Railslove at war

Today, January 11th, 2012 – a date which will live in infamy – Railslove was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the dark forces of 9elements.
Railslove was at peace with that nation and looking toward the maintenance of peace. In a brutal attack 9elements took one of the Railslove team members as hostage while being on a friendly mission visiting their headquarters.
It will be recorded that the visit of the Railslove member took place on solicitation of 9elements – it is obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.
Because of this circumstances we are forced to protect ourselves and have to free our team member.
I ask that Railslove declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by 9elements on January 11th, 2012, a state of war has existed between Railslove and 9elements.
Let Paintball Borken be our battleground for this gigantomachia!

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a very Merry Christmas


Merry Christmas

We wish you all a wonderful christmas time!

reminder: Global Day of Coderetreat Cologne/Bonn 3rd Dez.

The upcoming saturday (Dez. 3rd) is Global Day of Coderetreat. It’s a world-wide event celebrating passion and software craftsmanship.

Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.

You can find more information about the Coderetreat format and the event on the official website. For cologne all the information is on a github wiki and you should follow the office twitter account for updates.

The event will take place in our office and starts at 8:30 in the morning.
See you there!

 

Dear Cologne Rubyists: Your user group needs you!

In November 2005 we’ve started the first Ruby usergroup in cologne. Back then we’ve been 4 people who met for beers. This was nearly exactly 6 years ago.  Unfortunately the meetup has soon become inactive – actually I can not remember when that was and how it happened.

After that, I guess in 2007 the rurug.de started with greater success. It was a meetup which first took place in the rooms of the Chaos Computer Club Cologne. Sadly I haven’t participated in that meetup very activly :( *bad bumi*

Early this year the meetup then has moved to cowoco and renewed itself with about 30+ people attending. The following events had been awesome! Great talks and even better discussions. Unfortunatelly, after summer we’ve became very inactive again. Not many people participated on the mailing list and the event hasn’t taken place in the last two months.

WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS!!

And now is the time to rethink the meetup.
I know we have so many awesome ruby developers here in cologne, working on exciting projects!

We need to connect, share, teach in our local ruby community!
Let’s work together to bring back one of the best tech meetups in Cologne!

To get this started again I propose the following things:

What do you think? How do you feel about the cologne ruby meetup? Who joins me?

Cologne.rb let’s unite!

(also posted on my blog)

Rails 3 beta is released!!

Yeah! Rails 3 beta just got released.
So grab it while it’s hot: ;)

gem install rack bundler tzinfo i18n rack rack-test rack-mount erubis mail thor

gem install rails --prerelease

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