[NWRUG] Re: Know of any jobs/freelance gigs?

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Robinson
lled out. I'm working on something at the moment to try and help improve requests like this - I know a couple of places looking for Rails devs and struggling to find people. Feel free to throw me a CV, and that goes for anybody else here too. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [

[NWRUG] Rails training - what would you want?

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Robinson
material so I could go and sell it? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 55 Velvet Co

[NWRUG] Re: Rails training - what would you want?

2008-10-07 Thread Paul Robinson
and re-factoring, but if I'm think on coverage (which on rushed projects I sometimes can be, despite my own preachings), I feel nervous about that approach. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales

[NWRUG] Re: Rails training - what would you want? - creative commons

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Robinson
and distribute at no cost 2. ??? 3. Profit Except it actually works. It's proven. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W.

[NWRUG] Re: Rails training - what would you want? - creative commons

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Robinson
#x27;ve yet to look at the detail of how commercially viable it is. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Corresponden

[NWRUG] Re: Rails training - what would you want?

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Robinson
". I know I did, but it took a while for me to start actually doing it because I was ingrained into thinking testing was something done after development but before delivery by a human being. Once I'd started to use it, it became a no-brainer. I don't intend to win people ov

[NWRUG] Re: Rails training - what would you want? - creative commons

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Robinson
s. I don't mind coding, I don't mind training, but I don't think I have the mindset to sell training courses so I'll "outsource" that bit. That doesn't prevent the learning materials themselves being shared openly though. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.co

[NWRUG] NWRUG Quiz? (Exercise 1: Fibonacci numbers)

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Robinson
ut is it *quick*? If you're playing, please don't post your code or solutions until Monday morning to give others a chance to play. I hope plenty of you join in. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz? (Exercise 1: Fibonacci numbers)

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Robinson
0 and by default start with 0 and 1, with the option of being able to set them to higher values for Francis. Who is playing then? Anyone? Peer review is a critical part of becoming a better programmer you know... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz? (Exercise 1: Fibonacci numbers)

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Robinson
0 and by default start with 0 and 1, with the option of being able to set them to higher values for Francis. Who is playing then? Anyone? Peer review is a critical part of becoming a better programmer you know... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz? (Exercise 1: Fibonacci numbers)

2008-10-28 Thread Paul Robinson
mall Rails app. I think we'd need to provide at least a fortnight for that, if not longer. An extra bonus is that there will probably be a (small amazon-voucher-like) prize offered up for that because I'm more stupid than I look. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAI

[NWRUG] NWRUG "Quiz" Exercise 1 Solutions

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
hods. - The fact I wait until I've gone past my value and then test for equality (in which case it's Fib), otherwise just return false some people see as "sloppy" or even "cheating". Comments? Thoughts? Bring your code out... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG "Quiz" Exercise 1 Solutions

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
e so: numbers.join(", ") This will do what you want. Obviously if you're going to infinity, you'd never print it out, but then there would never be a "last number" so you could do it the way you do now. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTEC

[NWRUG] NWRUG Quiz 2: Musical Scores

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
be found on Wikipedia this time either. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 55 Velv

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG "Quiz" Exercise 1 Solutions

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 14:47, Fred Phillips wrote: > I am pretty sure any two implementations > of the same idea in the same language would indeed look quite similar. Yup, it's a relatively trivial algorithm, so this would be expected I concur. This week's is a bit tough

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz 2: Musical Scores

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 15:38, Dave Spurr wrote: > Is the deadline for these going to be Friday mornings from now on > then? Yup, let's aim for Friday lunchtime next week. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is re

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz 2: Musical Scores

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
On 31 Oct 2008, at 16:19, Caius Durling wrote: > If you want to submit to codegolf you have to accept input via STDIN. gets does that. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700

[NWRUG] Re: NWRUG Quiz 2: Musical Scores

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Robinson
411 bytes without the > big input array (894 with a 2 bar score). I will attempt to slim it > down when I have a bit more time. Well, keep your "full" version of course. I svn everything so I tend to branch releases off when "golfing". :-) -- Paul Robinson http:

[NWRUG] Let's start marketing ourselves...

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Robinson
ooking for full- time jobs doing Ruby. In the past we've only seen a limited response to this kind of request. It's only worth doing if plenty of us want it. So, do people want this? And if so, what's the wish list? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::

[NWRUG] Re: Let's start marketing ourselves...

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Robinson
ails, so if/when you go looking in a few years time you'll find you need to retrain in Java. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W.

[NWRUG] Re: Let's start marketing ourselves...

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Robinson
see there are plenty of Rails devs they just won't invest in the tech and in the long run that kills all of us off. I know for a fact that there are several hundred Ruby developers in the North of England. Why then, even as somebody in the scene does it cause me so much trouble to find

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 16 Dec 2008, at 21:34, Gultekin Suleyman wrote: > Sounds good to me. It's been ages since there's been any talks, would > be good to start the year with something like this. +1 and as Will is an Engine Yard'er I nominate him to do a short intro to Merb. :-) -

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Robinson
so little sleep right now, my flat-mate is starting to look like Tyler Durden... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Co

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Robinson
On 30 Dec 2008, at 16:25, Will Jessop wrote: > In keeping with the recent tradition it should be on the third > Thursday, so the 15th. It depends if the room at MDDA is available > that day though. And the verdict is??? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com

[NWRUG] Re: Tonight

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Robinson
Alas not me I expect. Sorry but see you all soon. (sorry for top posting - damn iPhone) On 15 Jan 2009, at 15:23, Will Jessop wrote: > > Raise your hand if you're going! > > /me raises hand > > -- > Will Jessop > Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development > > t: 07

[NWRUG] Re: Food options for the meeting.

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Robinson
k, I'm not allowed ... oh. Oh, right, well, errr... never mind then. *I* thought it was a good idea. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilk

[NWRUG] Re: Talks and Sponsorship

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Robinson
ate into development techniques. It would in that time frame have to be pretty high-level and fluffy but would act as a jumping off point to go and read about economic factors in cost of delay, variability, batch sizing and so on... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com

[NWRUG] Re: Talks and Sponsorship

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Robinson
On 27 Aug 2009, at 13:10, Paul Robinson wrote: > be happy to do 20 minutes on something but tailoring it to include > techniques to incorporate into development techniques. Garbage sentence. Should read: include techniques specific to Ruby/BDD development techniques. I was clearly dr

[NWRUG] Fixtures & ERb

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Robinson
(Yes, I am being dumb for storing ERb in the DB, I know that). -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence:

[NWRUG] Re: Ruby Course Marketing

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Robinson
r route. And bear in mind people are watching their spending right now - even employers - so you need to be very, very careful with pricing. We're in the most price-sensitive market around training now in living memory, I reckon. * We're a cabal. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.

[NWRUG] Re: Rails - Scoping through multiple models

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Robinson
d RAM than lots of inner joins. I accept it's not perhaps the purist way to do things but it works and it's clean enough, IMHO. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 0570042

[NWRUG] Re: Many many sprouts.

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Robinson
#x27;s happening there first. I'll find out myself later on if you want. > Anyone organised one of these before and got any advice?* 1. Doodle.com is your friend 2. Expect a drop-out rate 3. If it's possible to get somebody else to work out the logistics (e.g. Manchester Digit

[NWRUG] Re: Some contract work - one home based

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Robinson
dle > them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." > John Steinbeck > > > -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire,

[NWRUG] Re: Many many sprouts.

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Robinson
On 9 Nov 2009, at 11:14, Paul Robinson wrote: > Why not? Sounds like fun. Although there might be another GeekUp/ > Manchester Digital thing going on, so perhaps check what's happening > there first. I'll find out myself later on if you want. I've checked, and th

Re: [NWRUG] Re: [GeekUp] Fly The Coop has a new home

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Robinson
cramped as the FTC space itself), and I'm sure the Madlab guys would be keen to host as well. I would advise not doing anything before mid-January, but I'm sure we'd be able to get you in when you wanted. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Google Wave invites

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Robinson
On 2 Dec 2009, at 13:13, Adam Holt wrote: > Sent, Sent and Sent. Any more for any more? I have several piles of them. :-) -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office

Re: [NWRUG] 10th Dec meeting

2009-12-02 Thread Paul Robinson
On 2 Dec 2009, at 16:55, Bogdan Dumitru wrote: > Talk plus invade geekup sounds cool Bear in mind you MUST sign-up for the GeekUp Christmas do in advance. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wa

Re: [NWRUG] 10th Dec meeting

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Robinson
On 3 Dec 2009, at 01:30, Caius Durling wrote: > On 3 Dec 2009, at 01:10, Paul Robinson wrote: > >> Bear in mind you MUST sign-up for the GeekUp Christmas do in advance. > > > I thought that was only for food. No, you only have to pay for food. Entry is free but you must s

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Google Wave invites

2009-12-25 Thread Paul Robinson
Done. Anybody else, feel free to mail me off-list. On 24 Dec 2009, at 16:03, Jeremy Wilkins wrote: > Hi, > > Can I grab an invite too please - jebwilk...@gmail.com > > Cheers > > jebw > > 2009/12/2 Paul Robinson : >> On 2 Dec 2009, at 13:13, Adam Holt

Re: [NWRUG] Idea..

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Robinson
gh I'm developing - and have been for some time - some Ruby/Rails training to deliver via MMU amongst other places. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 T

[NWRUG] State or the "nation"

2010-04-22 Thread Paul Robinson
ush for Rails devs? What are other people hearing about commissioned/service development work at the moment? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Pl

Re: [NWRUG] Re: State or the "nation"

2010-04-22 Thread Paul Robinson
valued in terms of day rate. I was really hoping Rails would never get like the PHP market. C'est la vie. Time to go and find another niche I think... If anybody else thinks there's more light down the end of the tunnel, please do speak up - I'd hate to have to go and get a prope

Re: [NWRUG] Re: State or the "nation"

2010-04-22 Thread Paul Robinson
nd us directly (and I've had work from workingwithrails.com before), so there is something else going on here. I've noticed plenty of people looking for devs out there, but seem to think a senior RoR dev is only worth $10-$15/hour. Insane. Might just be time to move onto something else

Re: [NWRUG] Folksy job

2010-04-24 Thread Paul Robinson
nent market > is like. For that level of experience with strong TDD or BDD chops, I'd expect £35k minimum, normally over £40k. My girlfriend likes the company though, so I might have to hope they keep this one quiet on their site or she'll be pushing me towards it. :-) -

[NWRUG] Rhodes to roam?

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Robinson
a bit over the next few weeks. I think the sync server could be pretty valuable to take off the shelf (which they're still selling), but it's not impossible to replicate that functionality by rolling your own. Thoughts? -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com ::

[NWRUG] MacRuby 0.6 out...

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Robinson
teresting stuff, methinks... -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registered Office: 3 Tivoli Place, Ilkley, W. Yorkshire, LS29 8SU Correspondence: 13 Crossland Road, Manchester, M21 9DU Signu

Re: [NWRUG] Talk on FluidDB?

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Robinson
pts, and is at least not just "Another NoSQL thing" in the works, but adds some extra layers to it. Could be interesting. I'm also a +1 on it. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, numb

Re: [NWRUG] Image orientation

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Robinson
ess that was good for resizing, crops and rotates and not much else, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. -- Paul Robinson http://vagueware.com :: p...@vagueware.com :: +44 (0) 7740 465746 Vagueware Limited is registered in England/Wales, number 05700421 Registe

Re: [NWRUG] 16th September – Ruby, Cloud Infrastru cture & Heroku

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 15 Sep 2010, at 18:22, Will Jessop wrote: > If you haven't already there is still time to sign up for NWRUG tomorrow: > > http://nwrug.org/events/september10/ > > Free pizza to all those that turn up! And there was plenty there! Sorry I had to dash at 9.20 but I don't get to see the other

[NWRUG] Rails Rumble "hub". Interested?

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi, Some of us with Fly The Coop[1] hats on, have been thinking about running some hackdays and stuff inside the space we rent at MadLab and getting some collaboration stuff going. Ian Moss and myself have been discussing doing something for Rails Rumble, and it seems Adam from OTB is aware of

[NWRUG] Rails Rumble at MadLab

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi all, We (as in Fly The Coop) have the ability to open up MadLab for pretty much the whole of the Rails Rumble weekend in a couple of weeks for teams who want a base in central Manchester. Unfortunately, we're going to be rather short-staffed, and I'm not massively keen on spending the whole

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Rails Rumble at MadLab

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Robinson
ll pretty much based in or around Manchester. > > Thanks, > Paul > > On 5 Oct, 10:02, Paul Robinson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We (as in Fly The Coop) have the ability to open up MadLab for pretty much >> the whole of the Rails Rumble weekend in a couple of wee

Re: [NWRUG] Next meeting this Thursday

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 16 Nov 2010, at 22:00, Ashley Moran wrote: > > On 16 Nov 2010, at 19:03, Will Jessop wrote: > >> Sorry about the late notice, just got back from the US. It's a curry >> meet this month: >> >> http://nwrug.org/events/october10/ >> >> No signup needed. Contact me for any information, all welc

Re: [NWRUG] Engine Yard are hiring an Application Support Engineer

2010-11-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Nov 2010, at 05:49, Will Jessop wrote: > If I wasn't going to 37signals I'd not be leaving. Wait, what was that now? You can't just nonchalantly drop that in as an aside... :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this g

Re: [NWRUG] Engine Yard are hiring an Application Support Engineer

2010-11-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Nov 2010, at 10:15, Ben Aldred wrote: > Paul, this is why you should come to NWRUG, your missing out on all the Ruby > gossip Well this year has been... difficult. But in 2011 I'll be around plenty, no fear... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [NWRUG] E commerce

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Robinson
On 23 Nov 2010, at 16:33, A Faraday wrote: > First NWRUG post, I'm working on an online shop, but before I start on > the actual transfer system, does anyone know the best way to do paypal > transactions from rails 3? > > Would be helpful to know the best gems/plugins for the job. Short version

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Girl Geek Tea Party 10 - Geeky Show & Tell

2010-11-26 Thread Paul Robinson
On 26 Nov 2010, at 10:53, Liz wrote: > Unfortunately I don't have permissions to add on the NWDC list I'll add the ability for you to post to the NWDC list in a minute. Thanks, Paul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this g

Re: [NWRUG] Working from Manchester tomorrow

2010-11-30 Thread Paul Robinson
On 30 Nov 2010, at 09:42, Will Jessop wrote: > A few of us are working from Manchester tomorrow. Probably in a > starbucks as the wifi is usually fairly good. We usually go for > something like a burrito for lunch and then maybe a few beers after > work. Let me know if you're up for it. Fly The

Re: [NWRUG] Meeting on Thursday

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jan 2011, at 22:37, Ashley Moran wrote: > As I pointed out in an email to Will, if you all want to eat the devil's > food, that's your prerogative :P I'm on a low-carb diet, but even *I* am going to shovel it down my food hole. C'mon, give in! Cheers for sp

[NWRUG] Ruby Koans

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Robinson
uld be to extend these to libraries, frameworks, etc. as I can't see any existing efforts to do so. -- Paul Robinson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nwrug-members@googleg

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby Koans

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Robinson
king of a very different kind of session to the one you did, although yours sounds appealing as well. I might attempt that in another setting - I suspect the time we have in the BBC isn't sufficient to make it viable for NWRUG's normal event. -- Paul Robinson -- You received this

Re: [NWRUG] Next meeting - tomorrow

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Robinson
On 20 Apr 2011, at 14:14, Will Jessop wrote: > Sorry about the late notice: > > http://nwrug.org/events/april11/ It's a real shame it's going to be all the way over on the MadLab side of town. Look what's happening next to the BBC tonight: http://www.kro.co.uk/news-events/kro2-s-annual-easter

Re: [NWRUG] Next meeting - tomorrow

2011-04-29 Thread Paul Robinson
On 29 Apr 2011, at 10:48, Tekin Suleyman wrote: > Question: What's the IRC client of choice for OS X? I normally have Adium open anyway, and that can IRC. #recommendedforthelazy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group,

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 17 May 2011, at 13:41, Will Jessop wrote: > Anyone got any suggestions for where we can meet? We'd need somewhere > relatively quiet with a projector. MadLab? If not, if you contact the Lass O'Gowrie and tell Gareth I sent you, he might hand over the Salmon room upstairs in there for free

Re: [NWRUG] Thursday

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Robinson
On 17 May 2011, at 17:36, Will Jessop wrote: > I think it's maybe a bit late to arrange the talk now, might consider > them in the the Lass O'Gowrie in the future though. Gareth is very accommodating, and he did say that for anything I gave a hat tip to as being "geek" and "crowd that likes bee

Re: [NWRUG] Fwd: MFS Talk. Tues, 21 June. "PostgreSQL and 2ndQuadrant", Simon Riggs.

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Robinson
On 2 Jun 2011, at 12:19, Adam Holt wrote: > On Thursday, 2 June 2011 at 12:17, Caius Durling wrote: > >> On 2 Jun 2011, at 12:11, Will Jessop wrote: >> >>> I'll probably head along to this. >> >> Think I'll turn up too. Probably work in Manc for the afternoon as >> well if anyone else fancies

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby on Rails companies in North West

2011-10-11 Thread Paul Robinson
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:18 PM, benald...@gmail.com wrote: My current list is: Star Dot Star, Setfire Media and On the Beach. > > Seriously? That list is rather short. Laughably short considering the use of Ruby I know of in the North West. We (Stratajet) are going to be looking in a month or

[NWRUG] Service Oriented Architecture anybody?

2013-01-21 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi all, I'm asking NWRUG this despite being in London these days, because I know some of you might have dealt with similar setups. Oh, and I've been to far, far more NWRUG meets than I have LRUG. :-) I'm currently trying to get my head around an app that has an architecture heavily inspired by

Re: [NWRUG] Service Oriented Architecture anybody?

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 21 Jan 2013, at 17:41, Francis Fish wrote: > Sounds like a bad case of premature optimisation to me. There are some gems > knocking around where you can record and replay responses from external API > calls (not used them in an age so ... guys?) that may help you write some > tests. Yup,

Re: [NWRUG] Service Oriented Architecture anybody?

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Jan 2013, at 11:24, doug livesey wrote: > I don't think that 'un-rails-like' is necessarily a bad thing, to be honest. It depends on your "religion". If you think that the power of rapid Rails development is embodied by the mantra "convention over configuration", then you are losing a l

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby Manor

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Jan 2013, at 14:46, Will Jessop wrote: > I've got a ticket and will probably travel down by train Lord Smalley > class mid afternoon the day before, travelling back the day after. > > If anyone wants to join me in this they're welcome. I am already in permanent Lord Smalley class by livi

Re: [NWRUG] Ruby Manor

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robinson
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 for finding beer in London: 1. The CAMRA book/app is worth referring to 2.

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Service Oriented Architecture anybody?

2013-01-22 Thread Paul Robinson
On 22 Jan 2013, at 18:35, Graham Ashton wrote: > I've got a write up of how I refactored a Rails controller with some of the > hexagonal ideas here: > > https://www.theagileplanner.com/blog/building-agile-planner/refactoring-with-hexagonal-rails I read that this afternoon, planning to go thro

Re: [NWRUG] Recommended Ruby Conferences

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Robinson
On 4 Mar 2013, at 14:56, Ben Gibbs wrote: > If I was to attend 2 Ruby conferences each year, which 2 should they be? The two that you want to go to the most. I'm not being facetious, I'm serious. There are lots of conferences out there and some of them will make you go "Wow, I want to go to

Re: [NWRUG] Recommended Ruby Conferences

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Robinson
On 4 Mar 2013, at 18:00, Ian Moss wrote: > If Ruby Conf England is occurring this year - I'd assumed it wasn't now, > it'd be great to know the dates, so that I can potentially support > another local conference. Especially if it's in the sub £100 category, > or there's a one day option. I beli

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 19 Jul 2013, at 20:02, Graham Ashton wrote: > Having just said that functional tests are like mini integeration tests for > the controller/view interaction, they often give me a similar sized step into > the unknown as a unit test. I use them to TDD my controller/view combination, > and as

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jul 2013, at 12:23, Ian Moss wrote: > Given that the ActiveAdmin 'controller' method 'export' exports a csv > and it has been called in a http request, > And I'm using TestUnit > As A Developer, I want to assert that the file 'export.txt' is created > and sent as a http response > > I gues

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 19 Jul 2013, at 14:36, Sean Bamforth wrote: > Grar! > Rubydrama! > etc., LRUG would challenge your use of "drama" for this... :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jul 2013, at 15:18, Sean Bamforth wrote: > What I find interesting in the Active* objects is that there's a tendency not > to subclass methods. Instead, people will assign container class methods to > event properties. I suspect it's because some languages don't allow you to > subclass m

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Robinson
On 18 Jul 2013, at 11:06, Graham Ashton wrote: > God no. For me it's the Ruby community's repeated failure to understand the > purpose of testing, and the consequent obsession with finding more ways to > decrease our ability to save/make money for the organisations we work for. > > Actually no

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Robinson
On 19 Jul 2013, at 21:01, Graham Ashton wrote: > Sometimes though, you want to advocate is a move away from a current > practice. How do you go about doing that? Ship code. There are three important parts of writing software well as a professional (you can skip either or both of the first tw

Re: [NWRUG] Cutting and pasting from Word

2013-07-20 Thread Paul Robinson
On 20 Jul 2013, at 13:26, Ash Moran wrote: > Since you mention it, that's what I'm spending my spare time doing right now. > It's not "announced", and the source in only on GitHub to get it out of my > application repo, but Realm[1] is my attempt to build a toolkit for complex > domain, small

Re: [NWRUG] Understanding Computation 50% off today

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Robinson
On 13 Sep 2013, at 23:21, 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? Ooooh, off-topic rant! Ace, let's get started! :-) I love my Kindle Paperwhite. I really do. However there are acceptable exceptions

Re: [NWRUG] eBooks, Kindles and dead trees (was: Re: Understanding Computation 50% off today)

2013-09-15 Thread Paul Robinson
On 15 Sep 2013, at 09:35, doug livesey wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I still buy them for it, as it's cheaper and more > convenient to carry around, but I find code examples wrapped too much, and > the lack of colour is a real disadvantage, too. > Technical books that I really need to study & gr

Re: [NWRUG] eBooks, Kindles and dead trees (was: Re: Understanding Computation 50% off today)

2013-09-15 Thread Paul Robinson
On 15 Sep 2013, at 11:46, doug livesey wrote: > My last tech book was on AngularJS (front-end stuff not being a strong point > for me), and my next is on game physics (my maths is pretty weak for this > area), and in both cases, seeing code helps me a lot more than abstract > theory. I've be

[NWRUG] [JOBS] London gig at Livestation.com

2013-09-26 Thread Paul Robinson
acid than move to London, but thought I'd put it out there. Paul Robinson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googl

Re: [NWRUG] Greetings from Japan

2014-07-25 Thread Paul Robinson
On 24 July 2014 13:10, Louis Goff-Beardsley wrote: I think eventually the acceptance of remote working from UK companies will > drive up salaries in non-London roles. I remember telling several Manchester tech employers about 3 years ago the easiest way for Manchester to become a major Europea

Re: [NWRUG] Manchester Go user group

2014-07-30 Thread Paul Robinson
On 30 July 2014 18:56, Alex Lynham wrote: Also not sure how long 8 or 16GB equates to in terms of HD video... An iPhone 5 runs at about 20MB/minute of HD including audio +/- 5MB, so about 1.5GB/hour is normally a good estimate. A proper HD camera could easily be 4x that for reasons I'll explain

Re: [NWRUG] Re: We need an Android programmer

2015-01-26 Thread Paul Robinson
Well, that's helpful: > From: Luke Waller (Ruby Recruiter) It's almost like a clue... "Danger Will Jessop! Danger!", etc. On 26 January 2015 at 08:59, Luke Waller (Ruby Recruiter) < waller...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Will, > > I have a friend working for a tech company in Ireland as a sen

Re: [NWRUG] Re: Full Time Ruby Gig in Leeds

2015-02-05 Thread Paul Robinson
It might not be them, but as an aside: if Sky are moving up to Leeds and trying to recruit NWRUG'ers, I'd encourage all of you to consider their roles if you're not 100% happy in the ones you're in. I interviewed for them a few years back in Brent and was offered a role, turned it down as had some

Re: [NWRUG] NHS Hack Day Manchester??? sept/oct 2015

2015-05-18 Thread Paul Robinson
I could give a lot of advice here, but my knowledge is now date. It's best you make contact with people who have attempted to do this stuff before and more recently than most. Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden) and Gemma Cameron (@rubygem) are both worth speaking to. Good luck. On 18 May 2015 at 12:54

Re: [NWRUG] Re: This is a bit embarrassing...

2018-02-07 Thread Paul Robinson
I'm not Sean, but at my place down at that Notonthehighstreet.com (known to those within as "NOTHS"), we've been doing continuous deployment for at least 3-4 years, and it's now on its 2nd or 3rd generation/iteration. So I'll answer these questions based on what we do, not on what Sean does, ob