[LRUG] Next Month - Call for participation

[Robert McKinnon]

Just got back to London last night from a brief stint in my homeland
Aotearoa New Zealand. Great to see LRUG moving ahead at full steam!

Murray, I'd be keen to Disambiguate URLs in Rails for 5 minutes - don't
worry no URLs will come to harm!

cheers,
Rob

--- Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was thinking about next months meeting, and wondering if rather
> than
> saying "Hey, who wants to do a talk?", it might be an idea to find
> out what
> people are interested in hearing something about.  Maybe then someone
> will
> say, "Oh, I know a bit about that, I'll say something.  I'd have
> suggested
> it myself, but I didn't think anyone would be interested."
> 
> I'm also quite interested in the suggestion Tom Armitage made about
> short
> "lighning-talk" style presentations, as I think they'd open up the
> floor to
> more lively debate.  Let's face it, with only 5 minutes you've got to
> be
> opinionated as you ave no time to explain your reasoning and that's
> bound to
> cause some sparks in a way that a 15 minute presentation where you
> can
> explain yourself more clearly wouldn't.
> 
> So, with that in mind, feel free to suggest topics big and small.  To
> get
> the ball rolling I'd be interested in:
> 
> * RSpec - how does it differ from bog-standard Test::Unit and,
> perhaps most
> importantly, how it should it's pronunciation differ from "Arse Peck"
> to
> avoid embarrassment.
> * inject() - people are always harping on about how amazing and yet
> underused this method is.  You've got 5 mins; prove it!
> * Piston and/or svk - there's a lot of buzz about these, anyone care
> to give
> a little "vendor" demo?
> 
> So, anyone else?
> 
> Muz
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