Re: [NWRUG] Thursday 19 August: The future shape of Ruby

2021-08-18 Thread Tekin Süleyman
Hi folks, Reminder that this is happening online tomorrow evening at 6:45pm. Sign up details over here: https://nwrug.org/events/august-2021-the-future-shape-of-ruby > On 13 Aug 2021, at 11:05, Tekin Süleyman wrote: > > Hi

[NWRUG] Thursday 19 August: The future shape of Ruby

2021-08-13 Thread Tekin Süleyman
Hi folks, We’re pausing the pause for this month as our fellow Rubyist Chris Seaton has stepped forward to give a talk for us next Thursday: The future shape of Ruby. TruffleRuby uses an optimisation called object shapes to optimise Ruby. It automatically learns and understands the layout and

[NWRUG] Thursday July 16th Cancelled

2020-07-14 Thread Brandon Burton
Good evening everyone, Unfortunately we're going to have to cancel this month's meetup as we're unable to find a speaker. We also don't have a good way to run a coding exercise remotely that's engaging for everyone. On that note! If you're looking to give a talk for the first or the fiftieth

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday 15th - The Why And How Of Upgrading Your Rails App

2019-08-14 Thread Brandon Burton
Just a reminder, NWRUG is tomorrow night. Looking forward to seeing you all there! On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:18 PM Brandon Burton < brandon.anthony.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good evening everyone, > > NWRUG is back this month with a talk by our very own Will Jessop! Will is > going to be

[NWRUG] Thursday 15th - The Why And How Of Upgrading Your Rails App

2019-08-12 Thread Brandon Burton
Good evening everyone, NWRUG is back this month with a talk by our very own Will Jessop! Will is going to be talking to us about upgrading large rails applications, the costs of failing to do so, as well as some techniques for tackling this challenge. More details on the site:

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday June 20th - A Test Driven Coding Challenge

2019-06-19 Thread Brandon Burton
P.S. Doors at 6:30 folks! On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:16 PM Brandon Burton < brandon.anthony.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a reminder that tomorrow night we'll be furiously shaking our fists > at test errors starting at 7:00pm > > See you there, > Brandon > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:04 PM

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday June 20th - A Test Driven Coding Challenge

2019-06-19 Thread Brandon Burton
Just a reminder that tomorrow night we'll be furiously shaking our fists at test errors starting at 7:00pm See you there, Brandon On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:04 PM Brandon Burton < brandon.anthony.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good afternoon everyone, > > This month we'll be running a coding

[NWRUG] Thursday June 20th - A Test Driven Coding Challenge

2019-06-17 Thread Brandon Burton
Good afternoon everyone, This month we'll be running a coding challenge, of sorts. We'll clone a copy of the Rake repo and remove the FileList class, run the tests and see what fails, then try to reimplement the FileList class from scratch using only the tests as a guide. Join us on Thursday if

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

2019-05-10 Thread Ian Moss
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alteris | +447427242195 http://twitter.com/alterisian - Original message - From: "Tekin Süleyman" To: NWRUG Group Subject: [NWRUG] Thursday 16th - Saving Money and Reducing Risk with Immutable EC2 Spot Instances Date: Friday, 10 May 2019 12:35 Hi folks,

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

2019-05-10 Thread Tekin Süleyman
Hi folks, It’s that time again, NWRUG’s back with a talk from James Ridgeway. James will be showing us the benefits of using immutable servers as part of an immutable infrastructure to deploy our Rails applications. We’ll be there from 6:30pm with food and drinks kindly provided by our hosts

[NWRUG] Thursday 21st March: C – Ruby's Foreign Function Interface

2019-03-11 Thread Tekin Süleyman
At next week’s NWRUG, Sean Handley be giving us a talk all about writing Ruby code that leverages the power of lower-level languages like C: We all love Ruby for its expressiveness. It's perfect for high-level domain modelling and its rich syntax allows us to build complex applications that

[NWRUG] Thursday January 17th: Talk Double Header

2019-01-04 Thread Tekin Süleyman
Happy New Year Folks! My apologies but I have to start with some sad news. After almost 8 years of being the home for our and countless other meetups, MadLab is taking a break from hosting community events. I believe the impact that MadLab has had on the local tech community is often

[NWRUG] Thursday May 17th: Lightning Talks Take 2

2018-05-05 Thread Tekin Suleyman
Hi folks, Apologies again for the last minute cancellation of our lightning talks event last month. The good news is you now have a second crack at the whip to give a lightning talk at NWRUG! If you don’t know what a lightning talk is, it’s a short (2 to 10 minute) talk on any topic that

[NWRUG] Thursday 21st: "Faster Than Lightning" Talks

2017-09-15 Thread Tekin Suleyman
Hi folks, This Thursday we’re not at MadLab, we're at the MadFabLab , which is a couple doors down from MadLab. This month we’ll be doing ‘Faster than Lightning’ talks. What are ‘Faster than Lightning’ talks I hear you ask? Well they’re an idea borrowed from the

[NWRUG] Thursday

2011-05-17 Thread Will Jessop
There is a meeting as usual, just not sure where it will be. If we can find somewhere we will have Adam Holt talking on Coffeescript. If not it will be a social meeting. Anyone got any suggestions for where we can meet? We'd need somewhere relatively quiet with a projector. Will. -- You

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 17 May 2011, at 13:41, Will Jessop wrote: Anyone got any suggestions for where we can meet? We'd need somewhere relatively quiet with a projector. MadLab? If not, if you contact the Lass O'Gowrie and tell Gareth I sent you, he might hand over the Salmon room upstairs in there for free -

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday

2011-05-17 Thread Will Jessop
MadLab isn't available on Thursday. It was one of the main advantages of the BBC, that we had the room pretty much guaranteed every third Thursday. Something we don't get with MadLab. I think it's maybe a bit late to arrange the talk now, might consider them in the the Lass O'Gowrie in the future

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 17 May 2011, at 17:36, Will Jessop wrote: I think it's maybe a bit late to arrange the talk now, might consider them in the the Lass O'Gowrie in the future though. Gareth is very accommodating, and he did say that for anything I gave a hat tip to as being geek and crowd that likes beer,

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Thursday 19th March - Search in your App. - Venue change

2009-03-17 Thread Tekin Suleyman
On 17 Mar 2009, at 13:50, Will Jessop wrote: The next NWRUG is this Thursday, we have three talks on search + free pizzas (and maybe T-shirts too) sponsored by Brightbox, more details: http://nwrug.org/events/march09/ Please note however, there is a change of venue, we will now be at the

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Thursday 19th March - Search in your App. - Venue change

2009-03-17 Thread Ashley Moran
On 17 Mar 2009, at 13:50, Will Jessop wrote: The next NWRUG is this Thursday, we have three talks on search + free pizzas (and maybe T-shirts too) sponsored by Brightbox, more details: http://nwrug.org/events/march09/ Damn you for making NWRUG unmissable when I have to miss it! --