommend that whoever has one, brings it. Yes, Aaron will be bringing his projector Wednesday afternoon around 5pm; I will receive it and help set it up. Good

Re: [PDX.rb] Do I need an OSCON pass for FOSCON tonight?

Long-time lurker here who's planning to be at FOSCON tonight. Do I need an OSCON exhibit hall pass to get in? Nope. FOSCON is a separate entity from OSCON, although we've sampled the name. ;) Anyone's free to come to FOSCON, as long as they don't mind being part of a large gaggle of Ruby

[PDX.rb] FOSCON buzz

Looks like there's already some FOSCON buzz going around the 'sphere. http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/ foscon_and_regional_ruby_confe.html http://seanmountcastle.com/articles/2006/07/27/foscon-ii-the-ruby-rodeo http://jdodson.org/index.php/2006/07/26/oscon-foscon/

Re: [PDX.rb] http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby is broken.

How does one view the archives ? http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland ...is one way. --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby.org IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby

Re: [PDX.rb] http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby is broken.

On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:46pm, Jay wrote: How does one subscribe/unsubscribe ? What an excellent question! ;) Sorry, something's obviously screwed up on the lists page. I'll ask around and see what's up... --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby

Re: [PDX.rb] Seaside demo?

I'm for it! I've heard a lot about the continuation model of web frameworks, but never seen it in action. --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby.org IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby

[PDX.rb] Ideas for October meeting?

Yeah, I'm early; the meeting's so far away -- over a week! ;) So who's been working on things that would translate well to the big screen (that is, our projector at FreeGeek)? Projects? Hacks? Ponderings? Rants? In continuing our grand tradition of presenting things other than Ruby, I

[PDX.rb] Mercurial follow-up

In case anyone was interested in learning more about the Mercurial source-control system (aka hg, which I presented last night), here's the place to start: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXR

Re: [PDX.rb] RubyGems and the 'datadir' problem

On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:23pm, Caleb Phillips wrote: So, I just released the first version of my first rubygem[1] (yay!). It was amazingly painless, with one exception: accessing data files from the installed library. I spent entirely too much time today reading through the rubygems-dev-list;

Re: [PDX.rb] OSCON and Linuxfest Northwest 07

On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:54pm, Bill Wright wrote: I'm trying to locate the person I met at our LFNW booth at OSCON in Portland who wanted to do the Ruby on Rails track at LinuxFest Northwest in Apr 07. That was probably me. Phil Tomson may have also talked to you. Email me back privately, and w

Re: [PDX.rb] Looking for some in-person RoR help

Since we're yakking about this stuff, I thought I'd put in my thumbs- up for poor lighttpd. I've got a VPS over at Rimu with only 128MB. This means I have to be quite conscious of memory usage. But at the moment it's serving eight static sites and four Rails sites, with Postgres on the b

Re: [PDX.rb] Thanks for the advice about web servers, now another question

Precisely -- one Textdrive system probably hosts a few dozen user domains, so they use Apache as a secure and stable front-end, and just proxy requests to each backend account's own lighttpd instance. That also allows them to give individual hosting customers privileges to maintain administer "th

Re: [PDX.rb] January meeting?

I've got errands to do in the city today, so I could probably be there later into the evening. I've got nothing to present, so just meeting for beers is good with me. Lucky Lab? 7? --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby.org IRC: #pd

[PDX.rb] Fwd: OSCamp 2007

Boy, OSCON comes around again quickly, doesn't it? Begin forwarded message: > From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: February 15, 2007 2:29:40 PM PST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: OSCamp 2007 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The OSCON conference team has set aside a room for OSCam

[PDX.rb] FOSCON III?

Is there any interest in having a third FOSCON? Our event last year was successful, but I think most of us planners considered it *too* successful for a site like FreeGeek, and organized the way it was. We'd talked about moving it closer to the convention center, perhaps even partnering in

Re: [PDX.rb] FOSCON III?

On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote: > Awesome, we had Planet Argon and CDBaby sponsor last year and it > was great having their willingness to help. Having some new > sponsors definitely could give us some additional possibilities. I don't want to mention names until they feel c

Re: [PDX.rb] FOSCON III planning meeting

I've put up the meeting notes (& my extrapolated thoughts) on the wiki: http://foscon.pbwiki.com/first-planning-meeting Looks like we're moving! --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby.org IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://l

Re: [PDX.rb] FOSCON wiki set up

On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Thomas Lockney wrote: > There is a wiki set up for FOSCON at http://foscon.pbwiki.org. It's > open for all, so use the password f0sc0n if you care to edit it. It appears that the address is actually http://foscon.pbwiki.com (that's a .com, not a .org). --John __

Re: [PDX.rb] mayday

On Apr 24, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Ben Bleything wrote: > I think a reservation for that room requires moneys, but I'm not sure. I misread this as "requires monkeys." Yes, monkeys indeed. --John ___ PDXRuby mailing list PDXRuby@lists.pdxruby.org IRC: #pdx