Get up-to-date with an overview of all that’s new in Rails 3. Enjoy edge-of-your-set thrills as we code in Rails 3 live, without a net!
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Tired of rolling your own search? Want to define what data is indexed in your ActiveRecord models? What if you could get all of this AND be able to search by geographical information for next to nothing? Look no further, we will be covering basic ThinkingSphinx setup through a full location based search. You’ll see step by step how to set up and execute full-text searching while you drink beer and eat pizza courtesy of Hashrocket.
As many of you already know the fine folks at Rails For All have put together a regional conference of all things Rails in Orlando, FL on February 8th & 9th, 2008.
I know what you’re thinking “Regional, huh? So the speakers probably suck right?”
Quite the contrary. The keynote speakers are fellow Floridians Obie Fernandez (author of The Rails Way) and Dan Benjamin (The Hivelogic guy whose blog you used to setup your mac to run rails)
There is a charity session featuring Evan Phoenix (of Rubinius fame) and Ezra Zygmuntowicz from EngineYard a premium rails host.
See who else is speaking and when on the conference schedule
This is shaping up to be a great conference nearly in our backyard. A healthy RubyJax turnout would be awesome. Perhaps some promotion T-shirts or pamphlets may be in order.
Speaking of promotion make sure and support the sponsors that make this conference possible. They are listed on the right-side of the conference homepage, including none other than LessAccounting from Steven Bristol’s LessEverything
TeamGaia allowed us to use their studio. They are teens teaching teens how to make films about issues relevant to teens. Recently they were nominated for an Emmy, they lost out to a little production house named MTV (as in Video Killed the Radio Star). Special thanks to Shane for sticking around and running the A/V equipment.
The purpose of this meeting was a meet and greet for local ruby/rails people.
Recently relocated from Madison, WI and living in Jax Beach. HashRocket Astronaut
Owner: Less Everything, their flagship product is Less Accounting
Came from vb6 land
molehill – powerfully small software
Professional Rails developer for negative 1.5 weeks.
Smalltalk => Java => Thoughtworks => Rails => CityCliq => HashRocket
Author: The Rails Way
Series Editor: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
Suggested Micro-Volunteering application which has an analog in micro-lending.
molehill – powerfully small software
tick – time tracking software
Started programming through Welding school
Django Evangelist
PostgreSQL Evangelist
No pickle
Official RubyJax Photographer
HashRocket Street Team Coordinator
Recordkeeper until he can pawn it off on to some unsuspecting soul …
Lighthouse – hosted issue tracking app implemented in Ruby on Rails, svn integration
RailsMachine – Rails host used by some RubyJax members
EngineYard – Premium Rails host, useful if you don’t want to have to administer your own server.
