Ruby: Local Club to Join

This WednesdayTuesday, 23th of May 2006, is the second [meeting of SSRUG](http://www.rails.se/rails/show/SSRUG+Meeting+2). A _Clubb_ for you to join, and meet with other Ruby enthusiasts in the ‘hood. Time: 1900 hours. Place: see the above wiki link. Lennart (of _Lund Agile Languages User Group_ fame) will be there, and we’ll try and get as many heads …

Bad hat? Just wrong genre

Bad hat Originally uploaded by Macmcmac. **Dogs in the Vineyard**, the Early-West Mormon gunslinger role-playing game has not yet larp-ified, to my meagre knowledge. The picture here, snipped from Flickr, is an excerpt from something completely different. For which the player’s outfit might be outright wrong. But: for a Mormon Judgment game, this would be …

Peter Brodersen creates GoogleMaps with streets for Denmark

Us Euros have been envious of the US/Canada GoogleMaps situation for quite a while. The option “satellite image” has been all we had for a while, and the other choices “map” and “hybrid overlay” have been missing for our part of the globe. [Peter Rukavina](http://ruk.ca/)’s tales of integrating GoogleMaps with existing data have been riveting, …

Test games, help this academic

Anders Højsted, Danish role-player and game researcher, needs a hand. A few good gamers are needed, to test some game-related things for his final paper. If you know someone who fits these requirements, or fit them yourself, don’t hesitate to phone Anders: 50 53 15 38 or email andersh@itu.dk. > Testere søges! > Vi er …

playsh: Flickr is a Glidr

Flickr is a Glidr Originally uploaded by ptufts. Coders Matt Webb and Ben Cerveny are digital age heroes, making a highly interesting thing with playsh, **the playful shell**. Matt [talks about it in his blog](http://interconnected.org/home/2006/03/15/playsh). Tech keywords: the Python programming language, the Twisted framework, fragments of Zope framework, parts of MOO game software LamdaMOO, SSH …

Denmark is Dead: Great programmer booted out of the country

My neighbour Sean Treadway today posted a sad post – he is getting kicked out of the country: > So that’s all folks Denmark has evaluated that my contribution to the country through my freelance work is not of significant value. This is patently horrible. On so many levels. Sean’s one of the really great …

Railsers for beer

[Albert](http://albert.delamednoll.se/), of the South Swedish Rails community, noted he’d be travelling to talk Ruby on Rails, and that secretly he [wished for a community nearby](http://albert.delamednoll.se/articles/2006/01/11/travelling-in-the-name-of-rails). Why the heck not. This is an open invite for you, my buddies, who are using Ruby on Rails (for anything) to come have a sit-down with other Rails users. …