http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/ The Ruby User Group of Northern Virginia Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:16:10 GMT gherter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1952 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1952 Here is the opensecrets.org api description. http://www.opensecrets.org/action/api_doc.php Gray Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:14:53 GMT gherter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1951 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1951 Anyone interested in Hackathon 09 (Dec 12-13)? I should be able to get the FGM conference rooms. We have projectors for team coding, sodas, etc. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:45:18 GMT David Medinets http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1950 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1950 I learned a lot last night. I really appreciated Jeff's talk and will incorporate aspects of it into my next presentation. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:19 GMT gherter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1949 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1949 This was a fun meeting. Thanks to our presenters, who both did a wonderful job. And thanks to author Karen for the books we gave out as door prizes (97 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:29:56 GMT gherter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1948 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1948 Here is a jruby solution, based upon iText. http://bosmeeuw.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/jruby-on-rails-pdf-generation-and-flying-saucers/ Gray Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:52:49 GMT Jeff Casimir http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1947 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1947 During the presentation I mentioned that Flickr Creative Commons-licensed images are a great resource. Today Ars Technica has a little write up about an Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:24:36 GMT Jeff Casimir http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1946 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1946 NOVARUG, Thanks to everyone who made it out for my "Be Amazing: 5 Rules for Great Presentations" talk on Wednesday. I hope that you take the challenge and Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:05:22 GMT David Medinets http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1945 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1945 Yes. I will be there. With laptop... ... -- tzim bin - David Medinets, Affy Advice & Coding http://www.affy.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/affyadvice Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:40:51 GMT somesvenky http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1944 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1944 Hello I am new here :) A friend of mine in the DC area is having trouble standing up his ruby application he needs a serveradmin to help deploy a Rails app to Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:28:32 GMT gherter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1943 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1943 FYI, This meeting is tonight. See you there. Gray Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:21:13 GMT gherter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1942 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1942 There is a video here (second day keynote): http://code.google.com/events/io/2009/ Personally, I would have a problem putting my company-sensitive documents up Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:42 GMT David Medinets http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1941 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1941 http://www.geocommons.com/ - I was introduced to this great resource for placing datasets on maps recently. If you work with geographic analysis, take a look. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:37:48 GMT Paul D. Bain http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1940 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1940 ... What a coincidence. I just ran across this: http://completewaveguide.com/guide/The_Complete_Guide_to_Google_Wave FWIW, I did not know what Wave was, Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:19:35 GMT Jeff Casimir http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1939 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1939 I need to access a block of 500 (individual) pages each week and print them to PDF. I took an old Mac Mini, set it up with Selenium and CUPS-PDF, added a Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:51:25 GMT David Bock http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1938 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/novarubygroup/message/1938 Mac OSX... Print -> Save as PDF I mention this not quite as a troll, but if OSX Server would be a server option for you, you might be able to do exactly what