The Dublin Hackerspace
Capital Brewers return to Tog this (& every) 2nd Sunday of the month.
Hearty brews are on the menu, in both brewing with guidance and instructions from the experts, and tasting craft beer made earlier!
There will also be some talks on matters important to brewing, such as water purification.
Its always a fun and engaging day, the cost is free (donations are welcome) so come along!
Capital brewers discussion is here, and pictures of our previous brewdays can be found here.
Ruby is the language and Rails is the framework that stopped people yawning at web development, encouraged coders to try and better themselves as developers and is now the first choice for an overwhelming number of startups, as well as lots of forward looking enterprises. In this 3 hour introduction, Declan McGrath (aka @theirishpenguin) from Intercom will guide you through the same thing all those people had to do – build your first Ruby on Rails application.
We’ll start with a look at Ruby and its syntax before walking our way through the models, views and controllers that comprise a Rails project. By the end of this evening you should know your routes from your database migrations and have a starting point to go on and build other Rails applications.
Pre-requisites:
When: Thursday, August 8th. From 7pm till 10pm.
Cost: €5 for non-members, free for members
Please sign up using the form below. Updated to add: We’re full! Thanks for the interest everyone.
One of TOG’s projects for the Dublin Mini Maker Faire 2013. This 40 year old, entirely mechanical knitting machine was upgraded with servos, electronics and laser cut parts, and spent the day knitting tweets sent by attendees.
Ever since one of our venerable members freed some young love, the Tog’s lock pickers have been found to be recently making some waves in the national press by liberating the Ha’ Penny Bridge of it’s Love Locks.
“Anyone who lives in or visits the city regularly will notice how clumps of the locks – added by couples as a public display of their affection – seem to build-up gradually, before apparently disappearing overnight.
So who’s taking them down? Well, in some instances it’s Dublin City Council, who regard the practice as a nuisance which could damage the structure and paintwork. ‘Helping’ the council to tackle the problem are – believe it or not – a group of Dublin ‘hackers’ who like to pick padlocks as a hobby, and say it can be like a form of ‘meditation’ after a long day staring at a computer screen.”
Meet the hackers’ group tackling the Ha’penny Bridge’s ‘love’ problem…
Meeting every second Tuesday, the Lock Picking Group is free and open to everyone. The next meeting is on Tuesday 16th of July from 7:30pm onwards.
The next open-source night will take place on Wednesday, June 19th. This is a hands-on event where people are actively encouraged to participate. Please bring a laptop!
6:30 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: How to contribute to OpenStreetMap, by Rory McCann
7:25 – Lightning talks: A chance to introduce the open-source project you’ll be working on during the evening in 5 minutes or less, and get interested people to join you
7:45 – Break into groups, and get contributing!
TOG is very happy to host the 3rd Brewday by Capital Brewers.
The space will be open from 10am until 4pm this Sunday 12th of May.
For anyone interested in homebrewing this is the event for you.
You don’t have to be an expert just come along with an interest.