[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG last night

Thanks to Ashley for the talk on Thursday; I might now be a NWRUG regular after a really positive first experience! - Lee Hambley 2009/4/20 Ric Roberts ricisb...@googlemail.com I meant to come along, but something came up at the last minute. Sounds like it was a good night. I'll try to make

[NWRUG] Re: Altering the id that my rails models are identified by -- to_param alone not sufficient

Caius, That curious bracket syntax appeared about 2.1 I think; it's incredibly useful, especially when you get into reusing views, and have objects nested in multiple ways Does anyone know if that magic syntax has a name, and/or some documentation? - Lee Hambley _ 2009/4/28 Caius Durling ca

[NWRUG] Re: belongs_to ate my method missing?

John, YMMV reading something like the sinatra docs for using Cucumber, they're a pretty good resource; very much roll-your-own-rake-tasks though. - Lee 2009/5/19 John Jones john.jones@gmail.com No, I've not seen that one. I'm revisiting a ruby expert system I ported last year so I'll

[NWRUG] Re: I'm at NWRUG…

Laptop + Beer Wifi, not for winners. 2009/5/22 Ashley Moran ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk On 22 May 2009, at 08:32, Tekin Suleyman wrote: Good night then? Interesting one :) Will thought the mailing list needed a bit of livening up! Bit unfortunate I was the one with the laptop that

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery a nd an introduction to Zsh

Count me in... 2009/6/10 Ashley Moran ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk On 10 Jun 2009, at 22:32, Will Jessop wrote: • 6:00pm :: Welcome Pre-session bar visit. • 6:30pm :: Introduction to Zsh (http://www.zsh.org/) by Ashley Moran H... can anyone seen the weak spot in this

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery a nd an introduction to Zsh - Now with added sponsorship!

Will, Whats the plan if there's no code submitted? - Lee 2009/6/18 RicRoberts ricisb...@googlemail.com I'll be there. No really, I mean it this time (I'm in Manchester anyway this afternoon for something else) :) On Jun 17, 10:47 am, Asa Calow mothers...@asacalow.co.uk wrote: Yup I'm in

[NWRUG] Re: Code for next Thursday

Got one I could offer up for the slaughter, but since it's *so* tightly coupled to a stupid edge-case git-svn sync problem, and would be a total bitch to spec and debug, I'm a little reluctant. It has to do with syncing a bare git repository with an svn repository (one-way) so the svn-bound staff

[NWRUG] Re: Running rake as a cron job (with puts)

Good call will, hadn't really thought of it so granularly - I suppose if I don't have the cpu time and memory space to bring up a ruby thread my server is already in trouble! - Lee 2009/7/6 Will Jessop w...@willj.net On 6 Jul 2009, at 12:36, Lee Hambley wrote: Good call on lockrun, I usually

Re: [NWRUG] Random job

Cheers will, I'll get onto him on Monday. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 4 January 2013 17:53, Will Jessop w...@37signals.com wrote: Got this from someone that claims to be the CEO of a company looking for Rails devs: https://gist.github.com

Re: [NWRUG] Serious Rails Vulnerability Alert

, but it's early morning in the states, so I'm sure it'll pick up. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 9 January 2013 01:06, Tekin Suleyman te...@tekin.co.uk wrote: For those of you that aren't plugged into the usual channels, a pretty nasty vulnerability has been

Re: [NWRUG] Paymill

We're in the process of integrating, seems to do what it says on the tin right now, it's a clone of Stripe, with all the good and bad that goes with. (can't say anymore, we're still in pre-working-pre-beta phase) Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 29 January 2013

Re: [NWRUG] Re: RoR freelancer needed for a few days

. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 11 April 2013 17:40, Steve Gale s.g...@ctidigital.com wrote: Hi, I still need someone for this. Who is available and can come into our manchester office over the next couple of week. Cheers, Steve On Tuesday, March 5

Re: [NWRUG] Sharing Leads

Feel free to add me, sounds like a good shout. Cheers Ben! Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 10 May 2013 12:01, Ric Roberts ricisb...@gmail.com wrote: Good idea, Ben. I get a fair number of enquiries that I turn down too, so if you want to add me, I'll post

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

overflow rep: http://stackoverflow.com/users/119669/lee-hambley Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 11 June 2013 21:42, Josh Fox j...@fiveyearitch.com wrote: Hi all, For an article I'm writing (for Brazen Careerist/Business Insider), I'd like to ask: Do you do

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

Ruby was simply too slow. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 3 July 2013 17:40, Sean Bamforth s...@theguru.co.uk wrote: I'm talking to a company about converting a large application to Rails, and we're struggling with seeing what is possible. One option we've

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

Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 4 July 2013 14:11, Sean Bamforth s...@theguru.co.uk wrote: Your client (your firm?) would be better hiring a couple of professional consultants for one or two weeks, rather than going the thousand monkeys route. With planning

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

environments where the booking system is a dummy app that just writes log files, for example. With these well defined, isolated components in place, if you decide technology *X* is a bad idea, then it should be simple to replace it. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667

Re: [NWRUG] Bootstrapping as a Developer talk tonight

Gutted, why do NWRUGGERS never give talks at http://hamburg.onruby.de/ ;-) Have fun everyone! Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 9 July 2013 12:19, Simon Moffatt simon_moff...@warpmail.net wrote: ** Hi Tekin I can't make it tonight due to work

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

with that, feel free to grab me any time to chat about it, I can put you in touch with Christopher who wrote it. (He happens to not be in the office today, however) Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 18 July 2013 11:15, Francis Fish francis.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys

Re: [NWRUG] Overriding #send

to undefine the method itself, and rely on it's more obnoxious, double underscorred friends. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 19 July 2013 17:37, Ash Moran ash.mo...@patchspace.co.uk wrote: Hi all On the subject of overriding methods, this is something I can't decide

Re: [NWRUG] Overriding #send

instance_eval is evil. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 22 July 2013 11:26, Graham Ashton gra...@effectif.com wrote: On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:14, Francis Fish francis.f...@gmail.com wrote: with bus do tell :turn_on tell :add_leaves end

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

Thanks for sharing Paul! Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 26 September 2013 14:47, Paul Robinson p...@32moves.com 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

[NWRUG] Fwd: Ruby Opportunities - £75k – London, UK

Incase anyone is interested. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 -- Forwarded message -- From: Charles Myers charlesmy...@hydrogengroup.com Date: 17 December 2013 19:23 Subject: Ruby Opportunities - £75k – London, UK To: lee.hamb...@gmail.com lee.hamb

Re: [NWRUG] Medic looking for developer(s) in Manchester for OSS project

I don't believe Kickstarter allows good will FOSS projects, however perhaps bountysource? https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/539-neovim-first-iteration Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 23 March 2014 15:53, Ash Moran ash.mo...@patchspace.co.uk wrote: On 23

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

- Familiarity with SVN / GIT I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but given the precision expected in our field, why don't recruiters ever express the same basic care for even the naming of our tools? Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 6 April 2014 21:03, Ian Moss

[NWRUG] Serial and i2c/SPI programming

it's possible, sane, worth bothering with, whether i2c or SPI is preferable, or blah blah! Thanks, if anyone has any comments, I'd love to hear them! Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NWRUG

Re: [NWRUG] Serial and i2c/SPI programming

The Pi and Arduino can both do I2C SPI. SPI is faster (ISTR I2C is 10kHz) I believe, but needs something like n+2 wires, where n is the number of connected devices. I2C just needs 3. Choose what fits your need better. ​Thanks Will, confirms what I thought I'd understood from reading,

Re: [NWRUG] NWRUG this Thursday: How Basecamp Handled a DDoS Attack

There are no plans to record the talk I'm afraid. If anyone is willing to volunteer their skills to record and upload our talks, that would be grand. ​Shame, I'd like to see that too... ​ Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 17 June 2014 15:29, Tekin Suleyman te

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

I'd volunteer to give such a talk if there was a NWRUG in the first two weeks of Aug, when I'm back in Blighty. (I don't want you to change the schedule for me, though) Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 13 July 2014 16:44, Will Jessop w...@willj.net wrote

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

Sounds good Wlll, is there a meetup group or something for that? Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 13 July 2014 22:54, Will Jessop w...@willj.net wrote: How about at the new Go user group, 13th August probably. Sent from my iPad On 13 Jul 2014, at 16:18, Lee

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

whoring the new project a little. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 14 July 2014 13:26, Will Jessop w...@willj.net wrote: No meetup group, but there will be a meet up. Aiming for the 13th for now. On 14 July 2014 08:52, Lee Hambley lee.hamb...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [NWRUG] Greetings from Japan

the company, but someone will get it I'm sure. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 23 July 2014 16:47, Adam Akhtar adam.akh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently living in Japan but strongly considering about returning back to Manchester with my wife

Re: [NWRUG] Greetings from Japan

Your Job at Swirrl looks tempting enough that I'd consider moving back to Manchester for that… if I hadn't just started another company out here :( Sometimes I rather miss Blighty. Good luck filling the role lads. Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 24 July 2014 15

[NWRUG] Freelance Designer Sought

, but we desperately need to at least start the ball rolling, and find a style we can live with, and that will grow with our brand. I hope to hear from someone! (Also, if my ideas about how to proceed are insane, glad to hear about that too!) Mir freundlichen Grüßen aus Hamburg, Lee Hambley -- http

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

catch me on IRC wlll, or someone feel free to take a conversation to will and I off-list? Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 30 July 2014 20:01, Will Jessop w...@willj.net wrote: On 30 July 2014 18:56, Alex Lynham acelyn...@hotmail.com wrote: I've got the camera gear

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

I might also try recording it on my GoPro, I have a tri-pod mount, and it's the newest one, might work out ? (Audio?) Lee Hambley -- http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 30 July 2014 22:29, Paul Robinson p...@iconoplex.co.uk wrote: On 30 July 2014 18:56, Alex Lynham acelyn

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

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 he...@ianmoss.com wrote: Is there a blog post / section on the website about how recruiters

Re: [NWRUG] Please be civil

Well said Tekin, my apologies as I seem to have started the last round of snarkiness. Kudos to the list's more level headed members for turning it into a constructive discussion. Sent from my Nexus 5. On 15 Feb 2015 08:43, Tekin Suleyman te...@tekin.co.uk wrote: Hi all, I'd just like to ask

Re: [NWRUG] Introducing Rust - Monday 15th June 7pm at Madlab

Hi Rick, That sounds amazing, as a remote nwrugger (Germany!) I won't be able to attend, but if your slides, and/or any video or anything ara available after the fact, it'd be great if you could post those to the nwrug list. Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 10 June

Re: [NWRUG] Haskell is an acceptable Perl - The Lambda Lounge 7pm this monday (18th April 2016)

Hi Rick, Unfortunately I can't attend but I'm far from the only person in my own peer group who's tried and failed to become interested in FP because of a lack of focus in most textbooks on mundane things such as IO, text and string manipulation and the likes. Will there be any recording

Re: [NWRUG] Haskell is an acceptable Perl - The Lambda Lounge 7pm this monday (18th April 2016)

played with a language on the JVM so that sounds like a nice way to kill two birds with one stone. - Cheers! Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 14 April 2016 at 01:32, Rick Moynihan <rick.moyni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 22:28:57 U

Re: [NWRUG] different prsspective on connasence

Thanks for sharing this, I assume there's some NWRUG context I missed recently. Whatever the source/context, that video was really informative, thanks! Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 21 July 2016 at 16:16, 'Jacek Podkanski' via North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG

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

Related: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hawaii-woman-36-character-license-article-1.1562313 Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On 12 August 2016 at 11:38, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we'd be remiss if we let this thread

Re: [NWRUG] Dependency Injection in Ruby?

> > I guess when you say "I've never felt the need for DI in Ruby" you're > referring to dependency inversion? As you already posted indicating you > advocate dependency injection in Ruby previously. > ​Sorry, should have said "frameworks"​ in there somewhere, > The difference here is that

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

I'd be happy to give such a talk on k8s and such things, but I'm not living in MCR anymore and don't have a date that I'll be in the UK in mind yet, if there's demand it gives me a reason to come back at least. On 6 Feb 2018 12:32, "Ian Moss" wrote: > Interesting topic. > >

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

a specific user's traffic. (e.g Sean sets "X-Routing-For-SeanµService: sean-v2' in his browser and it it honoured by the routing mesh and he can test his service live, in-situ against real traffic and data) Either way, thoughts are welcome, sorry for the wall of text :) Happy weekend one

Re: [NWRUG] Talk suggestions

://8thlight.com/blog/uncle-bob/2014/05/14/TheLittleMocker.html More talks about precise vocabulary, so we can have highly focused discussions in our industry are super important. Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 09:19, Jon Rowe wrote: > As a mem

[NWRUG] Tax Advice

, so I think that price is extortionate (and, anyway, he can't afford it) Anyone got ideas how to proceed getting a final accounts done? Ahoy! Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West

[NWRUG] Re: LambdaLounge: 21st Sep, Exploring Unison in… er… unison

If you haven't been exposed to the unison language at all yet, two data points that might help you decide: - One of the authors (two?) are co-authors of the `FP in Scala` book which is amazing, and gets glowing reviews - Paul Chiusano. He's also a huge language nerd in the best possible way,

Re: [NWRUG] A temporary pause

Hi Tekin, Thanks to all involved in keeping it ticking over. Looking forward to see you on the end of this Pandemic. Ahoy, Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667 On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 10:59, Tekin Süleyman wrote: > Hi folks, hope you’re all well. > > Whilst

Re: [NWRUG] Help With Some Puma Warnings

don't' use Puma" or at least don't use a pre-forking web server? Or upgrade rails and/or the Gems... I think Rails did better in later versions at giving a "post-fork" hook for thread- and worker-pools to be initialized. Ahoy, HTH Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5

Re: [NWRUG] Help With Some Puma Warnings

able In theory if you argue that you load env vars before the fork on a preforking webserver, maybe it's _not_ breaking core principles of unix-like OSs but it's really bad practice for a process to read it's own "env vars" (it can load config files all day long, but env config is a spec

Re: [NWRUG] Hotwire v React

s. ps. sorry if this comes off a _little_ cynical, hyperblole is applied for artistic effect, and as a senior leader in a 150 engineer org who no longer codes all day, I see a lot of this stuff going on where we're now victim to years and years of decisions that only considered 5% of the actual imp