Posted by John Labovitz Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:27:00 GMT
Several members of pdx.rb got together on Saturday, 17 September 2005, for an all-day codefest/hackfest. The purpose was to implement some groovy and needed features for our website. Although we’re not yet finished, feel free to play with the development version.
Read more...Posted by Robby Russell Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:36:00 GMT
The Portland Ruby Brigade is happy to announce that we are going to host a read-only mirror of the Rails wiki at http://railswiki.pdxruby.org/
Once the DHH gets the new wiki up, we will attempt to build a few scripts to keep daily mirrors of the site so that in the event that the site go down again, we will have something up for those who can’t wait. :-)
Posted by Robby Russell Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:52:00 GMT
As you all know, Derek Sivers of CD Baby contacted me to ask if the Portland Ruby Brigade would be interested in having him come by the next meeting. I got the final confirmation today. Derek will be accompanied by Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat)... who is our local Rails commiter! They will field any questions that we throw at them in regards to their rebuild of CD Baby from PHP and MySQL to Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL!
To go a step further, Tim Germer from NW Noise will be joining us and will record our discussions. He runs a cool local podcast for music-stuff and is a fan of Rails. :-)
From this recording, he/we will work on mixing together a podcast that we can share with the Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL communities.
Just wanted to share the latest. :-)
Posted by Ben Bleything Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:21:00 GMT
Just a quick reminder that our upcoming Ruby Tuesday meeting will include a presentation and Q&A from Derek Sivers (of CD Baby fame) and Jeremy Kemper (of Rails committer fame).
Additionally, Tim Germer will be recording our meeting to throw together what will likely be the very first PDX.rb podcast!
Rumor has it the PDX.rb webdevs will also be showing off the results of their recent hackfest.
So come join us, next Tuesday (October 4th) at Free Geek. The show’ll be getting on the road ‘round about 7 pm.
See you there!
Posted by Ben Bleything Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:37:00 GMT
Thank you to everyone who made it to the meeting last night. It was an awesome session of Q&A and discussion. The beer weren’t bad neither.
Special thanks are due to Derek and Jeremy for coming and being our Wonderful Fantasmic Guests o’ Honor. Props are also due to FreeGeek for helping us get around the double-booking issues we had with the PHP group, who themselves were very flexible and we appreciate that greatly.
If you couldn’t make it last night, you may not have missed your chance to ask any questions you might have had. Jeremy has agreed to an email interview. If you’d like to toss some questions in, please email Robby before the day is out. You can reach him at robby <at> planetargon.com.
Last night was huge and we’re only getting bigger. If you’re not already on the mailing list, you’re missing out. Click here to check out our lists and join up. Expect details both here and there on upcoming events, including the launch of our new website and details about our next hackfest.
See you next month!
Posted by Ben Bleything Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:14:00 GMT
Do you blog? Do you ♥ Ruby? Do you consider yourself a member or groupie of PDX.rb?
If the answer to the above questions is yes, then we want to know about it! There were somewhere around 30 people at the meeting last night and yet only 6 links in our Member Blogs section.
Leave us a comment here with your name and blog URL and we’ll get you in with the links. We’d love for you to show your PDX.rb pride by linking back to us with the badge Robby came up with. Download it at http://blog.pdxruby.org/files/pdx-rb-small.jpg.
<a href="http://www.pdxruby.org/"><img src="http://blog.pdxruby.org/files/pdx-rb-small.jpg" style="border: 0;" alt="Portland Ruby Brigade" /></a>
UPDATE
We have a new badge now!
Thank you, Allison from Planet Argon!
Posted by peat Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:15:00 GMT
From the swirling mists of the last millenium comes a hulking device—a mechanical monstrosity of archaic origin. Lurking in the darkest corners of the FreeGeek compound, it awaits the plaintive cry of the desperate nerd: “Hey … who brought the video projector?”
Silence. Low murmurs. Fingers point …
THEN! From the depths it lurches, trailing BNC cables, VGA adapters, power supplies, and a shuddering toolchest. Upon squeeky wheels it rolls: FRANKENJECTOR, the last of it’s breed, the 900 watt behemoth of steel and glass.
We pay homage to thee, if only to ensure that in our time of need you will honor us with your dim light and 800×600 resolution video.
Posted by Robby Russell Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:45:00 GMT
The Portland Ruby Brigade IRC channel is quickly growing in size. This morning we hit 18 people! 17 if you don’t count our trusty drb-subversion-aware, pdxrbot. Number 19 was me logging in on my laptop to take a screenshot. I don’t know about other Ruby user groups, but I bet we’re quickly headed towards being one of the largest and most active Ruby groups in the country.
We’re a small group… but we’re not that small. FOSCON was a great way for us to get some local attention. You can almost guarantee that we will be doing that again next year… and I would expect it to be bigger and better!
In terms of our small size. I was amazed to find out that with less than 40 people on the mailing list, we had around 30 people show up at the last meeting. It’s nice to know that there are so many people interested in Ruby in the Portland area. Scott Laird even took the train from Seattle to come to our meeting!
We will continue to add links to members on the sidebar of this blog and we’re hoping to launch the new website in the coming week(s).
If you live in the Portland area and are even just slightly interested in Ruby, stop by on the IRC channel or subscribe to our mailing list.
Expect to hear more out of the Portland Ruby Brigade in the coming months!
Posted by Robby Russell Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:13:00 GMT
In the less than a week, more than ten new Rubyists subscribed to the PDX.rb mailing list. That averages out to more than two a day!
Discussions range from ideas for future Portland Ruby Brigade events to using Ruby to help local non-profits.
Have you joined yet?
Posted by Robby Russell Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:09:00 GMT
This is just a friendly reminder that the next Portland Ruby Brigade meeting is going to be next at 7pm, Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 at Free Geek.
It’s here… where the blue dot is. :)
(map provided by CommunityWalk and google)
7PM at Free Geek!
There is a rumor that Dane Jensen is going to give us a presentation on using SVK. (not-confirmed)
Dane’s offered at least three times, so I’m going to call it confirmed. We’ll also be having presentations from John Wilger about his eXPlain Project Management Tool.
I’ve heard rumors that the crack website development team will be bringing us up to speed on the status of the website, too.
- ben
