[LRUG] Topic for Next meeting

[Robert McKinnon]

Hi Benjohn,

The material behind the talk sounds good, but I'm not sure if live
coding makes a good presentation - might lack the flow of prepared
talk. What do you think about preparing the code first, doing a walk
through in the presentation and the live part can be the audience
trying to write the socket client? That way we won't run the risk of
getting stuck at the first hurdle.

cheers,
Rob



--- Benjohn Barnes <benjohn at fysh.org> wrote:

> 
> On 24 May 2006, at 14:06, Robert McKinnon wrote:
> 
> >
> > If we stick to the second Monday of the month for the next meeting,
>  
> > the
> > date is 12 June. Benj, are you able to make that day? If so, shoot 
> 
> > me a
> > little summary & bio and I'll get Wendy to put that up on the LRUG
> > meeting page (http://skillsmatter.com/london-ruby-ug).
> 
> Okay:
> 
> Me -
> 
> I'm Benjohn Barnes, and I've been a programmer since I was about 8.  
> I'm 30 now. I started on the BBC in BASIC, then added in assembly. My
>  
> major interests have been computer graphics. I'm also very interested
>  
> in how people can describe computer systems though, and in various  
> other fields of computer science.
> 
> I learnt c++ (and many "exotic" languages at university, now sadly,  
> mostly forgotten, but I hope the thinking isn't) at university, and  
> used that almost exclusively for the next 10 years. I consider myself
>  
> pretty good.
> 
> I started learning Ruby about 8 months ago. Having looked at plenty  
> of other c++ alternatives (Lua, Python, Squeak, Scheme, F-Script,  
> Objective c) something about it really gripped me, or perhaps almost 
> 
> everything about it really gripped me, particularly the instal on my 
> 
> Mac iBook.
> 
> I'm currently using Ruby to drive QC tests for a Digital TV company  
> called NDS. I'm interested in using Ruby for computer graphics, and  
> many other things that I hope to get round to one day!
> 
> Talk -
> 
> I propose to build a _very_ simple "talker". Really nothing more than
>  
> a socket that accepts connections that are sent to everyone  
> connected. Hell - disconnection may well not get covered! I'll use  
> Ruby's TCPServer and TCPSocket classes for this. I'm going to built a
>  
> very simple manager for these objects. I'll cover adding  
> functionality to them by "extend"ing them with an event handler. I'll
>  
> make use of IRB, and demo ideas in that while building up a script  
> for the code. I'm imagining that it'll take half an hour. I'm hoping 
> 
> to show off how easy this stuff is in Ruby.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Benjohn


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