Who’s Coming?
Add your details below and tell us what you want to build or discuss. Oh… and don’t forget to register to make sure theres a bed and some food for you.
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Name: Ben Askins
Interested in discussing: Social aspects of developing software a.k.a. loving your client.
Interested in hearing about: Your life!
Interested in building: Lego
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Name: Lachie Cox
Interested in discussing: lightly engineered bespoke intranet apps, Merb
Interested in hearing about: everything wonderful
Interested in building: bridges, walls, silos, Ruby Cocoa? and Merb apps
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Name: Matt Allen
URL: http://allen.com.au
Interested in discussing: search interfaces, web services, merb
Interested in hearing about: real-life deployments
Interested in building: anything, +1 Lego
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Name: John Barton
URL: http://whoisjohnbarton.com
Interested in discussing: anything
Interested in hearing about: merb, rubinius, graphing
Interested in building: +1 Lego, rubinius patches
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Name: Phil Oye
URL: http://philoye.com http://moment.com.au
Interested in discussing: DUKE!
Interested in hearing about: anything
Interested in building: anything
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Name: Pete Yandell
URL: http://notahat.com
Interested in discussing: Who might be a villager and who might be a werewolf
Interested in hearing about: Development methodologies and practices, anything cool
Interested in building: Haptic interfaces, robots, Ruby Cocoa?, anything cool
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Name: Keith Pitty
Interested in discussing: Anything related to Ruby
Interested in hearing about: Anything related to Ruby
Interested in building: Anything with Ruby
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Name: Jason Crane
URL: http://codespike.com
Interested in discussing: Anything related to Ruby
Interested in hearing about: Anything related to Ruby
Interested in building: Anything with Ruby
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Name: Gareth Townsend
URL: http://www.garethtownsend.info
Interested in discussing: Human Computer Interactions. User Interface Design.
Interested in hearing about: Anything
Interested in building: A rails app that uses Ruby Cocoa? to pull data from the cocoa Calendar Store? and Address Book Store?, fitted with a sproutcore front and and an iPhone web application front end built in Dashcode.
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Name: Trevor Nowak
URL: No fixed address :(
Interested in discussing: Will join any random banter.
Interested in hearing: The noise of the masses typing and good arguments
Interested in building: Janga Towers
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Name: Ryan Bigg
URL: http://www.frozenplague.net
Interested in discussing: All things
Interested in hearing: Insightful discussion
Interested in building: Death-Ray
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Name: maybe Chris Broadfoot (just found out its bang in the middle of uni exams!)
URL: not yet
Interested in discussing: stuff
Interested in hearing: things about rails that I don’t know
Interested in building: RDF
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Name: Daniel Neighman
URL: http://hassox.blogspot.com
Interested in discussing: Cool Stuff, Work flows
Interested in hearing: Cool Stuff
Interested in building: Catapults, MEMS, oh… and Ruby apps
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Alleged Name: Ryan Allen
URL: http://tumble.yeahnah.org AND/OR http://yeahnah.org
Interested in discussing: The merits of the various methods of automated testing, and Allen VS Allen – which is better? ;) Motorbikes! Oh wait, no… Merb, awesome. Parsing, with state machines. Maybe Ragel. C. C? Oh, I don’t know, drunken slur? Yeah, that.
Interested in hearing about: What’s next after Ruby (teh language) and Rails (teh framework)?
Interested in building: A Death Star replica.
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Name: Lachlan Hardy
Interested in discussing: Open ID? and OAuth implementations
Interested in hearing about: What’s hot by June ;) Merb!
Interested in building: Piccr 2.0. A functional Jousting Sticks. More random drunken ideas
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Name: Greg Fairbrother
URL: http://www.intrepica.com.au
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Name: alan jones
Interested in discussing: making new products more loveable
Interested in hearing about: ebrytang!
Interested in building: awareness and rapport
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Name: Martin Stannard
URL: huh?
Interested in discussing: anything
Interested in hearing: clinking bottles
Interested in building: not Duke
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Name: Tim Riley
Interested in discussing: testing, messaging systems
Interested in hearing about: merb, other alternative ruby web frameworks, deployment techniques
Interested in building: micro-applications, mashups
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Name: George Bray
Interested in discussing: merb, backgroundrb, iPhone development, video systems
Interested in hearing about: How you did that
Interested in building: Lecture, tv and media systems
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Name: Dr Nic Williams
Interested in discussing: javascript unit testing, git, ruby
Interested in hearing about: oauth
Interested in building: micro-weaponary for the age of micro-terrorism
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Name: Rob Caporetto
URL: Somewhere amongst the tubes
Interested in discussing: rich client applications, strange uses of ruby
Interested in hearing about: merb, RESTful application design
Interested in building: something more than a classic CRUD-esque application
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Name: Brad Wilson
URL: http://lucky-dip.net
Interested in discussing: js integration tests, git vs mercurial vs ?
Interested in hearing about: anything
Interested in building: Maybe something in ruby cocoa
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Name: Robert Postill
URL: http://www.grinning-cat.com
Interested in discussing: deployment, security, lamby the Judas Sheep
Interested in hearing about: war stories from your ruby/rails life, your funniest anecdote
Interested in building: Tools with which to rule the world!
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Name: Joel Courtney
URL: http://euphemize.net | http://jc-photo.net
Interested in discussing: The lot!
Interested in hearing about: how to’s, Image manipulation techniques, deployment techniques, everything really
Interested in building: CMS w/- Image Management, Social Sites, Open ID? (and other open frameworks)
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Name: Lisa Herrod
URL: http://www.scenariogirl.com
Interested in discussing: The merits of nested tables for layout, with Martin Stannard and Nick Pello. Also interested in running some real user testing on projects as they roll out!
Interested in hearing about: Anything Rails that I can understand or barely grasp.
Interested in building: empires :)
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Name: Michael Mac Donald?
URL: http://www.starclass.com.au
Interested in discussing: Deployment, email tracking, background processing, user interfaces, spiffy ajax coolness, unobtrusive javascript, xhtml validation, testing, designing models, just about anything.
Interested in hearing about: Tips, tricks, good coding practices, anything to help me better understand ruby and rails.
Interested in building: Something
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Name: Anthony Richardson
URL: http://www.anthonyrichardson.com (minimalistic I know)
Interested in discussing: Domain Specific Languages, Ext JS?, meta-programming and anything Ruby.
Interested in hearing about: Anything Rails.
Interested in building: Something
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Name: Lincoln Stoll
URL: http://lstoll.net
Interested in discussing: Ruby. Rails. Merb. JRuby. Mercurial. Rubinius. Cloud computing. Erlang. Python. Infrastructure.
Interested in hearing about: Anything cool, interesting, tricky, real world, basically what everyone else is up to, and how people are getting things done.
Interested in building: hghub.com . something fun. something cool. Mini rubinius sprint anyone?
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Name: Lindsay Evans
URL: http://linz.id.au/
Interested in discussing: ruby, bluetooth, cool stuff
Interested in hearing about: anything & everything
Interested in building: ruby-bluetooth, uri-template implementation, vague-date, hacking me some enki
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Name: Glenn Davy
URL: http://glenn.davy.net.au/
Interested in discussing: How people balance family and geekery, paying bills and learning new stuff, GTD and hacking. What people are up to, where coming from and going, technically and personally.
Interested in hearing about: Stuff i don’t know about yet, so er – fields wide open. Very interested in merb, comparing contrasting diff ORM’s, deployment strategies, Ruby out side of http/rails context. GIS. Building DSL’s, getting beyond using ruby as php with different syntax
Interested in building: I’m with lincoln on the whole mini rbx sprint thing. will very happily get involved in whatever is going on. furthering enki.
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Name: Brodaigh Lynch
URL: What’s that?
Interested in hearing about: Confirmation of what i already knew and a whole bunch of stuff i didn’t.
Interested in seeing: what the hell a group like this can achieve over a four day period and we even have a usability expert (like the cherry on top).
Interested in discussing: anything
Interested in building: something good or perhaps a chicken egg tracker with a social aspect and competing chickens :)
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Name: Mike Bailey
URL: http://mike.bailey.net.au/
Interested in: restful APIs, git, deployment.
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Name: Ivan Vanderbyl
Interested in discussing: Anything to do with Ruby, esp. Deployment, Merb?, Ruby enterprise, mod_rails also anything iPhone related
Interested in seeing: more Beer.new
Interested in hearing about: What everyone else is doing with ruby
Interested in building: Something with ruby, and hacking the Rails Url Encoded Pair Parser? to properly handle nested arrays from complex forms with multiple model mappings, and failing the interest in that, developing a social networking app like none other, or installing iPhone OS 2 and building something.
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Name: Geoff Evason
Interested in discussing: ruby meta programming, rspec, git, plugins
Interested in seeing: how I do at guitar hero
Interested in hearing about: rest, resources, testing
Interested in building: a competitive analysis tool, plugins
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Name: Brian Menzies
Interested in getting up the learning curve on Rails. Such a noobi that I don’t even know what I don’t know. Have been messing around with an app and hope to re-write it over the weekend. Looking forward to contributing in some non-technical way, maybe washing dishes, maybe teach a class on negotiation skills if there was any interest.
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Name: Clifford Heath
URL: http://dataconstellation.com
Interested in discussing: better models, process models, meta programming, new kinds of network applications
Interested in seeing: how to write graphical browser apps using a Rails backend – Flash?
Interested in hearing about: how to use git better
Interested in building: anything with other people
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Name: Dylan Fogarty-Mac Donald?
URL: http://dylanfm.com
Interested in hearing about: Lots of stuff—nonsense and all. I’d like to hear things that teach me things too.
Interested in seeing: Lots of happy faces.
Interested in discussing: Stuff! Geek and non-geek. Sober and not-so-sober talk.
Interested in building: An idea that has been hibernating in my mind for long enough. Also, I’d like to contribute what I can towards something others are involved in.
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Name: Joe Dollard
URL: nope
Interested in discussing: rails performance/scaling, deployment, testing, finishing guitar hero on expert.
Interested in seeing: rails geeks
Interested in hearing about: ‘real world’ rails and mysql experiences
Interested in building: micro-applications, and just about anything in ruby or rails.
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Name: Marc Jackson (Munix)
URL: www.prognosis.com
Interrested in discussing: Good ideas in building Rails apps.
Interrested in seeing: Some wildlife
Interrested in hearing about: Cool Rails stuff.
Inderested in building: some sort of Scheduling app. and something that allows entering details of a network, and grouping stuff together and applying a schedule to it.
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Name: Hugh Evans
URL: hughevans.net
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Name: Zoltan Olah
URL: too slack
Interrested in discussing: Scaling frameworks, clouds & mysql clustering experiences.
Interrested in seeing: ruby, macs, iphones, ruby, beer, macs, rails, beer, iphones, ruby, rails…
Interrested in hearing about: Best practices for writing maintanable whilst rich javascript UIs.
Inderested in building: no idea, tempting to say ‘something cool’
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Name: Noel Kelly
URL: http://thegnollinthemachine.blogspot.com/
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Name: Tim Koopmans
URL: http://90kts.com
Interested in discussing: testing, automation, performance
Interested in hearing about: unit testing, functional testing
Interested in building: dsl for watir, general carnage within bzflag …
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Name: Shoaib Burq
URL: http://geospatial.nomad-labs.com
Interested in discussing: merb, cocoa, chooks, iphone, jruby, oAuth, openID
Interested in hearing about: virtual machines, scaling
Interested in building: something that interfaces with my camera and rails … humm face or recognition system would be cool!
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Name: Alex Moore
Interested in discussing: UI Design, Javascript, Ext JS?, Testing, Application Frameworks
Interested in building: A generic application framework incorporating various plugins, authentication etc