RubyJax February: MongoDB & Mongoid

Posted on February 15, 2010 by L4rk

Non-relational databases are taking off! Come watch Durran demonstrate Mongoid, his Ruby framework for MongoDB.

Details:

  • when: Tuesday, February 23rd, 7pm
  • who: Durran Jordan, developer at Hashrocket
  • where: Hashrocket, 320 1st St. N., Suite 712, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 (877) 885-8846


RubyJax January: CSI: Javascript

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Big Tiger

What: RubyJax December: CSI: Javascript

When: January 21, 2010 7:00 PM

Where: Hashrocket Offices 320 1st St. N., Suite 712 Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 (877) 885-8846

Paul Elliot will provide an overview of effective Javascript techniques by walking through his two most recently released plugins Spicy Select (http://github.com/paulelliott/jquery-spicyselect) and The Final Countdown (http://github.com/paulelliott/jquery-the_final_countdown). He will focus on breaking down code to increase performance and readability.

RubyJax December: Sinatra, Heroku, and You, and You

Posted on December 04, 2009 by Big Tiger
  • who: Adam Lowe with Hack, Question, and Answer
  • where: Hashrocket
  • when: Thursday, December 10, 7-9pm
  • what: Sinatra, Heroku, and You, and You

Adam will go over the basics of Sinatra web framework and deploying to Heroku in a quick 20-30 minute talk. After that anyone interested can pair up, create, and deploy your own Sinatra app via Heroku. Through this process we’ll answer real questions as folks find real problems setting their project up. “OK, we deployed, how do we add authorization?”

Though there is no cost for the entry level hosting offered by Heroku, we do have some gift cards provided by Heroku to give away as well.

Adam Lowe

Adam spent a number of years working across the technology project life cycle in enterprise Microsoft environments. Frustrated with the old world’s pervasive status quo mentality, he discovered Ruby on Rails in 2007 which rekindled his love for Linux, OS X and software development. In 2008, he met the Rocketeers and was enamored with the passion, craftsmanship and drive to succeed with which they applied themselves. He joined the team in 2009 and relishes every opportunity to leverage his diverse background and utility belt of skills where ever he’s needed.

Tonight's Meeting Moving

Posted on February 17, 2009 by steven bristol

Tonight’s meeting will be moved to the Hashrocket offices.

320 1st St N, Suite 712 Jacksonville Beach FL

Tell the doorman you are here for RubyJax at Hashrocket in suite #712

Take the left elevator.

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Same time. Same topic. Same fun. Please spread the word.

Rails, Live! Without a Net (But with Testing)

Posted on February 16, 2009 by L4rk

  • who: Matt “Veez” Remsik
  • where: Hashrocket Offices, 320 First ST N, Suite #712 Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
  • when: February 17, 7pm

Tell the doorman you are here for RubyJax at Hashrocket in suite #712

Ever wanted to write a web app in an hour? Get the chance to release a basic but functional Rails site developed in The Hashrocket Way with Veez. We’ll review some basic concepts of the Ruby on Rails framework before live-coding an app that will be test-driven and demonstrate accepted best practices. And best of all, the source codes will be available on github for your forking pleasure!


Update 2009-04-05: Here’s the video of the presentation…

Next meeting Feb 17

Posted on February 12, 2009 by steven bristol

Next meeting is tues, feb 17.

Veez is talking about rails.

Next Meeting Reminder

Posted on December 08, 2008 by steven bristol

The next meeting is this Wed. 12/10. See this for the deets. (And yes I did just type “deets.”) (I know I’m a dufus.) (Yes, I am OK with it.)

Next Meeting 10/29 - Website Performance Tips and Tricks

Posted on October 21, 2008 by steven bristol
  • Who: Will Reed
  • What: Website Performance Tips and Tricks
  • When: Wed 10/29 at 7:00 PM
  • Where: Navigator Coffee Squadron, 7643 Gate Pkwy, Jacksonville, FL 32256 (904) 928-0048

Next Meeting Brian Dainton - "Working with XMPP in Ruby"

Posted on August 15, 2008 by steven bristol

Brian Dainton of FiveRuns will be presenting at the next RubyJax. He will be talking about “Working with XMPP in Ruby.” He’ll also be talking a bit about working at FiveRuns, the tools they use, the problems they’ve overcome and scaling a big app.

Brian is a special guest star and is flying to Jax from Texas just to visit with us. He spoke at RailsConf and is one of the top Rails folks in the country. This is one meeting not to miss!

The meeting will take place on Thursday Aug 21 at the Navigator Coffee Squadron (which used to be called Sipper’s) at 7:00 PM.

7643 Gate Pkwy
Jacksonville, FL 32256
(904) 928-0048
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  • RubyJax is BYOB (even at Navigator).
  • Coffee, Tea, Smoothies, pastries, bagels, muffins and stuff will be available for purchase. Please support Navigator, they are not charging us and are staying open just for us, so please buy something.

Next Meeting Aug 21 - New Location

Posted on August 01, 2008 by steven bristol

The next meeting will take place on Thursday Aug 21 at the Navigator Coffee Squadron (which used to be called Sipper’s) at 7:00 PM.

7643 Gate Pkwy
Jacksonville, FL 32256
(904) 928-0048
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  • The topic hasn’t been set yet.
  • RubyJax is BYOB (even at Navigator).
  • Coffee, Tea, Smoothies, pastries, bagels, muffins and stuff will be available for purchase. Please support Navigator, they are not charging us and are staying open just for us, so please buy something.

Tomorrow's meeting has a special guest super star

Posted on July 16, 2008 by steven bristol

To contrast all the Textmate goodness that will be going on tomorrow night, Tim Pope will be talking about Vim. He will be sharing the vim_love with everyone because that’s what he’s got: VIM-LOVE for EVERYONE. That’s V-I-M—L-O-V-E. Which is comes from T-I-M-S-V-I-M-L-O-V-E.

(Tim asked me to write this post just like this) (No he didn’t) (“Tim Pope did not approve this message”)

Next meeting July 17

Posted on July 08, 2008 by steven bristol

Go here for the address and time and stuff.

The topic will be a group discussion/demonstration of Textmate tips and shortcuts. If time allows it will be followed by a group discussion/demonstration of plugins and testing tips. If time allows will will have a group discussion/demonstration about stories of unsatisfying encounters with prostitutes.

Next meeting July 17

Posted on July 02, 2008 by steven bristol

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.

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.

Meeting reminder and stuff

Posted on May 13, 2008 by steven bristol

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.)