September 2006 Archives
Our next meeting will be on Monday October 9, 6:30-8pm.
Agenda
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[Robert Brook](http://www.robertbrook.com/) and [Damien Tanner](http://iamrice.org) will both be presenting on different aspects of Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
* Robert will talk about what you (and he) might want DSLs for.
* Damien will cover the practical aspects of DSLs in Ruby and share his recent experiences developing a simple DSL to define business logic in an ecommerce application. (Slides and example code have been [made available here](http://svn.lrug.org/lrug_sandbox/presentations/ruby_dsl_presentation_tiest_2006/).)
Registration
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For location details please [register to attend at our LRUG page](http://skillsmatter.com/london-ruby-ug) on the Skills Matter site.
Posted by Rob McKinnon on Sep 22, 2006
With the generous help of Skillsmatter, we've arranged a party for Thursday 14th September, to tie in with RailsConf. It's at a bar called Sequoia @ Ruby Lo, at 23 Orchard Street W1 [Map] (near Selfridges, nearest tube: Bond Street).
It all starts at 9pm and the first 100 drinks are free (courtesy of Skillsmatter), so whether you're attending the conference or not, come down and join us. Free entry before 10pm, £5 after.
Posted by Tom Ward on Sep 08, 2006
Last night Alex Bradbury gave a great presentation on ARIEL, A Ruby
Information Extraction Library. All agreed that Alex is doing very
impressive work. Some LRUGers are already planning to try out ARIEL for
data parsing in various projects. Thanks for coming to speak Alex!
We've added a new announcement segment to the meeting. It's a chance
for everyone to share releases, news and events with the group. Here's
a summary of last night's announcements and pub chat:
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Posted by James Adam on Sep 05, 2006
Posted by James Adam on Tuesday, September 05, 2006