I'll probably be in the Classroom that day then.
Can probably sign one of you in, but it's free to register - which you
might have time to do beforehand. You have to get an induction and show
id, before they give you a fob, but after that it's free 9-5.
Occasionally a couple of Ruby devs there.
htt
hehe it was good to bump into everyone in NTP yesterday.
I had a couple of pints in Waterhouse in the end, then went off to watch
Life of Pi. (Great film - no knowledge of the book required :)
Do the vulnerability talk Adam. Maybe that can be the pre-rug workshop
theme for the next couple of mon
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013, at 04:26 PM, James Adam wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:15:36 UTC, Tekin Suleyman wrote:
Tickets are now on sale: [1]http://lanyrd.com/2013/ruby-manor/
Since you've started to talk about travel, I thought it would be worth
mentioning that we're hoping to organ
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013, at 03:55 PM, Paul Robinson wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2013, at 15:26, Will Jessop wrote:
>
> > I'll be happy to come out for a beer or three. Last time I was in
> > London I spectacularly failed to find any decent beer. A local sounds
> > like just the ticket ;)>
>
> Top tips fo
Maybe it's fun to defeat them, and guess who it is collectively. Good
service there Will. I've never heard of them. Only has a .net position
on their careers page.
I'll get in touch, and see if they'd consider a couple of freelancers.
Any other freelancers prefer working in co-located teams?
Any
uary 2013 at 13:27, Ian Moss wrote:
Maybe it's fun to defeat them, and guess who it is collectively. Good
service there Will. I've never heard of them. Only has a .net position
on their careers page.
I'll get in touch, and see if they'd consider a couple of freelancers.
Any oth
/
On Saturday, 26 January 2013 at 13:35, Ian Moss wrote:
[2]http://www.havaslynx.com/careers/ healthcare + manchester seems who
it was?
Couldn't get passed HR at Creative Lynx.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013, at 01:31 PM, Ric Roberts wrote:
Havas 'Creative' Lynx have been doing Ruby and Ra
http://rubymanor.org/ shall be good in London in April.
I'd got to http://www.railsberry.com if I could afford a second trip.
Looks like they've managed to get a good & diverse line-up, and it's in
a great city to visit by all accounts. Believe Slaw and Tekin went last
year - unsure if they did a
I got accepted for the Stripe UK beta last week. Think they've a bit of
a backlog in getting keys out, but it does seem like a really good
payment service. Anyone actually integrated a payment solution using
them stateside?
Cheers,
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On Thu, Mar 14,
Added it to Startup Digest matey.
On Fri, May 10, 2013, at 02:33 PM, Will Jessop wrote:
Could someone forward this to Geekup (I don't seem to be able to
post there), and any other lists that might have programmers in
them? Always good to increase our audience.
Will.
On Friday, May
Try a Ruby or Rails related topic and see what happens :)
How about - what new (to you) gems have you been using recently?
When you think of rails 4, do you think 'Oh cripes really!' or
'whopeee, they'll probably change everything again - haml, coffeescript
etc'
Ian (the old man, who likes
Should appeal if you're into TDD / the bigger picture / idolising one of
the pioneers in Software Development :)
http://info.thoughtworks.com/An_evening_with_Martin_Fowler_25June2013.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolvanJZKXonjHpfsX57OskUaWxlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CT8FiI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFS7nMMbFk37gPUhA%3D
One possible approach:
-Abstract the current application's entity relationships.
-Ensure that there's very good test coverage on the old system. Port
the tests to the 'rails world'.
-Consider splitting up the revised app into various services. This way
if small bits can be ported at a time.
-Reb
> the purpose of testing,
talking of testing.
I've a ActiveAdmin CSV created file that I want to write a TestUnit
assertion to check that it exists, and then count how many rows are in
it. Then check that their a number of rows - 1 emails sent. Yay, I can
do the emails bit, but the first bit
> > I've a ActiveAdmin CSV created file that I want to write a TestUnit
> > assertion to check that it exists, and then count how many rows are in
> > it. Then check that their a number of rows - 1 emails sent. Yay, I can
> > do the emails bit, but the first bit I'm struggling with.
>
> I've reall
Cheers Tekin. I'll see if I can find an example for that after lunch.
For everyone, give that testing is often quite tricky, what do you find
the best source of examples of tests outside your own codebase? Maybe
this is something that we as a local community can improve?
> Could you not write a f
Cheers Graham. This is brilliant.
Many thanks for taking the time for a comprehensive reply :)
Exactly what you say on the rigidity of the test. That it's a CSV and
has a certain number of rows should suffice right now.
Hopefully this is another hurdle knocked out of the way towards keeping
goo
http://infonomics.ltd.uk/about ?
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013, at 09:09 AM, Will Jessop wrote:
> On 8 September 2013 20:54, Ash Moran wrote:
> > There's an occasional member of NWRUG called Robin who I've seen at a few
> > of the meetups and in Takk fairly frequently. He asked me to find
> > somebody's
same
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Ash Moran wrote:
> I got excited until I saw it was ebook-only. Am I the last remaining
> luddite who will only read books on paper?
>
> On 13 Sep 2013, at 15:30, Tekin Suleyman wrote:
>
> >
> > Just thought I'd share this - O'Reilly have a sale on for t
bloody southerners ;)
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013, at 01:47 PM, Paul Robinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a heads up on this in case any of you are trying to find a gig down
> here in the big smoke (*cough, cough*, real pea souper, etc.), that I'm
> currently hiring for a range of roles including develope
or
> >> > vegetarians, should you be one.
> >> >
> >> > its here
> >> >
> >> > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Manchester_Kilburn_Building.jpg
> >> >
> >> > If you manage to get out the house
work colleague:
[1]https://medium.com/p/df2473826ea
If you like working as a co-located team, the contact details are at
the end of the blog.
Many thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR :)
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a diverse crowd :)
Will be good to see everyone. Especially if you're looking to join a
new ruby team this year - see: [1]https://medium.com/p/df2473826ea
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Perhaps there's scope for a Manchester office Sean?
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From: Sean Craig <[1]seancrai...@gmail.com>
To: [2]nwrug-members@googlegroups.com
Subject: [NWRUG] NHS Choices are looking for Senior Ruby Dev's
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 04:33:43 -0800 (PST)
NHS Choices are loo
p; health
monitoring systems, and the work that's going on it that area.
Cheers,
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Hi Ben (and all)
I'm meeting a mate in The Castle (Oldham Street) - welcome along.
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If anyone is interested, and wants to team up as an agile /ruby team,
to see if they're up for that, then please let me know.
It'd probably better if you were more front-end/JS orientated than
myself.
Could be quite good fun if you're motivated by music, as well as code
:)
Cheers,
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nment. Anyone else up for joining forces for such an
endevour?
I think the main risk at those salary levels is companies not being able
to get a return on their investment in the medium term, and picking devs
in other languages. which would be a shame.
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I think that's the onsite in London for GDS gig inclusive of expenses
though right?
Not onsite in Manchester, where we're lacking in investors / capital to
fork out such rates. Be great if there were though. Would be lovely in
fact :)
Would be lovely if there were PM + Ruby dev gigs paying simila
er what you felt was good & perhaps summarise
what you learnt, with examples of how you applied it.
Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend, and hope to see a few people on
Thursday for Slaw's talk.
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. Great that they've chosen to get involved
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To: "nwrug-members@googlegroups.com"
Subject: Re: [NWRUG] Great to meet you last wee
Just seen this great mini-talk from Scot Ruby:
[1]http://codon.com/the-dhh-problem
Have you seen any other more detailed talks that have made it online
yet?
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, as I found it motivated to test more,
and I found I had less code to debug :) I'm aware that I'm probably the
only person bar perhaps Ash that this may apply to.
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s to repay.
Guess team jobs in Manchester, are different to solo remote
(team) work as well, where presumably if you're top 5% and like
actually working at home or without the office distractions,
you could compete with the very best in SF/NYC/London. So maybe
even £100k permie is possible fo
[1]http://196Destinations.com - a bucket list travel company
that's looking for ruby & front end devs on an equity basis.
[2]https://next.fatsoma.com
- a social ticketing startup with investment
[3]http://care.malinkoapp.com/
([4]http://www.malinkoapp.com/ - a scheduling startup with
investme
capture what was posted. Left for the appropriate
people if they want to change their name to email address.
There's a seperate tab if people want to list themselves as
available for permie/freelance etc.
Hth,
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g fruit cleared so you can concentrate on bigger problems.
Please email me off-list or feel free to give me a call.
Merry Christmas,
Ian.
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Can't make it unfortunately, but hope everyone has a great xmas break &
the jumper fest goes well :)
Currently enjoying doing some prototyping work after last weeks email,
so pretty happy this list exists.
Look forward to working with you all in 2015.
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with a prototype.
Cheers, Ian.
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- Original message - Subject: [NWRUG] Social tomorrow, usual
tim
+1 - Original message - From: "Matthew Valentine-House"
To: nwrug-members@googlegroups.com Subject:
Re: [NWRUG] Junior Developer looking at opportunities Date: Wed, 21 Jan
2015 16:54:47 +
> and as a programmer the repos are your best CV
No.
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-g
Is there a blog post / section on the website about how recruiters can
best engage the group? Or get involved with sponsorship etc.
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I think we can just link them to this informative video Ian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Lee Hambley http://lee.hambley.name/ +49 (0) 170 298 5667
On 13 February 2015 at 10:20, Ian Moss wrote:
> __
> Is there a blog post / section on the website about how recruiters can
&g
Look forward to meeting you Ryan. Ultimately, we're all learning
something :)
Seems to be a convention on LRUG of prefixing a recruitment related
post with [JOBS] (Though on a quick scan through my LRUG folder I see
[JOB] also occurs.) So, that'd be filterable outable if people would
like to do s
Anyone using React and RoR? Would be really handy to get an intro :)
Perhaps that'd even be a great talk at NWRUG?
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Sounds like a great idea to have a themed hackday.
Really active Health community with
http://www.meetup.com/Health-2-0-Manchester/ Recently they've been
running Service Design workshops that would be a really good precursor
to any future hackday. I'm sure Vim (spaceport) and the Service Design
te
http://blog.michelada.io/whats-new-in-rails-5
A good write up I thought. Sounds like it'll come out later this year /
early 2016.
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the list, as there are working with ruby
regularly.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the next meetup,
Ian.
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oks like it’s coming to a future version of Ruby.
> On 30 Oct 2015, at 09:55, Ian Moss wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I thought it'd be great to know what my fellow Manchester rubyists
> have found interesting this week...
>
> For me, I did the standard 'JSON parsing is eas
Debating Launch festival in SF at the end of Feb: http://www.launch.co/
Jason Carson organised.
Ruby wise, currently watching: Aaron Patterson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGmaRZtgM8
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Hey,
Sounds like a great event. Well done Mark & Tekin for putting that
together. I look forward to hearing a about the nwrug-test gem :)
In that London working for a startup that day. Hope there's lots of
tweets on #nwrug to follow it remotely.
Have a lot of fun everyone :)
Ian
heers and thanks a bunch to the current organisers, Ben and Tekin, for
keeping the meetups going.
Ian.
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I'll look into that. It says anyone can join :/
Here's the manual invite link:
https://trello.com/invite/b/ifgYxjmy/9aa77d164483b086f51cdd038e6932cd/nwrug-community
Hopefully that'll do the job in the meantime.
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Everyone loves lightning talks. XP Manchester is language agnostic,
and very welcoming. May appeal to others in NWRUG :) Come along on
Thursday 14th July. Free sign up link in the email forwarded from
their list below.
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Francesc GambÚs
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amazing.
Thanks for that, Chris.
Cheers to Francis, Matt, Sean, Will, Chris and anyone else who checked
out https://www.facebook.com/UkToMEPsConnect/
Ian.
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nge for help on
projects such as http://facebook.com/comadio / http://comad.io or
Happy 10th Birthday NWRUG. Here's to the next x years :) :)
See you tonight,
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Shall be attending this. Would be great to see other rubyists there.
Perhaps we can have a go at creating a ruby dev 'mob' sometime after :)
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o, on topic wise, if you need any ruby help, I'm available. (or PM,
startup advice).
Cheers,
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the appropriate place to start if you didn't make it?
https://github.com/NotMyself/GildedRose
Cheers and have a great weekend,
Ian.
p.s. currently looking for tech oppurtunities. Would be great to chat
more if you have some paid work. Thanks.
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come and have a chat this evening.
See you later :)
Ian
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- Ori
Would happily share such a role with you if can colocate a couple of
days a week...
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Hi, I'm coworking in Nexus today - probably on JavaScript but, welcome
to join the group, and head to nwrug together later on.
Just give me a yell :)
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for this? Only 1 coffee in to the day, so
unsure.
I'm available to help team-based projects on a freelance basis at the moment.
Let me know if that's you?
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u have any
introductions to people over there that you could offer I'd be very
appreciative of them.
See you soon,
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Mock/Stubs in rspec.
Causing me pain at the moment - updating a ruby/sinatra inherited project. So
maybe it's something that others experience, and would learn from a talk in
that area.
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reas
maybe worthwhile was the thinking.
Probably harder to find presenters than talk ideas, as obviously it's not for
everyone.
Anyways, hope it goes well, and will coincide a vist back with NWRUG at some
point :)
Keep on, keeping on :)
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Hope you have a great meetup tonight. Miss you guys!!
If you're in the area do check out https://www.meetup.com/malaga-rb/ which I've
maaged to reboot. 3rd meetup will be January 17th. Wish me luck!!
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Sounds interesting.
I hadn't a clue what it was, so found this Martin Fowler blog on it:
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ImmutableServer.html
Hallo from Berlin btw.
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personally or professional :)
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Hmm. Trying to think where the last infrequent message was from. I think it was
when I realised I'd lost the bitcoin he gave out, and that pint was now worth
3k. LOL. Think it was email, rather than twitter. Imagine he's doing rather
well for himself wherever he is. With luck :) :)
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sad news :(
https://tenderlovemaking.com/2022/12/07/in-memory-of-a-giant.html
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where we can cowork together?
(Wednesday I will go to the university science park after for a gig at the
Abby.)
Looking forwards,
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Hey,
I would definitely seek out ways to work in teams with others.
It's non-trivial to find such aspects, and lets-just-say some ruby devs are a
bit intimidating (not always deliberately), but working in a team is soo
different to working solo. Often much more fun too :)
The recent NWRUG mee
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I'd not heard of Zansibar, but just found this gem. Looks worthy of a play:
https://github.com/jaredonline/google-authenticator
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