From rick.denatale at gmail.com  Mon Jun  1 13:23:06 2009
From: rick.denatale at gmail.com (Rick DeNatale)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:23:06 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Possible new raleigh.rb activity
Message-ID: <deb2337a0906011023p5c26ff7dj1e5dd54ca024c5da@mail.gmail.com>

Some of you might have seen a five-way discussion on Pat Eyler's
"on-ruby" blog on the subject of code reading.

One of the comments on that article included a suggestion which
prompted Pat to do a follow-up.
http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/05/code-reading-follow-up.html

The idea is a group code reading session, where several programmers
get together to walk through some piece of code and try to learn from
it.

It seems to me that there might be some raleigh.rbers who would be
interested in this, maybe even on a somewhat regular basis.

What I've got in mind is that we'd pick some code, maybe rake, or part
of Rails, or Sinatra or what have you, get someone to volunteer to
lead the session, and get together for discussion.

I'd think that this would be something outside of either the regular
meeting (better uses for that, probably too big a group) or the
hack-night (not the right setting).

Does anyone think this might be a good idea?  Suggestions?

-- 
Rick DeNatale

Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

From info at lojic.com  Wed Jun  3 08:59:06 2009
From: info at lojic.com (Brian Adkins)
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:59:06 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Possible new raleigh.rb activity
In-Reply-To: <deb2337a0906011023p5c26ff7dj1e5dd54ca024c5da@mail.gmail.com>
References: <deb2337a0906011023p5c26ff7dj1e5dd54ca024c5da@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4A26739A.409@lojic.com>

Rick DeNatale wrote, On 6/1/09 1:23 PM:
> Some of you might have seen a five-way discussion on Pat Eyler's
> "on-ruby" blog on the subject of code reading.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Does anyone think this might be a good idea?  Suggestions?

Sounds like a good idea. It would be handy to have a projector if there 
are more than 3 people involved.

-- 
Brian Adkins
Lojic Technologies, LLC
http://lojic.com/
919-946-7547 (mobile)



From rick.denatale at gmail.com  Wed Jun  3 11:04:55 2009
From: rick.denatale at gmail.com (Rick DeNatale)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:04:55 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Possible new raleigh.rb activity
In-Reply-To: <4A26739A.409@lojic.com>
References: <deb2337a0906011023p5c26ff7dj1e5dd54ca024c5da@mail.gmail.com>
	<4A26739A.409@lojic.com>
Message-ID: <deb2337a0906030804p5be24120j95d4173bd682c758@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Brian Adkins <info at lojic.com> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote, On 6/1/09 1:23 PM:
>>
>> Some of you might have seen a five-way discussion on Pat Eyler's
>> "on-ruby" blog on the subject of code reading.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Does anyone think this might be a good idea? ?Suggestions?
>
> Sounds like a good idea. It would be handy to have a projector if there are
> more than 3 people involved.

Yep.

So it looks like there's some interest.  Any thoughts on where, what
code to look at, orgainization, whatever.


-- 
Rick DeNatale

Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

From nathaniel at talbott.ws  Mon Jun  8 11:44:51 2009
From: nathaniel at talbott.ws (Nathaniel Talbott)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:44:51 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] The Lean Startup Primer
Message-ID: <4ce336a20906080844od770b53k706d205eaab58d6d@mail.gmail.com>

Some of you may've already seen this on Twitter, but I'm doing an
afternoon/evening event on Lean Startups a week from Wednesday:

  http://leanstartupprimer.com?referrer=raleighrbml

I mention it here because I know so many of you are either interested
in starting and running your own business or are already doing it. I'm
really excited about the Lean Startup principles, and I'd love to see
some of you at the event. Feel free to ask me on- or off-list if you
have any questions.

Can't wait,


-- 
Nathaniel Talbott
<:((><

From brandan at bclennox.com  Tue Jun  9 14:24:32 2009
From: brandan at bclennox.com (Brandan Lennox)
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:24:32 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] RSpec and Ruby on Rails TextMate bundle conflict
Message-ID: <22DEC248-605C-4879-A335-639F329103A4@bclennox.com>

Hey list,

This might not be the most appropriate place for this question, but I  
figure a lot of you are using TextMate and may have seen this problem.

I can't seem to use the Ruby on Rails bundle and the RSpec bundle at  
the same time. If I have, say, model.rb and model_spec.rb open at the  
same time, they'll both be either RSpec or Ruby on Rails, and  
switching one of them causes both to change. TextMate doesn't seem to  
recognize that _spec.rb is more specific than just .rb, or something.

There's a line in the RSpec language that looks like it should be  
addressing the problem:

   fileTypes = ( '_spec.rb' );

I feel like this worked at some point. I may just need to trash my  
preferences or reinstall the bundles, but if someone has better  
advice, I'm open to it.

Thanks!

Brandan L.
-- 
brandan at bclennox.com
http://www.bclennox.com
+1 (919) 274.7565







From larry.karnowski at gmail.com  Tue Jun  9 18:05:18 2009
From: larry.karnowski at gmail.com (Larry Karnowski)
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:05:18 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] RSpec and Ruby on Rails TextMate bundle conflict
In-Reply-To: <22DEC248-605C-4879-A335-639F329103A4@bclennox.com>
References: <22DEC248-605C-4879-A335-639F329103A4@bclennox.com>
Message-ID: <2b27183e0906091505y795a312egb110f324fb48157c@mail.gmail.com>

Brandan,
This is a known conflict/bug in TextMate.  Unfortunately you have to
manually choose whenever you want to switch from RSpec bundle (or any
other Ruby DSL) and the Ruby on Rails bundle.

Here's the blog post with all the details:
http://blog.macromates.com/2007/file-type-detection-rspec-rails/

Sorry,
Larry

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Brandan Lennox<brandan at bclennox.com> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> This might not be the most appropriate place for this question, but I figure
> a lot of you are using TextMate and may have seen this problem.
>
> I can't seem to use the Ruby on Rails bundle and the RSpec bundle at the
> same time. If I have, say, model.rb and model_spec.rb open at the same time,
> they'll both be either RSpec or Ruby on Rails, and switching one of them
> causes both to change. TextMate doesn't seem to recognize that _spec.rb is
> more specific than just .rb, or something.
>
> There's a line in the RSpec language that looks like it should be addressing
> the problem:
>
> ?fileTypes = ( '_spec.rb' );
>
> I feel like this worked at some point. I may just need to trash my
> preferences or reinstall the bundles, but if someone has better advice, I'm
> open to it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brandan L.
> --
> brandan at bclennox.com
> http://www.bclennox.com
> +1 (919) 274.7565
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> raleigh-rb-members mailing list
> raleigh-rb-members at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members
>



-- 
Larry Karnowski
Work: http://thinkrelevance.com
Geek: http://tech.hickorywind.org
Music: http://www.hickorywind.org

From brandan at bclennox.com  Tue Jun  9 19:08:38 2009
From: brandan at bclennox.com (Brandan Lennox)
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:08:38 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] RSpec and Ruby on Rails TextMate bundle conflict
In-Reply-To: <2b27183e0906091505y795a312egb110f324fb48157c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <22DEC248-605C-4879-A335-639F329103A4@bclennox.com>
	<2b27183e0906091505y795a312egb110f324fb48157c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <65B19D5A-27C6-4EA8-B439-63E39F09E607@bclennox.com>

Thanks Larry. I'm surprised I couldn't find that in my Googling.

I was able to get it working by combining Allan's suggestions with a  
slight hack in the RSpec grammar:

   firstLineMatch = 'spec_helper';

All better now. Thanks again!

Brandan L.
-- 
brandan at bclennox.com
http://www.bclennox.com
+1 (919) 274.7565






On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Larry Karnowski wrote:

> Brandan,
> This is a known conflict/bug in TextMate.  Unfortunately you have to
> manually choose whenever you want to switch from RSpec bundle (or any
> other Ruby DSL) and the Ruby on Rails bundle.
>
> Here's the blog post with all the details:
> http://blog.macromates.com/2007/file-type-detection-rspec-rails/
>
> Sorry,
> Larry
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Brandan Lennox<brandan at bclennox.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hey list,
>>
>> This might not be the most appropriate place for this question, but  
>> I figure
>> a lot of you are using TextMate and may have seen this problem.
>>
>> I can't seem to use the Ruby on Rails bundle and the RSpec bundle  
>> at the
>> same time. If I have, say, model.rb and model_spec.rb open at the  
>> same time,
>> they'll both be either RSpec or Ruby on Rails, and switching one of  
>> them
>> causes both to change. TextMate doesn't seem to recognize that  
>> _spec.rb is
>> more specific than just .rb, or something.
>>
>> There's a line in the RSpec language that looks like it should be  
>> addressing
>> the problem:
>>
>>  fileTypes = ( '_spec.rb' );
>>
>> I feel like this worked at some point. I may just need to trash my
>> preferences or reinstall the bundles, but if someone has better  
>> advice, I'm
>> open to it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Brandan L.
>> --
>> brandan at bclennox.com
>> http://www.bclennox.com
>> +1 (919) 274.7565
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> raleigh-rb-members mailing list
>> raleigh-rb-members at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Larry Karnowski
> Work: http://thinkrelevance.com
> Geek: http://tech.hickorywind.org
> Music: http://www.hickorywind.org
> _______________________________________________
> raleigh-rb-members mailing list
> raleigh-rb-members at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members


From rick.denatale at gmail.com  Tue Jun  9 19:23:11 2009
From: rick.denatale at gmail.com (Rick DeNatale)
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:23:11 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] RSpec and Ruby on Rails TextMate bundle conflict
In-Reply-To: <2b27183e0906091505y795a312egb110f324fb48157c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <22DEC248-605C-4879-A335-639F329103A4@bclennox.com>
	<2b27183e0906091505y795a312egb110f324fb48157c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <deb2337a0906091623w16a6a100n5a39e47d49f26f01@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Larry
Karnowski<larry.karnowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brandan,
> This is a known conflict/bug in TextMate. ?Unfortunately you have to
> manually choose whenever you want to switch from RSpec bundle (or any
> other Ruby DSL) and the Ruby on Rails bundle.
>
> Here's the blog post with all the details:
> http://blog.macromates.com/2007/file-type-detection-rspec-rails/

Actually, if you read that post carefully you'll see that the problem
is that once you manually select a bundle other than the one which the
language in the bundle would select on its own, it overrides the
language specs in the bundle, so that any file with the same extension
will map to that bundle.

The post tells how to undo that override, it's a bit tricky, but
afterward the _spec.rb in the RSpec bundle and the rb in the
Ruby(onRails) bundle should make the bundle detection work as
expected.
-- 
Rick DeNatale

Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale
WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

From javery at infozerk.com  Wed Jun 10 14:45:58 2009
From: javery at infozerk.com (James Avery)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:45:58 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Erlounge Tomorrow Night
Message-ID: <20af90580906101145g2d62cea7l68a2c1bce5441258@mail.gmail.com>

I just wanted to remind everyone that tomorrow night is the Erlounge
Hack Night at Carborro Co-working. Kevin is changing the format
slightly and is going to run a free tutorial session at the beginning,
so if you are interested in learning Erlang it would be a great
meeting to come to. (we can even help you get it setup as well if you
don't even have it installed)

http://www.meetup.com/erloungerdu/

Thanks,

-- 
James Avery
Zerk Media - http://zerkmedia.com
Infozerk Inc. - http://www.infozerk.com

From efg at ncsu.edu  Sat Jun 13 21:51:29 2009
From: efg at ncsu.edu (Ed Gehringer)
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:51:29 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Any internship positions left?
Message-ID: <7084D0DE-BF84-44B3-9944-9EABE6A666A8@ncsu.edu>

One of my master's students has just informed me that the internship  
he was working on is terminated because the company is closing down.   
Does anyone know of another company that might be looking for an  
intern for the rest of the summer, for programming in Java or Ruby on  
Rails?

Thanks,
Ed


From jamey.cribbs at gmail.com  Mon Jun 15 16:19:00 2009
From: jamey.cribbs at gmail.com (Jamey Cribbs)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:19:00 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving to North Carolina
Message-ID: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi.  My name is Jamey Cribbs.  I'm an experienced freelance Ruby/Rails
programmer living in Farmington Hills, MI.  Now that our kids have
flown the coop, my wife and I are planning a move to North Carolina.
We are looking to live somewhere in a downtown environment where we
can walk to restaurants, shops, cafes, coffee, etc.  We've narrowed it
down to downtown (uptown) Charlotte and downtown Raleigh.  We're
hoping downtown Charlotte might be a little like downtown Chicago and
that downtown Raleigh would be like downtown Ann Arbor (where the
University of Michigan) is.

As far as work goes, I'm leaning on settling in the Raleigh area,
because it appears that the Ruby/Rails presence is much greater there
than in Charlotte (am I wrong?).  Also, since Charlotte is more
corporate finance, I'm guessing that stuff like Ruby and Rails has
less penetration there than in a college town like Raleigh (again,
maybe I'm wrong).

So, I thought it would make sense to ask this list and the Charlotte
Ruby Brigade list if they had any opinions on where to live based on
the above criteria.  Of course, if you just want to say, "Yankee Go
Home!" that's ok, too (I understand that there are various meanings to
the initials in CARY).  If it helps at all, I would like to state for
the record that I lived in Norfolk for several years when my dad was
in the Navy.  My wife, however, is a born Michigander, so, if you tell
me she can't come, I'll simply have to break the bad news to her.

Thanks in advance.

Jamey Cribbs

From tj at stank.us  Mon Jun 15 16:43:18 2009
From: tj at stank.us (TJ Stankus)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:43:18 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving to North Carolina
In-Reply-To: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f25a5bb60906151343u116e20fdo11192fa380486311@mail.gmail.com>

If you get a chance to visit you might want to checkout downtown
Durham and also Carrboro/Chapel Hill. Both areas are walkable. There's
generally a couple Rubyists at Carrboro Coworking; let us know if you
plan on visiting.

Good luck with your decision and your move!

-TJ

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jamey Cribbs<jamey.cribbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. ?My name is Jamey Cribbs. ?I'm an experienced freelance Ruby/Rails
> programmer living in Farmington Hills, MI. ?Now that our kids have
> flown the coop, my wife and I are planning a move to North Carolina.
> We are looking to live somewhere in a downtown environment where we
> can walk to restaurants, shops, cafes, coffee, etc. ?We've narrowed it
> down to downtown (uptown) Charlotte and downtown Raleigh. ?We're
> hoping downtown Charlotte might be a little like downtown Chicago and
> that downtown Raleigh would be like downtown Ann Arbor (where the
> University of Michigan) is.
>
> As far as work goes, I'm leaning on settling in the Raleigh area,
> because it appears that the Ruby/Rails presence is much greater there
> than in Charlotte (am I wrong?). ?Also, since Charlotte is more
> corporate finance, I'm guessing that stuff like Ruby and Rails has
> less penetration there than in a college town like Raleigh (again,
> maybe I'm wrong).
>
> So, I thought it would make sense to ask this list and the Charlotte
> Ruby Brigade list if they had any opinions on where to live based on
> the above criteria. ?Of course, if you just want to say, "Yankee Go
> Home!" that's ok, too (I understand that there are various meanings to
> the initials in CARY). ?If it helps at all, I would like to state for
> the record that I lived in Norfolk for several years when my dad was
> in the Navy. ?My wife, however, is a born Michigander, so, if you tell
> me she can't come, I'll simply have to break the bad news to her.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jamey Cribbs
> _______________________________________________
> raleigh-rb-members mailing list
> raleigh-rb-members at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members
>

From rafeco at gmail.com  Mon Jun 15 16:44:30 2009
From: rafeco at gmail.com (Rafe Colburn)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:44:30 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving to North Carolina
In-Reply-To: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <d93b198b0906151344ve8fa5b8s79907931efa11462@mail.gmail.com>

 I can't compare Raleigh with Chapel Hill but I can say that downtown
Raleigh is very walkable.  There are lots of places to eat and things
to do downtown, and there are a number of condos that are situated
very well in terms of walking around.  The only thing we really lack
is a decent grocery store within walking distance. Pretty much all of
the other amenities you'd hope for are available.

 There are also several "near downtown" neighborhoods that are nice,
if you're not wanting to stay in a condo. That said, I've lived a
couple of different apartments in downtown Raleigh for the past five
years and absolutely love it. Raleigh is small and affordable enough
that you can lead an urban lifestyle here that would be extremely
expensive in bigger cities.

 --Rafe

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jamey Cribbs<jamey.cribbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. ?My name is Jamey Cribbs. ?I'm an experienced freelance Ruby/Rails
> programmer living in Farmington Hills, MI. ?Now that our kids have
> flown the coop, my wife and I are planning a move to North Carolina.
> We are looking to live somewhere in a downtown environment where we
> can walk to restaurants, shops, cafes, coffee, etc. ?We've narrowed it
> down to downtown (uptown) Charlotte and downtown Raleigh. ?We're
> hoping downtown Charlotte might be a little like downtown Chicago and
> that downtown Raleigh would be like downtown Ann Arbor (where the
> University of Michigan) is.
>
> As far as work goes, I'm leaning on settling in the Raleigh area,
> because it appears that the Ruby/Rails presence is much greater there
> than in Charlotte (am I wrong?). ?Also, since Charlotte is more
> corporate finance, I'm guessing that stuff like Ruby and Rails has
> less penetration there than in a college town like Raleigh (again,
> maybe I'm wrong).
>
> So, I thought it would make sense to ask this list and the Charlotte
> Ruby Brigade list if they had any opinions on where to live based on
> the above criteria. ?Of course, if you just want to say, "Yankee Go
> Home!" that's ok, too (I understand that there are various meanings to
> the initials in CARY). ?If it helps at all, I would like to state for
> the record that I lived in Norfolk for several years when my dad was
> in the Navy. ?My wife, however, is a born Michigander, so, if you tell
> me she can't come, I'll simply have to break the bad news to her.
>
> Thanks in advance.

From jeremymcanally at gmail.com  Mon Jun 15 16:50:16 2009
From: jeremymcanally at gmail.com (Jeremy McAnally)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:50:16 -0500
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Ruby Hoedown 2009 -- August 28-29 in Nashville -- Cost
	is $0!
Message-ID: <d878fe460906151350rf592b5dvf4fe94f53f659590@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,
A few days ago, I opened registration and the CFP for the Ruby Hoedown
2009.  We're already at 1/3 capacity and climbing, so it's very
exciting this year! In previous years, we've been in Huntsville, AL
and, of course, Raleigh and hosted great speakers like Bruce Tate,
Chad Fowler, Marcel Molina, Jr., Jim Weirich, and Joe O'Brien.  This
year we're in Nashville, TN, and hosting...well, you'll just have to
wait and see. :)

Like I said, we're having the conference in Nashville, TN, at the
OpryLand Hotel on August 28-29.  The cost is a measly $0; that's
right: it's free!

So, feel free to mosey on over to http://rubyhoedown.com and submit a
talk and/or register up.  We're looking for technical talks on just
about any topic related to Ruby, so if you've got something you're
itching to talk about, let us know.  We'd love to hear from you!

If you're just going to register, then go ahead.  We have a few ticket
types (you can just get a free ticket, buy a shirt, include a
donation, etc.) and a sweet group code for the OpryLand ($109 a night!
That's like half off!).

If you'd like to sponsor us, then check out the prospectus here:
http://rubyhoedown.com/hoedown-sponsor.pdf

We look forward to seeing you in Nashville in August!  In the
meantime, follow @hoedown for news and announcements (including our
imminent announcement of the keynote...).

Thanks!
Jeremy and the rest of the Hoedown team

-- 
http://jeremymcanally.com/
http://entp.com/
http://omgbloglol.com

My books:
http://manning.com/mcanally/
http://humblelittlerubybook.com/ (FREE!)

From aaron at aaronbedra.com  Mon Jun 15 17:00:19 2009
From: aaron at aaronbedra.com (Aaron Bedra)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:00:19 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving to North Carolina
In-Reply-To: <f25a5bb60906151343u116e20fdo11192fa380486311@mail.gmail.com>
References: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
	<f25a5bb60906151343u116e20fdo11192fa380486311@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6BF2A57B-5623-40D3-9C6F-9511090E563A@aaronbedra.com>

+1 for downtown Durham, it's really growing on me.

Aaron

On Jun 15, 2009, at 4:43 PM, TJ Stankus wrote:

> If you get a chance to visit you might want to checkout downtown
> Durham and also Carrboro/Chapel Hill. Both areas are walkable. There's
> generally a couple Rubyists at Carrboro Coworking; let us know if you
> plan on visiting.
>
> Good luck with your decision and your move!
>
> -TJ
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jamey  
> Cribbs<jamey.cribbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.  My name is Jamey Cribbs.  I'm an experienced freelance Ruby/ 
>> Rails
>> programmer living in Farmington Hills, MI.  Now that our kids have
>> flown the coop, my wife and I are planning a move to North Carolina.
>> We are looking to live somewhere in a downtown environment where we
>> can walk to restaurants, shops, cafes, coffee, etc.  We've narrowed  
>> it
>> down to downtown (uptown) Charlotte and downtown Raleigh.  We're
>> hoping downtown Charlotte might be a little like downtown Chicago and
>> that downtown Raleigh would be like downtown Ann Arbor (where the
>> University of Michigan) is.
>>
>> As far as work goes, I'm leaning on settling in the Raleigh area,
>> because it appears that the Ruby/Rails presence is much greater there
>> than in Charlotte (am I wrong?).  Also, since Charlotte is more
>> corporate finance, I'm guessing that stuff like Ruby and Rails has
>> less penetration there than in a college town like Raleigh (again,
>> maybe I'm wrong).
>>
>> So, I thought it would make sense to ask this list and the Charlotte
>> Ruby Brigade list if they had any opinions on where to live based on
>> the above criteria.  Of course, if you just want to say, "Yankee Go
>> Home!" that's ok, too (I understand that there are various meanings  
>> to
>> the initials in CARY).  If it helps at all, I would like to state for
>> the record that I lived in Norfolk for several years when my dad was
>> in the Navy.  My wife, however, is a born Michigander, so, if you  
>> tell
>> me she can't come, I'll simply have to break the bad news to her.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Jamey Cribbs
>> _______________________________________________
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>> raleigh-rb-members at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members
>>
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From steve.pinkham at gmail.com  Mon Jun 15 17:26:45 2009
From: steve.pinkham at gmail.com (Steve Pinkham)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:26:45 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving to North Carolina
In-Reply-To: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4A36BC95.3040801@gmail.com>

Jamey Cribbs wrote:
> Hi.  My name is Jamey Cribbs.  I'm an experienced freelance Ruby/Rails
> programmer living in Farmington Hills, MI.  Now that our kids have
> flown the coop, my wife and I are planning a move to North Carolina.
> We are looking to live somewhere in a downtown environment where we
> can walk to restaurants, shops, cafes, coffee, etc.  We've narrowed it
> down to downtown (uptown) Charlotte and downtown Raleigh.  We're
> hoping downtown Charlotte might be a little like downtown Chicago and
> that downtown Raleigh would be like downtown Ann Arbor (where the
> University of Michigan) is.
> 
> As far as work goes, I'm leaning on settling in the Raleigh area,
> because it appears that the Ruby/Rails presence is much greater there
> than in Charlotte (am I wrong?).  Also, since Charlotte is more
> corporate finance, I'm guessing that stuff like Ruby and Rails has
> less penetration there than in a college town like Raleigh (again,
> maybe I'm wrong).
> 
> So, I thought it would make sense to ask this list and the Charlotte
> Ruby Brigade list if they had any opinions on where to live based on
> the above criteria.  Of course, if you just want to say, "Yankee Go
> Home!" that's ok, too (I understand that there are various meanings to
> the initials in CARY).  If it helps at all, I would like to state for
> the record that I lived in Norfolk for several years when my dad was
> in the Navy.  My wife, however, is a born Michigander, so, if you tell
> me she can't come, I'll simply have to break the bad news to her.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jamey Cribbs

No worries mate, the Yankees have already taken over.  I think there's 
more transplants here then natives at this point, with more coming every 
year.
I'm a NJ boy myself, and my wife's from VA, and they haven't kicked us 
out yet. ;-)
Raleigh is a nice place to live, and you might also find parts of 
Carrboro and Chapel Hill to your liking. I'm also a work from home guy, 
and 2 years ago choose to move here because of the high amount of geeks 
and geek employment and relatively low house pricing.  The combination 
is better then anywhere you'll find outside of Texas, and it's too darn 
hot down there for me.

I'm a mostly a Ruby but Non-Rails guy and work in the security space, so 
I can't comment too much on the amount of Rails specific jobs, but I 
know the local Ruby meetings focus on Rails more then I care to hear 
about, and there seem to be a lot of people who are interested.

Happy hunting, ant I look forward to seeing you around!

Stev
-- 
  | Steven E. Pinkham                      |
  | GPG public key ID CD31CAFB             |

From jamey.cribbs at gmail.com  Tue Jun 16 09:31:05 2009
From: jamey.cribbs at gmail.com (Jamey Cribbs)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:31:05 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving to North Carolina
In-Reply-To: <4A36BC95.3040801@gmail.com>
References: <64217eee0906151319r73cdf1del8a1000701327f72f@mail.gmail.com>
	<4A36BC95.3040801@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <64217eee0906160631m51c293aw4b0c39b37a9ad470@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, everyone, for your feedback and helpful advice.  I also really
appreciate the warm welcome.  Paul, I will be taking you up on that
offer of a phone call.

We are planning a fact finding trip later this summer and I hope to
meet at least some of you while I am there.

Thanks again!

Jamey


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Steve Pinkham<steve.pinkham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jamey Cribbs wrote:
>>
>> Hi. ?My name is Jamey Cribbs. ?I'm an experienced freelance Ruby/Rails
>> programmer living in Farmington Hills, MI. ?Now that our kids have
>> flown the coop, my wife and I are planning a move to North Carolina.
>> We are looking to live somewhere in a downtown environment where we
>> can walk to restaurants, shops, cafes, coffee, etc. ?We've narrowed it
>> down to downtown (uptown) Charlotte and downtown Raleigh. ?We're
>> hoping downtown Charlotte might be a little like downtown Chicago and
>> that downtown Raleigh would be like downtown Ann Arbor (where the
>> University of Michigan) is.
>>
>> As far as work goes, I'm leaning on settling in the Raleigh area,
>> because it appears that the Ruby/Rails presence is much greater there
>> than in Charlotte (am I wrong?). ?Also, since Charlotte is more
>> corporate finance, I'm guessing that stuff like Ruby and Rails has
>> less penetration there than in a college town like Raleigh (again,
>> maybe I'm wrong).
>>
>> So, I thought it would make sense to ask this list and the Charlotte
>> Ruby Brigade list if they had any opinions on where to live based on
>> the above criteria. ?Of course, if you just want to say, "Yankee Go
>> Home!" that's ok, too (I understand that there are various meanings to
>> the initials in CARY). ?If it helps at all, I would like to state for
>> the record that I lived in Norfolk for several years when my dad was
>> in the Navy. ?My wife, however, is a born Michigander, so, if you tell
>> me she can't come, I'll simply have to break the bad news to her.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Jamey Cribbs
>
> No worries mate, the Yankees have already taken over. ?I think there's more
> transplants here then natives at this point, with more coming every year.
> I'm a NJ boy myself, and my wife's from VA, and they haven't kicked us out
> yet. ;-)
> Raleigh is a nice place to live, and you might also find parts of Carrboro
> and Chapel Hill to your liking. I'm also a work from home guy, and 2 years
> ago choose to move here because of the high amount of geeks and geek
> employment and relatively low house pricing. ?The combination is better then
> anywhere you'll find outside of Texas, and it's too darn hot down there for
> me.
>
> I'm a mostly a Ruby but Non-Rails guy and work in the security space, so I
> can't comment too much on the amount of Rails specific jobs, but I know the
> local Ruby meetings focus on Rails more then I care to hear about, and there
> seem to be a lot of people who are interested.
>
> Happy hunting, ant I look forward to seeing you around!
>
> Stev
> --
> ?| Steven E. Pinkham ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?|
> ?| GPG public key ID CD31CAFB ? ? ? ? ? ? |
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>

From nathaniel at talbott.ws  Tue Jun 16 10:22:56 2009
From: nathaniel at talbott.ws (Nathaniel Talbott)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:22:56 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Pre-Meeting Chow
Message-ID: <4ce336a20906160722q51e1118dw3606f44d436a1aa8@mail.gmail.com>

As usual, anyone and everyone is invited to join us at Baja Burrito
(http://bloat.me/u3sK) before the meeting tonight and chill while we
eat some massive meat-stuffed tortilla tubes. Folks usually start
showing up around 5:30, and it's a great time to chat a bit and unwind
before heading over to Red Hat for the meeting proper.

Hope to see you there!


-- 
Nathaniel Talbott
<:((><

From JBrenner at BBandT.com  Tue Jun 16 11:29:21 2009
From: JBrenner at BBandT.com (Brenner, Jonathon)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:29:21 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Pre-Meeting Chow
In-Reply-To: <4ce336a20906160722q51e1118dw3606f44d436a1aa8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4ce336a20906160722q51e1118dw3606f44d436a1aa8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <91864382B2433640BA2A447041B3DBC3062C056F@wil-exmb01.bbtnet.com>

"eat some massive meat-stuffed tortilla tubes"

This is one party that I'll be skipping.

-----Original Message-----
From: raleigh-rb-members-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:raleigh-rb-members-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Nathaniel
Talbott
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:23 AM
To: The mailing list of raleigh.rb
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Pre-Meeting Chow

As usual, anyone and everyone is invited to join us at Baja Burrito
(http://bloat.me/u3sK) before the meeting tonight and chill while we eat
some massive meat-stuffed tortilla tubes. Folks usually start showing up
around 5:30, and it's a great time to chat a bit and unwind before
heading over to Red Hat for the meeting proper.

Hope to see you there!


--
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<:((><
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http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members



From tj at stank.us  Wed Jun 17 08:22:34 2009
From: tj at stank.us (TJ Stankus)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:22:34 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] "Pencast" of tonight's talk.
In-Reply-To: <85c85a490906162304x4fde7ebdgdec9a9e8c7f38ead@mail.gmail.com>
References: <85c85a490906162304x4fde7ebdgdec9a9e8c7f38ead@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f25a5bb60906170522u31189109kea67bd5c2876af31@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for posting this. That pen is awesome.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Otto
Hammersmith<otto.hammersmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope no one minds me posting this, but I had my super pen recording during
> the talk and thought others might find the notes + recording helpful.
> http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=kxmj5hmztJJj
> Thanks, Mark!
>
> _______________________________________________
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> raleigh-rb-members at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members
>

From pelargir at gmail.com  Wed Jun 17 09:37:36 2009
From: pelargir at gmail.com (Matthew Bass)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:37:36 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Audio/slides from Mark's talk
Message-ID: <B5D5E497-9F79-4A86-B380-F7C8D108669A@gmail.com>

Slides and podcast from Mark's talk last night have been posted, along  
with a video preview of next month's presentation by Jason Rudolph and  
Larry Karnowski...

http://www.raleighrb.com

I also shot a quick video during. Great turnout!

http://vimeo.com/5195285

Matthew

--
Adeptware, Inc.
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From martin.streicher at gmail.com  Wed Jun 17 10:59:11 2009
From: martin.streicher at gmail.com (Martin Streicher)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:59:11 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Rip: A new package manager for Ruby
Message-ID: <95D02C8E-9000-4C85-BC75-ABD077873AE3@gmail.com>


I've written an article on Github's new Rip package manager. You can  
find it online at http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7381/

Martin


From adam at thewilliams.ws  Wed Jun 17 11:44:24 2009
From: adam at thewilliams.ws (Adam Williams)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:44:24 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Rip: A new package manager for Ruby
In-Reply-To: <95D02C8E-9000-4C85-BC75-ABD077873AE3@gmail.com>
References: <95D02C8E-9000-4C85-BC75-ABD077873AE3@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4BF61B7F-298A-46E9-BA69-FC617892938B@thewilliams.ws>

This looks *wonderful*. I built a really lame solution (http://github.com/aiwilliams/plugit 
) to help test Rails plugins with different versions of libraries. Rip  
looks like a great solution to a real problem.

On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Martin Streicher wrote:

>
> I've written an article on Github's new Rip package manager. You can  
> find it online at http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7381/
>
> Martin
>
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From atomgiant at gmail.com  Thu Jun 18 09:29:47 2009
From: atomgiant at gmail.com (Tom Davies)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:29:47 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] OT: NC Advertising Tax
Message-ID: <ae7de0050906180629p322a90a2r5fcb5d47ec38cf36@mail.gmail.com>

This is OT but this pending bill may affect a large number of
Raleigh.rb members so I thought I'd share it with the group.

There is a pending bill that will change the way Internet purchases
are taxed that directly affects affiliates and possibly advertisers.

Full write-up here:
http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/advertising-tax-moving-forward-in-north-carolina/

Petition:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ncaffiliatetax/

This could go into effect as early as July 1st so now is the time to
act if we have a chance of stopping this bill.

-- 
Tom Davies

http://teenormous.com
The Ultimate T-shirt Search Engine

From jamey.cribbs at gmail.com  Mon Jun 22 21:40:11 2009
From: jamey.cribbs at gmail.com (Jamey Cribbs)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:40:11 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Moving plans accelerating; looking for work
Message-ID: <64217eee0906221840y2f2f298fvaf05e2ee0d851723@mail.gmail.com>

I searched the archives and did find prior posts of people looking for
work, so I thought that this would be ok, but if it is not, I
apologize.

As I posted earlier, I'm an experienced Rails freelancer who is
planning a move to North Carolina.  Thanks to some great responses
from this group, lots of googling, and advice from friends, my wife
and I have pretty much narrowed our relocation down to the
Raleigh-Durham area and our moving plans have been accelerating.  We
will soon be making a trip to the area to pick our location and will
be moving soon afterward.

On the work front, I have been remotely contracting at Progress
Software full-time for over a year, and recently, the position
transitioned from a full-time contract to more of a maintenance
contract, which means I have 20+ hours a week of availability.  Most
of my work for the last two years has been as a long-distance
telecommuter, so I'm very experienced at working remotely.  But, I'm
also extremely interested in working at a local Rails shop in the
Raleigh area, as I really miss the personal interaction of working
with other developers.

So, does anyone know of any Ruby/Rails openings in the Raleigh-Durham
area?  Again, my apologies if this post is inappropriate.

Thanks very much!

Jamey Cribbs

From jeremymcanally at gmail.com  Fri Jun 26 12:13:45 2009
From: jeremymcanally at gmail.com (Jeremy McAnally)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:13:45 -0500
Subject: [raleigh.rb] [ANN/ADV] The Ruby Hoedown 2009 -- FREE Ruby
	conference -- Hoedown Heist, speakers,
	and only a few days left on the CFP!
Message-ID: <d878fe460906260913x6dfc340bnbd75c784d36cdfcf@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all!
This is just a reminder e-mail about the Ruby Hoedown 2009
(http://rubyhoedown.com) in Nashville, TN on August 28-29 (cost is a
princely $0).  We've announced a few new things I'd like to share...

THE HEIST IS ON
==============

We want to reward everyone for helping us get more people to the
conference, so we're offering some pretty sweet rewards for helping us
hit attendee milestones.  Get us up to the next step?  Everyone gets
some goodies, including:

  - Deep discounts on books from O'Reilly, Pragmatic, Manning, and more
  - A free Peepcode episode
  - Discounts on your favorite web services like Lighthouse, Tender,
scrumd, and LessAccounting
  - and more to come...

Check out http://heist.heroku.com to see which milestone we're at,
what's coming up on future milestones (we'll be adding more as the
conference gets closer), and how you can help us get to the next one!

KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
=======================================

We also recently announced our first batch of speakers.  Our keynote
will be the inimitable JAMIS BUCK, Rails core team member and
developer of Capistrano.  He'll be backed up by a posse we've
assembled of DAVID CHELIMSKY, developer of RSpec, and LEON GERSING,
everyone's favorite @fallenrogue.  These guys should offer up some
excellent content, but you can always make it better by...

THE CFP IS ENDING SOON
=====================

...submitting your own talk!  Our CFP only has about 5 days left on
it, so you better hurry and get those proposals in.

We're looking any sort of technical or otherwise talk that's vaguely
related to Ruby: Who's to say Rubyists can't learn from Smalltalk or
Erlang?  Every hacker needs to know how to organizer her life around
their work, right?  Learning good modeling skills is essential to
being a good developer.  Don't feel like you have to just talk about
this library or technique or that one: we're looking for compelling
talks that will inspire, teach, and/or bring a tear to the eye
(preferably through emotional means, not some sort of chemical
attack).

As always, check out the site at http://rubyhoedown.com for up to date
information and follow us on Twitter at @hoedown for the latest
information!

Thanks,
Jeremy and the rest of the Hoedown peeps

-- 
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My books:
http://manning.com/mcanally/
http://humblelittlerubybook.com/ (FREE!)

From robert.fischer at smokejumperit.com  Sun Jun 28 21:56:24 2009
From: robert.fischer at smokejumperit.com (Robert Fischer)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:56:24 -0400
Subject: [raleigh.rb] Talented Youth Teaching Position
Message-ID: <4A481F48.2000208@smokejumperit.com>

Thought people on the list might be interested, and they're looking for people ASAP.  Let me know if 
you're interested.

Duke TIP Overview
The instructor, with the help of a teaching assistant, is responsible
for designing a course or using a Duke TIP syllabus to teach the
course to a group of approximately 16-20 gifted students. The
instructor position requires at least a year of graduate coursework
and/or teaching experience with specific emphasis in the subject area.
In addition to a competitive salary, Duke TIP also provides housing
and meals for all summer staff, as needed.
Application available online at www.tip.duke.edu/about/employment.

The preferred candidate will have 1 year of graduate studies in CS and
matching teaching experience but, since classes start the 30th I'm
sure they'll be happy to just find someone who can teach the kids the
material at this point.

~~ Robert Fischer, Smokejumper IT Consulting.
Enfranchised Mind Blog http://EnfranchisedMind.com/blog

Check out my book, "Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL"!
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