From the swirling mists of the last millenium comes a hulking device—a mechanical monstrosity of archaic origin. Lurking in the darkest corners of the FreeGeek compound, it awaits the plaintive cry of the desperate nerd: “Hey … who brought the video projector?” Silence. Low murmurs. Fingers point … THEN! From the...

In the less than a week, more than ten new Rubyists subscribed to the PDX.rb mailing list. That averages out to more than two a day! Discussions range from ideas for future Portland Ruby Brigade events to using Ruby to help local non-profits. Have you joined yet?

In the less than a week, more than ten new Rubyists subscribed to the PDX.rb mailing list. That averages out to more than two a day! Discussions range from ideas for future Portland Ruby Brigade events to using Ruby to help local non-profits. Have you joined yet?

The Portland Ruby Brigade IRC channel is quickly growing in size. This morning we hit 18 people! 17 if you don’t count our trusty drb-subversion-aware, pdxrbot. Number 19 was me logging in on my laptop to take a screenshot. I don’t know about other Ruby user groups, but I bet we’re quickly headed towards being one of the...

The Portland Ruby Brigade IRC channel is quickly growing in size. This morning we hit 18 people! 17 if you don’t count our trusty drb-subversion-aware, pdxrbot. Number 19 was me logging in on my laptop to take a screenshot. I don’t know about other Ruby user groups, but I bet we’re quickly headed towards being one of the...

From the swirling mists of the last millenium comes a hulking device—a mechanical monstrosity of archaic origin. Lurking in the darkest corners of the FreeGeek compound, it awaits the plaintive cry of the desperate nerd: “Hey … who brought the video projector?” Silence. Low murmurs. Fingers point … THEN! From the...

Do you blog? Do you ♥ Ruby? Do you consider yourself a member or groupie of PDX.rb? If the answer to the above questions is yes, then we want to know about it! There were somewhere around 30 people at the meeting last night and yet only 6 links in our Member Blogs section. Leave us a comment here with your name and blog URL and...

Do you blog? Do you ♥ Ruby? Do you consider yourself a member or groupie of PDX.rb? If the answer to the above questions is yes, then we want to know about it! There were somewhere around 30 people at the meeting last night and yet only 6 links in our Member Blogs section. Leave us a comment here with your name and blog URL and...

Thank you to everyone who made it to the meeting last night. It was an awesome session of Q&A and discussion. The beer weren’t bad neither. Special thanks are due to Derek and Jeremy for coming and being our Wonderful Fantasmic Guests o’ Honor. Props are also due to FreeGeek for helping us get around the double-booking issues we...

Thank you to everyone who made it to the meeting last night. It was an awesome session of Q&A and discussion. The beer weren’t bad neither. Special thanks are due to Derek and Jeremy for coming and being our Wonderful Fantasmic Guests o’ Honor. Props are also due to FreeGeek for helping us get around the double-booking issues we...

Just a quick reminder that our upcoming Ruby Tuesday meeting will include a presentation and Q&A from Derek Sivers (of CD Baby fame) and Jeremy Kemper (of Rails committer fame). Additionally, Tim Germer will be recording our meeting to throw together what will likely be the very first PDX.rb podcast! Rumor has it the PDX.rb webdevs will...

Just a quick reminder that our upcoming Ruby Tuesday meeting will include a presentation and Q&A from Derek Sivers (of CD Baby fame) and Jeremy Kemper (of Rails committer fame). Additionally, Tim Germer will be recording our meeting to throw together what will likely be the very first PDX.rb podcast! Rumor has it the PDX.rb webdevs will...

(x-posted to list) As you all know, Derek Sivers of CD Baby contacted me to ask if the Portland Ruby Brigade would be interested in having him come by the next meeting. I got the final confirmation today. Derek will be accompanied by Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat)... who is our local Rails commiter! They will field any questions that we throw at them...

(x-posted to list) As you all know, Derek Sivers of CD Baby contacted me to ask if the Portland Ruby Brigade would be interested in having him come by the next meeting. I got the final confirmation today. Derek will be accompanied by Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat)... who is our local Rails commiter! They will field any questions that we throw at them...