PhRUG

September Meetup Videos and RailsFTW 0.11

Just a couple of quick Ruby related updates.

Last Thursday we held our September meetup at the Friendster office in Ayala. Here are the videos of the event:

More pictures are posted at the Facebook group.

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In other news, I got around to updating RailsFTW to Rails 3.2.8, putting the installer ahead of RailsInstaller by a bunch of mini-releases. (LOL)

Updated installer can be found on the RailsFTW site.

MySQL tuning and Rails Best Practices talks from Friendster

Just posted the videos from last night’s PhRUG meetup over at the website.

Go over there and watch them now.

Basic Lessons from Ruby Rumble Practice

yay, I won

Normally, I would’ve posted something like this a lot earlier. But work interfered so…

Anyway, since I won the event, I really don’t have an excuse not to do a post. Blow the cut are some of the lessons I (re)learned at the event.

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May 2011 PhRUG Meetup (with videos!)

We held our monthly meetup last night, and AELogica volunteered to let us use their Fort Bonifacio office as the venue (and provided the food as well).

After a day long InfoQ presentation marathon, I decided to try out recording the meetup with a half-decade old camera.

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April 2011 PhRUG Meetup

Last night was supposed to be just an informal meeting; last month’s low attendance made us move from the “1-3 speakers” scheme to a “10 minute show and tell” programme. But people just kept arriving and everything went better than expected.

And yeah, some guys from Pivotal Labs also showed up and participated in the talks.

The Pivotal guys went with some people from MOL/Friendster. The former were contracted to do some stuff for the latter, but I didn’t ask if they’re rewriting the social networking site in Ruby. (I was too busy eating pizza to eavesdrop) That’s them in the pic above, with Winston presenting in the front.

Anyway, here’s a list of the talks last night:

Rad talked about fb_graph
Nate talked about building RubyGems using Jasmine as the example
Bry talked about web-app-theme
Johann talked about RubyMine (which, coincidentally, was used also by Nate in his talk)
Winston talked about GoogleVisualr
Topher talked about Hancock SSO for Sinatra

Thanks to Exist for sponsoring the venue, Topher for taking pictures, and Topher again (and Rad?) for the food.

For updates on future Ruby meetups, join our Google group.