It is just under two weeks until Australia’s biggest web conference, Web Directions is on in Sydney and as happened last year a whole bunch of Perthites will be making the trip across the nullabor. As a result, the AWIA committee has decided it is time to try another Port80 Sydney, so if you are interested in seeing what the whole Port80 thing is about it would be a great time to come and drink some beer, chat with with other web geeks and generally have a bit of fun. It’s really informal, and you can just turn up - you don’t even need to RSVP!
Where: Quarryman Hotel
216 Harris St (Cnr Pyrmont Bridge)
Pyrmont NSW 2009
When: 6pm 26 September, 2007
See you all there!
There is something obtusely magnificent about locking away geeks for long periods of time, giving them a laptop and a kick-arse framework and leaving them up to their own devices - which is what Jordan Brock, Matt Didcoe and myself did last weekend for Rails Rumble ‘07.
The idea is simple - You have 48 hours to create an entire website in the ever so beautiful Ruby on Rails framework. Because the competition was run out of the US and because we have real jobs/school to go to, we only ended up with 36 hours, but we didn’t let that deter us. The result? Sandwich - a recipe sharing site. During that time, we managed to product a site with friending, tagging, bookmarking and recipe parsing which is no mean feat - I dare anyone to do it in another language in that time frame.
Part of the competition is the community judging, so help a brother out and head over to our voting page and throw us a few votes - you can make a difference in the lives of three hapless codies. Go on. I’ll wait… While you are there, go check out some of the other great entries, but don’t vote for them, because you are voting for u, remember? 
It was a really fun weekend - it was great to kick out some great code with great peeps over a stupidly short time frame. We must do it again sometime.
This weekend Jordan, Matt and myself will be participating in w. Rails Rumble is an international geekfest where you have 48 hours to develop a Ruby on Rails application. We are at a bit of a disadvantage because of the timezone issues mean that we really only have 36 hours (We have to do some real work on Monday you know!).
We will be building a top secret social network, so watch this space as we post updates of our progress!
Whilst we are on the topic of memes, I’ve just posted my “This is me, I work on the Web” meme post on Flickr. If you work on the web, I would do the same - just remember to tag it with I work on the web.
