Rails community has surely matured alot in the past year. We’ve finally named ourselves “Rails Oceania”.
There’s monthly meetup and a new event called Railscamp (not the framework camping), literally camping in the bush and do abit of code fest.
Main page for event updates: http://www.rubyonrails.com.au
Mail group - Google group Rails Oceania
IRC channel #ror_au at irc.au.freenode.net.
Railscamp is […]

With the recent release of Adobe’s Apollo, I was quite impressed how far they have become. I’ve lost touch of Flash since actionscript1, there’s just not alot of reasons to write in AS2, needless to say AS3. I saw a demo of FlexBuilder2 and here’s some online tutorial by Mike Chambers - at lynda.com. Building […]

I’ve wasted abit of time doing this today…
1. Create your database
>mysqladmin create dbname
2. Create your table with the right fields. (I usually use an Admin tool like phpmyadmin to do this).
3. You need to login to your mysql console
>mysql -u root
>use dbname;
>LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ‘path_to_my_file.csv’ INTO TABLE tablename
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’
LINES TERMINATED […]

I’m sure everyone has heard of this buzz word Flex flowing around alot, but has anyone actually seen and used one? I certainly haven’t, until now. The good thing is, it is developed in Australia! We’re so in the forefront of web innovations (sometimes). Australian Financial Review access application - http://www.afraccess.com/ is apparently the biggest […]

Finally Australia/Sydney has reached a critical mass of internet enthursiasts and entrepreneurs to organise conferences and meetups. The web industry is flourishing. It has taken some time from the very humble start of Web standards group of a room of ~10 people at the Australian Museum.
Then there was the Web Essentials […]