Railscamp
Whos Coming

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.

Name: Ben Askins

URL: http://teamaskins.net

Interested in discussing: Social aspects of developing software a.k.a. loving your client.

Interested in hearing about: Your life!

Interested in building: Lego

Name: Lachie Cox

URL: http://smartbomb.com.au

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

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

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

Name: Phil Oye

URL: http://philoye.com http://moment.com.au

Interested in discussing: DUKE!

Interested in hearing about: anything

Interested in building: anything

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

Name: Keith Pitty

URL: http://keithpitty.com

Interested in discussing: Anything related to Ruby

Interested in hearing about: Anything related to Ruby

Interested in building: Anything with Ruby

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

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.

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

Name: Ryan Bigg

URL: http://www.frozenplague.net

Interested in discussing: All things

Interested in hearing: Insightful discussion

Interested in building: Death-Ray

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

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

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.

Name: Lachlan Hardy

URL: http://lachstock.com.au

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

Name: Greg Fairbrother

URL: http://www.intrepica.com.au

Name: alan jones

URL: http://doingwords.com

Interested in discussing: making new products more loveable

Interested in hearing about: ebrytang!

Interested in building: awareness and rapport

Name: Martin Stannard

URL: huh?

Interested in discussing: anything

Interested in hearing: clinking bottles

Interested in building: not Duke

Name: Tim Riley

URL: http://openmonkey.com

Interested in discussing: testing, messaging systems

Interested in hearing about: merb, other alternative ruby web frameworks, deployment techniques

Interested in building: micro-applications, mashups

Name: George Bray

URL: http://vvrdev.anu.edu.au

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

Name: Dr Nic Williams

URL: http://drnicwilliams.com

Interested in discussing: javascript unit testing, git, ruby

Interested in hearing about: oauth

Interested in building: micro-weaponary for the age of micro-terrorism

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

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

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!

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)

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 :)

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

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

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?

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

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.

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 :)

Name: Mike Bailey

URL: http://mike.bailey.net.au/

Interested in: restful APIs, git, deployment.

Name: Ivan Vanderbyl

URL: http://thecoolwebguy.com

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.

Name: Geoff Evason

URL: http://geoff.evason.name

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Name: Hugh Evans

URL: hughevans.net

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’

Name: Noel Kelly

URL: http://thegnollinthemachine.blogspot.com/

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 …

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

URL: http://prohost.com.au

Interested in discussing: UI Design, Javascript, Ext JS?, Testing, Application Frameworks
Interested in building: A generic application framework incorporating various plugins, authentication etc