Round up from last night & the next BRUG
Jamie Dyer
attend Nic Alpi talked about http://tweetcetera.com a twitter web
client he built with all of the features he wishes twitter.com had.
Stephen England did an interesting talk on cucumber and how they use
it at Beef and I talked about how we built http://wuzlr.com our rails
rumble entry.
I'd like to get BRUG running more regularly again and see if we can
boost the attendance some what. What do people think about having the
meetup regularly on the last Thursday of every month at the regular
time of 6:30? This would mean the next BRUG will be on November 26th.
We could either skip December or have one earlier in the month as NYE
is not a great date for a BRUG, then resume normal service again in
January.
I'm going to setup a calendar on the BRUG website so people not on the
mailing list can easily see when the next BRUG is, who will be
speaking, where it is etc.
My proposal for the next BRUG is the "bring a friend BRUG" if we all
bring along someone who's never been to a BRUG before we could double
our attendance to a whopping 10 next time! The idea has also been
floated around about a skill swap, if we bring along people who are
possibly interested in ruby/rails but don't have much experience we
could have a bunch of talks aimed at helping beginners getting up and
running.
Thoughts, comments, insults everyone?
Jamie
Gary Pearman
> bring along someone who's never been to a BRUG before we could double
> our attendance to a whopping 10 next time! The idea has also been
> floated around about a skill swap, if we bring along people who are
> possibly interested in ruby/rails but don't have much experience we
> could have a bunch of talks aimed at helping beginners getting up and
> running.
I'm a long time lurker and a PHP dev (yeah, spit, I know!) and I'd be
interested in popping down to a meet to learn a bit more about Ruby
and Rails.
From what I've seen it looks pretty powerful, I've just never got
around to installing it and having a play.
Cheers,
Gaz.
Jamie Dyer
Gary Pearman
> to see covered in a beginning rails focused BRUG?
I'd like to see a tutorial on getting rails installed on Mac OS X and
Linux, although I'd imagine on a Mac with Fink or Mac Ports installed,
this would all be rather trivial (in the same way as installing it on
Debain, for example).
But it would be good to go from having a machine without Ruby and
Rails installed, to a machine with both installed, and running a
simple database driven app. A simple blog application, for example.
Also for me a quick run-through of the language against PHP would be
useful. For example, how a database driven app compares to it's PHP
equivalent (I use the CodeIgniter framework quite a bit, so for me
that would be a good starting place).
Cheers,
Gaz.
reddavis
I moved to Bath about a month ago and looking forward to attending the
next BRUG. (Thursdays 6:30 are good for me)
You mentioned the BRUG site; whats the url?
Cheers, Red
On Oct 30, 12:00 pm, Jamie Dyer <jam5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The BRUG last night was a pretty good one. For those that didn't
> Stephen England did an interesting talk on cucumber and how they use
petef
On Nov 14, 5:46 pm, reddavis <redda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You mentioned the BRUG site; whats the url?
(http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/) to generate the site and it's
hosted at http://github.com/brug. It hasn't had a lot of love lately.
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petef