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    <title>Synthesis: RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success</title>
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    <description>by Scott Becker</description>
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      <title>RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rubybrigade.org"&gt;&lt;img src="http://synthesis.sbecker.net/files/rb_home.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to mention our Rails Rumble project, &lt;a href="http://rubybrigade.org"&gt;RubyBrigade.org&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://ambethia.com"&gt;Jason Perry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://dedguy.net/"&gt;James Seaman&lt;/a&gt; and I 
worked through the weekend to build &lt;a href="http://rubybrigade.org"&gt;RubyBrigade.org&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#8211; a geographically aware database of Ruby User groups.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Big thanks to James for the killer hand drawn illustrations and interface. Big thanks to Jason &amp;#38; Katie for letting us take over their house for the weekend.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h2&gt;Features:&lt;/h2&gt;


	&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Google Maps Integration&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Sub-domains for each group  &lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Geocoding: either by the search box or by sub-domain!&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;RSS&lt;/span&gt; and iCal feed parsing&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Display latest user groups&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Display upcoming events across all groups&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Display blog posts &amp;#38; upcoming events for individual groups&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;ReCAPTCHA for spam prevention&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;No authentication required&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;


	&lt;h2&gt;More Screenshots&lt;/h2&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;View a Brigade&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tampa.rubybrigade.org/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://synthesis.sbecker.net/files/rb_show.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Edit a Brigade&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://synthesis.sbecker.net/files/rb_edit.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;Delete a Brigade&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://synthesis.sbecker.net/files/rb_delete.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;h3&gt;404 Message&lt;/h3&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rubybrigade.org/404.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://synthesis.sbecker.net/files/rb_404.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;If you like what you see, &lt;a href="http://vote.railsrumble.com/teams/65"&gt;vote for us!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Micha</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I am looking for this for a long time. Thanks very much.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:27:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7676</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Angelo</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;How can I vote?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:42:35 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7630</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Cortny</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I wish you much luck for the weekend!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7627</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Andrey Troy</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Мне очень понравилось. Клевая статья.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:18:20 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7614</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Scott Becker</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Andrew &amp;#8211; Haha, not in 48 hours, but thats a good idea for the future.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:43:22 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7601</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Andrew Turner</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hrm, no GeoRSS or KML export?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:23:14 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7597</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Andrew Turner</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hrm, no GeoRSS or KML export?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:23:05 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7596</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by A. Lange</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Where can I vote?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:18:19 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7594</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Murchison</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Cool features. I should try this RubyBrigade.org&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:41:17 -0700</pubDate>
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      <link>http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2007/09/12/rubybrigade#comment-7586</link>
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      <title>"RubyBrigade.org - A Rails Rumble Success" by Conveyor</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Google is the Best! I like it!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:05:37 -0700</pubDate>
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