From mghaught at gmail.com Tue Sep 4 23:02:24 2012 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:02:24 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - September Meeting - Sep 11 Message-ID: The September meeting will be a week earlier due to Rocky Mountain Ruby, http://rockymtnruby.com on Tuesday the 11th. We've moved the meeting to start touch earlier at 6:30pm as we're packing in three talks and don't want to run too late. At 6:30 we'll have food, drink and networking. Come down and say hi to your fellow rubyists. Our first speaker, Joshua Timberman, is bringing some home brew for us to try. At 7pm we'll start the talks so please be here before then. First off will be Joshua Timberman speaking about Isolated Project Testing with Test Kitchen. Test Kitchen is a new RubyGem from Opscode that allows you to describe how you'd like to run your project's Unit and Integration tests in an isolated clean-room environment. It was designed to test Opscode's Chef cookbooks, Ruby and Erlang projects. Second, John Unruh will talk about Concurrency. It's been said that concurrency, either with threads or with evented code is "the next great thing". Concurrency is also a source of concern about new and difficult classes of errors. In this talk, we will examine the major issues in concurrent software execution and how to handle them. Some common errors will be illustrated with real life examples of programming errors and their resolution. Finally, Sean McKibben will cover concurrent Ruby using the actor pattern with Celluloid. He'll expand on what John's talked about with how to do this with Celluloid. Instead of calculating primes, Sean will be basing his examples around the concept of screen actors saying their lines?using the `say` system command as the unit of work. Meeting details are posted here: http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2012/07/23/september-2012/ Should be a great meeting so I hope to see you all next Tuesday. Don't forget that Rocky Mountain Ruby is happening the following week. Don't miss out on an awesome local conference. Cheers, Marty @boulderruby http://boulderruby.org From marcus at harrimanrecruitment.co.uk Wed Sep 5 07:55:35 2012 From: marcus at harrimanrecruitment.co.uk (Marcus Harriman) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 08:55:35 +0100 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - September Meeting - Sep 11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <003c01cd8b3b$d5406170$7fc12450$@co.uk> Hi folks, When you meet, please don't forget that although I am a UK based recruiter, I have a UK client company that has a development office in Boulder & I am still looking for jr. & mid level Rails Developers on their behalf. - This company has recently won a prestigious award & has been recognised as a leading technology company in its field - one of the most exciting start-ups across their respective industry sector! - These are opportunities for developers to join a company developing solutions for software testing. The roles themselves offer exposure to working with customers on a worldwide basis - developing a test management tool using Ruby, & implementing the automated SW testing! - This solution is utilized across multiple industry sectors - the scope for development & sales is huge. I know Rails developers are in high demand, but from a local perspective I understand that Boulder is a tech rich locale & you'll have a wealth of Ruby Developers out there!? Also, being akin to entry to mid level roles, these will hopefully be of interest to recent grads, who I am sure will be really interested in any new opportunities out there... Maybe you'll have some who attend the meeting, or some of you will personally know of someone & can recommend them / refer them to me - help them secure an interesting & stable career position! These roles would also suit someone with a couple of years development experience (or equivalent in internship.) If the person has Java & some experience in a test environment that would also be a plus. All resumes need to come to me at marcus at harrimanrecruitment.co.uk Salaries are negotiable depending upon experience, & the company may consider contract roles, though would prefer people in on a staff basis (they want to develop people as the company grows!) Please kindly help, & spread the word that I am looking. Many thanks & warm regards from the UK, Marcus. Marcus Harriman LLB (Hons) M.D. Harriman Recruitment Ltd WEB: www.harrimanrecruitment.co.uk MAIL: marcus at harrimanrecruitment.co.uk MOBILE: 0044 (0)7828 774 716 DIRECT: 0044 (0)1270 668 294 Skype: marcus.harriman -----Original Message----- From: bdrg-members-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:bdrg-members-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Marty Haught Sent: 05 September 2012 00:02 To: bdrg Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - September Meeting - Sep 11 The September meeting will be a week earlier due to Rocky Mountain Ruby, http://rockymtnruby.com on Tuesday the 11th. We've moved the meeting to start touch earlier at 6:30pm as we're packing in three talks and don't want to run too late. At 6:30 we'll have food, drink and networking. Come down and say hi to your fellow rubyists. Our first speaker, Joshua Timberman, is bringing some home brew for us to try. At 7pm we'll start the talks so please be here before then. First off will be Joshua Timberman speaking about Isolated Project Testing with Test Kitchen. Test Kitchen is a new RubyGem from Opscode that allows you to describe how you'd like to run your project's Unit and Integration tests in an isolated clean-room environment. It was designed to test Opscode's Chef cookbooks, Ruby and Erlang projects. Second, John Unruh will talk about Concurrency. It's been said that concurrency, either with threads or with evented code is "the next great thing". Concurrency is also a source of concern about new and difficult classes of errors. In this talk, we will examine the major issues in concurrent software execution and how to handle them. Some common errors will be illustrated with real life examples of programming errors and their resolution. Finally, Sean McKibben will cover concurrent Ruby using the actor pattern with Celluloid. He'll expand on what John's talked about with how to do this with Celluloid. Instead of calculating primes, Sean will be basing his examples around the concept of screen actors saying their lines-using the `say` system command as the unit of work. Meeting details are posted here: http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2012/07/23/september-2012/ Should be a great meeting so I hope to see you all next Tuesday. Don't forget that Rocky Mountain Ruby is happening the following week. Don't miss out on an awesome local conference. Cheers, Marty @boulderruby http://boulderruby.org _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list Bdrg-members at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members From ndh at baroquebobcat.com Wed Sep 5 18:09:26 2012 From: ndh at baroquebobcat.com (Nick Howard) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:09:26 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] RMR RailsBridge Workshop seeking TAs Message-ID: Hi everybody, I'm one of the trainers for the RailsBridge Charity workshop happening on September 19th. We're looking for volunteer instructors and TAs, as well as some people to do some light lifting or moving things around and helping with clean up, welcoming and check-ins. Are you a big social networker? Let us know! We also want people posting pics with the hashtag #railsbridge. The installfest will be on Tuesday, the 18th 6pm to 8pm. The workshop itself will be on Wednesday, the 19th 9am to 4pm. If you're interested in helping out, either email me directly, or fill out this survey. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dFNuVEJ2cS1TSkpKdHBvTDRnWTA1d1E6MA#gid=0 Thanks, -- -Nick Howard http://blog.baroquebobcat.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nre at foraker.com Mon Sep 10 19:50:53 2012 From: nre at foraker.com (Neal Enssle) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:50:53 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Foraker Labs' Ruby on Beer hackfest: 09/13/2012 Message-ID: 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://www.rubyonbeer.com Our next meeting is THURSDAY, September 13th, starting at 5:00PM at our office and going until about 8:00PM: 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: http://twitter.com/#!/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 Tue Sep 11 04:09:05 2012 From: mghaught at gmail.com (Marty Haught) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:09:05 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] BRG - September Meeting - Sep 11 Reminder Message-ID: Tomorrow is our September meeting (directions below). We've moved it up due to Rocky Mountain Ruby. We're also starting at 6:30pm. We'll have food and drink as usual but Joshua Timberman is bringing a batch of his latest homebrew, an Irish ale. For the night we have three presentations. Joshua will be starting us off with a talk on using Test Kitchen, a gem for easy provision testing. Following that John Unruh will speak about concurrency and Sean McKibben will expand on concurrency but speaking about using Celluloid, an actor-based object framework written in Ruby. You can read about the meeting in more detail on our site: http://boulderruby.org/meetings/2012/07/23/september-2012/ Hope to see you all tomorrow night. Cheers, Marty Haught @boulderruby 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 dr2tom at davinciinstitute.com Tue Sep 11 17:16:22 2012 From: dr2tom at davinciinstitute.com (Thomas Frey) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:16:22 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Final Week to Register for DaVinci Coders Message-ID: The next Ruby on Rails class at DaVinci Coders starts on Sept 24th. Final week to register for this beginner-based, 11-week, full immersion class. Classes take place at the DaVinci Institute, 511 E South Boulder Rd, Louisville, CO. Details at www.DavinciCoders.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dtstutz at gmail.com Fri Sep 14 03:19:59 2012 From: dtstutz at gmail.com (Daniel Stutzman) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:19:59 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] Wed Sep 19 intro to Ruby workshop Message-ID: <4219AE6E-A9A7-42B9-BA4D-5306BF22B73E@gmail.com> On Wed Sep 19 at 9 a.m., Jessica Dillon (a coworker at Quick Left) and I will be leading an interactive workshop titled "Playing with Ruby" at the TechStars office in Boulder. This is an opportunity for non-programmers or programmers with little experience to learn to use Ruby to read in spreadsheets and create web pages and graphics. Please pass on this invitation to friends who might be interested. The price of admission is a $30+ donation to charity -- it's separate from tickets to the Rocky Mountain Ruby conference. Registration and more details at http://rmr2012-playruby.eventbrite.com/ . --Daniel Stutzman dtstutz at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ara at dojo4.com Wed Sep 26 16:08:15 2012 From: ara at dojo4.com (ara.t.howard) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:08:15 -0600 Subject: [Boulder Ruby Group] love to see some submissions Message-ID: from the locals: http://dojo4.com/blog/so-you-think-youre-a-web-developer-eh -- - a cto . http://dojo4.com phone . 303.747.3468 twitter . @drawohara code != email - i may not get back to you immediately