[rails-oceania] Re: why oh _why?

lol excuse my Monday arvo tiredness ... but seems Ayn Rand is a noughties mutation of Godwins law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law) It's funny that some philosophers religions are considered kosher in online fora but others aren't; one can mention Jung, but Rand is off- limits?

[rails-oceania] Re: why oh _why?

So here we are - _why - hitler - satan why oh why? Perhaps http://tinyurl.com/l8jgvc is in reality http://tinyurl.com/8lv3n ... It makes perfect sense; if you take Grimm's experiments into account, one day everyone trying to find out _why's identity will wind up on the Wikipedia page for

[rails-oceania] Re: Rails Job Ad

Boast?  Usually, I see it as a mark of sad geekiness :) I'm up to 20 years in IT myself ... if you count writing a flat-file database (in Locomotive BASIC on an Amstrad CPC 6128) for my primary school at the age of 10 ;-). I still remember going home thinking why the _hell_ isn't this working?

[rails-oceania] Re: Does switching careers = salary loss?

In turn that means you as an applicant can use requirements like “3-5 years doing this technology” as a gauge of how clued-in the company hiring is. Reminds me of a comment by a motorcycle riding instructor some years back. He said that when someone says I have five years riding experience,

[rails-oceania] Re: Does switching careers = salary loss?

How much is a result of experience in the so- called 'soft skills?' (To be clear, Goleman saw skill in those areas arising as a _consequence_ of emotional intelligence). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[rails-oceania] EQ vs. IQ [was: Does switching careers = salary loss?]

On Oct 16, 2:31 pm, Steve Gilles stevegil...@gmail.com wrote: While we’re on the topic- it’s cool to see more attention being paid to EQ, not just IQ. What’s the point in hiring a genius if he turns out to be an architecture astronaut? As Kent Beck put it, ... no matter what the client says

[rails-oceania] Re: EQ vs. IQ [was: Does switching careers = salary loss?]

Think that might be a Gerald Weinberg quote?!  They've probably both said it at various times, I guess ;) Definitely Beck, in that case - Extreme Programming Explained, 2nd Ed. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[rails-oceania] Re: Best laptop to buy for linux?

It's laptop buying time and I think it's time I move back to linux. I want small/lightweight as I plan to use external keyboard, mouse, monitor. Does anyone have an suggestions for what I should get? My wife's running Ubuntu 9.04 on her Dell XPS M1210 - very good performance and just plain

[rails-oceania] Re: Your favourite Ruby development setup

... Shell? Bash via MultiTerm in Emacs. ... Text editor? And text editor macros? Emacs. See http://github.com/duncan-bayne/duncans_emacs. ... Operating system and extensions? Ubuntu, with CrystalWM as the WindowManager. See http://github.com/duncan-bayne/duncans_fvwm. ... Deployment

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Roro Meetup Notes

## Talks for Next Month? * Josh Basset should talk, probably about something he doesn't understand yet. * David Goodlad, because heckling. * Andy Kitchen I was originally planning to give a short talk on programmable interfaces last month but ended up missing the meetup - is there

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Roro Meetup Notes

Pretty sure RORO is next week on the 29th… Ah, that'll be my poor Google Calendaring. *fourth* Thursday of every month is not the same as *last* Thursday ... Thanks for the heads-up :-) Either way the question still stands. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[rails-oceania] Re: Editors, emacs

I'm wondering how many people here use emacs as their editor? My impression from meetups is that vim, textmate and sublime dominate, but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong. I'm a happy Emacs user myself; here's my config: https://github.com/duncan-bayne/emacs-setup -- You received

Re: [rails-oceania] Editors, emacs

Anyway that's the main reason I don't use emacs despite giving it numerous tries. Just too painful on the hand. Probably because I never mastered the two handed chording. That was my impression until I made my CAPS key CTRL. Then things got a lot better. Plus note that in most

[rails-oceania] Re: Call for Speakers @ Melbourne Meetup

If you're in, please let us know asap! I have a talk I was planning to give at the *last* RoRo about programmable interfaces. I'm happy to give that tonight ... probably reasonably short, maybe half a dozen brief slides and a (very) simple code demo. -- You received this message

Re: [rails-oceania] Editors, emacs

+1 for caps = ctrl (does cause a lot of confusion when I use other people's computers and suddenly everything's in capitals though!) That's a security feature ;-) On my machine the conversation goes: How do I open a browser? C-t d for Chrome, C-t M-f for Firefox What??? Hold down

[rails-oceania] Open Wireless Movement

Have folks here seen this? https://openwireless.org/ The idea's got me quite excited. Admittedly there's probably less call for it where I live in Upwey, but I think it'd be a powerful tool in denser urban areas. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby — Change of date and call for speakers!

Anyone else? Maybe someone wants to show off their side-project or a new gem they've found? If no-one minds me doing two presentations in a row, I'd love to show off the Rails dev environment we've built at Lonely Planet using Vagrant and Chef. -- You received this message because you

Re: [rails-oceania] Inviting corporate reps to RoRo ...

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 4:37:41 PM UTC+11, Michael Pearson wrote: Was it an informative talk because it directly touched on AWS things specific to REA that we wouldn't get to hear about at a more public event? It was more high-level than that, mostly talking about security concepts and

[rails-oceania] Proposal for DRM in HTML5

Hi All, I thought this would be relevant to group members, as most of us are doing some sort of web development. The W3C is considering the addition of a DRM interface for Javascript to the HTML5 standard: http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/perspectives_on_encrypted_medi.html There are details and

[rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

Thanks for sharing this. No worries. Please do share it around; most people I've told oppose it, but had no idea it was happening. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

Jon, I'm for DRM in HTML5 if it means I can watch Netflix et al natively in browser... Perhaps the most significant thing to understand about the EME proposal is that it *won't* allow you to watch Netflix natively, or even watch it on operating systems that Netflix don't want to support.

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

What would you rather… DRM in HTML5 or Flash/Silverlight/etc… because corporations are not going to abandon it (DRM). Yes. Because there is *no difference *from a technical perspective. The CDMs that would be interoperated with through EME would still be closed-source proprietary blobs

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

Jon, I addressed your questions in detail on the blog post I linked to. You can see that DRM is clearly inimical to several of the W3Cs stated goals. (To be clear, I'm not making the argument against DRM per se, I'm arguing that the W3C should not be compromising its goals to include DRM in

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 3:11:42 PM UTC+10, Michael Pearson wrote: How did we get from proposed standard for integrating existing media DRM into Javascript to software freedom? That's a good question, with a very serious answer: because the proposed standard is for a technology that can

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

That's a good question, with a very serious answer: because the proposed standard is for a technology that can not be implemented in a manner compatible with Free Software. I don't see that as a problem. It isn't a problem ... right up until the W3C makes it part of the standard.

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

Incidentally, I'm not just blowing smoke here: I co-founded a company back in 2007, and our major product was a DRM system for .NET software. I have very deep exposure to the technology from both a technical and marketing perspective (three months of making sales calls will give you grey

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Proposal for DRM in HTML5

No, I have not. I think I will cop to your superior domain knowledge here and agree with you that perhaps I should be worried. You should check it out, it's not too bad as specs go: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html Personally I think

[rails-oceania] Re: Google+ and RORO

I like the G+ slogan: Share the right things with just the right people. Apparently that includes the NSA :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

[rails-oceania] Can't present this Thursday I'm afraid - July instead?

Hi Folks, I'm afraid that due to 'personal reasons' (death in the family, self-poisoning dogs, sick infant) I'm not going to be able to present on Thursday. I'll still be coming along, but my plan was to demo working code and a severe lack of free time (see above) has led to the code not

[rails-oceania] Talk next month on debugging Ruby Gems with native extensions

Hi Folks, A problem I've seen several - in fact all of my Ruby - clients face is segfaults due to failures in the native extensions of Gems. A lot of developers who are new to Ruby, especially those without a C background, tend to shy away from getting that deep into the code. I'd like to

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby in July - Next Thursday - Extra speakers required

The code from my demo is up here: https://github.com/duncan-bayne/client-certificates Disclaimers: quickly hacked up for the talk, definitely not production-ready, finished fifteen minutes before my talk on three hours, only ever tested on Ubuntu :) -- You received this message because you

Re: [rails-oceania] Talk next month on debugging Ruby Gems with native extensions

Thanks for reminding me - I'd totally forgotten about the Newbie night. Yay sleep deprivation :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[rails-oceania] Looking for a [JOB] mid-September

-calling, sales presentations, live coding demos and suchlike in addition to product development from concept through to support. I also home-brew caffeinated beerhttps://github.com/duncan-bayne/duncan-bayne.github.com/wiki/Homebrew#programmers-pale-ale:) I'm hoping to find a role where I can

[rails-oceania] Re: Looking for a [JOB] mid-September

Correction: my email address is dhgba...@fastmail.fm. Thanks to James Healy for the correction. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[rails-oceania] Re: Looking for a [JOB] mid-September

Hi, Thanks to all who responded. I've found a new role, will be starting with the team at GreenSync on October 1st :) Yours, Duncan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

[rails-oceania] Stream of European Parliament discussing DRM in HTML5

Thought this was relevant to the group ... - Original message - From: Appelquist Daniel (UK) snip To: snip Cc: snip Subject: Re: Forwarded Invite to Discussion of EME at the European Parliament, Oct. 15, 11:00-13:00 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 19:57:27 +0100 FYI I've had word back from

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby Notes - November 2013

The notes from the night are below - we already have two speakers lined up for January, which is fantastic, but if anyone’s keen to put their hand up, do get in touch, we should be able to fit in at least one more, possibly two. I'd like to put my hand up for teaching (and learning!)

[rails-oceania] Children?

Is it okay to bring children (in this case, a two year old) to RoRo? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[rails-oceania] June presentation - SPA with Angular.js and Ruby on Rails?

Hi Folks, Are all the June slots taken? I've been using Angular.js a fair bit at work and would love to give a demo of how to get started building a SPA (single page app) with Angular.js on top of Ruby on Rails. Yours, Duncan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Recorded presentations - best practices?

On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:20:50 AM UTC+10, Chris Berkhout wrote: If there are slides or a presentation, consider doing picture-in-picture, and also makes the slides available online. One of my colleagues (hi Simon!) suggested I set up a webcam focused on the visual aid (PCB w/ LEDs) so

Re: [rails-oceania] June presentation - SPA with Angular.js and Ruby on Rails?

On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:00:08 PM UTC+10, Pat Allan wrote: Actually, I can’t read my own notes. Only one talk for July at this point, not two, so I’ve put you down for July :) Is it too late to change my topic? :) I was thinking about all the *other* things that support Ruby development.

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby - WEDNESDAY May 28th 2014

* Duncan Bayne: Building and debugging native Ruby extensions I've finally gotten around to creating a GitHub repo for my presentations. I was debating whether to do one for all presentations, or one per presentation, and went with the former for ease of maintenance. https

[rails-oceania] July presentation - hardware or software focus?

Hi Folks, I was originally going to speak on there's no such thing as magic at RoRo July - going into some deeper debugging tools and techniques and how they apply to Ruby. The emphasis would be on the philosophy of there's no such thing as magic. Anyhow I'm currently building a side

[rails-oceania] Crafting Ruby

At RoRo last night I mentioned the idea of a day spent learning to hack Ruby by writing Minecraft plugins. The rough, hand-wavy idea is that: - people turn up with their own machines (anything capable of running Minecraft with some spare CPU and RAM should do) - there will be a

[rails-oceania] Next topic: OO anti-patterns in Ruby vs. Windows integration in Ruby?

Hi Folks, Hoping to give another presentation in a few months time. I have two topics that have been relevant to me of late: - OO anti-patterns in Ruby (things like polymorphism by case statement), or - Windows integration in Ruby (things like scripting SQL Server DB

[rails-oceania] Re: which operating system to go with for ror jobs

Mint on it. I maintain some (rough, hacky) scripts for setting up a Mint-based dev environment here: https://github.com/duncan-bayne/mint-setup If you have any questions I'm happy to help. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group

[rails-oceania] Re: Next topic: OO anti-patterns in Ruby vs. Windows integration in Ruby?

Anti-patterns it is then. Can't say I'm sad :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby - Wednesday November 26th

On Thursday, November 27, 2014 9:16:22 AM UTC+11, Henry Maddocks wrote: Any chance of seeing the slides for this? * Duncan Bayne - Ruby OO Anti-Patterns Sure, they're up along with all my other recent presentations at: https://github.com/duncan-bayne/presentations -- You

[rails-oceania] Re: [Melbourne] Ruby Meetup this Wednesday the 24th of June

Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen - that was a good (if late!) evening. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[rails-oceania] Job market, junior / graduate roles

Last night over a few^W^Wseveral^Wmany drinks, a group of us got to talking about the state of Ruby in Australia. Some of the points raised were: - there are a lot of companies looking for Rubyists - most of those companies are looking for mid - senior developers - it is very hard to

[rails-oceania] Re: [Melbourne] Community Selected Topic

Post your suggestions and upvotes on this thread (or email me at dun...@bayne.id if you'd rather not join the group for any reason). Clipboard fail; make that dun...@bayne.id.au :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania

[rails-oceania] [Melbourne] Community Selected Topic

to you! Yours, Duncan Bayne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email

[rails-oceania] Re: [Melbourne] Ruby Meetup on the 30th of September (remember, new venue this month)

On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 9:42:38 AM UTC+10, Gareth Townsend wrote: > > * Mocking and Stubbing tests in rspec - Duncan Bayne > I fleshed this out a bit - not only will I cover mocking and stubbing, but also RSpec in general, and a few cool tools that beginners to RSpec may

Re: [rails-oceania] Community Selected Topic

On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 9:36:27 AM UTC+10, Gareth Townsend wrote: > > I’m making the decision for you :P and announcing the talks for next week > this morning. > > Seems reasonable :)

[rails-oceania] Re: [Melbourne] Ruby meetup - Wednesday 25th May

* Duncan Bayne is giving a talk entitle electrocution driven development. I'm pretty sure he's going to electrocute someone... ⚡️ I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to bail at short notice :( The scratchy throat I had this morning has progressed to nearly-lost voice and head cold

[rails-oceania] Re: [Melbourne] Ruby meetup - Wednesday 25th May

* Duncan Bayne is giving a talk entitle electrocution driven development. I'm pretty sure he's going to electrocute someone... ⚡️ I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to bail at short notice :( The scratchy throat I had this morning has progressed to nearly-lost voice and head cold

[rails-oceania] Talk in April

Hi, I was wondering if there's still a slot free in April? I was hoping to do three back to back lightning talks plus Q: the philosophy of affirmative action, Ruby and Emacs, and finally Electrocution Driven Development. I have created an issue here:

[rails-oceania] Re: Talk in April

On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 7:39:14 PM UTC+11, Duncan Bayne wrote: > > I was wondering if there's still a slot free in April? I was hoping to do > three back to back lightning talks plus Q: the philosophy of affirmative > action, Ruby and Emacs, and finally Electrocution Driven

[rails-oceania] Recording Melbourne Ruby presentations

Hi All, Cogent (my employer) is keen to sponsor the recording and online streaming of Melbourne Ruby presentations, using Eventer (our own product): https://www.eventer.com/ If people are keen, we'll set up and test over the next couple of weeks, and hopefully we'll be ready to record the May

Re: [rails-oceania] Recording Melbourne Ruby presentations

> BTW, I'm organising this functional programming conference later in the > year, we're currently looking for a video sponsor. Do you think you I could > hit up someone at cogent about that? > > Yes, absolutely. I'll fire you an email ASAP. -- You received this message because you are