[LRUG] Yes, there will be a June meeting.

Fri Jun 6 03:36:39 PDT 2008

Hi Muz,

Is that copy of The Rails Way still going?

I'm interested in that one.

Cheers,

Jens

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From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org]
On Behalf Of Murray Steele
Sent: 03 June 2008 11:10
To: London Ruby Users Group
Subject: Re: [LRUG] Yes, there will be a June meeting.

Hopefully you all saw Wendy's email and El Rug's Tweet yesterday and so
will all be registered for the meeting already. If not, please do:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/ruby-on-rails/lrug-meeting-ruby-as-multime
dia-glue-genomes-on-rails

An extra incentive to come along is that I've got a bunch of books to
hand out at this meeting.  They're the books that I organised as prizes
for the pub quiz we were going to have in January, when that didn't
happen I left them in my desk drawer and promptly forgot about them.
Having dig to the back of my desk I figure that I might as well bring
them along and hand them out to this meeting, otherwise they'll be
hopelessly out of date.

I have:

2x Practical Rails Social Networking Sites by Alan Bradburne published
by Apress:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/159
0598415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485903&sr=8-1
2x Practical Rails Projects by Eldon Alameda published by Apress:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Projects-Experts-Voice/dp/159059
7818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485940&sr=1-1
1x RailsSpace by Michael Hartl & Aurelius Prochazka published by Addison
Wesley:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Railsspace-Building-Networking-Addison-Wesley-Pr
ofessional/dp/0321480791/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485989&sr=1-
1
1x RailsSpace Ruby on Rails Tutorial livelessions DVD by Aurelius
Prochazka published by Addison Wesley:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RailsSpace-Ruby-Rails-Addison-Wesley-Professiona
l/dp/0321517067/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485989&sr=1-3
1x Design Patterns In Ruby by Russ Olson published by Addison Wesley:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Patterns-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional
/dp/0321490452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212486044&sr=1-1
1x The Rails Way by Obie Fernandex (and others) published by Addison
Wesley:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rails-Way-Enterprise-Addison-Wesley-Professional
/dp/0321445619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212486067&sr=1-1

Not having read (or in the DVD's case, watched) these books I can't say
how up to date they are, not that it really matters for the design
patterns one - even with 1.9 and 1.8.7 ruby hasn't changed enough for
this book to be made obsolete.  The Rails Way has a badge saying it
covers Rails 2.0, so it's probably the most up to date.  The website for
RailsSpace (http://railsspace.com/) implies it covers rails 1.2.3, but
there is a blog post about compatibility with rails 2.0
(http://blog.railsspace.com/past/2007/12/13/railsspace_now_rails_20_comp
atible/).  Practical Rails Social Networking Sites and Practical Rails
Projects don't really say, but going by publication date I'd expect them
to be focussed on rails 1.2.X.  That said, they both look like good
project based tutorials and really, rails 1.2.X and rails 2.X aren't
*that* different (I'm sure we've had these discussions on the list
before), so these books, being aimed at beginners and in a tutorial
style are probably at least as good as googling for blog posts that are
also targetting earlier versions of rails.  Generally speaking the
internet is positive about all these books, so I'm sure they'd be useful
to someone.

If you want one of these books, let me know (off list - I'm sure no-one
else cares) and I'll hand them out at the start of the June meeting.  As
usual a review would be nice once you've read it (*cough* previous book
recipients, where are my reviews? *cough*).  

Obviously If more people than there are copies of a given book wants a
copy it'll be names out of a shoes app on the night.

Cheers,

Muz

2008/5/30 Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>:

	Hi all,

	The June meeting details have been up on lrug.org for about a
week now, but I haven't mentioned it here because I was waiting for
Skills Matter to get the registration URL ready (turns out the delay
here is mostly my fault as I was emailing someone who wasn't there).
The last time I announced the meeting before the registration URL was up
I got loads of "Hey, Murray where's the registration URL?" emails, so I
wanted to minimise on that.  The URL still isn't ready, but I've been
assured that it'll be ready by Monday, so I thought I'd let you all know
anyway so that you at least know there will be a meeting in June and
what it'll be about.

	The super-short version is:

	Monday, June 9th, 2008, 6:30pm @ The Old Sessions House (it's
more than likely we'll be here, but you still need to register)

	Nick Ludlam: "Ruby as multimedia glue"
	A talk about using ruby to stitch MythTV into a Cocoa app, with
some on the fly transcoding using Mongrel, RubyCocoa and other custom
ruby code.

	Matt Wood: "Genomes on Rails"
	How the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is using Rails to help
with their work in sequencing the human genome.

	The slightly longer version is:
http://lrug.org/meetings/2008/05/27/june-2008-meeting/

	Once I know the reg link is live El Rug
(http://twitter.com/lrug) will tweet once more and then I'll get round
to doing all the other stuff (mailing here, updating lrug.org, upcoming
event, etc...).

	Sorry for the delay,

	Muz

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