If anyone's interested, how about something that covers using the HTML5 History API with Rails?<br><br>Phil<br><br><br>--<br>Phil Nash<br>@philnash<br><a href="http://mintdigital.com">http://mintdigital.com</a><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Murray Steele <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com" target="_blank">murray.steele@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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?<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 January 2012 09:42, Richard Livsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@livsey.org" target="_blank">richard@livsey.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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An alternative lightning talk idea which is more Ruby-centric:
</div><div><br></div><div>## Should your User care about authentication?</div><div><br></div><div>How and why to extract code out of your models into your lib.</div><div>Buzzwords include: single responsibility principle, faster tests, london school etc…</div>
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</div><div><div><p style="color:#a0a0a8">On Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 14:58, Jakub Šťastný wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Richard: That sounds interesting indeed!</div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div><br></div><div>At VMware/RabbitMQ we work on a project called SockJS which is, to cut</div><div>long story short, a WebSocket emulation library. You're probably</div>
<div>familiar with <a href="http://socket.io" target="_blank">socket.io</a> which does just that. However SockJS is</div><div>language-agnostic, much simpler, without unnecessary dependencies,</div><div>using WS(-like) API ... The Ruby client is Rack compatible, although</div>
<div>it works only with Thin (as support for asynchronous response is</div><div>required). So if you guys are interested, I'd be happy to talk about</div><div>it. Here are few links:</div><div><br></div><div>- <a href="https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-ruby" target="_blank">https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-ruby</a> (still in progress, but will</div>
<div>be finished till February)</div><div>- <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/08/22/sockjs-web-messaging-aint-easy" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/08/22/sockjs-web-messaging-aint-easy</a></div>
<div>- <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/09/13/sockjs-websocket-emulation" target="_blank">http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2011/09/13/sockjs-websocket-emulation</a></div><div><br></div><div>J</div><div><br></div><div>
<a href="http://twitter.com/botanicus" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/botanicus</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 12 January 2012 11:33, Richard Livsey <<a href="mailto:richard@livsey.org" target="_blank">richard@livsey.org</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Whilst not specifically Ruby, I'm doing a lightning talk at the MongoDB user</div><div>group in March, so I could do it at LRUG in Feb too if anyone's interested?</div><div><br></div>
<div>It's on the topic of schema design in Mongo, how it forces a different</div><div>mindset from relational databases and getting over the fear of duplicating</div><div>data from years of working with Codd's normal forms etc…</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll come up with a snappier title in due course ;o)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Richard Livsey</div><div>Co-Founder, MinuteBase</div><div>Meeting collaboration made easy</div>
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<div>On Thursday, 12 January 2012 at 11:17, Murray Steele wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>I have 2 volunteers and I think I almost convinced someone else in the pub,</div><div>but I've not heard back from them. Who else wants the glory of doing a</div>
<div>lightning talk?</div><div><br></div><div>On 9 January 2012 12:31, Murray Steele <<a href="mailto:murray.steele@gmail.com" target="_blank">murray.steele@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>Hey all,</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our February meeting will be on Monday the 13th. I'm taking the bold step</div><div>of talking to you about it before the January meeting because, as is now</div><div>traditional, we'll do lightning talks for the Feb meeting. For these</div>
<div>meetings we usually have between 7 and 9 speakers, so I want to get a head</div><div>start on collecting "volunteers" to fill the slots.</div><div><br></div><div>If you haven't been to one of our February meetings before let me explain</div>
<div>the format we use. We use the 20x20 format where each speaker is allowed 20</div><div>slides that must auto-tranisition after 20 seconds giving them 6 minutes and</div><div>40 seconds in which to get their point across. You can see some examples by</div>
<div>looking at the videos from last year</div><div>(<a href="http://lanyrd.com/2011/lrug-feb-2011/video/" target="_blank">http://lanyrd.com/2011/lrug-feb-2011/video/</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>I'll announce this at the start of tonight's meeting, but I wanted to give</div>
<div>everyone some warning (as if you didn't already expect it) so that in the</div><div>pub when my first words to you are "Hey you should do a lightning talk in</div><div>February." instead of "Hello! Why yes I would like a pint, how kind!",</div>
<div>you've had some time to think about what you'll talk about ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Muz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div>
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