[LRUG] For the agenda of the June meeting: a humble offering for your consideration

[Matthew Rudy Jacobs]

Sounds really interesting.
If I could be there, I'd vote for it.

On 19 May 2010 04:57, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just to remind you that the next meeting will be on Monday 14th June.  I'm
> just starting to sort out talks for it, but I wanted to offer up a talk that
> I'd like to give.  The talk is called "My First Ruby" and in it I will show
> off the first ruby script I ever wrote.
>
> I think you might enjoy this because:
>
> 1. It's a mailing list with a web front-end.  The web stuff is pre-rails
> and I think it's interesting in terms of "look how far we've come".
>  Seriously, if you've never done web development without a higher-level
> framework like rails you'll be amazed.  (For anyone who's heard of it, it
> uses NARF).
>
> 2. I can pretty much guarantee* that my first ruby code is worse than your
> first ruby code.  So for any newbies in the room, it should come as welcome
> relief that even apparent old-hands like myself have written terrible code
> (and it truly is terrible code), made terrible design decisions, and done
> both without the safety net of TDD.  Of course, hopefully in the talk I'll
> point out why, if writing this again, I would use TDD.  At the end I hope
> this talk will make people feel less embarrassed about showing off code of
> their own at future events; I'll be setting a base-level of awfulness.
>
> 3. This bit of software was written in a weekend and has been in
> "production" for  7 years 11 months (according to the date I filled in for
> "when I first started using Ruby" on my Working With Rails profile) and it's
> been remarkably stable and unchanged for those 7 years.  I've no real
> evidence for this, but it's a scientific fact that it's the longest running
> piece of ruby software in the world... wouldn't you like to see inside it?
>
> So, can I give it?
>
> Muz
>
>
> * not a guarantee**
>
> ** it is a bit
>
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