At the RORO Sydney meetup last night we had an awesome line-up of presos, a new venue and a really fun vibe… it’s feeling more like a webjam than a tech meetup!

I gave a presentation on the process we went through to improve the performance of iphone.news.com.au. Grab the PDF of the slides or you can check it out on SlideShare if that’s your thang.

Xavier Shay gave a preso on why Mephisto is no good if you’re a developer building a blog and why you wanna get a good base, fork it and build on it in vanilla Rails.

Carl Woodward gave a super quick demo of Django which I’m hoping he’ll have a chance to flesh out next month.

Andrew Snow gave a juicy preso on Ruby Metaprogramming and mentioned one thing that had never occured to me.

Person.instance_eval do
  # ... add some class methods
end

David Lee fought off the hecklers and glitches to give a whirlwind console demo of getting up and running with Git which was a lot of fun. I vote for having one super-of-the-moment console demo every month if we can find brave enough souls.

… and the big announcement, another Rails Camp is going down in Adelaide in November and numbers are limited so start cajoling your respective financiers sooner rather than later.