[NWRUG] Rails training - what would you want?

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Robinson
it? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 55 Velvet Court, Granby Row, Manchester, M1 7AB

[NWRUG] NWRUG Quiz? (Exercise 1: Fibonacci numbers)

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Robinson
plenty of you join in. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 55 Velvet Court, Granby Row, Manchester, M1

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz 2: Musical Scores

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 15:38, Dave Spurr wrote: Is the deadline for these going to be Friday mornings from now on then? Yup, let's aim for Friday lunchtime next week. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 16 Dec 2008, at 21:34, Gultekin Suleyman wrote: Sounds good to me. It's been ages since there's been any talks, would be good to start the year with something like this. +1 and as Will is an Engine Yard'er I nominate him to do a short intro to Merb. :-) -- Paul Robinson http

[NWRUG] Re: Tonight

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Robinson
Alas not me I expect. Sorry but see you all soon. (sorry for top posting - damn iPhone) On 15 Jan 2009, at 15:23, Will Jessop w...@willj.net wrote: Raise your hand if you're going! /me raises hand -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development

[NWRUG] Re: Food options for the meeting.

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Robinson
* thought it was a good idea. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 13 Crossland Road, Manchester, M21 9DU

[NWRUG] Re: Talks and Sponsorship

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Robinson
in that time frame have to be pretty high-level and fluffy but would act as a jumping off point to go and read about economic factors in cost of delay, variability, batch sizing and so on... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited

[NWRUG] Re: Many many sprouts.

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Robinson
. I'll find out myself later on if you want. Anyone organised one of these before and got any advice?* 1. Doodle.com is your friend 2. Expect a drop-out rate 3. If it's possible to get somebody else to work out the logistics (e.g. Manchester Digital, *DO IT*). -- Paul Robinson http

Re: [NWRUG] Re: [GeekUp] Fly The Coop has a new home

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Robinson
be keen to host as well. I would advise not doing anything before mid-January, but I'm sure we'd be able to get you in when you wanted. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Google Wave invites

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Robinson
On 2 Dec 2009, at 13:13, Adam Holt wrote: Sent, Sent and Sent. Any more for any more? I have several piles of them. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3

Re: [NWRUG] 10th Dec meeting

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Robinson
On 2 Dec 2009, at 16:55, Bogdan Dumitru wrote: Talk plus invade geekup sounds cool Bear in mind you MUST sign-up for the GeekUp Christmas do in advance. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales

Re: [NWRUG] 10th Dec meeting

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Robinson
On 3 Dec 2009, at 01:30, Caius Durling wrote: On 3 Dec 2009, at 01:10, Paul Robinson wrote: Bear in mind you MUST sign-up for the GeekUp Christmas do in advance. I thought that was only for food. No, you only have to pay for food. Entry is free but you must still register for a free

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Google Wave invites

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Robinson
Done. Anybody else, feel free to mail me off-list. On 24 Dec 2009, at 16:03, Jeremy Wilkins wrote: Hi, Can I grab an invite too please - jebwilk...@gmail.com Cheers jebw 2009/12/2 Paul Robinson p...@vagueware.com: On 2 Dec 2009, at 13:13, Adam Holt wrote: Sent, Sent and Sent. Any

Re: [NWRUG] Idea..

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Robinson
- and have been for some time - some Ruby/Rails training to deliver via MMU amongst other places. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W

[NWRUG] State or the nation

2010-04-22 Thread Paul Robinson
people hearing about commissioned/service development work at the moment? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU

[NWRUG] Rhodes to roam?

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Robinson
few weeks. I think the sync server could be pretty valuable to take off the shelf (which they're still selling), but it's not impossible to replicate that functionality by rolling your own. Thoughts? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware

[NWRUG] MacRuby 0.6 out...

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Robinson
... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 13 Crossland Road, Manchester, M21 9DU Signup now for white

Re: [NWRUG] Talk on FluidDB?

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Robinson
Another NoSQL thing in the works, but adds some extra layers to it. Could be interesting. I'm also a +1 on it. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place

Re: [NWRUG] Image orientation

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Robinson
for resizing, crops and rotates and not much else, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley

Re: [NWRUG] 16th September – Ruby, Cloud Infrastru cture Heroku

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 15 Sep 2010, at 18:22, Will Jessop wrote: If you haven't already there is still time to sign up for NWRUG tomorrow: http://nwrug.org/events/september10/ Free pizza to all those that turn up! And there was plenty there! Sorry I had to dash at 9.20 but I don't get to see the other guys

[NWRUG] Rails Rumble hub. Interested?

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi, Some of us with Fly The Coop[1] hats on, have been thinking about running some hackdays and stuff inside the space we rent at MadLab and getting some collaboration stuff going. Ian Moss and myself have been discussing doing something for Rails Rumble, and it seems Adam from OTB is aware

[NWRUG] Rails Rumble at MadLab

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi all, We (as in Fly The Coop) have the ability to open up MadLab for pretty much the whole of the Rails Rumble weekend in a couple of weeks for teams who want a base in central Manchester. Unfortunately, we're going to be rather short-staffed, and I'm not massively keen on spending the

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Rails Rumble at MadLab

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Robinson
Paul, I'm in a team of 4 who would be interested. The only downside as you say would be getting chucked out of the place at some point as that would lose us some time in the actual rumble. We're all pretty much based in or around Manchester. Thanks, Paul On 5 Oct, 10:02, Paul Robinson p

Re: [NWRUG] Next meeting this Thursday

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 16 Nov 2010, at 22:00, Ashley Moran wrote: On 16 Nov 2010, at 19:03, Will Jessop wrote: Sorry about the late notice, just got back from the US. It's a curry meet this month: http://nwrug.org/events/october10/ No signup needed. Contact me for any information, all welcome. Hey,

Re: [NWRUG] Engine Yard are hiring an Application Support Engineer

2010-11-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Nov 2010, at 10:15, Ben Aldred wrote: Paul, this is why you should come to NWRUG, your missing out on all the Ruby gossip Well this year has been... difficult. But in 2011 I'll be around plenty, no fear... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [NWRUG] E commerce

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Robinson
On 23 Nov 2010, at 16:33, A Faraday wrote: First NWRUG post, I'm working on an online shop, but before I start on the actual transfer system, does anyone know the best way to do paypal transactions from rails 3? Would be helpful to know the best gems/plugins for the job. Short version:

Re: [NWRUG] Working from Manchester tomorrow

2010-11-30 Thread Paul Robinson
On 30 Nov 2010, at 09:42, Will Jessop wrote: A few of us are working from Manchester tomorrow. Probably in a starbucks as the wifi is usually fairly good. We usually go for something like a burrito for lunch and then maybe a few beers after work. Let me know if you're up for it. Fly The

Re: [NWRUG] Meeting on Thursday

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jan 2011, at 22:37, Ashley Moran wrote: As I pointed out in an email to Will, if you all want to eat the devil's food, that's your prerogative :P I'm on a low-carb diet, but even *I* am going to shovel it down my food hole. C'mon, give in! Cheers for sponsoring by the way! Paul

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 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,

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby on Rails companies in North West

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Robinson
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:18 PM, benald...@gmail.com benald...@gmail.comwrote: My current list is: Star Dot Star, Setfire Media and On the Beach. Seriously? That list is rather short. Laughably short considering the use of Ruby I know of in the North West. We (Stratajet) are going to be

[NWRUG] Service Oriented Architecture anybody?

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi all, I'm asking NWRUG this despite being in London these days, because I know some of you might have dealt with similar setups. Oh, and I've been to far, far more NWRUG meets than I have LRUG. :-) I'm currently trying to get my head around an app that has an architecture heavily inspired

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby Manor

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Jan 2013, at 14:46, Will Jessop w...@37signals.com wrote: I've got a ticket and will probably travel down by train Lord Smalley class mid afternoon the day before, travelling back the day after. If anyone wants to join me in this they're welcome. I am already in permanent Lord

Re: [NWRUG] Recommended Ruby Conferences

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Robinson
On 4 Mar 2013, at 14:56, Ben Gibbs b...@bobop.co.uk wrote: If I was to attend 2 Ruby conferences each year, which 2 should they be? The two that you want to go to the most. I'm not being facetious, I'm serious. There are lots of conferences out there and some of them will make you go Wow,

Re: [NWRUG] Recommended Ruby Conferences

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Robinson
On 4 Mar 2013, at 18:00, Ian Moss he...@ianmoss.com wrote: If Ruby Conf England is occurring this year - I'd assumed it wasn't now, it'd be great to know the dates, so that I can potentially support another local conference. Especially if it's in the sub £100 category, or there's a one day

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 19 Jul 2013, at 20:02, Graham Ashton gra...@effectif.com wrote: Having just said that functional tests are like mini integeration tests for the controller/view interaction, they often give me a similar sized step into the unknown as a unit test. I use them to TDD my controller/view

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jul 2013, at 12:23, Ian Moss he...@ianmoss.com wrote: Given that the ActiveAdmin 'controller' method 'export' exports a csv and it has been called in a http request, And I'm using TestUnit As A Developer, I want to assert that the file 'export.txt' is created and sent as a http

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 19 Jul 2013, at 14:36, Sean Bamforth s...@theguru.co.uk wrote: Grar! Rubydrama! etc., LRUG would challenge your use of drama for this... :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NWRUG group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jul 2013, at 15:18, Sean Bamforth s...@theguru.co.uk wrote: What I find interesting in the Active* objects is that there's a tendency not to subclass methods. Instead, people will assign container class methods to event properties. I suspect it's because some languages don't allow you

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jul 2013, at 11:06, Graham Ashton gra...@effectif.com wrote: God no. For me it's the Ruby community's repeated failure to understand the purpose of testing, and the consequent obsession with finding more ways to decrease our ability to save/make money for the organisations we work for.

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Robinson
On 19 Jul 2013, at 21:01, Graham Ashton gra...@effectif.com wrote: Sometimes though, you want to advocate is a move away from a current practice. How do you go about doing that? Ship code. There are three important parts of writing software well as a professional (you can skip either or

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Robinson
On 20 Jul 2013, at 13:26, Ash Moran ash.mo...@patchspace.co.uk wrote: Since you mention it, that's what I'm spending my spare time doing right now. It's not announced, and the source in only on GitHub to get it out of my application repo, but Realm[1] is my attempt to build a toolkit for

Re: [NWRUG] Understanding Computation 50% off today

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Robinson
On 13 Sep 2013, at 23:21, Ash Moran ash.mo...@patchspace.co.uk wrote: I got excited until I saw it was ebook-only. Am I the last remaining luddite who will only read books on paper? Ooooh, off-topic rant! Ace, let's get started! :-) I love my Kindle Paperwhite. I really do. However there

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

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Robinson
than move to London, but thought I'd put it out there. Paul Robinson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NWRUG group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

Re: [NWRUG] Greetings from Japan

2014-07-25 Thread Paul Robinson
On 24 July 2014 13:10, Louis Goff-Beardsley louis...@gmail.com wrote: I think eventually the acceptance of remote working from UK companies will drive up salaries in non-London roles. I remember telling several Manchester tech employers about 3 years ago the easiest way for Manchester to

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

2014-07-30 Thread Paul Robinson
On 30 July 2014 18:56, Alex Lynham acelyn...@hotmail.com wrote: Also not sure how long 8 or 16GB equates to in terms of HD video... An iPhone 5 runs at about 20MB/minute of HD including audio +/- 5MB, so about 1.5GB/hour is normally a good estimate. A proper HD camera could easily be 4x that

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

2015-05-18 Thread Paul Robinson
I could give a lot of advice here, but my knowledge is now date. It's best you make contact with people who have attempted to do this stuff before and more recently than most. Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden) and Gemma Cameron (@rubygem) are both worth speaking to. Good luck. On 18 May 2015 at

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

2018-02-07 Thread Paul Robinson
I'm not Sean, but at my place down at that Notonthehighstreet.com (known to those within as "NOTHS"), we've been doing continuous deployment for at least 3-4 years, and it's now on its 2nd or 3rd generation/iteration. So I'll answer these questions based on what we do, not on what Sean does,