[LRUG] Chat Digest, Vol 36, Issue 11 (Beware of the Nuby)

[Julian Burgess]

I remember feeling quite out of my depth at my first LRUG (about a
year ago), which I think dealt mainly with quite advanced testing and
mocking. However I stuck with it and have learned a lot and will be
presenting one of the slots at the next meeting. I'll just be giving a
brief overview of my learning journey through Ruby (I'm still no
expert at all), which will hopefully give courage to anyone starting
out and perhaps provide me with some guidance.

I quite like the idea of a short talk on a single basic topic. Perhaps
to make it work better it could be done at the end of the meeting,
therefore giving the opportunity for anyone who knows enough already
to leave for the pub. Just a shout out something you don't understand
and debate forth with a five minute limit perhaps.

An example for me would be the use of symbols. For ages my only use
was where it was advised as part of Rails. Recently however I was
tackling a general Ruby problem where using symbols instead of strings
saved so much memory that it wasn't possible any other way (that's
what made me look for another way in the first place, and I'm still
not sure whether there might be a much better tactic anyhow).

2009/1/23 Matt Wynne <matt at mattwynne.net>:
>
> On 21 Jan 2009, at 10:27, Murray Steele wrote:
>
>> Anyone else have any ideas or thoughts on this?
>
> How about a coding dojo?
>
> We ran one at Songkick the other week[1] and it was terrific fun, rotating
> pairs working at the projector in 10 minute iterations, with everyone else
> heckling.
>
> It's a great chance for newbies to see how experienced hackers think about
> designing their ruby programs, and even get a chance to pair with them.
> Experience people also get a lot out of discussing the finer points of the
> design.
>
> What do you think? I'd quite happily facilitate one at the March meeting if
> people are up for it.
>
> [1]http://blog.mattwynne.net/2009/01/07/minesweeper-dojo/
>
> Matt Wynne
> http://blog.mattwynne.net
> http://www.songkick.com
>
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