February 2012 Meeting

The February 2012 meeting of LRUG will be on Tuesday the 21st of February, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Our hosts Skills Matter will be providing the space, at their offices on Goswell Road; The Skills Matter eXchange. It's a great space with plenty of room for the group, but you still need to register to let Skills Matter know you are coming.

Agenda

Lightning talks!

As is now traditional, we devote our February meeting to lightning talks. Not just any old lightning talks either, we use the 20x20 format for the talks. Each speaker has 20 slides that auto-transition after 20 seconds, giving them a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds in which to get their point across.

Our confirmed volunteers for 2012 are:

James Coglan

A History of Websockets

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : A history of Websockets

Jairo Diaz

"Tech interns" - How to get more qualified interns into Ruby.

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Tech Interns

Stuart Eccles

Conan the deployer - capistrano extensions focussing on AWS

  1. @stueccles presenting Conan at #lrug
  2. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Conan the Deployer

Richard Livsey

Breaking up is hard to do - extracting authentication code from models

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Breaking up is hard to do

Harry Marr

Custom documentation generators (example)

Andrew McDonough

Ruby Poetry

  1. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Ruby Poetry

Chris Parsons

The crowd-sourced talk. One slot at these evenings is given over to someone prepared to do a talk on something that the mailing list suggests, Chris is bravely wearing that mantle this time.

  1. My github fork with code used to run the benchmark
  2. The great Ruby Showdown
  3. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : The Great Ruby Showdown

Roland Swingler

Reading tea leaves - predict the future with ruby!

  1. Useful background reading: "Forecasting" by Spyros Makridakis
  2. Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Reading Tea Leaves - predict the future with ruby!

Also, these brave folk have volunteered, but are waiting in the wings before confirming fully:

Jakub Šťastný

SockJS - a websocket emulation library

This is not the running order, on the night we randomise the order of the speakers for even more fun!

Pub

With all these talks on the night, you're bound to want to chat to at least one of the speakers afterwards. Have no fear! We do that in The Slaughtered Lamb, which is only five minutes from Skills Matter's offices. We'll be there from about 8pm, so if you can't make the talks come along just for the pub bit.

Registration

Skills Matter ask that you register your attendance with them if you are coming to the meeting. There's usually plenty of space for everyone so it's not a huge problem if you don't register, we'll still be allowed in. However, it does help with arranging the room to make sure there are enough seats laid out, and it's polite (don't forget MINASWAN), so please do register.

You can also follow this meeting on lanyrd, but be aware this is not a meaningful way to tell Skills Matter you wish to attend. It's just for the lols, innit?

Posted by Murray Steele on Jan 24, 2012