[LRUG] April Meeting - 16th April - Lineup?

[David Townsend]

Hi Murray,

Was going to do a talk on Lucene and Ruby, but I'm happy to postpone
to a future month, with all the REST stuff  Workload has led to my
presentation not going passed a title =), so I'm happy to get more
time.

David Townsend

On 4/4/07, Suw Charman <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd certainly be happy to wait a month for a beginner's session, given
> that I haven't been able to look at RoR at all over the last few weeks
> because of work.
>
> I'm not quite sure what I would ask for in terms of content. At the
> moment, I am working my way through the Agile web development book,
> but whilst i understand what i am doing when they ask me to do it, i
> can't then generalise on to my own projects. So maybe some more
> details explanations of which bits do what might be helpful? Mind you,
> maybe I'm the last person to be suggesting what I need to know, given
> how useless I am at RoR.
>
> Suw
>
>
> On 4/3/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's a thought, how many other folk would be interested in a beginners
> > session?  I'm not sure we've ever 'formally' gauged the skill levels in the
> > group, so it's possible we're leaving folk behind.  We could easily do one
> > next month if there was some interest, and, of course, someone willing to
> > run it.
> >
> > What would people want from a beginners session?
> >
> > Intro to programming or intro to ruby?
> > Delve into the class library, or discuss some of the language tricks?
> > Regular Expressions?
> > Classes vs. Modules?
> > Explanations of chunks of code you've seen?
> > Other things?
> >
> > Muz
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/04/07, Suw Charman <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Anyone willing to do a beginner's session? I realise I may be the only
> > > person who would find that useful, though, but if anyone does fancy
> > > spending a little time with me then there'll certainly be a pint or
> > > two in it for them!!
> > >
> > > Suw
> > >
> > > On 4/2/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi again,
> > > >
> > > > As it's a bit closer to the 16th of April we should probably nail down
> > the
> > > > contents of the meeting.  So, anyone any firmer on if they'll be
> > available
> > > > or willing to do something?
> > > >
> > > > Muz
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  On 19/03/07, Murray Steele < murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > The April LRUG meeting will break from our 2nd Monday of the month
> > routine
> > > > to avoid clashing with Easter Monday, and will be on the 16th of April,
> > not
> > > > the 9th.  Jonathan Lim has created an Upcoming event for your calendar
> > > > subscription pleasure (
> > http://upcoming.org/event/165162/),
> > > > but there's scant few details about content as yet.  Based on what's
> > > > bubbling around the list we might have one or more of the following:
> > > > >
> > > > > * A discussion about REST (see this thread:
> > > >
> > http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2007-February/000916.html
> > > > or this follow up one:
> > > >
> > http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2007-March/000981.html
> > > > )
> > > > > * Another round of code-review (people seemed keen on making this a
> > > > regular part of the meetings, and we didn't get through all the bits
> > > > submitted)
> > > > > * A talk about Lucene / Ferret / Solr (David Townsend put himself
> > forward
> > > > for this)
> > > > > * Something about RSpec (nobody really volunteered themselves for
> > this,
> > > > but people seem interested and it's worth suggesting again just in case)
> > > > > * Paolo's talk about TabNav that we missed from February (assuming
> > he's
> > > > still interested in giving it).
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anything else?  Clearly we won't do everything in April, but
> > it's
> > > > good to have options as they'll spill over into future meetings.
> > > > >
> > > > > There's good groundswell for the REST discussion, who wants to be on
> > the
> > > > "panel" or host it?  Jonathan Leighton or Eleanor seem like ideal
> > candidates
> > > > as you guys were the most vocal on those threads, is there anyone else?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > Muz
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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