rubyjaxians: u kan has cheezburger and a beer from me, if you can successfully compile GeoIP 1.4.2 and install net-geoip 0.06 on leopard. and then explain it in small words that i can understand, so i can build on my lappy. it worked ok on tiger, but no worky in leopard. thanks. # lark

Hey, there’s a Refresh Jacksonville meeting this Thursday, November 29th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 1803 Hendricks Avenue. Friend of RubyJax, Sandro is presenting, the topic is “DEVELOPING FOR THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM”. Check it out. www.refreshjacksonville.org

Thanks to Rob Warner who blogged RubyJax Inaugural Meeting

As promised here is lark’s RubyJax tear-off for posting in areas you might find Ruby/Rails people, designers, or anyone you think would be interested in joining us.

Where to put them?

• Campus Bulletin Boards
• Your Workplace
• Coffee Shops
• Other tech user group meetings
• Local Welding classes (We hear that’s where some programmers get their start.)

You get the idea, we’re not necessarily looking to create the largest group ever but, if people are interested we want them to join us.

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

Ben “No Pickle” McDonald had some nice things to say about the first RubyJax get together.

Did you blog about it? Did we miss something cool? Let us know by posting a comment here.

Chris wrote a post about the first RubyJax meeting.

Monthly meetings are fun, impromptu meetings are helpful, want immediate access to local ruby people?

#rubyjax

Grab an IRC client and hop on to irc.freenode.net to say “hello world.”

Host

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.

Purpose

The purpose of this meeting was a meet and greet for local ruby/rails people.

Attendees

Jon Larkowski

Recently relocated from Madison, WI and living in Jax Beach. HashRocket Astronaut

Steven Bristol

Owner: Less Everything, their flagship product is Less Accounting

Corey Grusden

Divergent Software

Louis Kemp

Came from vb6 land

Tom Rossi

molehill – powerfully small software

Chris Chandler

Professional Rails developer for negative 1.5 weeks.

Obie Fernandez

Smalltalk => Java => Thoughtworks => Rails => CityCliq => HashRocket

Author: The Rails Way

Series Editor: Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series

Rob Warner

Blog

Wes Gibbs

Gestalt LLC

Chad Bearden

BearDen Designs

Suggested Micro-Volunteering application which has an analog in micro-lending.

Les Hill

RedLambda

Desi McAdam

DevChix

HashRocketeer

Kevin Finn

molehill – powerfully small software

tick – time tracking software

Phil Langeberg

Started programming through Welding school

Sandro Turriate

Django Evangelist

PostgreSQL Evangelist

Ben McDonald

No pickle

Blog

Koders

Jim “Big Tiger” Remsik

Official RubyJax Photographer

HashRocket Street Team Coordinator

Recordkeeper until he can pawn it off on to some unsuspecting soul …

External Links

Lighthouse – hosted issue tracking app implemented in Ruby on Rails, svn integration

Trac

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.

At Mayport & 5th there’s a set of warehouse-type units. The farthest one east, away from Mayport is the Team Gaia space. It’s number 510-9.

Flickr page has notes Team Gaia warehouse as seen from Mayport Road southbound

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Flickr page has notes Team Gaia door

*Photos courtesy of Big Tiger *

See http://rubyjax.com/2007/10/18/meeting-nov-15-6-30 for directions.