[LRUG] The "crowd sourced subject" Lightening Talk: ideas?

Thu Jan 19 02:32:09 PST 2012

Hello,

Sorry not in Ruby but you might be interested by the concept of LÔVE:
https://love2d.org/

It allows you to write games in Lua.

It is really worth a try and it is quite fast on the tests I've done.
No 3D though, if this is what you want to do.

Mig

On 19 Jan 2012, at 10:09, Roland Swingler wrote:

> How about "Writing a space exploration game in ruby, and why I moved
> to C++"...? :)
> 
> Hearing a bit about A) The various game libraries in ruby (it's been
> years since I looked at Rubygame) B) where ruby really suffers in
> performance terms and possibly C) any ideas you have about how to have
> a game engine written in something fast but using ruby as layer on top
> of that would all be interesting.
> 
> R
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Chris Parsons <chris.p at rsons.org> wrote:
>> As is traditional, one of the talk subjects is at the mercy of the group: we
>> all vote on something we'd be interested in hearing about.
>> 
>> I'm happy to take on giving the talk, if you guys would like to suggest a
>> topic.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> On 18 Jan 2012, at 13:02, Murray Steele wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>>> Co-Founder, MinuteBase
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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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