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Hey all.  I'm currently looking for a Ruby on Rails developer for a
contract position.  It's a mostly Java shop where most new development
is RoR.  Ideally, we're looking for someone with a Java background
(struts, spring, hibernate) who's passionate about Ruby.  Oracle
experience is also a plus.

Send me an email if you're interested.

--
Andrew

well..better late than never:

At http://www.commerx.com, I've been using Rails for internal and client
applications since 2007 (around 7 so far).


--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "wndx" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> --- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "schuldar" <schuldar@> wrote:
> >
> > I've been developing web applications with Rails for about a year and a half
within the IT department of a large Oil and Gas company downtown.
> >
> > We use JRuby and deploy to Tomcat.  We've had a lot of success and
productivity over the likes of Java's Struts and Spring have been quite
impressive.  But even as we transitioned to this environment it seems the rest
of the company is transitioning to .NET.
> >
> > In general it seems like the entire IT community downtown is turning to
Microsoft.  Is that true? or are there other pockets of Ruby and Rails that I'm
not aware of?
> >
>
> It's great to hear that someone local is using JRuby.  I would think that it
would slot right in to any place using Java already.
>
> Despite the fact that this list seems morgue-like at times, there are over 100
people subscribed, so interest in Ruby and Rails is certainly not waning in
Calgary.  There are several companies developing products with RoR, and some
consultancies that take on RoR projects, and lots of places using plain-old Ruby
for testing and automation.
>
> Labrador Technologies is one such company.  http://www.etriever.com is our
current product, developed with RoR.
>
> Can we get a role-call going here?  Anyone else wanting to promote/brag about
their Ruby or Rails stuff?
>
> Regards, Lori
>

At http://tynt.com we've been using RoR from day one.

Christian

On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:29, wndx wrote:
> Labrador Technologies is one such company.  http://www.etriever.com
> is our current product, developed with RoR.

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "schuldar" <schuldar@...> wrote:
>
> I've been developing web applications with Rails for about a year and a half
within the IT department of a large Oil and Gas company downtown.
>
> We use JRuby and deploy to Tomcat.  We've had a lot of success and
productivity over the likes of Java's Struts and Spring have been quite
impressive.  But even as we transitioned to this environment it seems the rest
of the company is transitioning to .NET.
>
> In general it seems like the entire IT community downtown is turning to
Microsoft.  Is that true? or are there other pockets of Ruby and Rails that I'm
not aware of?
>

It's great to hear that someone local is using JRuby.  I would think that it
would slot right in to any place using Java already.

Despite the fact that this list seems morgue-like at times, there are over 100
people subscribed, so interest in Ruby and Rails is certainly not waning in
Calgary.  There are several companies developing products with RoR, and some
consultancies that take on RoR projects, and lots of places using plain-old Ruby
for testing and automation.

Labrador Technologies is one such company.  http://www.etriever.com is our
current product, developed with RoR.

Can we get a role-call going here?  Anyone else wanting to promote/brag about
their Ruby or Rails stuff?

Regards, Lori

I've been developing web applications with Rails for about a year and a half
within the IT department of a large Oil and Gas company downtown.

We use JRuby and deploy to Tomcat.  We've had a lot of success and productivity
over the likes of Java's Struts and Spring have been quite impressive.  But even
as we transitioned to this environment it seems the rest of the company is
transitioning to .NET.

In general it seems like the entire IT community downtown is turning to
Microsoft.  Is that true? or are there other pockets of Ruby and Rails that I'm
not aware of?

We are an organization in Cochrane Alberta that has some
ongoing ruby on rails projects and we are looking for a
programmer to maintain and update them. If you are interested
email me at gtaillon@.... Thanks Gerry

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--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> The one we've been using is booked for that time.
>
> If anyone is interested in hearing about RailConf 2009, we could do a beercamp
on Thursday (May 21).  Any ideas where?
>
> Regards, Lori
>

Ok, a couple of people have contacted me by email, so I'll repost.  We are
meeting for the RailsConf 2009 debrief beercamp at Seanachie (Signal Hill), at
7:30 on Thursday, May 21.

Please reply here, if you are coming, so we know how much space to save.

Thanks, Lori

The one we've been using is booked for that time.

If anyone is interested in hearing about RailConf 2009, we could do a beercamp
on Thursday (May 21).  Any ideas where?

Regards, Lori

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> Is anyone else going to RailsConf?  Please reply here.
>
> I was thinking that we could do a RailsConf review panel, if we have 2-4
people, for the May CRUserS meeting.
>
> Regards, Lori
>

No one, eh?  Oh well.  Too bad.  I'm actually speaking there now.

http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8772

Is anyone else going to RailsConf?  Please reply here.

I was thinking that we could do a RailsConf review panel, if we have 2-4 people,
for the May CRUserS meeting.

Regards, Lori

As you might have guessed already, from the lack of any updates, we will not be
having our regular CRUserS meeting this month.

If anyone wants to volunteer to organize meetings, host/sponsor meeting places,
give presentations, etc, to help out, please shout out, and post to the list.

Regards, Lori

As you might have guessed already, from the lack of any updates, we will not be
having our regular CRUserS meeting this month.

I've been doing most of the planning and organizing myself since Alex has been
out of the country, and this month, I've had too many other priorities.

If anyone wants to volunteer to organize meetings, host/sponsor meeting places,
give presentations, etc, to help out, please post to the list, or email me
directly.

Regards, Lori

This is your reminder ping, about this month's meeting, this afternoon
at 5:30.

I look forward to seeing you all there.

Regards, Lori

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> A discussion that started at our last meeting turned into a panel
> request, so who am I to argue?  ;-)
>
> Our panel topic is:
>
> Ruby and Rails in Calgary : Evangelism or lack thereof
>
> Ideally, we'd like this to be a free-wheeling discussion of what
> people think is holding back the adoption of Ruby and/or Rails in
> Calgary companies.  Don't be shy!  Come out and offer your opinion.
>
> Note from the !!!! in the subject, that we have a change in our
> regular schedule of meetings, thursday instead of tuesday.
>
> The meeting is scheduled for the third **** THURSDAY ****, Feb 19, at
> 5:30 pm, and will be at the offices of Labrador Technologies (my
> office, and thanks again to Labrador for stepping up to give us the
> venue):
>
> Flamingo Block Building
> Suite 350, 229 11 Avenue SE <------ SE !!
>
> Buzz '05' after entering the directory listing on the front door
> panel, (locked 24 hrs), and we'll let you in. Don't worry about
> forgetting that number, we'll post a sign at the door.
>
> This is directly south of the Central Library/City Hall, so it's
> pretty easy to find, and you can take the C-Train to City Hall/Olympic
> Plaza, and then head south past City Hall to get there.
>

A discussion that started at our last meeting turned into a panel
request, so who am I to argue?  ;-)

Our panel topic is:

Ruby and Rails in Calgary : Evangelism or lack thereof

Ideally, we'd like this to be a free-wheeling discussion of what
people think is holding back the adoption of Ruby and/or Rails in
Calgary companies.  Don't be shy!  Come out and offer your opinion.

Note from the !!!! in the subject, that we have a change in our
regular schedule of meetings, thursday instead of tuesday.

The meeting is scheduled for the third **** THURSDAY ****, Feb 19, at
5:30 pm, and will be at the offices of Labrador Technologies (my
office, and thanks again to Labrador for stepping up to give us the
venue):

Flamingo Block Building
Suite 350, 229 11 Avenue SE <------ SE !!

Buzz '05' after entering the directory listing on the front door
panel, (locked 24 hrs), and we'll let you in. Don't worry about
forgetting that number, we'll post a sign at the door.

This is directly south of the Central Library/City Hall, so it's
pretty easy to find, and you can take the C-Train to City Hall/Olympic
Plaza, and then head south past City Hall to get there.

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Ping!  This is your reminder about the mod_rails aka Passenger
tomorrow.  Hope to see you there.

Lori

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> Note from the !!!! in the subject, that we have a change in our
> regular schedule of meetings, thursday instead of tuesday.  If this is
> bad for you, and you really wanted to come to this meeting, please let
> me know, and we will try to adjust.
>
> The presentation this month will be ^^^mod_rails^^^, given by yours
> truly, Lori Olson.
>
> The meeting is scheduled for the third **** THURSDAY ****, Jan 22, at
> 5:30  pm, and will be at the offices of Labrador Technologies (my
> office, and thanks again to Labrador for stepping up to give us the
> venue):
>
> Flamingo Block Building
> Suite 350, 229 11 Avenue SE <------ SE !!
>
> Buzz '05' after entering the directory on the front door panel,
> (locked 24 hrs), and we'll let you in. Don't worry about forgetting
> that number, we'll post a (better) sign at the door.
>
> This is directly south of the Central Library/City Hall, so it's
> pretty easy to find, and you can take the C-Train to City Hall/Olympic
> Plaza, and then head south past City Hall to get there.
>

Hello

Can you share the following info with your members if you think
they'll be interested?
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If you'd like an HTML version of this announcement, go to:
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Note from the !!!! in the subject, that we have a change in our
regular schedule of meetings, thursday instead of tuesday.  If this is
bad for you, and you really wanted to come to this meeting, please let
me know, and we will try to adjust.

The presentation this month will be ^^^mod_rails^^^, given by yours
truly, Lori Olson.

The meeting is scheduled for the third **** THURSDAY ****, Jan 22, at
5:30  pm, and will be at the offices of Labrador Technologies (my
office, and thanks again to Labrador for stepping up to give us the
venue):

Flamingo Block Building
Suite 350, 229 11 Avenue SE <------ SE !!

Buzz '05' after entering the directory on the front door panel,
(locked 24 hrs), and we'll let you in. Don't worry about forgetting
that number, we'll post a (better) sign at the door.

This is directly south of the Central Library/City Hall, so it's
pretty easy to find, and you can take the C-Train to City Hall/Olympic
Plaza, and then head south past City Hall to get there.

Thanks to all who attended and organized the Crusers meeting yesterday.  I hope
it was
useful to everybody.

I posted the de-anonymizer code snippet to my blog at
http://bitly.com/deanonymizer, and
the slide PDF is available for a while at http://bitly.com/xVNw

Cheers,

Tim

And this is your reminder.  CRUserS meeting is tomorrow at 5:30.

Regards, Lori

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:

> Our presentation topic this month will be Javascript, by Tim
> Breitkreutz.
>
> We may, or may not, have a Javascript book to give away as a door
> prize.  O'Reilly's hasn't come thru on my latest request yet, so I'll
> have to see what Chapters has on hand.
>
> The meeting is scheduled for the usual third Tuesday (Dec 16) at 5:30
> pm, and will be at the offices of Labrador Technologies (my office,
> and thanks to Labrador for stepping up to give us the venue):
>
> Flamingo Block Building
> Suite 350, 229 11 Avenue SE  <------ SE !!
>
> Buzz '05' at the door (locked 24 hrs), and we'll let you in.  Don't
> worry about forgetting that number, we'll post a sign at the door.
>
> This is directly south of the Central Library/City Hall, so it's
> pretty easy to find, and you can take the C-Train to City Hall/Olympic
> Plaza, and then head south past City Hall to get there.
>
> Our January meeting will probably be at the same place, and the topic
> will be Mod_Rails a.k.a. Phusion Passenger, and I'll (Lori Olson)
> probably be presenting (if I can't arm twist anyone else).
>
> If anyone on the list would like to present, or lead a discussion, in
> the following months (feb, march, etc), please let me know what you'd
> like to talk about, and when you'd like to do it.
>
> Regards, Lori
>

Sorry for the late notice, but we lost our venue, and I've been
scramblin around arranging a temporary, backup meeting site.

Our presentation topic this month will be Javascript, by Tim
Breitkreutz.

We may, or may not, have a Javascript book to give away as a door
prize.  O'Reilly's hasn't come thru on my latest request yet, so I'll
have to see what Chapters has on hand.

The meeting is scheduled for the usual third Tuesday (Dec 16) at 5:30
pm, and will be at the offices of Labrador Technologies (my office,
and thanks to Labrador for stepping up to give us the venue):

Flamingo Block Building
Suite 350, 229 11 Avenue SE  <------ SE !!

Buzz '05' at the door (locked 24 hrs), and we'll let you in.  Don't
worry about forgetting that number, we'll post a sign at the door.

This is directly south of the Central Library/City Hall, so it's
pretty easy to find, and you can take the C-Train to City Hall/Olympic
Plaza, and then head south past City Hall to get there.

Our January meeting will probably be at the same place, and the topic
will be Mod_Rails a.k.a. Phusion Passenger, and I'll (Lori Olson)
probably be presenting (if I can't arm twist anyone else).

If anyone on the list would like to present, or lead a discussion, in
the following months (feb, march, etc), please let me know what you'd
like to talk about, and when you'd like to do it.

Regards, Lori

P.S.  To those who showed up last month at ThoughtWorks, we apologise
for the misfire.  The automated meeting notices have been disabled, so
you will only get a meeting notice if/when someone is actually
on-the=ball enough to organize it.