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

Tue Jun 3 15:23:56 PDT 2008

Hi, I'd quite like the design patterns one please.

On 3 Jun 2008, at 11:10, Murray Steele wrote:

> 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-multimedia-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 otherwise they'll be hopelessly out of date.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/1590598415/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/ 
> 1590597818/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-Professional/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-Professional/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_compatible/).  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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