Providence Werewolf is tonight (10/8)!

Just a bump and a reminder.  See you there!

After a long summer off, it's time to get back into everyone's favorite game of boldfaced lying and indiscriminate killing!!!!

Please join us at the Wild Colonial this Wednesday, October 8th @ 6pm for the long-awaited and much anticipated comeback of Providence Werewolf!

No experience necessary - anyone can learn the game in a matter of minutes. Everyone's welcome, but please RSVP in advance if possible!

Details and RSVP at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1179518

 

Are we still on for an October meetup?  (I tried to post in the Google Group, but I don't think the message went through.)

I know a bunch of folks at Public Display are looking forward to it.  Anything we can do to help get this party started?

If details are still up in the air, perhaps we can hash some of them out at tomorrow's Providence Geek dinner?

Perhaps the biggest pain I've felt working on a medium-sized* team/Rails project is keeping (1) the spec, (2) the tests, and (3) the AFC (Actual Frickin' Code) in sync with each other.

I know it will always take some amount of dilligence to keep those ducks in a row, but I have some thoughts towards a Rails plugin that might alleviate *some* of the pain.  I have absolutely no code to show for this yet, but an October RIRUG meetup might give me a reasonable deadline to shoot for an 0.1 release (or at least organizing my thoughts enough to present them).

 

* On a small-sized team that's all on the same page, I fully believe you can say "screw you" to specs.  But I'm starting to believe this may be less reasonable as the scope of work increases.  As a sidebar discussion, I am also *always* down to argue about this over a few beers.

There may be some projects for Mashable City that make sense to approach with Ruby, absolutely.

So far, the push has been to use open & free web services (Google Maps, Del.icio.us, Flickr, etc) as much as possible, glued together with Javascript.  The more that is hidden away on a server somewhere, the harder it would be for other communities to both duplicate our progress and extend it.

That said, the goal is to make it easier for folks within a community (primarily the greater Providence area) to mashup various relevant but disparate data sources.  Any project in Ruby, or any other language, which moved that effort forward would have my full support, and without speaking for Allan, I expect his support as well.

So, we don't have any Ruby code yet to show, but I would be happy to talk about our efforts and show what code we do have.  Perhaps I could even suggest some open problems within the space that might be ripe for RIRUG to attack.

New technology might be too broad, and perhaps more importantly, lack a strong differentiation from ProvidenceGeeks.org.  If not language-specific, keeping it at least programming-focused seems like a good way to handle both concerns.

I'm starting a QBasic group.  Deal with it.

I'd be game for that.

The werewolves are getting antsy again!  If you don't stop them, who will?

Our next meetup will be Wednesday, July 2nd @ 7pm at Jake's Bar and Grille.  Please do me a favor and RSVP at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/838265 if you think you might attend!

 

Also, there's been a decent stream of Werewolf-related news in our Google Group of late.  It's enough off-topic for RI Nexus that I don't want to cross-post everything, so please join us there if you're truly committed to ridding our village of this quasi-canine epidemic.

Does anyone have any info on the AT&T monthly service fees for 3G?  If it were going to be the same as the EDGE plans, I feel like they would have specifically announced that...?