May 2011
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May 2011 Codeaholics Meetup
There doesn’t seem to be a Ruby meetup this month. But Hong Kong Ruby Regular William Taysom will be giving a talk on “An introduction to Haskell” at Codeaholics next Wednesday. Be sure to check it out Wednesday 25th May 2011 7pm - 9pm @Boot.hk http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214451298578873 Drinks generously sponsored by Hong Kong Ruby Consultancy ThoughtSauce
May 17th
April 2011
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April 2011 Ruby Meetup
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208699975818140 Finally another Ruby Meetup. Friday 29th April 2011 7pm @ Boot.hk We have Ian McFarland from Pivotal Labs talking about their approach to Ruby and Agile We have Matthew Rudy talking about the controversial Coffee Script And anyone else for anything else. Talks will start about 7:30pm Beer will be provided courtesy of Thought Sauce and we...
Apr 25th
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February 2011
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Codeaholics Feb 2011 Meetup: Mongo and...
The February Codeaholics meetup will be held on 24th February, alongside the Ruby meetup. For those unfamiliar with codeaholics, it is a language agnostic meetup where we like to cover anything relating to software design and development and meet with other techy folks. Agenda: Giovanni Lion (his facebook) - Why I don’t like Mongoid, but I still use it. Eddie Lau - How I beat the stock...
Feb 17th
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January 2011
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January 2011 Hong Kong Ruby Meetup
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192692474090685 Agenda: William Taysom on automatically generating glue code for calling C/C++ libararies Jason Crane will be talking about his most recent project and a number of interesting gems As always, drinks and snacks will be provided by Thought-Sauce.com Date Time: 19:00, 27th January 2011 Location: Boot.hk 19/f Hang Wai Commercial...
Jan 9th
December 2010
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Dec 14th
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October 2010
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Rails Rumble 2010
there were 3 teams participating Rails Rumble and Rex’s team entered the final round ~ Congratz ! http://www.stillalive.com http://kookiebox.r10.railsrumble.com http://newsprank.com Enjoy ~ http://cbbnews.info/stories/william-the-nobel-prize-winner-for-literature
Oct 31st
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November 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170036503009465 Agenda Dave the Ninja (NinjasOnRails NinjaOnDotNet) will talk about “coding Javascript like it was Ruby using Js.class” Team Hongkie Kong will talk about “Rails Rumble, and what we learnt” Date time & Venue Date: Tuesday November 2nd 2010, 7:30pm until whenever Venue: BootHK Address: 19/f Hang Wai...
Oct 24th
June 2010
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Meetup June 2010
Start your holiday the right way with the Ruby on Rails meetup on Tuesday 15th June 7pm. Date: Tuesday June 15th 2010 Time: 7pm until whenever Venue: AMP Capital Address: Room 2105A, 21/F Harcourt House, 39 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong GMap: http://bit.ly/d7NWDW Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124348937600251 Agenda: Giovanni Lion will talk about Haml and...
Jun 10th
HKRor Meetup in May 2010 - Writeup
The Meetup in May took part weeks ago. we had a really nice Chaozhou dinner afterward. Thanks William (GearBox Software) for offering the office (and AWESOME COFFEE!) for the meetup. Here is a quick wrap up of stuff discussed: Matthew had gone through his chinese “tutorial” Ruby application pootonghua which utilized many plugins and tools: Sinatra - gem that allows simple and quick...
Jun 2nd
May 2010
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Rubyconf China 2010 (June/26th) in Shanghai
Rubyconf China is an annual conference about the Ruby programming language with an informal atmosphere and lots of opportunities to listen, to talk, to hack and to have fun. This year takes place in Shanghai, China, on the 26th of June. Keynote by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Inventor of Ruby)
May 24th
Ruby Rails HK Meetup - 17th May 2010
The May Meetup of Hong Kong Ruby / Rails Group will be held Monday 17th May 2010 7:00pm. This time we go to Gearbox office near Diamond Hill MTR: GearBox Software Rm 1205, 12/F, Max Trade Centre, 23 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. http://bit.ly/d7ewam Talks will include: Dave The Ninja - talking about his move from .Net to Ruby Matthew Rudy Jacobs - talking about...
May 16th
April 2010
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April 2010 Ruby Hong Kong Meetup
William gone through his experience looking for a light weight full text search indexer. after considering scalability, memory consumption, database_dependent? and stability and he picked Xapian with Xapain-Fu interface. He showed us how easy to start using Xapian. another candidate Solr was recommended for larger scale enterprise level architecture. links to Xapian and...
Apr 1st
February 2010
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Meet up in 2010.
Date: Thursday February 18th 2010 Time: 7pm until whenever Venue: AMP Capital Address: Room 2105A, 21/F Harcourt House, 39 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong GMap: http://bit.ly/d7NWDW Arrangements: Matthew Rudy to talk about Upgrading Your App to Rails 3 - how, and why. If you plan on coming drop us a line to let us know or fill out this doodle http://www.doodle.com/75446uxi9pbsxkre ...
Feb 11th
April 2009
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Apr 28th
HK IT Calendar
For those that are interested in other IT events and meetups, please follow this: http://www.tinyurl.com/hkitcalendar Embed: <iframe src=”http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=s7v0ntq98kbmvp4hafbpvl2qkc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Asia/Hong_Kong” style=”border: 0” width=”800” height=”600” frameborder=”0”...
Apr 24th
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23rd April 09 Gathering - JQuery on Rails
Date 23rd April Thursday Night Time: 7pm - 9pm Place: HKPC Kowloon Tong HKPC Building, 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong http://www.hkpc.org/ View Larger Map Topics: We have 2 confirmed talk: - Harmonize jQuery with Rails Issues for integrating jQuery inside Rails and solutions by William Yeung - Running Rails on Apache + Passenger by Aaron Farr Anyone else can give a presentation or...
Apr 5th
January 2009
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牛年 New Year Meetup!
Come join a group of HK ruby and rails developers, share ideas, experiences, best practises and tell us what you’re working on. First meeting is casual with some pizzas to get to know each other and plan for future topics/meetings. Date: Friday, February 6, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm Location: Causeway Bay 2/f, Park Lane Tower, 5 Moreton Terrace, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong ...
Jan 21st
December 2008
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Merb + Rails = Rails3
It’s christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We’re ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3 From Zed: (Mongrel+Erb) == Rails? Fucking awesome. I’m so glad that DHH and friends were able to put away their stupid competitive bullshit and realize they...
Dec 26th
Welcome HK Rubyists
Welcome to the new blog of ruby on rails user group. We’ve started humbly back in 2006. Our google group recently has a misfortunate accident from the google side. A new group has been setup now: http://groups.google.com/group/hkror Please kindly sign-up again. We’re looking for speakers, helpers to start organising events regularly for 2009. If you’d like to get involved...
Dec 1st