February Meetup and Future Talks - anyone interested in speaking?

[Melissa Keizer]

Hi guys, 

Our next meetup is on Tuesday 4th February, details are here - http://digitalcircle.org/events/an-introduction-to-ruby

This one is aimed towards helping more of the web community find out why Ruby is so great, learn the basics and also get some help with getting started/set up. Hopefully this should attract a bigger crowd to many of our future events. We plan to hold "beginner" type meetups every so often so cater for those newer to Ruby. However it would be great if there's plenty of experienced Ruby developers about to spare a helping hand (get involved in discussions, help get people set up etc).

Interested in holding a talk?

If you're interested in speaking at one of our meetups in the upcoming months could you please let us know? Leave a comment here with your proposal or topic ideas for a talk and we'll get back to you :)

Cheers,

Melissa

[Coby Chapple]

I’d be interested in speaking, if there’s ever something that makes sense? I don’t have specific ideas off the top of my head, but I’m open to suggestions :)

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Coby

[Melissa Keizer]

Great! :) We'll probably need to brainstorm a few talk ideas, or have a chat next week and see if anyone has any good suggestions. The next few talks don't need to be beginner-orientated, we'll be doing those every so often but the next few talks can be geared more toward experienced developers. 

[Simon McCartney]

I think I volunteered in the past, probably for Puppet stuff, but I've spent the last year working in Chef, and the last month or so working in Salt (don't you love big orgs where you get tech decisions handed down from on high...), my focus is on operations & deployment tools & techniques. 

I'm currently working on OpenStack tools (I run a private OpenStack cloud that supports HP's Public Cloud offering), if that's of interest to anybody.  

The only interesting ruby things I've been working on are stack-kicker (kind of CloudFormation lite, without the XML) and kitchen-salt, a tiny plugin that allows you to use test-kitchen against your salt-formula.  (All you Chef heads are using test-kitchen against you Chef cookbooks right?  I could talk about that...)

My non-ruby speaking has been about:

 * MySQL Replication (http://slidesha.re/MpEkLH, very old now, we're now using Galera Clustering, I helped author the percona-galera cookbook discussed here: http://bit.ly/MpF2se)

 * Nagios/Icinga (https://speakerdeck.com/simonmcc/devopsireland-nagios)

 * stack-kicker (http://www.slideshare.net/simonmccartney/stack-kicker-devopsdayslondon2013 / https://vimeo.com/62491069)

 * Not even really tech: https://speakerdeck.com/simonmcc/consumerism-v-craft / http://bit.ly/MpJIOF)

Simon.

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[Steven Holdsworth]

I'm putting together a talk on reactive programming in Ruby. I talk about what reactive programming is, why it's useful, when it comes in handy and how to unit test it. I dig into the two rx libraries rx.rb with MRI and rxjava via JRuby (which is more mature) + I might touch on event machine and how it fits with this programming model, not sure yet as it takes some explaining. I'd be happy to do a session or squeeze it down to a lightning talk when I'm ready.

Also could demo Pry with Rails if anybody cares.. I find it invaluable as a noob. A nice side effect for me has been when debugging with it I find myself reading and stepping through so much more of the rails source and the C code backing MRI which Is really helping me learn Rails & Ruby a bit deeper.

Another area which is interesting me at the min is leveraging Elixir and the Erlang actor model for scaling my system logic and how that fits into a rails app I'm working on.

I'm still a ruby novice.. so I wouldn't expect too much, just throwing some ideas out there.
In London next week so going to miss Feb meet-up =\

[David Rice]

Sounds great Steven. I’d be interested in hearing about any of those, see you when you’re back in town.

[Paul McConnon]

Sounds class Steven, to echo David, I'd love to hear all three.

On 30 January 2014 00:34, David Rice <m...@davidjrice.co.uk> wrote:

Sounds great Steven. I'd be interested in hearing about any of those, see you when you're back in town.