[LRUG] A talk request [was: A talk suggestion]

[Murray Steele]

In a secret backroom deal I have secured The Tim C and Chris O show for the
August meeting*.  Which brings me swiftly on to the July meeting.  Anyone
got any ideas?

I have one, but it requires a bunch of short talks, if anyone's interested.
 The idea is that:

1. You go watch Ben Griffiths' "Short Order Ruby" talk from Ruby Manor:
http://rubymanor.org/harder/videos/short_order_ruby/
2. You realise that:
   a) you have a few little ruby scripts in this sort of short scrappy style
   b) you are secretly proud of them and want to show them off
   c) but you haven't put them on public source control to share them
because they're full of passwords and private keys for ssh or apis
3. You come to LRUG in July (or some other month) and talk about one of them

I think this could be fun, and I'm sure there'd be lots of variety in the
kinds of scripts we'd be seeing.  We could probably aim for 5 or 6 speakers
to fill the evening if people talk for 5-10 minutes each.

Also, if no-one is into that idea, or not prepared to make a whole meeting
out of it for July, I recall that Anthony Green suggested a LinkedData in
Ruby evening.  Anyone got any contacts I could chase up about sorting that
out, or pointers to the kind of LinkedData stuff they'd like to hear about?

Cheers,

Muz

* No secrets really, they just want some more time to finesse their ideas
and make the talk really sweeeeet.

On 22 June 2010 12:46, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On 22 Jun 2010, at 12:40, Roland Swingler wrote:
>
> > Yes sounds good. Be interesting to hear how you dealt with really
> > tightly coupled code leading to massive test setups if you faced that
> > problem.
>
> Heh... This is definitely one of our current bugbears - there's a
> ridiculous amount of setup and teardown involved in many of our specs, for
> precisely this reason. However, I'm not convinced it's a problem we've
> solved yet. Hopefully we'll make some progress though :-)
>
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