I can ask someone from my company to come talk to the next meeting. Any requirements? any topic in particular? My company will be releasing a application...
Just wanted to let the group know about this open position ... TechSmart Solutions Group, a high-energy, NYC-based consulting boutique focused on application...
I'd say that generally product-specific talks aren't in high demand at the group, though if the product has a lot of interest (Amazon S3, say) then that makes...
Just a reminder that a few of us are meeting this evening at Metrocafe for drinks and Ruby related fun. Tom from Engine Yard will be in town so come on by and...
4 Elbows, LLC has launched two rails-based publishing systems and we're working on a few others. - WinthropManagement.com - CorkSavvy.com Regards, Jamie ...
Paul, I work with Climate Culture, a network creating new ways for users to challenge their friends to be green. I can also vouch for the Ruby cooking up at...
So, I have a database of addresses with postal codes (including some international ones). I need to implement a simple search feature that takes a postal code...
I guess we can talk about how the application uses GRID computing resources from Amazon EC2 and S3 for the new generation Web 2.0. Also, how the application...
Wanted to introduce myself to the group. We are looking for Rails Developers of all experience levels for a variety of consulting opportunities here in the...
Paul, It would be great if you could add us to your list. Agile Partners (agilepartners.com) is a close knit group of creatives and developers that has been...
For http://menumap.monkeythumb.net I downloaded the tigerline files from the gov'ment and used the geocoder.us perl library. It takes forever to download and...
Matt, What's the context? Is it akin to "show me the closest 20 Blockbusters I can drive to from here?" You said that the addresses are not just US addresses-...
... Yes, it's a retail store locator. It doesn't have to be terribly accurate. There are less than 3000 stores I'm searching against. Someone will enter a...
Matt, Have you looked at the geokit plugin? You will need to first convert each item in your database to have a lat/lng (which you can do with a script using...
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:00:31 -0000 ... There's also this: http://technology.slashgeo.org/technology/06/12/11/146219.shtml Which is free open source and runs...
" I worked with him on it briefly back in the day and he's a really nice guy." Which coming from Zed, is, like a Nobel peace prize Sent via BlackBerry from...
Just curious what your typical distances are, and what your extreme distances are, and which calculation model you used? As soon as you address the need for...
Interesting point. I have been using the spherical distance calculation with a radius of 50 miles. Maybe I should switch to flat since the radius is small? ...
Let's do Greg's talk this month. Manuel's proposal is appreciated, but I feel like we've had plenty of EC2 & S3-centric talks in the last year. I've posted the...
I've been working on a Web 2.0 Agile Planning tool that we just opensourced at code.google.com called xcards. It's in early stages, but it's a neat Rails...
Hi guys, The company I work for is looking for developers to beta test our new RoR application platform. Morph Labs has just released the Morph Application...
Hi Guys, may I add some more recruiting spam here? The thing is that my company was pretty busy with RoR jobs till this year (both with US and Germany...
Greetings! I'm a headhunter with an in-house position at a fortune 500 firm seeking a Ruby developer with some strength in C#/ASP and HTML/Javascript • 5...
Well, we've already got Greg slated to give the main talk ... But as always, anyone can give a lightning talk at the beginning. The time limit for those is 5...