Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

Ruby on Beers 1

The first Ruby on Beers meeting happened last Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at lake Jarun, Zagreb, Croatia (map).

Ruby on Beers is informal gathering of Ruby users. It all started at ruby-hr Google group (in Croatian) that came to life after the first BarCamp Zagreb where we realized that there are more than one Ruby user in the near (as I thought before Barcamp).

The four of us appeared. Branimir Šloser, Saša Branković, Mislav Marohnić and me.

We enjoyed excellent Tomislav beer and discussed the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, and more specifically, what to do next.

The next meeting should be on Saturday, May 10th, 2008. I hope I will be able to talk about Watir, and there are rumors that there will be something said about Git and Unicode. Only the time will tell.

More details at Ruby on Beers official page.

If you are in the near, please drop by.

I have been using TMail for testing e-mail functionality of web application that I test for a long time. But, development of that library stopped at 2004. Today I found out that it is again in development. Take a look at it’s web site and RubyForge project site.

Long long time ago, I was reviewer of Brian Marick’s Everyday Scripting with Ruby. On February 2, 2007 Pragmatic Programmers said they would send me a free copy, but it did not arrive for a long time. I exchanged a few e-mails with them, and today the book arrived. I did not even have time to unwrap it yet.