[LRUG] Fwd: BOF sessions wih LRUG at No Fluff Just Stuff eXchange, London

[Murray Steele]

Hi all,

I think I'm going to decline the offer from Skills Matter.  I'm just not
that convinced that we'd provide a useful and interesting session.  If I was
a Java programmer coming to Ruby right now, I think my main concerns would
be a) JRuby and b) tooling.  Thanks to Codepope we could do something about
b) but I'm not sure we can cover a).  So, unless anyone jumps up to offer
something this afternoon, I'll let Skills Matter know we won't be doing the
BoF.

Thanks to everyone who has suggested things or offered to take part, I
really appreciate your help.  If any of you (or anyone else) wants to
organise the BoF anyway, get in touch with Joanna Go at Skills Matter (
joanna.go at skillsmatter.com).

Cheers,

Muz

On 18/06/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just to throw something else into the mix, does anyone have any exposure
> to JRuby?  I can happily witter on about my own experiences integrating
> java+ruby during my transformation into a ruby programmer, but I didn't use
> JRuby and that's clearly the way to do things now, so I'm not clear on how
> useful it would be.
>
> Anyone else done anything with JRuby?
>
>
> On 18/06/07, Martin Sadler <mtsbtt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm happy to do something on Metaprogramming.
> > On 18 Jun 2007, at 10:17, Murray Steele wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to keep banging on about this, but Skills Matter need to know by
> > the end of the week if we'll be running a BoF or not.  From the overwhelming
> > response I'm going to hazard a guess at not, but you never know.
> >
> > Has anyone got any ideas about running a BoF for Java programmers
> > interested in Ruby.  I think Martin and James's ideas below were quite
> > interesting, but we'd need a few folk willing to give up an evening to do
> > one of the suggested lightning talks.  Any takers?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Muz
> >
> > On 11/06/07, Murray Steele < murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Just a reminder about this.  If anyone has any ideas about running a
> > > BoF session, or taking part in it, grab me tonight.  Skills Matter want to
> > > know soonish if we want to be involved, so tonight's as good a night as any
> > > to suggest stuff.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Muz
> > >
> > > On 29/05/07, James Adam < james.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 5/29/07, Martin Sadler < mtsbtt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I know there was a Rails track at QCon that was held a while back.
> > > > For those
> > > > > who attended
> > > > > what was the general consensus from Java developers on Ruby?
> > > >
> > > > My impression of the QCon audience was that it was comprised of
> > > > people
> > > > who just wanted to know a bit more about Ruby, to see what all the
> > > > fuss was about.
> > > >
> > > > > My first thought is to have a panel of recent Java to Ruby
> > > > converts backed
> > > > > up by some
> > > > > more experienced Rubyists. We could then do a series of lightening
> > > > talks
> > > > > complimented
> > > > > with questions from the audience to the panel.
> > > >
> > > > This sounds like a good format to me. For the lightning talks, it
> > > > shouldn't be hard to do any of the following in 5 minutes:
> > > >
> > > > * Your First Rails App
> > > > * The Joy of Rake
> > > > * Here's the Skinny about RubyGems, Y'all
> > > > * "Metaprogramming Voodoo"
> > > >
> > > > .... basically any of these could be quick demos to be used as
> > > > starting points for questions and discussion.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > * J *
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