http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1606 Damn, sorry, guess the alias is still showing up in my email client. I'll fix that... and, yes, let's kill the old list. On 8/6/07, Robby Russell <robby< at >planetargon.com> wrote: Thomas Lockney 2007-08-06T17:13:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1605 Should we turn off the old list address? I thought things got moved to google groups? Robby On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Thomas Lockney wrote: -- Robby Russell Founder and Executive Director PLANET ARGON, LLC Design, Development, and Hosting with Ruby on Rails http://www.planetargon.com/ http://www.robbyonrails.com/ +1 503 445 2457 +1 877 55 ARGON [toll free] +1 815 642 4068 [fax] Robby Russell 2007-08-06T17:06:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1604 I haven't heard anyone suggest anything they might have to discuss at tomorrow nights meeting, so I thought I'd send out a quick email solicitation. Maybe some of you who spoke at FOSCON would like to do an extended version of your talk? Not sure I'll be able to make it anyway, but it would be good to know that there is something established for tomorrow. Thomas Lockney 2007-08-06T16:19:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1603 Raymond, I know it's been a while, but things are finally moving forward with the FOSCON details and I was wondering if you still have this domain available? We need to get some info online very soon and there's been some issues with our hosting for the pdxruby.org site (as I think you may already be aware, not sure who talked to you about the DNS and such). Also, you had mentioned the possibility of Needmore being interested in being a sponsor a while back. We don't have everything worked out as far as what costs there might be (still trying to find out if we can have food at the venue), but it would be excellent if we knew we might have a source of funds to cover some of these additional costs. I think we might have the venue covered already (Holocene, btw, on the 24th), but I'll double check. Thanks, Thomas Thomas Lockney 2007-07-08T04:23:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1602 http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/dorkbotpdx_0x00 Come join DorkbotPDX, people doing strange things with electricity, for our inaugural event at Vendetta on June 24th at 5pm. If you're a hacker, painter, engineer or sculpture, musician or maker you'll fit right in. We bring together the tech and art worlds and enjoy it all over a pint of beer. We'll have presentations and performances by these fine folks: Jason Plumb is a software engineer by day...hardware hacker, reverse engineer, and experimental sound geek by night. He will provide an overview of the Essential Reality P5 glove controller and explain how it can be used with free and open-source software to create and manipulate sound. Jesse Fox studied music composition and physics at Bates College before getting a Master's Degree from the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He will discuss his involvement with the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) and describe the detailed technical recreation of George Antheil's "Ballet Mecanique", which includes xylophones, bass drums, tam-tam, pianists, electric bells, a siren, airplane propellers, and a volley of player pianos. Donald Delmar Davis, principal research anarchist at D3 Laboratories, will overview the deconstruction of Arduino and Wiring platforms to create artistic robot platforms with AVR microcontrollers. "AI Begins With Self Destruction" paint & copter create multi-media experiences of regurgitated and improvised media. By synthesizing live and pre-manipulated video feeds, field recordings and live instrumentation, Paint and Copter filter cultural noise and reprocess it into a new, mesmerizing thread. We will also have a brief open-mic of sorts referred to as Open Dork. This is a show and tell where you can have the mic for a few minutes to discuss your latest project, vent about frustrations trying to get your art grant or tell us about the intricacies of the color blue. It's your time to tell us what you think we need to hear. Festivities will begin at 5pm and you can expect them to last until they kick us out. Please bring yourself, your friends and any thing you'd like to share. http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/dorkbotpdx_0x00 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/207763 Thomas Lockney 2007-06-16T16:31:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1601 That's already been done, but I'll resend it shortly. Yes, agreed. Done. At least as far as shutting down this list. Thomas Lockney 2007-06-13T22:35:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1600 I suggest sending an email out to the old list, saying it is being killed effective today, with a link to the new list..and signup information (how to for non gmail users). Then just shut it off. Update the website and point it to the new list.. and the old archives if need be. I don't see a point in keeping the old list running at this point. It was dead for months anyway. eliott 2007-06-13T22:08:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1599 Funny: now I'm getting all the mailman confirmation emails from my previous attempts to join the list.... I've never liked mailman... nice to let google deal with it! Ben Thomas Lockney wrote: Ben Munat 2007-06-13T21:39:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1598 Well, there's one of the reasons we've moved it. ;~) Yup. Thomas Lockney 2007-06-13T21:34:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1597 Ack! I've been trying for months to join this list and finally it works today.... and the first emails I get are about how this list is no more! :-o Ok, so I've joined the pdx.rb google group... that's the place now, right? Ben Thomas Lockney wrote: Ben Munat 2007-06-13T21:30:19 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1596 Thomas Lockney 2007-06-04T19:47:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1595 Can anyone tell me if the Ruby User Group is happening this Tuesday and if it will be at freegeek? I ask because I missed the last one and I think the php group is meeting there at the same time. If you know the plan could you please let me know. Thanks --Bob Bob Lehman 2007-06-02T19:17:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1594 Just to add to the confusion, it looks like a lot of backlogged email is getting sent out now. Not sure why this is happening. I hope it doesn't cause too much confusion. Thomas Lockney 2007-06-13T21:27:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1593 http://rubyforge.org/projects/beer/ In the city with more breweries per capita than anywhere in the world, it /should/ be a PDX.rb-er who releases the beer gem :). It's still quite simplistic, just a module with some useful functions for calculating various things needed while brewing beer. Future versions will be released as I find more interesting beer-related things to compute. If there are any other PDX.rb homebrewers about, I'd appreciate feedback/patches/additions. Caleb Phillips 2007-05-24T21:40:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1592 No, I don't think we should forward: that would cause too much confusion for people who are not on the one or the other list and could cause some ugly problems on the servers themselves (I'm not even sure how the forward would work given that both lists only accept mail from subscribers -- what happens when someone isn't subscribed to one?). As for the archives, the list is currently archived by gmane. I am hoping to get the google group pointed to the same in the near future, but I suspect that's going to take a lot of effort given that I don't know who originally got us set up over there (Robby?). Thomas Lockney 2007-06-13T21:25:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1591 This event isn't directly Ruby related, but I thought that there might be enough interest on this list that I should post it here. Future "Bring Your Own Code" events will involve a variety of other programming-related topics. -- David === Second Story is organizing its first "Bring Your Own Code" event. The aim of this event is to bring together local coders and inspire. === "Coding for Interactive Flash Experiences" When: Wednesday June 13th < at > 7pm Where: Second Story Interactive Studios at 714 N Fremont St. #200, Portland, OR Drinks and snacks provided. Portland local Flash coders share coding techniques that have made their work shine, or made their lives easier. Presenters will cover AS2, AS3 and Flex 2. What they love about it, what they hate about it. How it has inspired them. === Please RSVP: space is limited to 20 people. To RSVP, send an email to shane< at >secondstory.com. Be sure to include "BYOC event RSVP" in the title of the email. If you would like to present at this or future events please send a short description of your topic to shane< at >secondstory.com. Be sure to include "BYOC event topic" in the title of the email. About Second Story <http://www.secondstory.com/profile.php> David Brewer 2007-05-22T18:53:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1590 Does anyone know what this error means and how I fix it ? Or some clue as to how to debug it? C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>gem install -y capistrano Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem ... (Zlib::BufError) buffer error I get it on two different windows environments. Any help is appreciated. --Bob Bob Lehman 2007-05-18T04:11:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1589 Anybody know if they were successful in finding a location for RejectConf? If so, when and where? Phil On 5/15/07, Thomas Lockney <tlockney< at >gmail.com> wrote: Phil Tomson 2007-05-17T19:43:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1588 Nevermind on this. The solution was to simply RTF and add the period before the // in the XPath query.. -Bryan On 5/16/07, Bryan Donovan <bdondo< at >gmail.com> wrote: Bryan Donovan 2007-05-17T18:22:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1587 Hi, If I submit the following address to Google's geocode service: 600 Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97209 .. I get two addresses returned (as expected) The two addresses returned are: 600 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97209, USA (Thoroughfare: 600 SW Naito Pkwy) 600 NW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97209, USA (Thoroughfare: 600 NW Naito Pkwy) Here's the Google geocode response link: http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=600%20Naito%20Parkway,%20Portland,%20OR%20&key=ABQIAAAAzMUFFnT9uH0xq39J0Y4kbhTJQa0g3IQ9GZqIMmInSLzwtGDKaBR6j135zrztfTGVOm2QlWnkaidDIQ&output=xml I want to parse this xml response to extract each thoroughfare element (the address without the city, state, and zipcode). However, the code I'm using, which is basically lifted from the ym4r gem's Geocode module (because I'm having the same problem with it..) is returning the same thoroughfare twice. I'm sure it's just not using REXML correctly. Here's my code.. require 'rexml/document' require 'open-uri' url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=600%20Naito%20Parkway,%20Portland,%20OR%20&key=ABQIAAAAzMUFFnT9uH0xq39J0Y4kbhTJQa0g3IQ9GZqIMmInSLzwtGDKaBR6j135zrztfTGVOm2QlWnkaidDIQ&output=xml" xml = open(url).read doc = REXML::Document.new(xml) response = doc.elements['//Response'] response.elements.each("Placemark") do |placemark| data = placemark.elements data_thoroughfare = data['//ThoroughfareName'] puts data_thoroughfare.text end The output is: 600 SW Naito Pkwy 600 SW Naito Pkwy Any idea how I can correctly grab each thoroughfare? Thanks, Bryan Bryan Donovan 2007-05-17T00:56:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1586 The old list is still running, but we are trying to get everyone using the new list. It seemed logical to keep them both up and running for a short period of time so that we could make sure everyone on the old list knew about the new one. We will need to adjust the pointers on the current site (need to get someone with access to the login to do this) and then probably make this list read only for some period of time before shutting it down completely. ~thomas Thomas Lockney 2007-06-13T21:23:02 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland