NextLogic Singapore Blog comments

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by Doug

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:45:28 -0400

I think the question of whether the group is committed to making the partnership mutually beneficial was succinctly answered during the July 07 meeting. That was when the GECL representative (Hwee Miang) asked if people would be able to contribute time to help the NLB and the question was met with a deafening silence :).

"Deployment Using Apache 2.2.4" by Nathan

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:58:43 -0400

Thank you very much for these instructions. I was able to compile and install Apache 2.2.4. It seems odd to me that this software was released on January 10, 2007, which is 7 months ago, and there is still no binary package for Ubuntu.

"Corporate Trainings" by Rafiki "The Digital Doctor" Cai

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:59:29 -0400

Blessings and Peace: Peter, I will be concise as possibly; despite my sheer enthusiasm after reading your post http://blog.nextlogic.net/articles/2007/07/27/corporate-trainings. Now in technology for 13 years, I come from a background of social work and ministry. I've worked at the biggest prison in New York City (Riker's Island), as well as group homes and residentitial 'treatment' centers. I've always wanted to see technology training and empowerment make its way to the prison environment. ------ Though not a coder myself, I am passionate about evangelizing Internet technologies; and thus my being a co-founder of the Digital Freedom Institute (DFI). Is there ANY way, that you might have podcast the Ruby training you did in the Singapore training? How long were you engaged on that project? How long did it take to get your students in that setting, from zero to engaged??? Will you be starting anew with a similar group any time soon? I look forward to hearing from you. In Service of THE ONENESS, Rafiki "The Digital Doctor" Cai -- "The ONENESS of The Allness is the key that we seek. When will we all catch on?"

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by Peter

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:01:17 -0400

Hi Kent, of course you're welcome to come we meet last Thursday of the month and you can get more info here: http://groups.google.com/group/singapore-rb?hl=en

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by kent

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:11:19 -0400

Hi, I'm not a very active ruby/rails development, but I did look and was fairly taken by it. Would be good to know more ruby developers/learners in singapore and attend such sessions if you have anymore (if you don't mind a hobbyist/beginning ruby guy), and how we can get to know about such sessions. My personal opinion of new languages/technology is to not dismiss them, but see how they can redefine how I design and develop software, so even if I do not do ruby actively, I definitely would like to hear how professional developers work with it. Oh, and ruby's closures do rock totally ;)

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by Michael Lim

Tue, 01 May 2007 18:53:42 -0400

Sure thing, they're a great bunch of people (I am volunteering my time to them as well, to do my small little part for the community).

E27 - http://entrepreneur27.org/sg/
The Digital Movement - http://www.thedigitalmovement.org/

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by Peter

Tue, 01 May 2007 18:37:02 -0400

Hi Michael,

thanks for all the inputs - I pretty much agree with all the suggestions. The only extra thing I can think of is to bring it some social aspect as well.

Having the ideas, now's a good time to transfer them to action.

As for your questions, I know of E27 but never attended their functions before - maybe you can let me know about the next one? :-)

Peter

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by Michael Lim

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:03:58 -0400

Hey Peter, Nice meeting you. As for Ruby Brigade, I believe Ruby itself has a strong buzz and brand attached to it. Like you say, two different niche crowds can be targeted: 1) Non-techies: People who are into entrepreneurship or Internet in general, but don't do development. E27 or The Digital Movement would be a good platform and place to preach to the masses, as it were. How RoR can help them easily deliver portals that can transform their plans to reality. Not sure if you've attended E27 or TDM's events before, but past events were full of passionate, energetic students and young adults who are interested in business, web, and entrepreneurship in general. 2) Techies: Again this can be divided into different levels of proficiency with software development and Ruby in general. But in this group, you can focus on the technical aspects of the language, agile methodologies, future development of the language/toolsets. Underlying these would be the standard purpose: What's the Mission, Vision of this? To promote Ruby? To bring Ruby development to the next higher level? To promote a Silicon Valley-like culture of knowledge information sharing, and collaborative technical discourse. Definitely different groups have their own niche crowds to cater to. But at least Singapore is no longer boring, much thanks to the powers of Internet which allows all these grassroots activities to be formed easily.

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by Peter

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:35:02 -0400

Hi Sausheong, sorry for late reply - I've been really crazed out over the past week. I think we should definitely meet up for discussion. I think we can start of a discussion on the forum first and then arrange for personal meeting. As for the purpose of the whole group - of course knowledge sharing is one of the primary purpose (we're a professional group after all). For me, I would really like to see how we can involve other parties I mentioned in blog as well - as that would help us to reach to broader audience. In the same breath I must, however, add that it would be really great to crystalize an Advance RoR Team - where we could focus on more advanced issues.

"Ruby on Rails in Singapore (finally :-)" by sausheong

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:38:11 -0400

Peter,

Excellent questions raised in your post!For (1) I agree with you -- we'd probably have to meet up some time in a discussion to see how to move forward with the NLB. It's great that we have sort of a sponsor who's willing to go with us to a degree and is candid enough to ask what we can give in return.

For (2), this was a question that was raised way back during our first meeting and we didn't come to a conclusion then and I'd expect us to have a healthy discussion on it as well. For me, my personal purpose is to share and to meet up with a community of like-minded people who likes the same things as I do, namely Ruby and Rails. I'd be happy just to share knowledge and know people.