February 2nd, 2010, by aaron
Every third Thursday of the month we have a Ruby on Rails meetup at our offices. It’s a bit of a mix of some socialising and some tech sharing. A few of the guys share the same woes in trying to run a small business, or deal with clients, or implement some particular solution so it can sometimes end up being quite a mixing pot for solution finding and solution sharing.
I think in the year 2009 we’ve seen the group grow from a meeting of somewhere around 4-8 people each month to sometimes around 30. In December to celebrate a successful year of growth in the Perth Ruby community we went on a pub crawl down Barrack and Beaufort St, everyone seemed to have a lot of fun and it was good to take the show on the road. Generally we keep the drinking and tomfoolery inside the bounds of our office.
You can find out some more information at the meetup site but generally we get between 15 to 30 people attending and there will be talks ranging from using Capistrano for PHP deployments to Behaviour Driven Testing and a lot in between. In January we had talks on using Sinatra to setup some simple Javascript unit testing, using Sinatra and Rake to setup a simple management interface, and using Soap4R to interface with SOAP APIs.
The meetup is held in Unit 9, 1010 Wellington St from 5pm onwards. Beers and snack food are provided, you just need to bring yourself and a willingness to exchange ideas! The next meeting will be on February 18, 2010.
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February 2nd, 2010, by fitzy
Lately I have been left feeling slightly bemused, possibly even despondent. What about you may ask? The reaction this week to the iPad for one.
The instant it was announced, the concept of jumping on the nearest spaceship and leaving this planet behind was not far from my mind. I mean, who doesn’t love a good argument on the Internet right? But the sheer magnitude of negativity and lack of foresight was astounding. I guess there was a lot of disappointed people who expected the iPad to be something that it was never intended to be, but are we really living in an “all about me” society? More importantly, is that where we want to be?
I would never expect everyone to like such a device and nearly everyone I talk to that doesn’t use an Apple product, hates Apple products. I used to be one of those people too. I grew up with MS-DOS, Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, 2000, XP, then shifted to Linux for the next few years. Maybe a solid Apple product came along at the right time for me, just as all the other competitors were struggling. They’ve since moved on and regained their following again, but I’ll most likely continue down the path which has seen me the most productive in business and life.
But back to my original point. I spent 10 minutes thinking about potential uses for the iPad that I hadn’t seen mentioned anywhere, and it wasn’t hard to come up with some amazing out of the box solutions. I contemplated writing a post, to join the other millions of bloggers out there but I held back for a while. Eventually Venessa Miemis wrote exactly what I was thinking, but she’s done the hard work citing resources and everything!
If you have a spare ten minutes it’s definitely worth a read, regardless of how you feel about the device. It may turn out to be a game-changer or it may disappear into insignificance 12 months after it launches. But if like me, people want to read some objectivity on a topic, then this is for you.
iPad: Overhyped Flop or a case of Great Design Thinking?
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