Hi all,<div><br></div><div>We tried out "The Analogue Blog" last night, and I thought I'd do a quick roundup of what was mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>* RubyFoo - A 2-day ruby conference in London, Oct 2-3: <a href="http://rubyfoolondon.com/ruby-london-2009/">http://rubyfoolondon.com/ruby-london-2009/</a>. Day 1 is a standard conference day with talks (including Matz!), Day 2 is the lounge, which is more of a hack-day / tutorial kinda thing. Tickets are on sale now and you can get £25 off if you book through Skills Matter: <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/event/ajax-ria/ruby-foo-2009">http://skillsmatter.com/event/ajax-ria/ruby-foo-2009</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>* Parental Control - I wrote a rails plugin that provides Bi-Directional associations for certain active-record associations. I've also ported it across to rails and it should be released as part of Rails 3. However, it needs a lot more testing and poking at, so if anyone thinks they might need this sort of thing, could they take a look: <a href="http://github.com/h-lame/parental_control">http://github.com/h-lame/parental_control</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Rails Camp 2 - Tom Crinson reminded everyone that he's runing Rails Camp UK 2 from Oct 16th - 19th. The plan is get a bunch of rails developers together in one place for a long weekend and hack on stuff together (and play Guitar Hero). Tickets are between £40 and £50 covering food and accommodation. Find out more and buy your ticket here: <a href="http://railscamps.org/#uk_october_2009">http://railscamps.org/#uk_october_2009</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>* Jabbersonic - Chris Parsons gave a demo of an app he'd knocked up to let you control a sound playing tool via jabber. His example was that you could add to an ambient background noise depending on the state of your build or live app. You can check out the code here: <a href="http://github.com/ChrisMDP/jabbersonic/">http://github.com/ChrisMDP/jabbersonic/</a> and read more about Chris's journey to it here: <a href="http://blog.edendevelopment.co.uk/2009/08/12/introducing-jabbersonic/">http://blog.edendevelopment.co.uk/2009/08/12/introducing-jabbersonic/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>* Monk - Roland Swingler mentioned a library called Monk that provides scaffolding / template applicaitons / skeletons (call 'em what you will) for sinatra-based web apps. Find out more here: <a href="http://monkrb.com/">http://monkrb.com/</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>* Songkick - Matt Wynne from Songkick mentioned that they are hiring. If you're looking for a job, get in touch with them: <a href="http://www.songkick.com/info/jobs">http://www.songkick.com/info/jobs</a> (or maybe Matt directly, I'm sure you can find his email address if you search the mail archives).</div>
<div><br></div><div>* Moo Tools - John (Henderson?) mentioned that his team have been suing Moo Tools in preference to jQuery or Prototype and he's really happy with it, but he's surprised that he doesn't hear much stuff about other rails teams using it. MooTools lives here: <a href="http://mootools.net/">http://mootools.net/</a> and more about MooTools + Rails can be found via google: <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mootools+rails">http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mootools+rails</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>* Young Rewired State - James Darling mentioned that on the 22-23rd August he's running Young ReWired State. It's a hack-day for 15-18 year olds and James still has a few places open for ruby hackers that might want to act as mentors for the young-un's. More here: <a href="http://rewiredstate.org/young">http://rewiredstate.org/young</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Those are my notes, if I've got anything wrong hopefully the people that spoke can chip in and correct my mistakes.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Muz</div>