#thought sauce

[charliewykes]

con guy routines (かんがえる)

Whose to say that we'll ever get to the bottom of figuring out ourselves?

As such a notion seems futile and perhaps even pointless. Since unless we stop changing or developing at the time by which our most modern perception of scientific knowledge seems to suggest our brain stops 'development' (or perhaps that notion is referring to how our brain begins to slow down on it's own terms).

[rubyonrailshk]

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

[rubyonrailshk]

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

[rubyonrailshk]

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

[rubyonrailshk]

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)