Refresh Jax Thursday night

Posted on June 30, 2008 by steven bristol

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).

RubyJax June: Ruby Best Practice Patterns by Rein Henrichs

Posted on June 11, 2008 by L4rk
  • 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.

Call For Proposals

Posted on June 06, 2008 by Big Tiger

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.

Refresh Jax meeting this week

Posted on June 03, 2008 by steven bristol

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/