[LRUG] Meeting August 8th and September 4th

[Wendy Devolder]

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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