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Javascript Stories
Featuring Rob Holland
The talk will cover how to use capybara with cucumber to easily write and run stories including javascript functionality.
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Domain Driven Design
Featuring Alex Young
Alex Young is going to talk about DDD. Chances are his talk will be based on a comment he made on the mailing list:
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Drunken Build Monkey
Featuring Julian Simpson
For quite some time, system admins have had to develop their own scripts and tools to assist in automating common tasks such as configuration management and system updates. But as networks scale and reach outside their firewall, custom tools become another serious issue to handle.
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Is Your Sysadmin Dumber Than a Hamster?
Featuring John Arundel
In this talk, John speaks about Puppet and Chef covering some or more of the following topics: "Why aren't sysadmins as smart as developers?", "How do you build 100 servers in a day?", "How to automate the dumb stuff"...
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Thinking functionally in ruby
Featuring Tom Stuart
During our last meeting, Tom was surprised by how many people (both Ruby newbies and "Rails not Ruby" programmers) were asking questions about Enumerable, e.g. what map/inject/zip etc do.
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A trio of gems
Featuring Brent Snook
Brent offered to talk about one or more of the following three gems he's been working on:
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Coding Dojo
Featuring Ivan Sanchez and Matt Wynne
The Dojo starts with the definition of a problem to be worked on. It'll be something relatively simple, but with enough scope for plenty of interesting choices to be made about the design. We'll have one laptop connected to a projector and two developers will pair on it to iterate towards...
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Ruby+Arduino
Featuring Tomasz Wegrzanowski
Tomasz demonstrates how ruby can be used with arduino, stating that this is achieved not directly with ruby code, but it also requires a C++ driver that delivers the required data from the arduino hardware.
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Do Mix Your Drinks
Featuring Tom Stuart
Tom talks on the possiblities and advantages of abstract algebra in the ruby language. In a mathematical way he explains the thoery of abstract algebra with logical conclusions.
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2 apps, 1 test : Distributed ruby testing
Featuring Tom Lea
Tom Lea has a distributed testing framework called Drunit that he's going to tell us about.
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DSL or a code smell...
Featuring Abdel A. Saleh
Abdel A. Saleh recently ran a code review of a DSL he was writing at work. He's going to let us know what he learned from that experience . . .
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RDF in Rails
Featuring Patrick Sinclair
Patrick Sinclair will be talking about publishing RDF from Rails and getting the community to participate in Linked Data.
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Implementing Scheme in Ruby
Featuring James Coglan
James Coglan is writing a Scheme interpreter in Ruby.
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Ruby FFI
Featuring Sean O'Halpin
Sean O'Halpin will be talking about Ruby FFI, probably using his FFI-ncurses gem to provide some examples.
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A Modular Approach to Views
Featuring Jon Gilbraith
Jon Gilbraith is not keen on HTML as he finds it takes the joy out of programming and it also seems unsightly. Alternatives like Haml are a nice improvement, but with Haml things still get untidy once the logic is laid out
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Using Geokit in Social Apps
Featuring Paul Jensen
Geokit is a RubyGem and Rails plugin with a wrapper interface to various geocoding providers and supports geocoding addresses, latitude/longitude coordinates and IP addresses. Amongst several other things, Geokit also calculates distances between two points and the mid-point between them
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Ruby Invoicing Framework Gem
Featuring Martin Kleppmann
Martin Kleppmann recently released his Ruby invoicing gem version 0.2. For a general commercial invoicing application one might start with . . .
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Slim - the future of FitNesse
Featuring Gojko Adzic
SliM (Simple List Invocation Method) is a new test runner that does not have dependency on FIT. It promises to bring more compatibility and easier platform porting. Instead of running all the HTML processing, comparisons, and colorizing in the System Under Test (SUT), SliM keeps all that...
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