From nre at foraker.com Mon Mar 5 23:26:51 2012 From: nre at foraker.com (Neal Enssle) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 16:26:51 -0700 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Foraker Labs' Ruby on Beer hackfest: 3/8/12 Message-ID: Foraker Labs' Ruby on Beer hackfest: 3/8/12 Ruby on Beer is an informal hackfest and a chance to socialize with other Rubyists in the Boulder area. Bring your own laptop and join the Foraker Labs crew on the second Thursday each month for free beer, food, and hacking. http://rubyonbeer.com Our next meeting is THURSDAY, March 8th, starting at 5:00PM at our office and going until about 9:00PM: Foraker Labs 4775 Walnut Street, Suite 200 Boulder, Colorado There will be food. And beer. And of course we'll be hacking on stuff. Feel free to bring your own project or just come and pair up on a code kata or two. And while we obviously love all things Ruby and Rails, we're really more interested in fellowship and learning new things. So don't be afraid to drop in if you're working in a different technology! Need more information? Got questions? Drop us a line at rubyonbeer at foraker.com or follow us on Twitter: @forakerlabs. Planning on coming? Of course you are! Let us know by signing up on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Ruby-on-Beer I look forward to seeing you there! Neal Neal Enssle Director of Technology Foraker Labs 4775 Walnut Street, Ste 200 Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 449-0202 nre at foraker.com http://www.foraker.com http://www.twitter.com/forakerlabs --------------------------- >From the Foraker blog: "Why Rails?": http://bit.ly/15uu25 From mghaught at gmail.com Wed Mar 7 17:42:54 2012 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:42:54 -0700 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - March Meeting - Mar 20th Message-ID: Boulder Ruby's March meeting is coming up on Tuesday the 20th at 7pm. Nick Howard will be speaking on MacRuby and we'll have a block of lightning talks with a theme organized by Spike Ilacqua. The theme is showing off your cool dev setup such as command line fu, editor config or other setup type stuff. We've already got most of the slots filled up but we have room for one more. We'll have our usual start around 6:45pm with food and drink provided by Pivotal Labs with a good half hour of networking before Nick kicks off his presentation. Should be a good meeting so I hope to see you all there. http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2012/02/01/march-2012/ Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org From aaf at ardith.org Mon Mar 19 12:41:47 2012 From: aaf at ardith.org (Ardith Falkner) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:41:47 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] UCAR - The GLOBE Program has open contract positions Message-ID: Hello all, The GLOBE Program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has two full time Software Engineer contract positions open: Basic Functions of Job: Working as part of a software development team, designs and develops Ruby on Rails based web applications. Uses agile methodology to develop state of the art software using Ruby on Rails, Postgres SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Develops full stack software for the Ruby on Rails web framework. Re-implements Oracle/Perl based legacy data-entry system on Ruby on Rails/Postgres. Duties: 1) Designs and develops web-based database-backed applications and tools for global earth sciences education targeted towards teachers and students. Ensures data quality and accuracy. 2) Performs design and development of a science data-entry system using Ruby on Rails and Postgres. 3) Re-designs and re-factors legacy Oracle database schema to Postgres. Implements ETL tools to transfer data from the Oracle database to Postgres. 4) Develops user interfaces from user requirements factoring workflow, subject matter, human factors, and logic for intuitive and positive user experiences. 5) Integrates other applications and frameworks, such as content management systems, to seamlessly create a unified web site. If the position sounds interesting, please don't hesitate to reply. Thank you! --Ardith From mghaught at gmail.com Mon Mar 19 20:55:25 2012 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:55:25 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - March Meeting - Mar 20th Reminder Message-ID: Tomorrow is our March meeting for Boulder Ruby. We'll be meeting on Tuesday the 20th at 7pm at Pivotal Labs (directions below). They are generous hosting food and drink for the meeting so thank them for their support. Food will arrive at 6:45. Nick Howard open the meeting talking about MacRuby. Then we'll have a block of lightning talks with a theme organized by Spike Ilacqua. The theme is showing off your cool dev setup such as command line fu, editor config or other setup type stuff. We still have room for one more presentation so if you'd up for talking about how you've set things up for 5-10 minutes, please contact Spike at spike AT indra.com. Slides are not necessary since you'll likely just talk about what you've done as you show off your config files, libraries or whatever. This could be as simple as 'here are 3 libraries/scripts that I find really useful'. As with our usual meetings, the first 20 minutes will be networking over food and drink. I look forward to seeing you all come out. http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2012/02/01/march-2012/ Cheers, Marty Haught http://boulderruby.org Directions: Pivotal Labs 1701 Pearl St Boulder, CO 80302 Use the 17th St entrance closer to the alley on the NE side of the intersection. You should see the Pivotal Labs logo in the window. The meeting space is upstairs. URL to google maps: http://bit.ly/fNTcZf From joshua at opscode.com Wed Mar 21 03:58:17 2012 From: joshua at opscode.com (Joshua Timberman) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:58:17 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] org-mode outline from my lightning talk tonight Message-ID: Here's the notes from my development setup, in case you were curious and didn't write down gem names. Load it up in Emacs for the org-mode goodness ;). My blog (linked at the bottom) includes posts that go into greater detail on several of the topics I talked about. https://gist.github.com/91eb280d8f251c962889 My Development Setup * Editor ** Emacs (24) Why I am more productive (than w/ Vim) - confluence-mode - readline and Emacs navigation keys - org-mode - ido-mode and smex - Buffer management ** Configuration Highlights of my ~/.emacs.d - packages.el - modularized configuration - modules/*.el - emacs-starter-kit * Terminal ** iTerm2 - Copy/paste - 256 color terminal - Tmux integration ** Tmux ** Zsh * Ruby! - Use Rbenv - Rvm is fine too ** Useful Gems - pry - ubuntu_ami #+BEGIN_SRC ruby # this ami = Ubuntu.release("lucid").amis.find do |ami| ami.arch == "amd64" and ami.root_store == "instance-store" and ami.region == "us-east-1" end # or this Ubuntu.release("lucid").amis.each do |ami| puts "#{ami.region} #{ami.name} (#{ami.arch}, #{ami.root_store})" end #+END_SRC - git, github_api, git-up - fpm - showoff - gollum - octopress * Automation ** Chef - Three OS X systems - Consistent configuration - Linux systems too ** Vagrant - Multi-VM Vagrantfile ** VMware Fusion - fission ** EC2 * Stay on Target ** Pomodoro Technique - 25 minutes work - 5 minute breaks * Window Management - Zooom2.app - Divvy.app - Full screen & Spaces * Blogging http://twitter.com/jtimberman http://jtimberman.housepub.org -- Opscode, Inc Joshua Timberman, Technical Program Manager IRC, Skype, Twitter, Github: jtimberman From zef at madebykiwi.com Wed Mar 21 04:35:27 2012 From: zef at madebykiwi.com (Zef Houssney) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:35:27 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Resources from my talk - Sparkup and Vim plugins Message-ID: Thanks for all your questions and feedback! Sparkup and Zen Coding: https://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/ Cycle.vim (my plugin): https://github.com/zef/vim-cycle MacVim icon replacement: http://dribbble.com/shots/337065-MacVim-Icon-Updated- Surround (check out other tpope plugins too): https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround Ruby Text Objects: http://vimcasts.org/blog/2010/12/a-text-object-for-ruby-blocks/ My Dotfiles: https://github.com/zef/dotfiles I'd love to hear from you if you have any other questions or comments. I use this email address on Jabber/Google Talk and 'zefhous' on Skype. Thank you! Zef Houssney 303.328.8675 From prakash.n.murthy at gmail.com Thu Mar 29 19:44:28 2012 From: prakash.n.murthy at gmail.com (Prakash Murthy) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:44:28 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Couple of spots available at Boulder Code retreat this Saturday Message-ID: Hi All, A few people canceled at the last minute, so there are a few spots open at this Saturday's Code Retreat. If you want to attend, please sign up at http://coloradocoderetreat.ticketbud.com/bouldermar2012 -- Thanks, Prakash N Murthy http://twitter.com/_prakash -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: