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May 2011 Codeaholics Meetup

There doesn't seem to be a Ruby meetup this month.

But Hong Kong Ruby Regular William Taysom will be giving a talk on "An introduction to Haskell" at Codeaholics next Wednesday.

Be sure to check it out

Wednesday 25th May 2011

7pm - 9pm

@Boot.hk

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214451298578873

Drinks generously sponsored by Hong Kong Ruby Consultancy ThoughtSauce

April 2011 Ruby Meetup

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208699975818140

Finally another Ruby Meetup.

Friday 29th April 2011

7pm @ Boot.hk

We have Ian McFarland from Pivotal Labs talking about their approach to Ruby and Agile We have Matthew Rudy talking about the controversial Coffee Script And anyone else for anything else. Talks will start about 7:30pm Beer will be provided courtesy of Thought Sauce and we will go out for dinner afterwards See you there!

#ruby #april #pivotal

Codeaholics Feb 2011 Meetup: Mongo and jQuery/jqGrid

The February Codeaholics meetup will be held on 24th February, alongside the Ruby meetup.

For those unfamiliar with codeaholics, it is a language agnostic meetup where we like to cover anything relating to software design and development and meet with other techy folks.

Agenda:

Giovanni Lion (his facebook) - Why I don't like Mongoid, but I still use it.

Eddie Lau - How I beat the stock market using Scala, Ruby and MongoDB (slides)

Paul Gresham - (resnetfinancial.com, traderisk.com) Maintaining RESTful resources whilst supporting dynamic UI controls - which will cover jQuery/jqGrid and REST.

As always, drinks and snacks during the talks will be sponsored by http://thought-sauce.com/ and location provided by http://boot.hk/!

Date Time & Location:

19:00, 24th February 2011

Boot.hk - 19/F, Hang Wai Commercial Building, 231-233 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong

http://boot.hk/pages/boothk-home#location

#Ruby On Rails #Agile Hong Kong #Codeaholics #Mongo #jQuery #jqgrid #boot.hk #Thought Sauce #Scala

January 2011 Hong Kong Ruby Meetup

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192692474090685

Agenda:

William Taysom on automatically generating glue code for calling C/C++ libararies

Jason Crane will be talking about his most recent project and a number of interesting gems

As always, drinks and snacks will be provided by Thought-Sauce.com

Date Time: 19:00, 27th January 2011

Location: Boot.hk

19/f Hang Wai Commercial Building,

231-233 Queen's Road East,

Wan Chai, Hong Kong

http://boot.hk/pages/boothk-home#location

December 2011 Hong Kong Ruby On Rails User Group Meetup

Kevlin Henney shared about "Cool Code", which includes a number of examples of code that are cool for reasons of history, geekiness, style and influence, etc.

Alex shown us Juggernaut - realtime push for web apps (http://github.com/maccman/juggernaut)

#boot.hk #ruby #rails #Hong Kong #thought sauce #kevlin #alex

Rails Rumble 2010

there were 3 teams participating Rails Rumble and Rex's team entered the final round ~ Congratz !

http://www.stillalive.com

http://kookiebox.r10.railsrumble.com

http://newsprank.com

Enjoy ~

http://cbbnews.info/stories/william-the-nobel-prize-winner-for-literature

#Rails Rumble #Hong Kong #thought sauce #Ruby

November 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170036503009465

Agenda

Dave the Ninja (NinjasOnRails NinjaOnDotNet) will talk about "coding Javascript like it was Ruby using Js.class"

Team Hongkie Kong will talk about "Rails Rumble, and what we learnt"

Date time & Venue

Date: Tuesday November 2nd 2010, 7:30pm until whenever

Venue: BootHK

Address: 19/f Hang Wai Commercial Building, 231-233 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

GMap: http://bit.ly/derD0j

Link: http://boot.hk

#ruby #hong kong #agile #thought sauce #boot.hk #meetup

Meetup June 2010

Start your holiday the right way with the Ruby on Rails meetup on Tuesday 15th June 7pm.

Date: Tuesday June 15th 2010

Time: 7pm until whenever

Venue: AMP Capital

Address: Room 2105A, 21/F Harcourt House, 39 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

GMap: http://bit.ly/d7NWDW

Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124348937600251

Agenda:

Giovanni Lion will talk about Haml and Sass

Matthew Rudy will talk about something probably

Dave the Ninja may talk about moving from .NET ;-)

anyone else can talk about anything else

Passionate hackers, programming newbies, startups, entrepreneurs and students (basically... everyone) are welcome ~

HKRor Meetup in May 2010 - Writeup

The Meetup in May took part weeks ago. we had a really nice Chaozhou dinner afterward. Thanks William (GearBox Software) for offering the office (and AWESOME COFFEE!) for the meetup.

Here is a quick wrap up of stuff discussed:

Matthew had gone through his chinese "tutorial" Ruby application pootonghua which utilized many plugins and tools:

Sinatra - gem that allows simple and quick web service

Heroku - hosting that supports easy deployment. as simple as installing a gem and push changes to git repository.

stored data in JSON format for a small set of data. may consider a key-value db if the size of data growing

Some random issues were raised during the meetup:

After a while, your Sinatra file may bloat very fast, because you have to define at least one block for one url pattern. It was suggested to refactor regularly and even split them into different folder and namespace.

Have to be aware of the caching done by Heroku. Although it is a nice feature to be provided by default, sometimes you may not get the behavior you were expecting.

Pricing of Heroku is kind of confusing, especially the memory and worker units(dynos) calculation. You may better start with the lowest specification first and then do some testing benchmarking before you upgrade to a higher package.

String#end_with does not work on Heroku environment, *perhaps* the ruby version is not the latest 1.8.7. btw, you can change the Heroku ruby version by heroku stack.

MongoDB and Cabinet-db looks interesting to most of us. It was encouraged to have a look and try it out.

Looking forward to June 2010 Hong Kong Ruby Meetup ~

Rubyconf China 2010 (June/26th) in Shanghai

Rubyconf China is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year takes place in Shanghai, China, on the 26th of June.

Keynote by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Inventor of Ruby)

Ruby Rails HK Meetup - 17th May 2010

The May Meetup of Hong Kong Ruby / Rails Group will be held Monday 17th May 2010 7:00pm.

This time we go to Gearbox office near Diamond Hill MTR:

GearBox Software

Rm 1205, 12/F, Max Trade Centre,

23 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

http://bit.ly/d7ewam

Talks will include:

Dave The Ninja - talking about his move from .Net to Ruby

Matthew Rudy Jacobs - talking about "Reportify" and how to design a nice API

anyone else - anything

talks starting about 7:30. We will of course go for food after the talks, and continue the discussion over whatever delicious cuisine Diamond Hill has to offer

April 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup

William gone through his experience looking for a light weight full text search indexer. after considering scalability, memory consumption, database_dependent? and stability and he picked Xapian with Xapain-Fu interface. He showed us how easy to start using Xapian.

another candidate Solr was recommended for larger scale enterprise level architecture.

links to Xapian and Solr:

http://xapian.org

http://github.com/johnl/xapian-fu

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Adam demonstrated two awesome free agile project management tools:

- Pivotal Tracker http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

- Story Mapper (Carbon Five) http://www.trackerstorymaps.com/

Pivotal Tracker is a full-feature tool which handles user story, backlog, release, ... etc.

Story Mapper integrates on top of Pivotal Tracker to manage large projects with lots of stories, modules and complicated releases.

They provide clean and smooth-running user interface to visualize everything. well-organized.

check out other 3rd party tools here: www.pivotaltracker.com/help/thirdpartytools

#hong kong #thought sauce #ruby

Meet up in 2010.

Date: Thursday February 18th 2010

Time: 7pm until whenever

Venue: AMP Capital

Address: Room 2105A, 21/F Harcourt House, 39 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

GMap: http://bit.ly/d7NWDW

Arrangements:

Matthew Rudy to talk about Upgrading Your App to Rails 3 - how, and why.

If you plan on coming

drop us a line to let us know

or fill out this doodle

http://www.doodle.com/75446uxi9pbsxkre

Directions:

Take the MTR to Admiralty

Exit A1, and walk north to Gloucester Road

Walk West along Gloucester Road

3 blocks later you'll reach Harcourt House

21st floor, Room 2105A

From April meeting.

William Yeung's - "jQuery with Rails" - slides and demo code.

HK IT Calendar

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