Talking Ruby with Twitter in London
Last night I went to a meeting of the London Ruby User Group (LRUG) - a community of Ruby users who meet up once a month to discuss new developments and projects related to the language. (They generally meet on the second Monday of each month.) There were seven short presentations - each in the style of pecha kucha, meaning the speaker has a maximum of 20 slides which auto advance at 20 second intervals. (An excellent style for hurrying along the verbose, incidentally.)
Here are some highlights:
- Matt Patterson talked about building packages for different platforms using dpkg-tools
- Thomas Pomfret talked about using the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) through Ruby (slides)
- I gave a talk about how I started developing for the web and the steep learning curve I’ve encountered whilst work on Opening Times
- Tom ten Thij spoke about debugging with ruby-debug
- Steve Ganly presented a proposal for smoke testing Ruby in similar manner to Perl
- Roland Swingler talked about using rubygame to create a basic version of pong and how the technique could be applied to other applications
- Tom Armitage gave a very enjoyable talk about his Twit 4 Dead Twitter bots (Francis, Louis, Zoey & Bill) modelled on the characters from Left 4 Dead
- Chris Lowis spoke about his experience of using Ruby and the statistics application R. This was particularly relevant to the work we are doing at Times Labs.
Edit A excellent detailed review of the nights presentations is available at Effectif.com.
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4 Responses to “Talking Ruby with Twitter in London”
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Although you have now had Ben Goldacre link to Opening Times, and I’m not sure what more praise you want!
I’ll post the links as I discover them, 1 so far.
Great post. I started using twitter and I can’t seem to stop, its a great tool for communication with your blog users. Feel free to follow me http://www.twitter.com/mattwaterman
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