What do you want to talk about?
James Adam
birdies and so on... and yet, it's all quiet here, in our cauldron of
actually-figuring-out-what-the-fuck-we're-going-to-do-on-the-day. Lets
rectify that.
Is there anything you'd like to speak about at Ruby Manor? Or anything
you'd like to hear about? For example:
* I am pretty sure that not enough people know how awesome my
'vanilla.rb' web thing is. I would be happy to give a short talk
wherein I get overenthusiastic, write some code in the browser, and
have slides saying both "Fuck databases" and "Fuck MVC". That is
DOUBLE the cuss of a normal presentation.
* Conversely, I would be really interested if anyone could share any
experiences using Cocoa from a MacRuby perspective, as I find the
whole thing a bit impenetrable. Surely someone can provide the crucial
insights such that I don't continue to recoil in fear at 'File's
owner' and a maze of delegation?
Not only do speakers get their ticket refunded (THAT IS A WHOLE EIGHT
POUNDS), but rigorous science assures us that, for weeks after last
year's event, Ruby Manor Classic speakers were perceived as "somewhat
more sexy than the average Rubyist".
Claim the glory that is rightfully yours, my friends. What do you want
to talk about?
- James
Murray Steele
> Not only do speakers get their ticket refunded (THAT IS A WHOLE EIGHT
> POUNDS), but rigorous science assures us that, for weeks after last
> year's event, Ruby Manor Classic speakers were perceived as "somewhat
> more sexy than the average Rubyist".
Yes, look how awesome they all look:
http://twitter.com/rubymanor/classic-speakers
Imagine applying that awesomeness to yourself via:
http://twitter.com/rubymanor/harder-speakers
Also, while I'm not crazy enough to try mixing organisational duties
and speaking duties like I did last year I do have a few things I'd
like to hear about if anyone's interested in stepping up to the mic:
* MacRuby (might be a nice addition / follow up to a RubyCocoa talk)
* Rack - Dan Webb did "8 Minutes on Rack" last year when Rack was just
getting some love, now Ruby web development is all about Rack so
there's got to be some really interesting stuff here that someone
could talk about. Even if it's just "Here's a bunch of Rack
middleware I find invaluable day-to-day".
* Key value stores - Redis, Tokyo Cabinet, CouchDB, Soup et al. So,
again there was a talk about this last year (Jonathan Conway) when
people were just sniffing around non-relation stores, but now they're
more common would someone care to give me some actual reasons why I'd
throw away all that SQL knowledge I have? (Something based on this:
http://www.paperplanes.de/2009/10/29/when_to_redis.html perhaps?)
* Cucumber - it's the big thing don't you know? But it's still pretty
immature and just waiting for someone to throw some common patterns
for step definition or style guides for writing features at it.
Anyone have any thoughts on that? Also, there's something of a trend
to move to *only* test via cucumber, is this a good thing?
* Day to day ruby - I know a bunch of ruby, but how can I leverage
that in my day to day shell usage instead of just writing boring web
applications? Anyone got neat little scripts they use for various
shell-like things? Like a dotfiles show and tell perhaps?
Now, what do you think?
Muz
Roland Swingler
- The move from treetop to ragel with the gherkin parser - the ragel
documentation has always seemed pretty difficult to get into for me
- The wire protocol to allow cucumber testing of any language - not
sure how far along this is.
Maybe @mattwynne would be willing to talk about these?
Joseph Wilk
new things in Cucumber. I'm one of the Cuke dev team and one of the
London subset along with Matt.
Even better if Matt can make it we could combine our minds and see
what comes out.
WDYT Matt, everyone?
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Joseph Wilk
http://blog.josephwilk.net
mob: 07812 816431
Matt Wynne
- I'll speak to the Boss and see if she'd be okay for me to disappear
to the Manor for the day.
cheers,
Matt