[LRUG] May Meeting - Specifics

Anthony Green email at acgreen.co.uk
Fri May 4 02:18:17 PDT 2007


On 3/5/07 15:01, "Suw Charman" <suw.charman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/3/07, Tom Stuart <tom at experthuman.com> wrote:
>> I hope this will be taken as polite and pragmatic (which is the
>> intention) rather than rude and inconsiderate (which isn't), but:
>> there seem to be at least a few people who have little or no Ruby
>> experience at all, and I'm not convinced that mentoring is a good use
>> of either party's time in those cases.

>> Therefore would it be useful to compile a list of *recommended* Ruby/
>> Rails-newbie resources, so that people can at least break the ice of
>> their total unfamiliarity with the language/framework and so put
>> themselves in the best position to actively pick the brains of their
>> mentors?

I agree. 
I was volunteering to be a 'help desk' for newbies rather than a mentor.
Point them in the direction of good books, blogs, podcasts etc.


Tony











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