Re: [NWRUG] Alternatives to Devise

2024-08-23 Thread Ian Moss
I'd not heard of Zansibar, but just found this gem. Looks worthy of a play: https://github.com/jaredonline/google-authenticator -- Ian Moss alter.is | ruby & product consultancy services. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris - Original message - From: Darren Jones To: nwru

Re: [NWRUG] Hotwire v React

2024-04-24 Thread Ian Moss
ing to make the Sarejevo or Romania Rails conferences later in the year. -- Ian Moss alter.is | ruby & product consultancy services. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris http://twitter.com/alterisian - Original message - From: DAZ To: "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)"

Re: [NWRUG] Getting Into Rails Development

2024-04-20 Thread Ian Moss
Hey, I would definitely seek out ways to work in teams with others. It's non-trivial to find such aspects, and lets-just-say some ruby devs are a bit intimidating (not always deliberately), but working in a team is soo different to working solo. Often much more fun too :) The recent NWRUG mee

Re: [NWRUG] February 15th 2024 Meeting Details

2024-02-13 Thread Ian Moss
more details. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss alter.is | ruby & product consultancy services. http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris http://twitter.com/alterisian - Original message - From: "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" To: "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" Subje

Re: [NWRUG] August NWRUG: The secret to happy queues

2023-08-15 Thread Ian Moss
ub.io/helloworld/ I will be in town Wednesday (tomorrow) and Thursday, perhaps you have a space where we can cowork together? (Wednesday I will go to the university science park after for a gig at the Abby.) Looking forwards, Ian. -- Ian Moss alter.is | ruby & product consultancy servi

[NWRUG] RIP

2022-12-08 Thread Ian Moss
sad news :( https://tenderlovemaking.com/2022/12/07/in-memory-of-a-giant.html -- Ian Moss http://twitter.com/alterisian -- 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

Re: [NWRUG] Ash Moran?

2022-03-09 Thread Ian Moss
Hmm. Trying to think where the last infrequent message was from. I think it was when I realised I'd lost the bitcoin he gave out, and that pint was now worth 3k. LOL. Think it was email, rather than twitter. Imagine he's doing rather well for himself wherever he is. With luck :) :) -

Re: [NWRUG] NWRUG - December Social

2019-12-12 Thread Ian Moss
come messages from those keeping in touch personally or professional :) -- Ian Moss alter.is | ruby & product consultancy services. Arrange a meeting? https://calendly.com/alterisian http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris | +447427242195 http://twitter.com/alterisian - Original message --

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday 16th - Saving Money and Reducing Risk with Immutable EC2 Spot Instances

2019-05-10 Thread Ian Moss
Sounds interesting. I hadn't a clue what it was, so found this Martin Fowler blog on it: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html Hallo from Berlin btw. -- Ian Moss alter.is | ruby & product consultancy services. Arrange a meeting? https://calendly.com/alteris

Re: [NWRUG] Tonight: Lightning talks! ⚡️

2019-02-26 Thread Ian Moss
to the main European platform, on_ruby at https://andalucia.onruby.eu/ Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss alter.is: ruby & product consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/alterisian // http://twitter.com/alterisian // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // +447427242195

Re: [NWRUG] NWRUG tomorrow!

2018-12-20 Thread Ian Moss
Merry Christmas from Málaga :) Hope you have a great meetup tonight. Miss you guys!! If you're in the area do check out https://www.meetup.com/malaga-rb/ which I've maaged to reboot. 3rd meetup will be January 17th. Wish me luck!! -- Ian Moss Freelance ruby & product consul

Re: [NWRUG] Co-working in Manchester

2018-09-25 Thread Ian Moss
ts & coworking), then I'll be there from the beginning of November. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss Freelance ruby & product consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/alterisian //  http://twitter.com/alterisian // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // +447427242195 --

Re: [NWRUG] Talk suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread Ian Moss
reas maybe worthwhile was the thinking. Probably harder to find presenters than talk ideas, as obviously it's not for everyone. Anyways, hope it goes well, and will coincide a vist back with NWRUG at some point :) Keep on, keeping on :) -- Ian Moss Freelance ruby & product consulta

Re: [NWRUG] Talk suggestions

2018-07-18 Thread Ian Moss
Mock/Stubs in rspec. Causing me pain at the moment - updating a ruby/sinatra inherited project. So maybe it's something that others experience, and would learn from a talk in that area. -- Ian Moss Freelance ruby & product consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://cal

Re: [NWRUG] Tax Advice

2018-04-13 Thread Ian Moss
works out. -- Ian Moss Freelance ruby & product consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/alterisian // http://twitter.com/alterisian // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // +447427242195 - Original message - From: Mark van Harmelen To: nwrug-members@googlegrou

Re: [NWRUG] Social meet tomorrow

2018-02-15 Thread Ian Moss
u have any introductions to people over there that you could offer I'd be very appreciative of them. See you soon, Ian. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanicianhttp://twitter.com/alterisIan // http://alteris.co.uk // http://www.linkedin

Re: [NWRUG] Re: This is a bit embarrassing...

2018-02-06 Thread Ian Moss
for this? Only 1 coffee in to the day, so unsure. I'm available to help team-based projects on a freelance basis at the moment. Let me know if that's you? Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee?  https://calendly.com/oceanician http://twitt

Re: [NWRUG] January meet this Thursday

2018-01-18 Thread Ian Moss
Hi, I'm coworking in Nexus today - probably on JavaScript but, welcome to join the group, and head to nwrug together later on. Just give me a yell :) -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanicianhttp://twitter.com/oceanician //

Re: [NWRUG] [JOBS] Roles at mySociety working on the Democratic Commons (remote)

2017-12-06 Thread Ian Moss
Would happily share such a role with you if can colocate a couple of days a week... -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanicianhttp://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // +447427242195 - Original message

Re: [NWRUG] Re: This Thursday: Approaches & Techniques for Harmonious Mob Programming

2017-10-19 Thread Ian Moss
vated in doing so. Get in touch, or even better come and have a chat this evening. See you later :) Ian -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanicianhttp://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // +447427242195 - Ori

Re: [NWRUG] Gilded Rose Kata, 7pm MadLab

2017-07-23 Thread Ian Moss
the appropriate place to start if you didn't make it? https://github.com/NotMyself/GildedRose Cheers and have a great weekend, Ian. p.s. currently looking for tech oppurtunities. Would be great to chat more if you have some paid work. Thanks. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Mee

Re: [NWRUG] Ruboats

2017-04-21 Thread Ian Moss
o, on topic wise, if you need any ruby help, I'm available. (or PM, startup advice). Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanician http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // 07790450877 https://www.fa

[NWRUG] Fwd: [xp-manchester] Event THIS Wednesday

2016-11-15 Thread Ian Moss
Shall be attending this. Would be great to see other rubyists there. Perhaps we can have a go at creating a ruby dev 'mob' sometime after :) -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanician http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linke

Re: [NWRUG] 10th Anniversary Pub Quiz

2016-09-15 Thread Ian Moss
nge for help on projects such as http://facebook.com/comadio / http://comad.io or Happy 10th Birthday NWRUG. Here's to the next x years :) :) See you tonight, Ian. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanician http://twitter.co

Re: [NWRUG] Internationalisation of string operations in rails.

2016-08-12 Thread Ian Moss
amazing. Thanks for that, Chris. Cheers to Francis, Matt, Sean, Will, Chris and anyone else who checked out https://www.facebook.com/UkToMEPsConnect/ Ian. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanician http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.lin

[NWRUG] Internationalisation of string operations in rails.

2016-08-10 Thread Ian Moss
Francesc GambÚs P.s. the project welcomes help and is on github at: https://github.com/alterisian/mep_contact/ and discussion at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/projectremain/permalink/842346405899747/ -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/

[NWRUG] Fwd: [New post] #xpman 73 – Lightning Talks

2016-06-23 Thread Ian Moss
Everyone loves lightning talks. XP Manchester is language agnostic, and very welcoming. May appeal to others in NWRUG :) Come along on Thursday 14th July. Free sign up link in the email forwarded from their list below. -- Ian Moss CTO-level consultancy services. Meet for a coffee? https

Re: [NWRUG] An idea....

2016-06-01 Thread Ian Moss
I'll look into that. It says anyone can join :/ Here's the manual invite link: https://trello.com/invite/b/ifgYxjmy/9aa77d164483b086f51cdd038e6932cd/nwrug-community Hopefully that'll do the job in the meantime. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing you

[NWRUG] An idea....

2016-06-01 Thread Ian Moss
heers and thanks a bunch to the current organisers, Ben and Tekin, for keeping the meetups going. Ian. -- Ian Moss CTO level consultancy & ruby specialist, available from June. Meet for a coffee? https://calendly.com/oceanician http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/al

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday's meet - TDD Your Own Test Framework

2016-02-16 Thread Ian Moss
Hey, Sounds like a great event. Well done Mark & Tekin for putting that together. I look forward to hearing a about the nwrug-test gem :) In that London working for a startup that day. Hope there's lots of tweets on #nwrug to follow it remotely. Have a lot of fun everyone :) Ian

Re: [NWRUG] Conferences

2016-01-15 Thread Ian Moss
Debating Launch festival in SF at the end of Feb: http://www.launch.co/ Jason Carson organised. Ruby wise, currently watching: Aaron Patterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGmaRZtgM8 -- Ian Moss http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // 07790450877

Re: [NWRUG] What have you found interesting in ruby this week...

2015-10-30 Thread Ian Moss
oks like it’s coming to a future version of Ruby. > On 30 Oct 2015, at 09:55, Ian Moss wrote: > > Hey, > > I thought it'd be great to know what my fellow Manchester rubyists > have found interesting this week... > > For me, I did the standard 'JSON parsing is eas

[NWRUG] What have you found interesting in ruby this week...

2015-10-30 Thread Ian Moss
the list, as there are working with ruby regularly. Looking forward to seeing you all at the next meetup, Ian. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // 077

[NWRUG] What's new in Rails 5...

2015-09-25 Thread Ian Moss
http://blog.michelada.io/whats-new-in-rails-5 A good write up I thought. Sounds like it'll come out later this year / early 2016. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linked

Re: [NWRUG] NHS Hack Day Manchester??? sept/oct 2015

2015-05-18 Thread Ian Moss
Sounds like a great idea to have a themed hackday. Really active Health community with http://www.meetup.com/Health-2-0-Manchester/ Recently they've been running Service Design workshops that would be a really good precursor to any future hackday. I'm sure Vim (spaceport) and the Service Design te

Re: [NWRUG] Ember JS

2015-04-23 Thread Ian Moss
Anyone using React and RoR? Would be really handy to get an intro :) Perhaps that'd even be a great talk at NWRUG? -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/i

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Rails hacker looking to move up North (Manchester)

2015-02-13 Thread Ian Moss
Look forward to meeting you Ryan. Ultimately, we're all learning something :) Seems to be a convention on LRUG of prefixing a recruitment related post with [JOBS] (Though on a quick scan through my LRUG folder I see [JOB] also occurs.) So, that'd be filterable outable if people would like to do s

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Rails hacker looking to move up North (Manchester)

2015-02-13 Thread Ian Moss
y I think we can just link them to this informative video Ian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 13 February 2015 at 10:20, Ian Moss wrote: > __ > Is there a blog post / section on the website about how recruiters can &g

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Rails hacker looking to move up North (Manchester)

2015-02-13 Thread Ian Moss
Is there a blog post / section on the website about how recruiters can best engage the group? Or get involved with sponsorship etc. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://startupdigest

Re: [NWRUG] Junior Developer looking at opportunities

2015-01-21 Thread Ian Moss
+1 - Original message - From: "Matthew Valentine-House" To: nwrug-members@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [NWRUG] Junior Developer looking at opportunities Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:54:47 + > and as a programmer the repos are your best CV No. https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-g

Re: [NWRUG] Social tomorrow, usual time, usual place...

2015-01-15 Thread Ian Moss
with a prototype. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris // 07790450877 - Original message - Subject: [NWRUG] Social tomorrow, usual tim

Re: [NWRUG] Jumpers at the ready!

2014-12-18 Thread Ian Moss
Can't make it unfortunately, but hope everyone has a great xmas break & the jumper fest goes well :) Currently enjoying doing some prototyping work after last weeks email, so pretty happy this list exists. Look forward to working with you all in 2015. -- Ian Moss http://196destina

[NWRUG] [AVAILABILITY] Experienced ruby developer has availability

2014-12-13 Thread Ian Moss
g fruit cleared so you can concentrate on bigger problems. Please email me off-list or feel free to give me a call. Merry Christmas, Ian. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceanician // http://startupdi

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Which companies are doing Ruby/Rails in Manchester and the North West?

2014-08-05 Thread Ian Moss
capture what was posted. Left for the appropriate people if they want to change their name to email address. There's a seperate tab if people want to list themselves as available for permie/freelance etc. Hth, Ian. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helpin

Re: [NWRUG] Which companies are doing Ruby/Rails in Manchester and the North West?

2014-08-04 Thread Ian Moss
[1]http://196Destinations.com - a bucket list travel company that's looking for ruby & front end devs on an equity basis. [2]https://next.fatsoma.com - a social ticketing startup with investment [3]http://care.malinkoapp.com/ ([4]http://www.malinkoapp.com/ - a scheduling startup with investme

Re: [NWRUG] Greetings from Japan

2014-07-24 Thread Ian Moss
s to repay. Guess team jobs in Manchester, are different to solo remote (team) work as well, where presumably if you're top 5% and like actually working at home or without the office distractions, you could compete with the very best in SF/NYC/London. So maybe even £100k permie is possible fo

Re: [NWRUG] 15th May (Thursday)

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Moss
, as I found it motivated to test more, and I found I had less code to debug :) I'm aware that I'm probably the only person bar perhaps Ash that this may apply to. -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://t

Re: [NWRUG] 15th May (Thursday)

2014-05-15 Thread Ian Moss
Just seen this great mini-talk from Scot Ruby: [1]http://codon.com/the-dhh-problem Have you seen any other more detailed talks that have made it online yet? -- Ian Moss http://196destinations.com - capturing your travel dreams & helping you get on the plane! http://twitter.com/oceani

Re: [NWRUG] Great to meet you last week

2014-04-16 Thread Ian Moss
. Great that they've chosen to get involved in helping with events in this way :) -- Ian Moss http://196Destinations.com - live your travel dreams! - Original message - From: Ash Moran To: "nwrug-members@googlegroups.com" Subject: Re: [NWRUG] Great to meet you last wee

Re: [NWRUG] The Skinny (Music/Culture Magazine) looking for RoR Developer

2014-04-13 Thread Ian Moss
er what you felt was good & perhaps summarise what you learnt, with examples of how you applied it. Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend, and hope to see a few people on Thursday for Slaw's talk. -- Ian Moss - http://196Destinations.com live your travel dreams - http://twitter.

Re: [NWRUG] The Skinny (Music/Culture Magazine) looking for RoR Developer

2014-04-09 Thread Ian Moss
I think that's the onsite in London for GDS gig inclusive of expenses though right? Not onsite in Manchester, where we're lacking in investors / capital to fork out such rates. Be great if there were though. Would be lovely in fact :) Would be lovely if there were PM + Ruby dev gigs paying simila

Re: [NWRUG] The Skinny (Music/Culture Magazine) looking for RoR Developer

2014-04-09 Thread Ian Moss
nment. Anyone else up for joining forces for such an endevour? I think the main risk at those salary levels is companies not being able to get a return on their investment in the medium term, and picking devs in other languages. which would be a shame. -- Ian Moss http://facebook.com/196Destina

Re: [NWRUG] The Skinny (Music/Culture Magazine) looking for RoR Developer

2014-04-06 Thread Ian Moss
If anyone is interested, and wants to team up as an agile /ruby team, to see if they're up for that, then please let me know. It'd probably better if you were more front-end/JS orientated than myself. Could be quite good fun if you're motivated by music, as well as code :) Cheers, Ian. -

Re: [NWRUG] NWRUG Tonight?

2014-03-20 Thread Ian Moss
Hi Ben (and all) I'm meeting a mate in The Castle (Oldham Street) - welcome along. -- Ian Moss http://facebook.com/196Destinations http://twitter.com/oceanician http://startupdigest.com/manchester http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris 07870331894 - Original message - From: Ben

Re: [NWRUG] Digest for nwrug-members@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

2014-02-13 Thread Ian Moss
p; health monitoring systems, and the work that's going on it that area. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss http://facebook.com/196Destinations http://twitter.com/oceanician http://startupdigest.com/manchester http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris - Original message - From: Marcus Baw <[1]

Re: [NWRUG] NHS Choices are looking for Senior Ruby Dev's

2014-01-22 Thread Ian Moss
Perhaps there's scope for a Manchester office Sean? - Original message - From: Sean Craig <[1]seancrai...@gmail.com> To: [2]nwrug-members@googlegroups.com Subject: [NWRUG] NHS Choices are looking for Senior Ruby Dev's Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 04:33:43 -0800 (PST) NHS Choices are loo

Re: [NWRUG] Meetup this month?

2014-01-16 Thread Ian Moss
In for a penny. In for a pound. A man's got to eat. A common burger could be the answer. See you for half 6. -- Ian Moss [1]http://196Destinations.com - travel to more of the places you're dreaming about! [2]http://facebook.com/196Destinations http://twitter.com/ocean

Re: [NWRUG] Meetup this month?

2014-01-14 Thread Ian Moss
a diverse crowd :) Will be good to see everyone. Especially if you're looking to join a new ruby team this year - see: [1]https://medium.com/p/df2473826ea Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Moss [2]http://196Destinations.com - helping you travel as much as you aspire to. [3]http://facebook.com/1

[NWRUG] Team-orientated Ruby developer colleagues wanted in Manchester

2014-01-02 Thread Ian Moss
work colleague: [1]https://medium.com/p/df2473826ea If you like working as a co-located team, the contact details are at the end of the blog. Many thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR :) Ian. -- Ian Moss http://facebook.com/196Destinations http://twitter.com/oceanician http://startupdigest.com/manchester

Re: [NWRUG] a ruby drop in for students

2013-11-19 Thread Ian Moss
or > >> > vegetarians, should you be one. > >> > > >> > its here > >> > > >> > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Manchester_Kilburn_Building.jpg > >> > > >> > If you manage to get out the house

Re: [NWRUG] [JOBS] London gig at Livestation.com

2013-09-26 Thread Ian Moss
bloody southerners ;) On Thu, Sep 26, 2013, at 01:47 PM, Paul Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a heads up on this in case any of you are trying to find a gig down > here in the big smoke (*cough, cough*, real pea souper, etc.), that I'm > currently hiring for a range of roles including develope

Re: [NWRUG] Understanding Computation 50% off today

2013-09-14 Thread Ian Moss
same On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Ash Moran wrote: > I got excited until I saw it was ebook-only. Am I the last remaining > luddite who will only read books on paper? > > On 13 Sep 2013, at 15:30, Tekin Suleyman wrote: > > > > > Just thought I'd share this - O'Reilly have a sale on for t

Re: [NWRUG] In search of Robin

2013-09-09 Thread Ian Moss
http://infonomics.ltd.uk/about ? On Mon, Sep 9, 2013, at 09:09 AM, Will Jessop wrote: > On 8 September 2013 20:54, Ash Moran wrote: > > There's an occasional member of NWRUG called Robin who I've seen at a few > > of the meetups and in Takk fairly frequently. He asked me to find > > somebody's

Testing CSV generation from ActiveAdmin with TestUnit( was Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word)

2013-07-18 Thread Ian Moss
Cheers Graham. This is brilliant. Many thanks for taking the time for a comprehensive reply :) Exactly what you say on the rigidity of the test. That it's a CSV and has a certain number of rows should suffice right now. Hopefully this is another hurdle knocked out of the way towards keeping goo

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-18 Thread Ian Moss
Cheers Tekin. I'll see if I can find an example for that after lunch. For everyone, give that testing is often quite tricky, what do you find the best source of examples of tests outside your own codebase? Maybe this is something that we as a local community can improve? > Could you not write a f

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-18 Thread Ian Moss
> > I've a ActiveAdmin CSV created file that I want to write a TestUnit > > assertion to check that it exists, and then count how many rows are in > > it. Then check that their a number of rows - 1 emails sent. Yay, I can > > do the emails bit, but the first bit I'm struggling with. > > I've reall

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-18 Thread Ian Moss
> the purpose of testing, talking of testing. I've a ActiveAdmin CSV created file that I want to write a TestUnit assertion to check that it exists, and then count how many rows are in it. Then check that their a number of rows - 1 emails sent. Yay, I can do the emails bit, but the first bit

Re: [NWRUG] Creating a Hackday for a commercial company.

2013-07-03 Thread Ian Moss
One possible approach: -Abstract the current application's entity relationships. -Ensure that there's very good test coverage on the old system. Port the tests to the 'rails world'. -Consider splitting up the revised app into various services. This way if small bits can be ported at a time. -Reb

[NWRUG] Unsure if this has been mentioned on NWRUG - Martin Fowler is in Manchester

2013-06-18 Thread Ian Moss
Should appeal if you're into TDD / the bigger picture / idolising one of the pioneers in Software Development :) http://info.thoughtworks.com/An_evening_with_Martin_Fowler_25June2013.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolvanJZKXonjHpfsX57OskUaWxlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CT8FiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFS7nMMbFk37gPUhA%3D

Re: [NWRUG] Poll: Do developers go beyond their jobs?

2013-06-18 Thread Ian Moss
Try a Ruby or Rails related topic and see what happens :) How about - what new (to you) gems have you been using recently? When you think of rails 4, do you think 'Oh cripes really!' or 'whopeee, they'll probably change everything again - haml, coffeescript etc' Ian (the old man, who likes

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Thursday Meetup - 16th May - Nils - what are your Options?

2013-05-10 Thread Ian Moss
Added it to Startup Digest matey. On Fri, May 10, 2013, at 02:33 PM, Will Jessop wrote: Could someone forward this to Geekup (I don't seem to be able to post there), and any other lists that might have programmers in them? Always good to increase our audience. Will. On Friday, May

Re: [NWRUG] Paymill

2013-03-14 Thread Ian Moss
I got accepted for the Stripe UK beta last week. Think they've a bit of a backlog in getting keys out, but it does seem like a really good payment service. Anyone actually integrated a payment solution using them stateside? Cheers, Ian [1]http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris On Thu, Mar 14,

Re: [NWRUG] Recommended Ruby Conferences

2013-03-04 Thread Ian Moss
http://rubymanor.org/ shall be good in London in April. I'd got to http://www.railsberry.com if I could afford a second trip. Looks like they've managed to get a good & diverse line-up, and it's in a great city to visit by all accounts. Believe Slaw and Tekin went last year - unsure if they did a

Re: [NWRUG] Job and recruitment emails

2013-01-26 Thread Ian Moss
/ On Saturday, 26 January 2013 at 13:35, Ian Moss wrote: [2]http://www.havaslynx.com/careers/ healthcare + manchester seems who it was? Couldn't get passed HR at Creative Lynx. On Sat, Jan 26, 2013, at 01:31 PM, Ric Roberts wrote: Havas 'Creative' Lynx have been doing Ruby and Ra

Re: [NWRUG] Job and recruitment emails

2013-01-26 Thread Ian Moss
uary 2013 at 13:27, Ian Moss wrote: Maybe it's fun to defeat them, and guess who it is collectively. Good service there Will. I've never heard of them. Only has a .net position on their careers page. I'll get in touch, and see if they'd consider a couple of freelancers. Any oth

Re: [NWRUG] Job and recruitment emails

2013-01-26 Thread Ian Moss
Maybe it's fun to defeat them, and guess who it is collectively. Good service there Will. I've never heard of them. Only has a .net position on their careers page. I'll get in touch, and see if they'd consider a couple of freelancers. Any other freelancers prefer working in co-located teams? Any

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby Manor

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Moss
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013, at 03:55 PM, Paul Robinson wrote: > On 22 Jan 2013, at 15:26, Will Jessop wrote: > > > I'll be happy to come out for a beer or three. Last time I was in > > London I spectacularly failed to find any decent beer. A local sounds > > like just the ticket ;)> > > Top tips fo

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Ruby Manor

2013-01-22 Thread Ian Moss
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013, at 04:26 PM, James Adam wrote: On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:15:36 UTC, Tekin Suleyman wrote: Tickets are now on sale: [1]http://lanyrd.com/2013/ruby-manor/ Since you've started to talk about travel, I thought it would be worth mentioning that we're hoping to organ

Re: [NWRUG] Do no let @willj carry you out of the pub on his shoulder

2013-01-17 Thread Ian Moss
hehe it was good to bump into everyone in NTP yesterday. I had a couple of pints in Waterhouse in the end, then went off to watch Life of Pi. (Great film - no knowledge of the book required :) Do the vulnerability talk Adam. Maybe that can be the pre-rug workshop theme for the next couple of mon

Re: [NWRUG] 16th August - An Introduction to Varnish

2012-08-10 Thread Ian Moss
I'll probably be in the Classroom that day then. Can probably sign one of you in, but it's free to register - which you might have time to do beforehand. You have to get an induction and show id, before they give you a fob, but after that it's free 9-5. Occasionally a couple of Ruby devs there. htt