Here are the trail blazing rails devs who attended the first camp…
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Name: Ben Askins
Interested in discussing: view refactoring, Seaside, UML and Active Record?, how to submit rails patches, Active Resource?, thinking RESTfully, PDF Generation in Ruby, Ruport
Interested in building: mentoring system – hooking up newbies with gurus who want to help, community management apps for small non-profit orgs
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Name: Max Muermann
Interested in discussing: domain modeling, REST, integration
Interested in building: Web 3.0
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Name: Tim Lucas
Interested in discussing: refactoring into limbo land (just say no to DRY); notflyingsolo/teamwork/projectmanagment; and, ideas for the most fun, simple and hi-larious web app we could develop
Interested in building: playing with toys that I wouldn’t normally have a chance to play with, like tractors, slashers, and all those farm things (maybe also memcache, test/spec, postgres geo stuffs, openid)
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Name: Pat Allan
Interested in discussing: APIs, REST, rspec, caching, australia/oceania rails communities, freelancing
Interested in building: Pretty much anything
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Name: Lachlan Hardy
Interested in discussing: Rails n00b stuff and hardcore webby geekery: including Open ID?, IM integration and funky-ass web apps. Oh, and building and bettering our community so that we rock harder and longer
Interested in building: anything I can sink my teeth into as a newbie
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Name: Rex Chung
Interested in discussing: Share experience on common implementations of authorization, RESTful CRUD, deployment, load balancing etc. Also experience on freelancing, starting business, business ideas and outsourcing etc.
Interested in building: Something that my mum and dad will find useful.
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Name: John Barton
URL: http://whoisjohnbarton.com and http://alltimetop5.com
Interested in discussing: REST, rspec, learning from others experience freelancing, activeMQ
Interested in building: anything nifty
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Name: Keith Pitty
Interested in discussing: REST, Rails work opportunities, RJS, refactoring, what’s coming in Rails 2.0, ...
Interested in building: Any Rails apps but especially apps using parts of Rails (as well as nifty plug-ins) that I haven’t used yet.
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Name: James Healy
URL: http://www.yob.id.au
Interested in discussing: APIs, rspec, continuous integration, PDF generation
Interested in building: Anything that’ll teach me something new,
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Name: Lachie Cox
URL: http://lachie.info
Interested in discussing: ugly, offline, processing data in Rails, fast APIs, Meta Rails, DHH
Interested in building:
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Name: Jason Crane
URL: http://codespike.com
Interested in discussing: Using RSpec from the get go, mashups with different rails apps, microformats
Interested in building: top secret wine and food project
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Name: Dylan Fogarty-Mac Donald?
URL: http://dylanfm.com
Interested in discussing: I’m coming to learn and I’ll discuss anything. I enjoy discussing design and typography.
Interested in building: All that is simple and useful.
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Name: Nick Pellow
Interested in discussing: Web Applications of tomorrow that can be realised today.
Interested in building: the web2.0iest car pooling site:
(same in principle as the very successful http://www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de/
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Name: Hugh Evans
Interested in discussing: Deployment, Optimisation and HAML
Interested in building: Apps with super user friendly design and very clean code.
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Name: Lindsay Evans
URL: http://linz.id.au
Interested in discussing: acts_as_nested_set, GIS, REST, Bluetooth, anything interesting
Interested in building: super-cool stuff, a tower made from empty beer bottles
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Name: Zubin Henner
Interested in discussing: best practices, writing reusable code, REST
Interested in building: admin systems for portable devices
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Name: Scott Harvey
URL: Nup
Interested in discussing: any interesting plugins, all things RESTful, caching and possibly the weather
Interested in building: something that I will actually use for myself instead of building stuff for other people.
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Name: Adam Davies
URL: http://adzdavies.blogspot.com or http://travellink.com.au/travellink_ltd.htm
Interested in discussing: rspec, integration/acceptance testing, how to scale up, AJAXy stuff & alternatives for rails views
Interested in building: ...anything to learn from, web 2.0-ee stuff, maybe something with more than just a database (like subversion browser, or funky drb stuff).
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Name: Daniel Bradby
URL: http://dbradby.net
Interested in discussing: Rails and Amazon webservices (EC2 and S3), Scaling, Clustering, Deployment, AJAX, PDF
Interested in building: PDF Tooling (reader/parser), EC2/S3 Management Console.
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Name: Martin Stannard
URL: nil
Interested in discussing: Rails and Flash/Flex integration, RSpec, Scaling, Payment Gateways
Interested in building: Something green – the car-pooling idea of Nick’s sounds good
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Name: Anuj luthra
Photo blog: http://www.flickr.com/photos/junglee_anuj/
Interested in discussing: Rails, gotcha’s in general, PDF, templating, Capistrano, clustering, REST, Rails Engines, good Indian recipes !!
Interested in building: World’s Largest Omelette, simple and useful stuff which will help me learn rails better.
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Name: Myles Byrne
Interested in discussing: seaside, code generation, interface design, API design, testing, simplicity
Interested in building: Small apps, small libraries, DSLs
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Name: Hoan Ton-That
Interested in discussing: Rails, programming languages, startups, other frameworks
Interested in learning: More about Ruby the language.
Interested in building: Anything crazy, a small library, or a Facebook app
Rails Camp 2 Pioneers:
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Name: Ben Askins
Interested in discussing: The delicate balance between getting enough sleep and being a freelance developer
Interested in building: Lego
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Name: Pat Allan
URL: http://freelancing-gods.com
Interested in discussing: Caching, Form Builders, perhaps some discussion on freelancing with rails for the benefit of those who aren’t already freelancers.
Interested in building: Plugins, Rspec matchers, perhaps something to kick our politicians’ arses into proper discourse/openness/honesty
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Name: Tim Lucas
Interested in discussing: Lots of things
Interested in building: Guitar hero skills
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Name: Ian Heggie
URL: http://heggie.org
Interested in discussing: Anything and everything from Computers to God, apart from politics
Interested in building: Rails knowledge and quieter snores – I don’t care about my snoring, but others may ;)
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Name: Lachlan Hardy
Interested in discussing: All things online identity and authentication
Interested in building: beautiful alcohol-driven randomness
Wants to learn: better cleaner Ruby
Wants to help: others learn better cleaner HTML & CSS
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Name: Lachie Cox
URL: http://blog.smartbomb.com.au
Interested in discussing: the post- and extra-rails world
Interested in buildings: yes, especially art-deco ones.
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Name: Ryan Allen
URL: http://yeahnah.org and http://tumble.yeahnah.org
Interested in discussing: The life, universe and everything.
Interested in writing: A Ruby on Rails Rap. I’m super serial.
Celebrating: His birthday on the 24th of November! Party!
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Name: Lisa Herrod
Interested in discussing: How I can work with the Rails crew to improve the User experience (usability and accessibility) of their projects.
Interested in building: I’d love to work on as many projects as possible so I can understand how you work and how I can help enhance your sites.
Wants to learn: I’m a ruby newbie so anything!
Wants to help: everyone!
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Name: Craig Ambrose
URL: http://www.craigambrose.com
Interested in discussing: Performance, Background RB?, javascript, facebook (and most other things)
Interested in building: My internet porn empire
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Name: Daniel Bradby
URL: http://dbradby.net
Interested in discussing: Amazon EC2/S3, JRuby, Facebook
Interested in building: some biceps
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Name: Nick Pellow
URL: http://voteforkevin.com.au
Interested in discussing: Politics, Testing, Duke
Interested in building: something Green
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Name: Patrick Dockhorn
Interested in discussing: anything rubyonrails, smpp client for ruby, middle aged programmers
Interested in building: clean rails application with multi-language support
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Name: Armin Kroll
Interested in discussing: Rails and social networks, EC2, agile, Large Rails applications -where is the limit?
Interested in building: small gadgets
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Name: Noel Kelly (Gnoll110)
URL: http://thegnollinthemachine.blogspot.com
Interested in discussing: Rails, agile, EC2, Large Rails application builds?
Interested in building: cool webby stuff
Interested in seeing: the result of Daniel Bradby and Nick Pellow joint project, Hulk 2.0 (has some biceps, is green)
Can’t edit ‘t-shirt size’ page; please put me down for a large
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Name: Dr Nic Williams
Blog: http://drnicwilliams.com
Interested in discussing: Why using caching makes your code look ugly; people running Rails/Ruby training in Oz; git; Rubi Gen? + generators
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Name: Greg Fairbrother
URL: http://www.aus-e.com
Interested in learning: Only been learning ruby and rails for a couple of weeks, loving it. Want to learn all I can.
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Name: Hugh Evans
URL: http://hughevans.net
Interested in discussing: BDD (with rspec), progressive enhancement / unobtrusive javascript (with lowpro.js) and HAML.
Interested in building: Things that make our society more efficient dammit!
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Name: Drew Pilottos
Interested in improving: The performance of my rails App
Interested in teaching: willing participants
Interested in learning: French, but I guess anything software/rails related will do.
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Name: Liam Mc Lennan?
URL: http://www.eclipsewebsolutions.com.au
Interested in discussing: Ruby, Rails, Iron Ruby?
Interested in building: A SaaS product to support my early retirement.
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Name: Ross Hill
URL: http://www.rosshill.com.au
Interested in discussing: Lots of things
Interested in building: A local reviews site
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Name: Martin Stannard
Interested in discussing: Testing, deploying, scaling, payment processing, politics
Interested in building: something small
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Name: Pete Yandell
Interested in discussing: Rails 2, Ruby Cocoa?, Ruby and telephony
Interested in building: Deprec 2
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Name: Ryan Bigg
Interested in discussing: Anything and Everything
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Name: Phil Oye
Interested in discussing: Most anything
Interested in building: My skilz
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Name: Jason King
Interested in discussing: Freedraw, Challenge Auth?
Interested in building: More interfaces to Challenge Auth?, IM (if we’ve not done it by then), Twitter?, Open ID? somehow?
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Name: Enrico Teotti
Interested in discussing: I’m thinking about it
Interested in building: I’m thinking about it… seriously…
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Name: Shoaib Burq
Interested in discussing: Adobe Flex
Interested in building: Geo-Social Networking
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Name: Mike Bailey
URL: http://mike.bailey.net.au/
Interested in discussing: Interesting stuff
Interested in building: deprec 2