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

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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Jordi Noguera Leon
<jordinoguera83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good stuff, go for it!
>
> On 19 May 2010 05:07, Matthew Rudy Jacobs <matthewrudyjacobs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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