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

Thu Jun 12 16:29:15 PDT 2008

Hi,

Some photos from June meeting here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowblink/sets/72157605547470339/

I couldn't stay at the pub, so if anyone has other photos, please do post
them to the pool:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/680991@N25/pool/

Cheers,

Jon

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jens Meijer <Jens.Meijer at gluelondon.com>
wrote:

>  Hi Muz,
>
> Is that copy of The Rails Way still going?
>
> I'm interested in that one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jens
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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-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 out to this meeting, otherwise they'll be hopelessly out of date.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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