Just to be clear: I mean this to be in addition to not instead of the ruby group. Some names that come to mind:
* XUG (where X is something that is technical and can be used) * The Sesame Street Generation * Software Dilettantes * Newbies Anonymous On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Mark Ryall <[email protected]> wrote: > For a while, i've been thinking of trying to kick off a more nebulous user > group in Melbourne that has a much less specific technical focus - kind of > like a monthly barcamp with lightning talks only (maximum 15 minutes). > It seems inevitable that any programming language based user group will > turn into something like a cutlery user group: there's a limit to the amount > of momentum that can be maintained in discussions of how many tines a fork > should optimally have or whether splayds should ever be taken seriously. > > In addition to the sort of technical interests that directly relate to the > work I do (ruby, java or .net mostly) i've also been getting into erlang, > scala (and lift), f#, clojure (and compojure), haskell, functional > programming generally and too many others to mention. Most conversations at > the ruby group over pizza seem to revolve around these other more esoteric > interests. It takes an enormous amount of time to research these things > myself so i'd love to be able to attend regular (short, focused) > presentations that save me some time. > > Also, the storm that immediately started brewing when Daniel mentioned his > opinion on testing clearly indicated that we all have very different (and > passionately held) beliefs on technical practices. Many people replied on > this thread saying that they'd like to talk about how to do BDD. > > I was a little disappointed when the melbourne ruby user group morphed into > rails oceania. Losing the parochialism was a great idea but mentioning > rails in the group name seems a little overly specific for my liking (maybe > only 50% of our presentations relate to rails). > > What does everyone think? Anyone else a dilettante like me? > > Mark. > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Dave Goddard <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I would be very keen on a talk about testing >> >> On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Daniel N <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hey Guys, >> > >> > Thanx for letting me blah on a bit last night. It was good to get >> > some of that info out there. >> > >> > Just a couple of things I wanted to follow up on. >> > >> > After talking to some folks after the presentation I realised I >> > misrepresented myself a bit when talking about changing methods >> > marked for private api use. When I say I change then it's not that >> > I'm doing it maliciously to break ppls code. Rather that I just >> > don't regard the private api. It's internal to the system that I'm >> > making and if I need / want to change it for some reason then I >> > will. If that's an restructure or just because I don't like the >> > name, or if I want to change the behavior of that "private" method, >> > then I will. I don't hold any regard and I expect that ppl will not >> > use a method marked private. It's very liberating :) >> > >> > The other is specs. I made some very bold statements about specing >> > without really justifying them. They're my opinion, and not mine >> > alone. I realise that specing is somewhat of a religious topic >> > though so I'd like to justify my stance a bit if ppl are up for it. >> > I'd like to do a talk next month and focus on BDD. Anyone up for >> > that? >> > >> > Thanx for a good night. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Daniel >> > >> > > >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
