<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hi,</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Some photos from June meeting here:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowblink/sets/72157605547470339/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowblink/sets/72157605547470339/</a></p><div><br></div>
<div>I couldn't stay at the pub, so if anyone has other photos, please do post them to the pool:</div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/680991@N25/pool/">http://www.flickr.com/groups/680991@N25/pool/</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers,</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jon</p>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jens Meijer <<a href="mailto:Jens.Meijer@gluelondon.com">Jens.Meijer@gluelondon.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Hi Muz,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Is that copy of The Rails Way still
going?</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I'm interested in that one.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Cheers,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Jens</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">chat-bounces@lists.lrug.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Murray
Steele<br><b>Sent:</b> 03 June 2008 11:10<br><b>To:</b> London Ruby Users
Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [LRUG] Yes, there will be a June
meeting.<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<div></div>Hopefully you all saw Wendy's email and El Rug's Tweet yesterday and
so will all be registered for the meeting already. If not, please do: <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/event/ruby-on-rails/lrug-meeting-ruby-as-multimedia-glue-genomes-on-rails" target="_blank">http://skillsmatter.com/event/ruby-on-rails/lrug-meeting-ruby-as-multimedia-glue-genomes-on-rails</a><br>
<br>An
extra incentive to come along is that I've got a bunch of books to hand out at
this meeting. They're the books that I organised as prizes for the pub
quiz we were going to have in January, when that didn't happen I left them in my
desk drawer and promptly forgot about them. Having dig to the back of my
desk I figure that I might as well bring them along and hand them out to this
meeting, otherwise they'll be hopelessly out of date.<br><br>I have:<br><br>2x
Practical Rails Social Networking Sites by Alan Bradburne published by Apress:
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/1590598415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485903&sr=8-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Social-Networking-Experts/dp/1590598415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485903&sr=8-1</a><br>
2x
Practical Rails Projects by Eldon Alameda published by Apress: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Projects-Experts-Voice/dp/1590597818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485940&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practical-Rails-Projects-Experts-Voice/dp/1590597818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485940&sr=1-1</a><br>
1x
RailsSpace by Michael Hartl & Aurelius Prochazka published by Addison
Wesley: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Railsspace-Building-Networking-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321480791/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485989&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Railsspace-Building-Networking-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321480791/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485989&sr=1-1</a><br>
1x
RailsSpace Ruby on Rails Tutorial livelessions DVD by Aurelius Prochazka
published by Addison Wesley: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/RailsSpace-Ruby-Rails-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321517067/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485989&sr=1-3" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/RailsSpace-Ruby-Rails-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321517067/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212485989&sr=1-3</a><br>
1x
Design Patterns In Ruby by Russ Olson published by Addison Wesley: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Patterns-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321490452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212486044&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Patterns-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321490452/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212486044&sr=1-1</a><br>
1x
The Rails Way by Obie Fernandex (and others) published by Addison Wesley: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rails-Way-Enterprise-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321445619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212486067&sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rails-Way-Enterprise-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0321445619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212486067&sr=1-1</a><br>
<br>Not
having read (or in the DVD's case, watched) these books I can't say how up to
date they are, not that it really matters for the design patterns one - even
with 1.9 and 1.8.7 ruby hasn't changed enough for this book to be made
obsolete. The Rails Way has a badge saying it covers Rails 2.0, so it's
probably the most up to date. The website for RailsSpace (<a href="http://railsspace.com/" target="_blank">http://railsspace.com/</a>) implies it covers
rails 1.2.3, but there is a blog post about compatibility with rails 2.0 (<a href="http://blog.railsspace.com/past/2007/12/13/railsspace_now_rails_20_compatible/" target="_blank">http://blog.railsspace.com/past/2007/12/13/railsspace_now_rails_20_compatible/</a>).
Practical Rails Social Networking Sites and Practical Rails Projects don't
really say, but going by publication date I'd expect them to be focussed on
rails 1.2.X. That said, they both look like good project based tutorials
and really, rails 1.2.X and rails 2.X aren't *that* different (I'm sure we've
had these discussions on the list before), so these books, being aimed at
beginners and in a tutorial style are probably at least as good as googling for
blog posts that are also targetting earlier versions of rails. Generally
speaking the internet is positive about all these books, so I'm sure they'd be
useful to someone.<br><br>If you want one of these books, let me know (off list
- I'm sure no-one else cares) and I'll hand them out at the start of the June
meeting. As usual a review would be nice once you've read it (*cough*
previous book recipients, where are my reviews? *cough*).
<br><br>Obviously If more people than there are copies of a given book wants a
copy it'll be names out of a shoes app on the
night.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Muz<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/30 Murray Steele <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com" target="_blank">murray.steele@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left:1ex;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Hi
all,<br><br>The June meeting details have been up on <a href="http://lrug.org" target="_blank">lrug.org</a> for about a week now, but I haven't mentioned it
here because I was waiting for Skills Matter to get the registration URL ready
(turns out the delay here is mostly my fault as I was emailing someone who
wasn't there). The last time I announced the meeting before the
registration URL was up I got loads of "Hey, Murray where's the registration
URL?" emails, so I wanted to minimise on that. The URL still isn't
ready, but I've been assured that it'll be ready by Monday, so I thought I'd
let you all know anyway so that you at least know there will be a meeting in
June and what it'll be about.<br><br>The super-short version
is:<br><br>Monday, June 9th, 2008, 6:30pm @ The Old Sessions House (it's more
than likely we'll be here, but you still need to register)<br><br>Nick Ludlam:
"Ruby as multimedia glue"<br>A talk about using ruby to stitch MythTV into a
Cocoa app, with some on the fly transcoding using Mongrel, RubyCocoa and other
custom ruby code.<br><br>Matt Wood: "Genomes on Rails"<br>How the Wellcome
Trust Sanger Institute is using Rails to help with their work in sequencing
the human genome.<br><br>The slightly longer version is: <a href="http://lrug.org/meetings/2008/05/27/june-2008-meeting/" target="_blank">http://lrug.org/meetings/2008/05/27/june-2008-meeting/</a><br><br>Once
I know the reg link is live El Rug (<a href="http://twitter.com/lrug" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/lrug</a>) will tweet once more and then I'll
get round to doing all the other stuff (mailing here, updating <a href="http://lrug.org" target="_blank">lrug.org</a>, upcoming event,
etc...).<br><br>Sorry for the
delay,<br><br>Muz<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br></div></div>________________________________________________________________________<br>This
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