October 2015 Meetup Summary + Call for Intermediate/Advanced Talk
Michael Prendergast
Hi everyone,
Thanks for coming out to the October meetup.
Below you'll find the links to the slides and speakers, and also a preview of the scheduled talks for this month. The summary is also up on the blog.
1. What happened?
We had three great talks. Details below.
1.1 Elaine Cooper's gave a Lightning Talk titled "5 Quick Switches … Improve Your Life One Easy Change At a Time."
Her slides are forthcoming. Check the ottawaruby.ca blog for an update later.
You can connect with Elaine on Facebook here, and can get her recipes by subscribing to her newsletter.
1.2 Craig Lehmann and Robert Young gave a Lightning Talk on the Ruby VM titled "Ruby Under The Hood"
The slides for Craig and Robert's talk are here.
We don't have any links to connect with Craig or Robert, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be put in contact with them.
1.3 Zhifu Ge gave us a talk titled "TDD For Coding Practices" and did a live TDD session, working through a practice problem from Codility
The slides for Zhifu's talk are here.
We don't have any links to connect with Zhifu, but feel free to get in touch if you'd like to be put in contact with him.
1.4 Also, in case you missed it back in June… Ahmed Omran's talk on Working with Legacy Rails Apps
Ahmed Omran @this_ahmed gave a talk at the June meetup on Working With Legacy Rails Apps. You should check out the slides below.
Links:
- Slides: here
- Connect with Ahmed: @this_ahmed
- Ahmed's Blog: aomran.com
Sorry for not getting this sent out sooner.
2. What's Up for November 25th?
First off, please note that this month's meetup will be on a Wednesday, not on Tuesday.
So far, we have two talks lined up for this month's meetup:
2.1 Lightning Talk: Nick Nikolov will be giving a talk titled "Booleans... with three possible values?"
Description: When using RoR with MySQL the boolean fields may end up having a third, unexpected value. This presentation will explain why and how this might happen and what to do if you wish to correct it.
2.2 Zhifu Ge will be giving us a talk about… something. ;)
Topic to be determined. Check the meetup page for updates.
3. Call for an Intermediate/Advanced Talk
We're looking for an Intermediate or Advanced talk for November.
Feel free to email back if you'd like to give a talk, or fill in this Talk Proposal Form.
4. Plan on coming? RSVP...
You can RSVP for the meetup here:
--> http://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/224523705/
5. Thanks all!
Hope to see you at the next Ruby meetup, and/or at Web Project Night!
The Ottawa Ruby Team