RubyJax

The next meeting will be July 17th at 7:00 PM back at Avality (7406 Fullerton St, Jax, FL, 32256), which is right across the street from the Avenues Mall.

We still don’t have a topic or a speaker so if you’d like to give a talk let me know. Tiger suggested doing lightning talks where a few people can present for ten to twenty minutes each. If you want to give a lighting talk, let me know. If we don’t get anyone to volunteer then I will try my best to entertain by either juggling bricks, stories of unsatisfying encounters with prostitutes or showing some Textmate tricks.

This Thursday (July 3rd, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm) Alan Doucette will be talking about Cloud Computing. You can read all about it on the Refresh Jax site.

If you are looking for something to do Thursday night, come by. And remember Refresh is always BYOB (bring your own beer) and BBFS (bring beer for steve).

• what: Ruby Best Practice Patterns
• who: Rein Henrichs
• where: team gaia warehouse, 510 w 5th st., atlantic beach, fl 32233
• when: wednesday, june 18th 7-9pm
• why: This presentation is being prepared for Ruby Hoedown ‘08.

Design patterns are all about making the right decision. Making the right decision consistently leads to successful software. This presentation will help you learn how expert Ruby coders make the right decisions by demonstrating and explaining some of the most useful Ruby Best Practice Patterns. These patterns are inspired and informed by Kent Beck’s seminal Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns book and taken from Rein’s upcoming Ruby Best Practice Patterns book. The examples are gathered from some of your favorite Ruby gems and from Ruby itself, by way of Rubinius !

directions to team gaia

we’re back at the beach this time since rob warner will be out of town, so availity avails us no availability.

This is not a formal process but, we are looking to fill a few slots for presentations in the coming months. Drop a note to the RubyJax Google Group or comment here.

Tentatively Scheduled Meeting Topics

• Flex on Rails by Russ Johnson
• Selenium Browser Testing Driven With RSpec Story Runner by Jon Larkowski
• ImageMagick/RMagick by Cayce Balara
• Ruby Best Practice Patterns by Rein Henrichs

What do you want?

There was some question as to whether or not anyone wanted to see the jQuery presentation Steven Bristol gave and it turned out to be very popular. What are you interested in seeing?

What is Your specialty?

Bert Hood is a HAML guy. He is keyed in to the HAML community and more like than not knows more than you. ;) His May RubyJax talk on HAML came off great and people gained valuable insight into what HAML is and where it is going.

June 5th Meeting

Topic: Content Management Systems

Alan Doucette will be speaking about Content Management Systems. Alan has been working with CMS’s for many years, including building a few of his own. He will be covering the strengths and weaknesses of some of the major systems. Bring your questions about any CMS. Alan feels more than comfortable in front of a firing squad.

Speaker: Alan Doucette, Owner @ KOI

The Deets: June 5th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 1803 Hendricks Avenue (32207)

http://www.refreshjacksonville.org/

The JaxPHP group will be meeting on June 3rd to talk about Drupal. Here are the details:

What: Drupal 6

When: Tuesday, June 3, 7:00 PM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meeting Description: Drupal is a content management framework/system. Version 6 of this system recently came out and has many great new features.

There will be a introduction into Drupal for everyone new to it as well as an overview of new features and live examples.

Agenda

6-7pm Social 7-8:30 Presentation & Q&A 8:30-til Food & fun at Panera Bread St. Johns Town Center

Learn more here: http://php.meetup.com/332/calendar/8040795/

The next meeting is next week on Thursday. You can read about it here.

RefreshJax has moved their meetings to the first Thursday of the month. So their next meeting will be June 6th.

JaxPhp and JaxWeb have regular monthly meetings. Find out about them here and here.

I just found out about a Rails job here in town: Sr. Java developer with J2ee and Ruby on Rails. Healthcare experience is a plus. Three month contract to hire. If you’re interested, give me a shout and I’ll get you the deets. (I know, I know: I am actually typing “deets” instead of “details.” I am a loser.)

Anyone want to coordinate flights to RailsConf? Send me an email or post in the comments.

steve [at] lesseverthing [dot] com

• Topic: jQuery, integrating with rails, jQuery and prototype, the Less Js Routes Plugin
• Who: Steven Bristol of Less Everything
• When: Thur. May 22nd. at 7:00PM
• Where: Same place as the last meeting. 7406 Fullerton St, Jax, FL, 32256, which is right across the street from the Avenues Mall.

Wanna meet me there?

Sippers Coffee 7643 Gate Pkwy Jacksonville, FL 32256 (904) 928-0048

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April’s meeting is this Thursday. Look at the blog for the details.

Can some one bring me a tar ball of 311 and Tegan and Sara? Thanks.

Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out myself.

This Wed. April 9th I will be giving at talk about Rails to the Java Users Group here in town. The meeting will take place at 7:00 PM at Availity, the same place where our RubyJax meeting will be.

Here is a copy of the email that Bridget sent out:

Steve Bristol of less everything and RubyJax has graciously agreed to give us a presentation on Rails. Meeting is at 7pm, Wed, 4/9, at Availity, 7406 Fullerton St . He’ll probably also have info about BarCamp Jacksonville which is on Saturday, May 10th. Bridget

This should be a fun time. If you want to see a presentation on Rails, or just want to see me talk to a bunch of Java folks, come on out. (Feel free to heckle.)

• When: Thursday 4/17 at 7:00 PM.
• Speakers: Chad Bearden and Burt Hood of Bear Den Designs
• Topic: HAML and SASS.
• Where: Same place as the last meeting. 7406 Fullerton St, Jax, FL, 32256, which is right across the street from the Avenues Mall.

This month’s speaker Big Tiger has ask me to take a few minutes and talk about our new open source social network Lovd By Less. See ya on Thursday.

• Time: this Thur. Mar. 20 at 7:00 PM.
• Speaker and Topic: Big Tiger will talk about Amazon’s EC2 and S3.
• Location: 7406 Fullerton St, Jax, FL, 32256 which is right across the street from the Avenues Mall.

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See ya there!