[LRUG] April meeting idea: If you show me yours, I'll show you mine

[Nick Ludlam]

On 25 Mar 2008, at 13:24, Murray Steele wrote:
> On 25/03/2008, Nick Ludlam <nick at recoil.org> wrote: On 13 Mar 2008,  
> at 13:52, Murray Steele wrote:
>
> > We could fill a whole evening with 6 or so folk, or go half-and-half
> > with ~3 of these "Show'n'Tell" things and 1 longer form talk.  It
> > really depends if people are willing to offer up their nuggets of
> > ruby.
> >
> > Of course, if anyone has something they *do* want to talk about for
> > longer, please do volunteer.
>
> I've been evaluating a few of the asynchronous Ruby/Rails processing
> systems over the last two weeks. Specifically I've tested ap4r,  
> sparrow,
> DelayedJob, BackrounDRb and Beanstalk / Async Observer.
>
> If people are interested in this area, I'd be up for talking about the
> benefits and issues with each, and doing some demos, but it would be
> longer than 5 minutes.
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for volunteering!  Unfortunately your timing is a little off  
> as Andrew Stewart talked about this very subject at the last meeting  
> so I think it might be a bit too soon to revisit the area.  Unless,  
> of course, we change our name to LAPFRUG (London Asynchronous  
> Processing For Ruby User Group), which, admittedly does have a  
> certain ring to it ;)  Maybe some other time?
>
> For anyone else with a long talk / demo / whatever up their sleeve,  
> we've now got 6 folk signed up to show'n'tell, so the meeting can  
> probably only support another of these shortish show'n'tells not a  
> longer talk.  However, don't let that stop you volunteering yourself  
> for a future meeting.


Ah that's a shame that I missed it! Andrew, do you have notes on the  
talk, or is there a video? I'd really like to hear that presentation.

I had thought about giving a little presentation on how I'm using  
Sphinx for a project I'm developing, but I'll defer that until after  
April's meet, as it sounds like this is pretty full now.



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Nick Ludlam
nick at recoil.org