[NWRUG] Dj, alternative to Bj

2008-10-31 Thread Will Jessop
Has some nice features over Bj like being able to run multiple workers per server: http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master Github are using it: http://github.com/blog/197-the-new-queue Will. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you a

[NWRUG] Could this be the next NWRUG meetup?

2008-10-31 Thread Will Jessop
http://nwrug.org/events/november08/ If you need any more information then feel free to email me off-list, and if you are planning on getting lost on the way to the venue on the night then my number is 07939 547 962. The Paramount pub does good curry on Thursdays, so arrive hungry. Hop

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-15 Thread Will Jessop
Sorry about the late notice everyone. The next NWRUG is Thursday 18th December in the Paramount, start at 19:00: http://nwrug.org/events/december08/ This month we are hoping to catch and roast in the christmas style a member of the Drupal users group, some of whom turned up last week. Will.

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-20 Thread Will Jessop
On 17 Dec 2008, at 18:15, Paul Robinson wrote: > 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 i

[NWRUG] Re: Parsing Word Files?

2008-12-20 Thread Will Jessop
On 18 Dec 2008, at 09:24, Francis Fish wrote: > OR ... use openoffice and a macro via a system call? You can run OpenOffice in headless mode, some of our clients do. Might help! Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

[NWRUG] Holy shit! (Ruby on Rails and Merb merging)

2008-12-23 Thread Will Jessop
You have probably heard from twitter now, but Ruby on Rails and Merb are merging: http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/12/23/merb-is-rails http://rubyonrails.org/merb http://yehudakatz.com/2008/12/23/rails-and-merb-merge/ What do people thing, will we get an amazing framework, or will the creati

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-28 Thread Will Jessop
On 20 Dec 2008, at 11:59, John Jones wrote: > I would be interested too, but probably could do with a Noddy's Guide > to cloud computing first to get the most benefit. I've been peeping > over the fence at cloud computing for some time (and Erlang too) with > a view to implementing our trading rob

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-28 Thread Will Jessop
On 20 Dec 2008, at 12:03, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:45 am, Will Jessop wrote: > >> Would anyone be interested in a talk on Vertebra? > > Yes definitely. Has this got me out of doing a presentation now? :) If you want, for a month at least ;) How long do you

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-29 Thread Will Jessop
On 29 Dec 2008, at 02:59, Ashley Moran wrote: > With this in mind maybe you should do yours in Jan and I can do mine > in Feb? That way I won't cause the loss of will-to-live among too > many people :) I figured your talk might be quite long, let's say Feb. (this might change, it depends if we

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2008-12-30 Thread Will Jessop
On 29 Dec 2008, at 21:05, David Spurr wrote: > When is the Jan meetup? 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. Will. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2009-01-05 Thread Will Jessop
On 5 Jan 2009, at 19:40, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:25 pm, 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. > > It'

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG meetup

2009-01-05 Thread Will Jessop
It's a pub-meet again, arrangements for the room couldn't be made in time for talks to be arranged but we should be able to kick the talks off again next month. The meeting will be on Thursday January 15th in the Paramount, more details here: http://nwrug.org/events/January09/ http://upcom

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2009-01-05 Thread Will Jessop
On 5 Jan 2009, at 21:08, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Jan 05, 2009, at 8:37 pm, Will Jessop wrote: >> Dash it lads, Ashleys on to us! >> >> Just kidding, will put the details up now. Have been trying to >> organise a room, we will have to start the talks next month, issues

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2009-01-06 Thread Will Jessop
On 6 Jan 2009, at 09:07, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Jan 05, 2009, at 11:49 pm, doug livesey wrote: >> Rock harder -- there's time enough for sleep when you're dead! > > When I don't get enough sleep, I feel like I'm dead anyway... I'm sure twice a month won't kill you :) Will --~--~-~--~-

[NWRUG] Re: Working with a legacy HTML + SSI Site

2009-01-07 Thread Will Jessop
On 7 Jan 2009, at 09:28, Matt Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been asked to make quite a lot of changes to an existing web > site. At the moment its all HTML with SSI's, and a wee bit of perl > thrown in for good measure. > > Obviously I want/have to to use rails to implement all the funky n

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG is very soon

2009-01-15 Thread Will Jessop
On 14 Jan 2009, at 14:01, Paul Robinson wrote: > 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 verdi

[NWRUG] Tonight

2009-01-15 Thread Will Jessop
Raise your hand if you're going! /me raises hand -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscrib

[NWRUG] Re: Tonight

2009-01-15 Thread Will Jessop
d, > and she cooks a mean tea, so I'll not be entirely inconsolable ... I'm sure she'll be glad to see you… I'l get my coat ;) -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-

[NWRUG] Re: Tonight

2009-01-15 Thread Will Jessop
Well hope to see you out soon. Drinking beer and all-you-can eat chinese food can cure anything! > Alas not me I expect. Sorry but see you all soon. That's OK, i'm getting you back by in-line top-posting. > (sorry for top posting - damn iPhone) This line intentionally left

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG meeting, Thursday February 19th - Nanite (and an introduction to cloud computing)

2009-02-06 Thread Will Jessop
I will be talking about Nanite. Nanite is a new way of thinking about building cloud ready web applications. Having a scalable message queueing back-end with all the discovery and dynamic load based dispatch that Nanite has is a very scalable way to construct web application back-ends. The

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG meeting, Thursday February 19th - Nanite (and an introduction to cloud computing)

2009-02-17 Thread Will Jessop
On 6 Feb 2009, at 20:06, Will Jessop wrote: > More details: http://nwrug.org/events/february09/ > > If you want to come please email me as I really need to know the > numbers so I can order the right amount of food and drink. You can > also sign up on the Upcoming event page i

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG meeting, Thursday February 19th - Nanite (and an introduction to cloud computing)

2009-02-20 Thread Will Jessop
On 19 Feb 2009, at 17:34, doug livesey wrote: > Aaaagggh! > I'm stuck in the office again! > Hope it goes really well, & really wish I wasn't about to miss it -- > I've been looking forwards to this for months! > Sorry. >Doug. The slides and resources are up, though the slides don't make a

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG meeting, Thursday February 19th - Nanite (and an introduction to cloud computing)

2009-02-20 Thread Will Jessop
On 20 Feb 2009, at 18:28, doug livesey wrote: > Thanks for those -- that'll be my weekend reading. > How did it go? Dunno, didn't see the talk myself ;) OK though I think. The beer and pizza seemed to go down well as you might imagine :) Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--

[NWRUG] March meeting advance notice

2009-02-25 Thread Will Jessop
beer (thanks Brightbox!). More details to come in an official announcement. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[NWRUG] Scumbag recruiter

2009-02-27 Thread Will Jessop
ing this one on because the job description just seems slightly less slimy than most, like it was actually written by someone with some sort of knowledge of what they were talking about. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939

[NWRUG] Re: Scumbag recruiter

2009-02-27 Thread Will Jessop
i'm not sending *you* a christmas card this year then ;) -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subs

[NWRUG] NWRUG 19th March - Search in your Rails app

2009-03-01 Thread Will Jessop
Brightbox so there will be free Pizza, Beer and soft drinks after the talks, and maybe some T-Shirts and stickers too. Schedule • 6:30pm :: Welcome & Registration • 7:00pm :: Talks on Sphinx, Solr & Ferret by Will Jessop, Asa Calow & John Leach • 7:45pm ::

[NWRUG] Meeting on Thursday

2009-03-17 Thread Will Jessop
next month, we should be OK then. What would people prefer? -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are su

[NWRUG] Re: Meeting on Thursday

2009-03-17 Thread Will Jessop
On 17 Mar 2009, at 12:03, Will Jessop wrote: > The other option is just to postpone the talks until next month, we > should be OK then. > > What would people prefer? I should clarify, there would still be a social meeting if we postponed the talks to next month, though spons

[NWRUG] Re: Meeting on Thursday

2009-03-17 Thread Will Jessop
Woo, we have a venue! Thanks Derek and the BBC. More details to follow. On 17 Mar 2009, at 12:03, Will Jessop wrote: > MDDA don't have enough staff available on Thursday for our meeting so > we're out. I am trying to find somewhere else, though no-where is > looking particula

[NWRUG] NWRUG Thursday 19th March - Search in your App. - Venue change

2009-03-17 Thread Will Jessop
road by security with dogs, will get no pizza and will be forced to do an impromptu 5 minute talk on a subject of the audiences choosing. In your underwear. You have been warned :) Email or call me (07939 547 962) if you need more information or get lost on the night. Will. -- Will Jessop

[NWRUG] Reminder: NWRUG change of venue

2009-03-19 Thread Will Jessop
We're at the BBC in Manchester, not the MDDA this month: http://smallr.com/967 Call me (07939 547 962) if you are having problems finding the venue or need help getting into the building. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547

[NWRUG] Re: Last nights meet-up

2009-03-20 Thread Will Jessop
On 20 Mar 2009, at 11:10, Tekin Suleyman wrote: > I'm liking the fact that we've had talks the last couple of months > and to try and keep this going, I'm volunteering myself to give one > at some point. So, quick straw poll: How many people here are not > using git for the version control?

[NWRUG] Re: Ruby CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Will Jessop
it needs updating). Not had any experience with any others to tell you if it's the best one to use or not. My opinion is that it's 'OK' :) Will. * http://radiantcms.org/ -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development

[NWRUG] Re: Last nights meet-up

2009-03-26 Thread Will Jessop
On 26 Mar 2009, at 19:09, Ashley Moran wrote: > On 25 Mar 2009, at 10:06, Caius Durling wrote: > >> You don't play with LaTeX very often then? :) > > Ha, no I don't as it happens. Why... is it friendlier than git? :) I suspect it'd be a bugger to deploy with…

[NWRUG] NWRUG 16th April – BDD, you know you shoul d be doing it

2009-04-06 Thread Will Jessop
same information on the NWRUG site in a more bookmark-able form: http://nwrug.org/events/april09/ -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[NWRUG] Meeting tonight

2009-04-16 Thread Will Jessop
Don't forget, if you want to come to the meeting tonight please email me! Details: http://nwrug.org/events/april09/ -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobo

[NWRUG] Re: Meeting tonight

2009-04-16 Thread Will Jessop
On 16 Apr 2009, at 10:37, Asa Calow wrote: > I'm in! I've added you to the list! -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[NWRUG] Re: Meeting tonight

2009-04-16 Thread Will Jessop
On 16 Apr 2009, at 10:40, doug livesey wrote: > *Really* wish I could make it -- is there any chance anyone will be > recording it? Nope, sorry Doug :( -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrob

[NWRUG] Re: Meeting tonight

2009-04-16 Thread Will Jessop
On 16 Apr 2009, at 10:49, David Graham wrote: > Asa Calow wrote: >> I'm in! > me too! ;) Requesting to be added to the list three times will not equate to a three fold increase in your pizza allowance David ;) -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Profession

[NWRUG] Nginx + Passenger

2009-04-17 Thread Will Jessop
For anyone who prefers Nginx this is good news: http://blog.phusion.nl/2009/04/16/phusions-one-year-anniversary-gift-phusion-passenger-220/ Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com

[NWRUG] NWRUG last night

2009-04-17 Thread Will Jessop
meetings when I know them. Will -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &q

[NWRUG] Re: Altering the id that my rails models are identified by -- to_param alone not sufficient

2009-04-28 Thread Will Jessop
end class Joke < ActiveRecord::Base … def to_param urlid end … end And that's it! You can take a peek at the eventual outcome: http://jokes-o-matic.com/categories/gross/jokes/Bear-guts Don't know why it's not working for you though! Will. -- Wil

[NWRUG] Re: multiple apps on a phusion passenger server

2009-05-06 Thread Will Jessop
to applications 1 & 2 respectively? It's really easy, just configure another vhost in Apache. Use a different hostname for each vhost and it will just work. You can then go to http://app1/ or http://app2/ in your browser (/etc/ hosts mangling on your local machine might be required). Will

[NWRUG] Re: multiple apps on a phusion passenger server

2009-05-06 Thread Will Jessop
config.ru and environment.rb files in your apps? Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[NWRUG] Re: multiple apps on a phusion passenger server

2009-05-06 Thread Will Jessop
On 6 May 2009, at 14:15, Francis Fish wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Will Jessop wrote: >> On 6 May 2009, at 13:17, Francis Fish wrote: > > This might or might not get you - but when I upgraded to the latest > > passenger I needed to set PassengerDefaultUse

[NWRUG] Re: multiple apps on a phusion passenger server

2009-05-07 Thread Will Jessop
or testing locally I have always just added entries into /etc/hosts but there may be better ways. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

[NWRUG] Re: multiple apps on a phusion passenger server

2009-05-07 Thread Will Jessop
p :) Personally I would be putting this entry in my /etc/hosts file manually: 127.0.0.1 name1 127.0.0.1 name2 The ghost gem might help with this but I haven't used it. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 9

[NWRUG] Fwd: [GeekUp] Web orientated developer needed

2009-05-08 Thread Will Jessop
We also have an urgent project requiring Ruby skills so if anyone > out there is willing to be taken on a contract basis for that > project we’d consider that direction too for the short-term. > > One more note, if you know of any students looking for a summer > placement let

[NWRUG] Comparing software versions - just for fun

2009-05-08 Thread Will Jessop
and see if people could come up with a shorter/better/more exciting way of doing this. It is Friday after all, party on ;) Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~--

[NWRUG] Next meeting - Thursday 21st May

2009-05-14 Thread Will Jessop
/ Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group.

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery and an introduction to Zsh

2009-06-10 Thread Will Jessop
http://gist.github.com/ or http://pastie.org/ including any comments about how you think you need help and send the resulting URL as a reply to this email. Hope to see you all there! Will -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w:

[NWRUG] NWRUG is now on irc

2009-06-11 Thread Will Jessop
irc.freenode.net channel #nwrug Feel free to idle along with the rest of us :) Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[NWRUG] Incrementing invoice numbers the crazy way

2009-06-11 Thread Will Jessop
ly create a string containing the next in the sequence, so "INV0123" becomes "INV124", but in the craziest way possible. Use of pack or c extensions a bonus. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://

[NWRUG] Code for next Thursday

2009-06-11 Thread Will Jessop
I figured I'd start a new thread for this. I'm going to kick off the code surgery submissions with this: http://gist.github.com/128201 It's a script to fetch, store and email Dilbert every day. Works fine but has some warts. Feel free to submit your own! Will. -- Will Jes

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery and an introduction to Zsh - Now with added sponsorship!

2009-06-17 Thread Will Jessop
in. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. T

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery and an introduction to Zsh - Now with added sponsorship!

2009-06-17 Thread Will Jessop
Added you, thanks On 17 Jun 2009, at 15:01, Tekin Suleyman wrote: > see you there. > tekin > On 17 Jun 2009, at 13:53, Will Jessop wrote: --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG"

[NWRUG] Re: Code for next Thursday

2009-06-18 Thread Will Jessop
If anyone was planning on submitting code they should do so to the list, it will help if people get a look at it in advance. Of course if no-one does submit code that does mean there's more time for eating pizza which is win-win in my view! Will. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Will J

[NWRUG] Re: Code for next Thursday

2009-06-18 Thread Will Jessop
Well, unless GMail has dropped them, yep, just the one. Will. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Lee Hambley wrote: > Will, > Have there really been so few submissions? (e.g. one, from you) > - Lee -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t:

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery and an introduction to Zsh - Now with added sponsorship!

2009-06-18 Thread Will Jessop
an always retire to the bar a bit earlier. Unless you're volunteering for a short talk that is ;) Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery and an introduction to Zsh - Now with added sponsorship!

2009-06-18 Thread Will Jessop
On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:32, Ashley Moran wrote: > On 18 Jun 2009, at 12:20, Will Jessop wrote: > There's still Ashley's Zsh talk > > I hope no one thinks I'm some sort of awesome zsh guru... Will only > asked for a 5-10 min demo! Knowing my luck one of the zsh core t

[NWRUG] Re: Next NWRUG - 18th June – Code Surgery and an introduction to Zsh - Now with added sponsorship!

2009-06-19 Thread Will Jessop
to something now =) > > I swear the stuff I post here will be the ruin of me. Good job it's > not like publicly available to the whole world, or anything... For some definitions of 'not' ;) -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and deve

[NWRUG] Re: parse an xml snippet to a hash

2009-07-02 Thread Will Jessop
; > > Is there a quick & easy way to turn this into the following hash? > > { "result" { "successes" => { "1" => "a08200HqJzUAAV", "2" => > "a08200HqJzsAAF", "3" => "a08200HqJzVAA

[NWRUG] Re: parse an xml snippet to a hash

2009-07-02 Thread Will Jessop
7;t mind the syntax myself. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[NWRUG] Re: Running rake as a cron job (with puts)

2009-07-06 Thread Will Jessop
k: MAILTO=your address above the jobs you want to receive the output from. Also, if you're running anything intense/regularly you should really use something like lockrun (http://unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html) to prevent overrun, swapping and untimely server death. Will. --

[NWRUG] Re: Running rake as a cron job (with puts)

2009-07-06 Thread Will Jessop
lose that edge in low memory situations or where the server is swapping. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message bec

[NWRUG] Re: Running rake as a cron job (with puts)

2009-07-06 Thread Will Jessop
lly.) apt-get exim should do you. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG - 16th July – Source control St and-off

2009-07-10 Thread Will Jessop
t of food. This month I shall be publicly coating people with squeezy cheesy peas who turn up without signing up using the above form. You have been warned. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot

[NWRUG] Re: my post seems to have disappeared

2009-07-13 Thread Will Jessop
ser themselves. The system prevents the list getting spammed. You're now approved to post without moderation. I'd have done it earlier but I was collecting my daughter from pre-school :) Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and develo

[NWRUG] Re: Recommendations for Ruby XPath library for HTML (not necessarily well-formed)

2009-07-16 Thread Will Jessop
On 16 Jul 2009, at 00:50, doug livesey wrote: > Loving nokogiri -- cheers! You might want to take a look at the CSS selectors unless you really need to use XPath, I prefer them and I think Nokigiri supports them. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design

[NWRUG] Re: Hoptoad

2009-07-16 Thread Will Jessop
st sends you it once. I think http://getexceptional.com/ is pretty similar (though doesn't have a free plan). I've not checked out either of them though. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07

[NWRUG] Meeting times

2009-07-17 Thread Will Jessop
sk you lot what time you would prefer. I'll pick the most popular: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGJCdEZZdDBSbXhNUXVZNmVFa2NURHc6MA .. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supe

[NWRUG] Thanks to Andrew form Liquid Bronze

2009-07-17 Thread Will Jessop
…for the Pizza and driving me round Manchester to collect it. They've got a new website that I didn't send out in the initial announcement so I'm sending it now! http://www.liquidbronze.com/ Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and

[NWRUG] Next meeting 20th August – Capistrano: fro m noob to winner

2009-07-28 Thread Will Jessop
eing held at one of our regular venues, the BBC Manchester main building on Oxford Road in central Manchester (http://smallr.com/967 ). If you get lost call Will on 07939 547 962. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w:

[NWRUG] Re: Advice on https in Rails apps

2009-07-31 Thread Will Jessop
ps that need HTTPS. > & any pointers to tuts & other resources would be very gratefully > received. There's not much to be aware of, but something like the ssl_requirement plugin will help make sure you're using SSL when needed: http://github.com/rails/ssl_requirement/tree

[NWRUG] Re: Advice on https in Rails apps

2009-07-31 Thread Will Jessop
On 31 Jul 2009, at 23:48, doug livesey wrote: > That looks well useful, cheers. > So that's it? Cool! :) You don't even *need* that plugin, it's just useful. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t:

[NWRUG] Re: lockrun

2009-08-01 Thread Will Jessop
ne: cd /path/to/app/ && /usr/local/bin/lockrun --lockfile=/tmp/ file.lockrun -- rake some:rake:task Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[NWRUG] Re: lockrun

2009-08-01 Thread Will Jessop
;& /usr/bin/lockrun --lockfile=/tmp/poop -- pwd /data ey03-s00164 data # cd ey03-s00164 ~ # /usr/bin/lockrun --lockfile=/tmp/poop -- cd /data && pwd /root Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 96

[NWRUG] Food options for the meeting.

2009-08-11 Thread Will Jessop
lets hear them. Except hos and crack, I'm not allowed. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are sub

[NWRUG] Talks and Sponsorship

2009-08-25 Thread Will Jessop
e are certainly more attendees. If anyone wants to do a talk in September or later then let me know. A 20 minute talk doesn't take that long to write and it doesn't have to be just on purely Ruby, the groups interests are pretty broad. Contact me or discuss on list if you want t

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG - 17th September – Smooth web a pps with Varnish

2009-09-02 Thread Will Jessop
e of our regular venues, the BBC Manchester main building on Oxford Road in central Manchester (Directions). If you get lost call Will on 07939 547 962. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot

[NWRUG] Varnish

2009-09-18 Thread Will Jessop
at to see so many people and sorry about the bar/food fiasco, it didn't quite go according to plan. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG - 15th October – Uses and Abuse s of Mocks and Stubs

2009-10-05 Thread Will Jessop
d in central Manchester (Directions). If you get lost call Will on 07939 547 962. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mes

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG meeting (15th October)

2009-10-09 Thread Will Jessop
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cG9TNWpCQXVlamg5eGJYZEJNWkxLQ3c6MA I could really do with knowing the number of people attending by Monday midday. It's OK to sign up later, but it makes my job a lot easier if you do it sooner. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Rob

[NWRUG] Re: Grouping arrays together to the make one full one, sort of, kinda..

2009-10-22 Thread Will Jessop
ql > called because theres no joins. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG, speaker needed!

2009-10-22 Thread Will Jessop
Hi All, Mihai has volunteered to talk on Tokyo Cabinet at the November NWRUG. It would be great if there was another talk on that day along similar lines, so maybe redis, memcached, couchdb, mongodb etc. Anyone fancy having a go? Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited

[NWRUG] Talks in November/December

2009-10-28 Thread Will Jessop
We have a couple of options for talks over the next two months, please consider and comment on the following plans: Plan a) All meetings on the regular day (third Thursday): November: Mihai on Tokyo Cabinet (& possibly redis) December: David on "Get that skinkin' PHP outta my face"* January: n

[NWRUG] Re: Talks in November/December

2009-10-28 Thread Will Jessop
On 28 Oct 2009, at 15:31, doug livesey wrote: > Definitely plan b) for me -- would love to learn more about both > Tokyo Cabinet & CouchDB. It's my favourite too, I'm out of the country for the November meeting :( Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[NWRUG] Group sponsorship

2009-11-02 Thread Will Jessop
It's not necessary for the meetings, but it's nice :) We currently have meetings planned for November (Coding dojo run by Ashley, details soon), December and January but no sponsorship. Let me know if you or your company is interested. Usual cost is ~£100 for the meeting. Will. --~--~---

[NWRUG] Re: Google Wave invites

2009-11-12 Thread Will Jessop
e Wave other than just using up browser tab space :) Add me (will.jes...@googlewave.com) if you create one if you would! Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://

[NWRUG] 10th Dec meeting

2009-12-02 Thread Will Jessop
o get a feel for the number of people who actually care :) Speak up! Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NW

Re: [NWRUG] 10th Dec meeting

2009-12-03 Thread Will Jessop
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Ben Aldred wrote: > I thought nwrug was on the 17th Usually on the Third Thursday (17th this month), but this month is a special case. Will -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: h

[NWRUG] 10th December – Tokyo Cabinet and Couch DB

2009-12-07 Thread Will Jessop
ular venues, the BBC Manchester main building on Oxford Road in central Manchester. If you get lost call Will on 07939 547 962. Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ -- You received this message bec

[NWRUG] NWRUG: Tonight

2009-12-10 Thread Will Jessop
Don't forget to signup if you're coming: http://nwrug.org/events/december09/ Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w: http://supershinyrobot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [NWRUG] protect_from_forgery is screwing my JSON web service up

2009-12-13 Thread Will Jessop
On 12 Dec 2009, at 01:57, Alex Barlow wrote: > With api keys im not sure of any tutorials but when someone signs up > you can create a ramdon key for them (md5 ruby class with do that > you) and then you can authenticate each request with that key, to > check if its valid and you can also ch

[NWRUG] Next NWRUG meeting - 21st January – UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel

2010-01-08 Thread Will Jessop
fore the event, and I need to arrange the correct amount of food. Location This meeting is being held at one of our regular venues, the BBC Manchester main building on Oxford Road in central Manchester. If you get lost call Will on 07939 547 962. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professi

Re: [NWRUG] Is there an agreed-upon convention for return codes for RESTful web services?

2010-02-04 Thread Will Jessop
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM, doug livesey wrote: > & if there is, is it documented anywhere? > I'm getting bored of 200, 201, 422, and 500! I've not had a problem with using the existing ones, what do you see as missing? Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limite

[NWRUG] This month

2010-02-16 Thread Will Jessop
It's alive! Apologies for the late notice, you wouldn't believe the good excuses I've got. Social-ish this month, at MadLab: http://nwrug.org/events/february10/ Bring your own booze, and I'm pretty keen to use the projector for some good, if you've got something to talk about or a talk you've d

[NWRUG] Next NWUG meeting

2010-03-14 Thread Will Jessop
Just a social meeting this month, but with options of either Curry at Wetherspoons or All-you-can-eat Chinese down the road it should be good anyway :) http://nwrug.org/events/March10/ Will. -- Will Jessop Super Shiny Robot Limited - Professional web design and development t: 07939 547 962 w

[NWRUG] SugarCRM Ruby integration

2010-04-16 Thread Will Jessop
Anyone integrated any Ruby with the SugarCRM system? It looks like it has a SOAP API, but that anyone have any experience of it? Will. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nwrug-memb...@googlegroups.com.

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