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

[jds]

go for it

On 19 May 2010 08:11, Tim Benest <thb at taskforce.co.uk> wrote:

> ++1
>
> 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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