Austin on Rails is proud to present our sixth annual SXSW Happy Hour…from humble bootstrapped beginnings to a fully sponsored event we’re excited to be hosting it again. We’d like to extend a hearty thank you to our awesome sponsors for making this event possible this time around. All of these companies are hiring Rails developers, so please give them a look…Capital Thought, Gowalla, PeopleAdmin, and Rackspace!

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Howdy Folks!

We will not have an official Austin on Rails meeting this month due to the holiday season. However, you can escape the end-of-year madness for a few hours this Tuesday night (12/14). Come hang out with fellow Web professionals at the Austin Web Community Holiday Bash. It’s a chance to catch up with old friends and make some new friends. We’ve expanded a good bit from years past and are co-hosting the event with ten other groups. Ten! I love this town.

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Howdy everyone!

Due to the Christmas holiday, we will be having a social event in lieu of a standard meeting. Normal meeting schedule resumes in January!

Party!

It’s time for the Second Annual Austin on Rails / Refresh Austin party and this time the fine folks of WordPress Austin will join us as co-hosts. Even better, the first 100 people to join us at the party will get a free drink thanks to our neighbor Rackspace (they’re right down the road in San Antonio).

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December 9th, 7:00 p.m. Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

Sponsored by Appozite, creator of CheapTweet.com and ZiteFight.com.

For December, Austin on Rails is shifting from our normal presentation-based format to a purely social gathering. We love to join up with other great tech groups in Austin, and this time we’ll be co-hosting the event with our friends at Refresh Austin. There’s some decent overlap between our groups, and it’ll be a great chance to catch up with friends you may not have seen in a while as well as meet new friends as passionate about the Web and technology as we are.

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Next week, we’re going to join up with the Refresh Austin group on Tuesday night (12/9 at 7pm), for pints of beer and billiards at Buffalo Billiards on 6th. It’s become a bit of a tradition in Austin on Rails to have a holiday party in December. It’s still geeking out, but just with more beer and bar games.

This is a low frills shindig conceived so we can meet some more good web peeps here in town and chill out as a group in a social setting.

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Next Monday night (3/10/2008), we are having an AOR SXSW Happy Hour (sponsored by FiveRuns). The event is from 6-9PM in the Recreation Room at Buffalo Billiards (upstairs). There will be games galore (including Wii), beer, appetizers, and Rails geeks from all over the world. The first 100 attendees shall receive a very choice “Rails at SXSW” T-shirt. So, do come early!

You do not have to be a SXSW Interactive attendee (but if you are, just bring your badge) to enter the party. However, if you don't have a badge, please send an email to "sxsw [at] fiveruns.com" to reserve your party spot. If you're feeling particularly social and geeky, you can add your name to upcoming.org (currently over 70 Attending so far!)

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Please come out and mingle with all the Ruby and Rails enthusiasts visiting town for the SXSW Interactive Festival. We are taking over The Lodge at Buffalo Billiards at 6th and Brazos. This years party is going to be bigger than last year and all the food and drink is on the house, courtesy of FiveRuns. Please let us know if you are coming by registering at upcoming.org so we’ll have an idea of the headcount. SPECIAL NOTE: If you do not have a badge, you must also email me at scales pobox.com to RSVP for entrance to the party.

Party On

Come on over to Dave & Busters and help us celebrate a year of ridin’ the Rails. Our group is just one year old and we are now looking ahead to 2007. Before we ring in the new year, let’s take a moment to hang out and enjoy ourselves. We’ll have a full fajita buffet, some game cards, 2 billiards tables, and a shuffleboard table all to ourselves. A cash bar will also be available.

Details

WHERE: Dave & Busters (Mopac and 183)

WHEN: Tuesday, December 12th, 7-11PM

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Where: Frog Design at 8th and Congress Ave

The presentation this month will be on using Prototype and Scriptaculous to take a Rails application that normally would have been handled with a lot of form posts, and convert it to Ajax using drag and drop and other Ajax options to make it perform better for users. It is an issue tracking system loosely based on Scrum. David will show how they built the application, and waded through the scattered Rails/Ajax documentation to come up with the Ajax pieces we have implemented.

In addition, David will show the work they've done with the Google Maps API and Ajax, where there was not Prototype/Scriptaculous support, and the existing gems only provided minimal functionality. He'll show how they hacked the Google Maps API rather than just use RJS and simplified commands. This will be a nice contrast on "rolling your own" Ajax handling versus using built-ins and why they ultimately decided to develop their own.

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