September 2023 Meeting
The September 2023 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 11th of September, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).
This month we're hosted by the lovely folk at Smart in their offices on 136 George Street. Full venue and registration details are given below.
Agenda
The Functional Alternative
Ju Liu says
We'll start with a simple Ruby Kata and solve it together, live, with imperative programming. We'll then fix the many, many, many things we got wrong. Then we'll solve the problem again using patterns from functional programming. You'll leave this talk with a clear and concrete example of why functional programming matters, why immutable code matters, and why it can help you writing bug-free code. The next time you find yourself writing imperative code, you might consider… the functional alternative.
Back in my day…
Paul Battley says
I've been working with Ruby since the early 2000s. Ruby has changed a lot in that time, but we don't always remember how much. Let's rewrite a short program so that it runs in a twenty-year-old version of Ruby and see how much syntax and performance has changed for the better in twenty years
- Back in my day… - transcript from the Brighton Ruby 2023 version of this talk
- Supporting git repo for the code used in Back in my day…
Afterwards
Once we're done with the talks we'll leave the venue (after doing our best to help tidy up) and find a local pub to visit so we can eat, drink, and discuss the talks we've just heard.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
Venue & Registration
Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README paying close attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees.
Secure your place
Hopefully you all remember that physical meetings involve finite space and so to be guaranteed entry you need to register via eventbrite.
Venue
The address of the venue:
Smart Pension
The Smart Building
136 George Street
London
W1H 5LD
See on a map
The venue has a hard limit of 100 people. If you register and realise you can't come, please use eventbrite to give up your place so someone else can come in your place. We might be able to let in people on the night who haven't registered, but we can't guarantee it.
Posted by Frederick Cheung on Aug 17, 2023