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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1596 Thomas Lockney 2007-06-04T19:47:44 http://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1581 I'm working on a simple format string library that leverages callbacks. Since it inherits from String, I'm really concerned that the API of it is easy to use and isn't too funky. If anyone has time to review this and provide feedback into the interface, I'd really appreciate it. I'll be posting this to rubyforge after I'm done with it, so it's not like you're helping me do my job or anything. :) http://pastie.caboo.se/65447 Thanks! -- Erik Hollensbe erik< at >hollensbe.org Erik Hollensbe 2007-05-28T23:37:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1580 I am pleased to announce the opening of the source code I wrote for http://pdxvwexchange.com/ You can get it over at: http://atblabs.com/ Project Summary: VWexchange - Virtual Marketplace written in Ruby on Rails This is a bulletin board that uses email verification instead of accounts. The category tree is fully customizable through a web UI. It supports images and has an anonymous email forwarding system. Google is used for search and analytics are already baked in. The entire system was conceived, built, and deployed in four days. -david David Turnbull 2007-05-26T22:47:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1578 Michael Buffington 2007-06-13T17:35:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1577 Sending one last quick reminder that if you want to continue being able to contribute to discussions on the PDX.rb mailing list, you need to subscribe to the new list at Google Groups: web: http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby email: pdxruby-subscribe< at >googlegroups.com Also, please not that the sign up process is a little funky using the web interface and if you're not paying close attention you might end up telling it to not send you any email. Of course, you can use the RSS/Atom feeds if you prefer to keep your inbox clean, but make sure you're doing this on purpose, not on accident. I'll be turning off the ability to send email on the current list within the next week. The archives are still available on Gmane (http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland). Hopefully I can get the admins at Gmane to point at the new list, but that remains to be seen. Thomas Lockney 2007-06-09T20:05:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1574 Hi, A friend of mine contacted me regarding a web development position in his company. I don't have time to do it myself, so I volunteered to post to this list. I told him Ruby/Rails was the way to go if he can find a developer. The main task at hand is to create an online registration application for their company, basically to replace their current contract with CVENT (http://www.cvent.com/). The company organizes conventions and other events that require attendees to register online. Of course the app would require many bells and whistles, reporting features, contact management, and the like. The company is located in southern California, but a remote position from Portland or elsewhere is ok. If anyone is interested, please email me or contact Spencer Quash (CC'd) directly: Spencer Quash Information Forecast, Inc. 6800 Owensmouth Ave, Suite 300 Canoga Park, CA 91303 Phone: (818) 888-4444 x 54 Fax: (818) 888-4440 Regards, Bryan Bryan Donovan 2007-06-08T16:28:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1572 Now that we have this list back up and functional, we have decided it's time to offload the effort of running the list. I know it's a pain for everyone to have to change their list subscriptions, but we really need to do this. The current list has been down at least a couple times in recent memory and we're suffering as a result. Also, there are now a handful of reasonably good free offerings that give us at least everything mailman offers if not more. So, without further ado, please make your way over to http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby and sign up for the new PDX.rb mailing list. We'll keep this list running for a brief period to help get the word out, but please direct all new traffic to the new list. Finally, we have also set up a new list (http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby-business) for discussion of group business, including issues like infrastructure issues (the site hosting, mailing list, etc), decisions about where we will be having meetings (like when FreeGeek is closed and such), and that sort of thing. Feel free to join in if you're interested in these things, but please keep the discussions limited to concerns about group business. If you don't care about these things, don't sign up. ;~) Oh, one last thing, I want to again thanks Daniel Johnson (teknotus) and Josh Martin (Skiz) for getting this current list back up and operational. Without their help we couldn't have gotten this announcement out in nearly so graceful a manner. Thanks, Thomas Thomas Lockney 2007-06-07T19:22:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1557 [I Sent this on 5/24, but due to list-brokenness it didn't go] http://rubyforge.org/projects/beer/ In the city with more breweries per capita than anywhere in the world [1], 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. $ gem install beer Mmmmmm... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oregon_breweries Caleb Phillips 2007-06-06T23:44:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1552 I sent this last week when the list was broken so apologies if you get this as a dupe. I am pleased to announce the release of the code that is running pdxvwexchange.com. The marketing side of the project fell apart before it even began. VWexchange - Virtual Marketplace on Rails This is a public bulletin board that uses email verification instead of accounts. The category tree is fully customizable through a web UI. It supports images and has an anonymous email forwarding system. Get it here... http://atblabs.com/ -david David Turnbull 2007-06-06T22:57:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1546 Hi all, Is this a good place to post job announcements? I have a local recruiter who is looking for Rail developers. Thanks Moxley Moxley Stratton 2007-06-06T20:39:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1539 Just testing the list to see if it's up and running again. Thomas Lockney 2007-06-06T20:18:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1538 Testing 1, 2, 3 Testing... Daniel Johnson 2007-06-06T20:18:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1537 Thomas Lockney 2007-05-16T03:55:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1536 Chris Dawson 2007-05-15T21:52:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland/1535 I am writing simple remote listener using gserver to issue commands on a remote server but do not want to leave it wide open for others to connect. Would the best authentication scheme be a trusted host relationship - a password or something else? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks --Bob Bob Lehman 2007-05-15T21:34:39 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.portland