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Details of our first meeting have been announced. It will be at the bandwidth barn on November 14th, from 7-9pm. If you’re interested please sign up to our mailing list, and RSVP.

Finally, its live. Capetown.rb.

Its styleless and light on content, but we’ll build it up over the next few months.

So if you’re in Cape Town and have any interest in Ruby or Ruby on Rails, then please join us.

One of the more painful things you can do on a Mac is install ImageMagick and RMagick. Until I found these instructions. Detailed, and they work.

Facebook apps suck, they suck because I don’t want to change my facebook interface.
Sure I wouldn’t mind joining the tv show trivia game utilising my facebook info with some friends, provided I didn’t have to add a stupid application to my facebook. Why not let the developers just pull the data to their own webpages without requiring an app download(and a complicated screen to select how exactly I want to add the app). Facebook should just request consent and then redirect you to the other webpage utilising the facebook api.
They lose advertising minutes, but people already spend enough time looking at facebook and that isn’t the long term answer. If facebook locks developers in (because clients need facebook integration at the moment) then they get developer mindshare, which is the real value creator and the thing that the big boys are after(why do you think microsoft invested so much in .NET? and google has supposedly the coolest work environment on the planet for developers).

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If Ruby on Rails is something you still want to learn, SitePoint is giving away Patrick Lenz’s “Build your own Ruby on Rails web applications” for free for the next 60 days. In PDF format obviously.

Patrick says “You’ll forgive me if I’m a little biased, but it is, I believe, still the best beginner’s Rails book out there, despite the fact that many other books on Rails have been released since.”