[LRUG] August meeting: last minute speaker request

[Sam Livingston-Gray]

FWIW, there were a few really cool talks at Cascadia RubyConf this
past weekend that you may find of interest.  It's probably not the
most enjoyable thing for folks to get together and just watch a video
(nor, with any of the Rubyists I know, would it be possible for them
to remain silent), but perhaps you'd like something to heckle, or
maybe someone wants to watch one or two ahead of time and summarize
for the group.

Here's a link to the Portland Ruby Brigade's notes thread for our last
meeting, including my quick summary of the conference:
http://groups.google.com/group/pdxruby/browse_thread/thread/2afe2eedaad72476

If you just want the videos, see:  http://confreaks.net/events/cascadiaruby2011

Not all the videos are up yet (last I heard, the Confreaks folks are
somewhere on the Oregon coast with poor connectivity), but of the ones
posted as of this writing, I highly recommend Corey Donohoe's
"Shipping at the Speed of Life," wherein Corey talks about deployment
and fun hacking at Github.  (When the day 2 lightning talks are
posted, make sure to scrub through looking for Aaron Patterson's talk
about the history of ladles.  It's hilarious.)

Cheers,
-Sam



> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:09:08 +0100
> From: Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>
> To: London Ruby Users Group <chat at lrug.org>
> Subject: [LRUG] August meeting: last minute speaker request
>
> Hey all,
>
> Stephen Nelson-Smith, who was going to be talking to us about cucumber-chef,
> has had to drop out due to illness.  We'll hopefully reschedule him for the
> September meeting.
>
> So, I know it's extremely last minute, but is there anyone who could step in
> to fill his slot?  Stephen was up for a normal 40minute slot, but at this
> point any length of content for that other half of the meeting would be
> great!  If no-one has anything we'll just have a shorter than usual formal
> meeting and have longer in the pub.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray