Marshall, are you reading? If you're up for lunch tomorrow, we could do it in your area... don't wanna make you bike across the planet. If we don't hear from...
... Sweet. I'm in. Some ideas for a location: - Whole Foods on the rooftop terrace (5th Street & Lamar) - Magnolia Cafe Lake Austin Blvd. (6th just West of...
... It's tricky to find a place that works well for a group like this. Traditional restaurants don't tend to be a very good choice for a variable sized group...
I have yet to go to any of the meetings since they are always way up north, but I would definitely be up for lunch if it's going to be in the downtown/central...
Whole foods has a large selection of food and quick service with lots of places to sit if you want to be outside. They are, however, expensive. -- Jim Freeze...
I'm making an arbitrary command decision and saying Whole Foods. The expense won't kill us once. 6th and Lamar. correct? Hope all you Antarctic folk will be...
So how exactly will I find you guys? I guess I could go person to person and quiz them about ruby, although I'm thinking that's not the best idea. Shane...
... Look for a small group of males with little fashion sense. I'll have a black T-shirt, possibly black jacket if it's cool, and I habitually carry a small...
... It's between 5th & 6th on Lamar. On the roof terrace, I'll have a bright orange shirt. Everyone should probably get their food individually and then head...
Since some of the folks at lunch today mentioned this, I thought I would try to start a general conversation. I have not been an actual software developer for...
I'm currently working on a little RoR application to track book/movie/video game lending amongst friends, but it's languishing due to sheer laziness. I'd love...
... Sounds like fun in principle, but finding the time to do it is always the hitch. Maybe if you started something on a public server, folks could find the...
I already have plans for this evening, so I can't make it to the meeting. Is anybody else interested in promoting Ruby? -- Matt Nothing great was ever...
... I can do it. How practiced is the group at throwing rotten fruit? I'll need an address and phone number of someone I can contact in case I get lost in the...
... I don't know, but since they only meet once a month, probably not too in practice... ... You're welcome to call me, but I doubt if I could help much.......
... FYI, I have some slides of a talk I gave long ago -- "Ruby for Perl Programmers" at my rubyhacker.com site. You can refer to some of those if you wish. It...
... Thanks Hmm, let's see, they want to see Rails stuff. I'll play the 15min video, and when they recover from that, I'll play it again for those that blinked....
I'm happy to announce that a Ruby On Rails user group is starting here in Austin. The first meeting will be next Tuesday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m. and will be...
Nah, the groups are complementary. The purpose of the Rails group is to grow awareness and adoption of Rails, which in turn should bring more people into the...
Here's one for the language lawyers: I've been trying to teach myself Ruby and came across something that didn't seem like it was the "least surprising". In my...
Yes, it should work that way. From file:///usr/share/doc/ruby-docs-1.8.3/doc-en/Array.html. new([size[,val]]) Creates a newly created array with specified...
... would ... but I ... biggest ... pointers ... What's MPD? As for pair programming, I'm certainly a fan of it and am learning Ruby now (13 years as a perl...