code.macournoyer.com/thin/

www.euruko2008.org/

Position is in available in Fort Worth, TX.

We are looking to hire a world-class Linux administrator and engineer to help We are developing a new class of optimization and targeting solutions that allow Internet and mobile services to increase advertising revenue, improve relevance, and increase traffic. Areas of work will include integrations of technology into advertising systems, content delivery systems, and mobile delivery systems. We are working on problems in a number of areas, including cutting-edge information retrieval algorithms, scalability issues related to dealing with huge amounts of data and a rapidly increasing user population, and a variety of novel personalization features. If you have a need to bring order to the chaotic web, contact us. Position will be a full time position and is an opportunity to get on board with a company at the ground floor.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Producing, integrating, operating & maintaining the Company Hardware, systems (including OS), Networks, applications, databases, SAN, and security systems.
• Integrating Linux, WAN’s, LAN’s, routers and switches
• Performing technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, cost and risk analysis, and supportability and effectiveness analysis for total systems.
• Total system product may include concept design, fabrication, testing, installation, and operation.
• Performing engineering activities such as defining system requirements, developing technical solutions, performing systems functional analysis, conducting trade studies, and/or performing test and evaluation activities.
• Ensuring project schedules and performance requirements are met.
• Interacting with customers and functional peer groups.

All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years minimum software development experience.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Experience and understanding of computer networking systems, data storage and retrieval, computer operating systems…must have Gentoo experience, programming languages a plus (Ruby, Perl, Python, etc.).

COMMENT:

• We don’t care about titles, certificates, etc. We care about real-life experience
• If you never made your own kernel, etc. don’t apply.
• Be ready to make our army of servers happy :-)

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@personifi.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Linux Engineer.

Developing general web frameworks and frameworkless web applications is difficult because lots of different ways to connect to web servers need to be implemented. Since Ruby is popular for writing web applications, we try to address this problem by proposing a lightweight abstraction mapping HTTP requests onto a simple Ruby API. This makes it possible to combine all kinds of web servers with different web applications without further change. Furthermore, our solution enables new functionality by combining and composing web applications, as well as better testability. Talk given at the European Ruby Conference (Euruko) 2007.

Slides chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2007/chneukirchen-euruko2007-introducing-rack.pdf

Article chneukirchen.org/talks/euruko-2007/neukirchen07introducingrack.pdf

Please add yourself to the wiki. The pages are still not yet updated: www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/europeRuby/tiki.cgi?c=v&p=Euruko07

See you all here!

The original announcement by Stephan Kaemper

 Hi all,

 after a few weeks of struggling to find a location we finally found a
 place. In fact we also found a new date.
 Sorry for any inconveniences all this back and forth may have caused.

 Euruko 2007 will be located in Vienna, Austia on Saturday & Sunday
 10th and 11th November 2007.

 As before this will also be announced at http://phvalues.wordpress.com
 as well as the Euruko wiki (which we're using  this year, too). The wiki
 is at http://www.euruko.com

 If you're planning to attend or to give a presentation, please use
 the wiki to register and announce your presentation.

 See you in Vienna - or may be in Berlin next week

 Stephan

rubyhacker.com/lsrc/

 ENV['LC_CTYPE'] = 'en_US.UTF-8'
 Ferret.locale = "en_US.UTF-8"

 see http://bugs.omdb.org/browser/trunk/config/environment.rb

 searching for utf-8 works great, i've indexed characters
 in german, english, asian languages, hebrew and other..

www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/

Changes: This is the first Ruby version. The design is much cleaner. Error tracking and complex numbers are not yet completed.

apfp.sourceforge.net/

Spring at the "kleiner Arbersee" (Bavarian Forest, Germany).

Thanks to TupleSpace I have the time to enjoy spring skiing in Garmisch :-).

Sebastopol, CA, February 13, 2007—To meet the increasing demand for skill building, and to spread the joy of Rails, Ruby Central and O’Reilly Media are teaming up to produce RailsConf Europe 2007, an entire conference dedicated to Ruby on Rails. Happening September 17-19 in Berlin, Germany, RailsConf Europe will offer keynotes, sessions, and tutorials from the most innovative and successful Rails experts and organizations. O’Reilly Media and Ruby Central are seeking leaders to present sessions and tutorials at the conference. Qualified practitioners with insights and anecdotes to share with IT professionals and the Rails community are invited to submit a proposal by April 12, 2007.

The Ruby on Rails development framework turns three years old this summer, and in that short time, it has gone from cult favorite to major player in the Web development world. By every measure—feature richness, adoption, publications, developer reception—Rails is a phenomenon, and one that’s here to stay.

The conference committee is looking for presentations and/or tutorial proposals from Rails developers and hackers, Rubyists at large, Rails trainers, designers with a Rails focus, managers, entrepreneurs—anyone with Rails experience, expertise, and insight.

Proposals should focus on helping attendees by teaching from experience. Any Rails-related topic will be considered. Below are some specific areas the committee would like to see represented at the conference:

• Timesaving developer productivity tips, tricks, and tools
• Spotlights on important Rails subsystems
• Making the most of new Rails features
• Rails development case studies, including application rewrites and organizational boot-strapping
• Migrating applications and people from other technologies to Rails
• Gem and plug-in highlights
• Patterns and best practices
• Extending Rails

RailsConf Europe 2007 will bring together hundreds of Rails practitioners from Europe and around the world, for three days of presentations, tutorials, and Rails comradery. Last year’s event sold out completely and we are expecting an even greater number of participants in Berlin for RailsConf Europe 2007. Attendees will include Ruby and Rails enthusiasts, web developers and programmers from all sizes and types of organizations, open source developers and hackers, IT managers tracking emerging technologies, tech-savvy entrepreneurs, and users at every level of expertise.

For complete RailsConf Europe 2007 details, visit: www.railsconfeurope.com

Brian Marick wrote this great book. Brian is a well known testing guru, but this books appeals to a much wider audience. Through a few simple scripts he teaches people how to code every day tasks in ruby.

It’s a short and easy read of nearly 300 pages and requires no previous ruby knowledge. If you already know ruby, this book is probably too slow, but if you come from any other language, it’s a great book.

The rumor mill says, that we will soonish see tons of interesting Javascript and Ruby stuff there .. thanks to one project in winter country :-).

 Hi all,

 Long time since I announced my last project....

 With RubyJS you can transform a subset of Ruby into Javascript code.

 What works?
 * Classes, modules, inheritance
 * Instance methods, class methods
 * Exceptions (rescue/ensure)
 * Meta-programming stuff like 'attr_reader'
 (any meta-programming stuff works that does not appear inside methods)
 * Iterators, yield
 * "require" (with platform-specific extension ala Google Webtoolkit)
 * Inline Javascript code
 * Some kind of compile-time method lookup  ;-)
 * Numbers, String, Array, Hash, Proc (a lot of functionallity is missing!)
 * Testing with Rhino-JS
 * A lot more  :)

 There is a lots of room for optimizations and improvement  :)

 DOWNLOAD
 http://ntecs.de/hg-projects/rubyjs/

 Best use Mercurial (www.selenic.com/mercurial) to check it out:
 hg clone static-http://ntecs.de/hg-projects/rubyjs/

Short update, before the conference on Nov 4 and 5.

• We are still evaluating whether we should get a bigger room. Sofar we have about 30 people that confirmed that they will show up. We have space for 50 people and might simple close the conference registration once we are fully booked and overbooked by 5% like these airline companies.
• O’Reilly might give a free book to every speaker. Please add to the wiki what book you want. I will send off our wish list o O’Reilly around Oct 5.
• Please put titles of your talks in the wiki, so that some structure will emerge. In the worst case we do a "planing-game" at the start of the conference and quickly produce the program as we did last year.
• Get-Togethers will be announced in the wiki till Friday this week.

Looking forward to see you all again this year!