[LRUG] Pizza on Rails and the big LonConf

Tue Aug 15 03:00:20 PDT 2006

I would love to go to the RubyConf, however I think it is quite expensive especially as my company will not fund me as we are an Enterprise company so Rails isn't really suited just yet. (Microsoft is one of our customers and we process 1 million rows an hour!)

I was just wondering how many other people were paying out of their own hard-earned cash... please tell me I am being tight and help me justify spending over £500 on this conference!

Pizza on rails sounds like fun though and I might just turn up for that and see if I can get some sneaky blank-market tickets while I'm there. Or try and blag my way in.. I've seen Justine Lee Collins do it plenty of times! 

May be I'm just not being paid enough... ? :p

Tom Medhurst

From: chat-bounces at lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lrug.org] On Behalf Of Wendy Devolder
Sent: 15 August 2006 10:31
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: Re: [LRUG] Meeting August 8th and September 4th

Hi there,

I am not entirely sure for the below which bits n pieces what to include on the LRUG registration page...

Could Alex / Rob send me the following?

*	Talk Title:
*	Full name speaker:
*	Synopsis of talk:
*	Short bio / background speaker (two or three lines - only if available)

wendy

A. S. Bradbury wrote: 

On Monday 14 August 2006 16:25, Robert McKinnon wrote:>

	Alex, sounds like a great topic for an LRUG talk! Are you able to make
	a Sept 4th meeting, 18:30-20:00? (Note: this may be moved to the
	following week).

Yes, I should be able to make either that or the next week, and hopefully many 
more LRUG meetings in the future.

		I could certainly talk about the ideas behind my system,
		compare and contrast with alternative approaches (Regexp,
		RubyfulSoup and now Hpricot). Maybe there's interest in a
		brief look at what tools and resources I've found useful,
		being a relatively inexperienced ruby programming
		embarking on what is for me a fairly substantial project.

		Is there any interest in this, if so - what would you like to hear
		about? I'm not familiar with the style of most presentations at
		LRUG meetings.

	We usually get around 30 people at a meeting - a mix of experienced to
	newbies. We've been having two talks per meeting for the last few
	months. You'll have a projector and the audience's attention for around
	30-40 minutes - they'll want to head to the pub after that! ;)

OK. 

	For a personal project I've been converting HTML to XML with TagSoup (a
	Java tool), then using a series of custom REXML SAX parsers to
	transform the data into a useful structure. The resulting structured
	data is going into a database for a Rails app I'm building. I'd be
	interested to see if Ariel would have saved me any time.

It's not the answer to all problems, but I think it could well have helped you 
out. I'm no zealot, it's just something else for the toolkit. Sometimes 
you'll want to take the time to right a parser by hand. It's under heavy 
development at the moment, but keep an eye out on ruby-talk for the next 
release which should be where it starts to become very useful. Of course, 
I'll be filling you in on the details on the 4th/whenever.

Alex
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