July 2014 Meeting
The July 2014 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 14th of July, 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. Registration details are given below.
Agenda
Continuous Deliverance - set your development free
John Maxwell wants to talk to us about automated deployment:
The first principle of the Agile Manifesto says “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software”, yet too often this is not the reality. Delivery is one of the most disruptive parts of the software development process for developers, but can be easy to automate, empowering the iterative process. This talk is a manifesto for how to go from scratch to automated deployment, with a few tales from the trenches of mistakes made along the way.
Welcome back to RSpec
Tom Stuart is going to re-introduce us to RSpec:
RSpec 3 has just been released, and it's come a long way since version 1. If you've had problems with RSpec in the past, now is a great time to revisit it — it's become much cleaner, simpler and more focused. I'll give a quick overview of the main things that have changed over the years, and if there's time, I'll explain a few of the new features in version 3.
Becoming a Developer & Codebar
Rosa Fox will give us a talk she describes as:
A short talk about my experience starting out as a professional developer. The focus of this talk will be about a weekly event through which I received a huge amount of support called Codebar. At Codebar programming skills are taught for free to people underrepresented in the tech industry.
- Speaking at LRUG | techfox_uk
- Skills Matter : London Ruby User Group : Becoming a Developer & Codebar
Pub
Our talks finish up around 8pm and you can find us crowding The Slaughtered Lamb by about 8:10pm. We're a friendly group and this part of the evening is the perfect time to talk to the speakers and other attendees about the talks or other goings-on in the wider Ruby world. If you didn't make the talks you're still welcome to come along for this pub bit!
Registration
To secure a place at the meeting you must register with our hosts Skills Matter. It helps to make sure we have the room laid out with enough chairs, and in extreme cases that we get priority on the larger rooms over other groups using the space on the same night. Also, it's polite (don't forget MINASWAN), so please do register with Skills Matter. Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README.
You can also follow this meeting on lanyrd, but 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 Jun 23, 2014