[LRUG] February is a short month, so we have short talks

[Murray Steele]

As a break from all the recruitment offers I thought I'd make another plea
for lightning talk speakers for the February meeting.  There are 5 folk
already volunteering on a variety of subjects, but we need a few more to
flesh out the evening though, wouldn't you like to join in?

On 17 January 2012 09:42, Richard Livsey <richard at livsey.org> wrote:

>  An alternative lightning talk idea which is more Ruby-centric:
>
> ## Should your User care about authentication?
>
> How and why to extract code out of your models into your lib.
> Buzzwords include: single responsibility principle, faster tests, london
> school etc…
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Richard Livsey
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> On Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 14:58, Jakub Šťastný wrote:
>
> Richard: That sounds interesting indeed!
>
> ----
>
> At VMware/RabbitMQ we work on a project called SockJS which is, to cut
> long story short, a WebSocket emulation library. You're probably
> familiar with socket.io which does just that. However SockJS is
> language-agnostic, much simpler, without unnecessary dependencies,
> using WS(-like) API ... The Ruby client is Rack compatible, although
> it works only with Thin (as support for asynchronous response is
> required). So if you guys are interested, I'd be happy to talk about
> it. Here are few links:
>
> - https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-ruby (still in progress, but will
> be finished till February)
> - http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/08/22/sockjs-web-messaging-aint-easy
> - http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/09/13/sockjs-websocket-emulation
>
> J
>
> http://twitter.com/botanicus
>
>
>
> On 12 January 2012 11:33, Richard Livsey <richard at livsey.org> wrote:
>
> Whilst not specifically Ruby, I'm doing a lightning talk at the MongoDB
> user
> group in March, so I could do it at LRUG in Feb too if anyone's interested?
>
> It's on the topic of schema design in Mongo, how it forces a different
> mindset from relational databases and getting over the fear of duplicating
> data from years of working with Codd's normal forms etc…
>
> I'll come up with a snappier title in due course ;o)
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Richard Livsey
> Co-Founder, MinuteBase
> Meeting collaboration made easy
> http://minutebase.com
> +44 (0) 7841 260 797
>
> On Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 11:17, Murray Steele wrote:
>
> I have 2 volunteers and I think I almost convinced someone else in the pub,
> but I've not heard back from them.  Who else wants the glory of doing a
> lightning talk?
>
> On 9 January 2012 12:31, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Our February meeting will be on Monday the 13th.  I'm taking the bold step
> of talking to you about it before the January meeting because, as is now
> traditional, we'll do lightning talks for the Feb meeting.  For these
> meetings we usually have between 7 and 9 speakers, so I want to get a head
> start on collecting "volunteers" to fill the slots.
>
> If you haven't been to one of our February meetings before let me explain
> the format we use.  We use the 20x20 format where each speaker is allowed
> 20
> slides that must auto-tranisition after 20 seconds giving them 6 minutes
> and
> 40 seconds in which to get their point across.  You can see some examples
> by
> looking at the videos from last year
> (http://lanyrd.com/2011/lrug-feb-2011/video/).
>
> I'll announce this at the start of tonight's meeting, but I wanted to give
> everyone some warning (as if you didn't already expect it) so that in the
> pub when my first words to you are "Hey you should do a lightning talk in
> February." instead of "Hello! Why yes I would like a pint, how kind!",
> you've had some time to think about what you'll talk about ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Muz
>
>
>
>
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