Hi folks, NWRUG time again. This Thursday we have two events at MadLab:
NWRUG Book Club: 99 Bottles of OOP, 6pm–7pm We’ll be talking about the first two chapters of Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen’s book 99 Bottles of OOP <https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/>. The coupon code SALUD17 will get you 40% off the book until the 13th, which is tomorrow, so grab it whilst you can! If you want to participate simply read the chapters and be at MadLab for 6pm ready for a discussion. NWRUG Talks Triple Bill, 7:15pm–9pm We have three talks this month. Cultivating Code by Ceri Shaw “The Pragmatic Programmer” first introduced me to the idea that writing software is like planting a garden. Musing on my day in the office whilst tending my plants, I realised gardening really does have a lot in common with working with legacy code. With a 10-year-old, monolithic code base that’s still being worked on, staying on top of maintenance at FreeAgent is no easy matter. In this talk I’ll share how thinking about development in terms of gardening has helped me to understand the maintenance burden. I’ll talk about how we handle routine and exceptional maintenance in the product teams at FreeAgent and share some of the techniques we use to balance maintenance with feature development. Supporting the Newcomers by Lola Odelola Many companies often struggle to support junior developers properly. I'll be sharing what has helped me progress as a junior developer. There are key things I think it necessary for juniors to properly take their careers to the next level. An Introduction to Arel by Eva Koleli The talk will be an introduction to Arel, discussing: what Arel is and when to use it; the syntactic differences from ActiveRecord; and examples of query building with Arel. NWRUG Sponsored by FreeAgent This month we’re sponsored by the good folks at FreeAgent <https://www.freeagent.com/>. Thanks to them there will food on the night and they’ve helped cover the transport and accommodation for our speakers. They’re also hiring senior operations and software engineers, both on site in their offices in Edinburgh and remote from anywhere in the UK. As always, NWRUG is open to everyone. Find out more about how to participate and our code of conduct over on the website: http://nwrug.org/participate <http://nwrug.org/participate> See you Thursday! Tekin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
