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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>I
would love to go to the RubyConf, however I think it is quite expensive
especially as my company will not fund me as we are an Enterprise company so
Rails isn’t really suited just yet. (Microsoft is one of our customers and we process
1 million rows an hour!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>I
was just wondering how many other people were paying out of their own
hard-earned cash… please tell me I am being tight and help me justify spending
over £500 on this conference!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Pizza
on rails sounds like fun though and I might just turn up for that and see if I
can get some sneaky blank-market tickets while I’m there. Or try and blag my
way in.. I’ve seen Justine Lee Collins do it plenty of times! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>May
be I’m just not being paid enough… ? :p<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Tom
Medhurst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> chat-bounces@lrug.org
[mailto:chat-bounces@lrug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wendy Devolder<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 August 2006 10:31<br>
<b>To:</b> London Ruby Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LRUG] Meeting August 8th and September 4th<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi there,<br>
<br>
I am not entirely sure for the below which bits n pieces what to include on the
LRUG registration page...<br>
<br>
Could Alex / Rob send me the following?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>wendy<br>
<br>
A. S. Bradbury wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<pre>On Monday 14 August 2006 16:25, Robert McKinnon wrote:><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>Alex, sounds like a great topic for an LRUG talk! Are you able to make<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>a Sept 4th meeting, 18:30-20:00? (Note: this may be moved to the<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>following week).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Yes, I should be able to make either that or the next week, and hopefully many <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>more LRUG meetings in the future.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
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<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>I could certainly talk about the ideas behind my system,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>compare and contrast with alternative approaches (Regexp,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>RubyfulSoup and now Hpricot). Maybe there's interest in a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>brief look at what tools and resources I've found useful,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>being a relatively inexperienced ruby programming<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>embarking on what is for me a fairly substantial project.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Is there any interest in this, if so - what would you like to hear<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>about? I'm not familiar with the style of most presentations at<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>LRUG meetings.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote>
<pre>We usually get around 30 people at a meeting - a mix of experienced to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>newbies. We've been having two talks per meeting for the last few<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>months. You'll have a projector and the audience's attention for around<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>30-40 minutes - they'll want to head to the pub after that! ;)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>OK. <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>For a personal project I've been converting HTML to XML with TagSoup (a<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Java tool), then using a series of custom REXML SAX parsers to<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>transform the data into a useful structure. The resulting structured<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>data is going into a database for a Rails app I'm building. I'd be<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>interested to see if Ariel would have saved me any time.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>It's not the answer to all problems, but I think it could well have helped you <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>out. I'm no zealot, it's just something else for the toolkit. Sometimes <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>you'll want to take the time to right a parser by hand. It's under heavy <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>development at the moment, but keep an eye out on ruby-talk for the next <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>release which should be where it starts to become very useful. Of course, <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>I'll be filling you in on the details on the 4th/whenever.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Alex<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>chat mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a
href="mailto:chat@lrug.org">chat@lrug.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a
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