I forgot to blog about this earlier, but Adam Holt will be talking about all things mongo on Thursday the 17th June (that’s tomorrow at the time of posting). There will be free pizza afterwards, you just need to sign up (soon) if you’re coming.
I forgot to blog about this earlier, but Adam Holt will be talking about all things mongo on Thursday the 17th June (that’s tomorrow at the time of posting). There will be free pizza afterwards, you just need to sign up (soon) if you’re coming.
The original announcement is available on the NWRUG site.
This month John Leach of Brightbox will be talking on UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel.
“Those who don’t understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.”
We in the Ruby Community seem to have a habit of re-inventing things. Sometimes this is for good reason, but in some cases we don’t know we’re even doing it! We’re wasting valuable time that could be spent learning Erlang!
UNIX-like operating systems have been around for decades and lots of problems have come and gone in that time. I’m going to talk about some of the tools available that can be used to solve common Ruby and Rails deployment and development problems.
Brightbox will also be sponsoring the event so there will be pizzas available after the meeting in Odder across the road from the meeting.
6:30pm :: Welcome & Pre-session bar visit.
7:00pm :: UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel by John Leach of Brightbox
7:45pm :: Pizzas at the Odder bar across the road sponsored by Brightbox
If you want more information email nwrug@willj.net, call Will on 07939 547 962 or tweet @will_j.
If you would like to attend this event please sign up here as the BBC need a list of attendees before the event, and I need to arrange the correct amount of food.
This meeting is being held at one 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.
This month David Smalley of Litmus will be talking about Varnish, the high-performance HTTP accelerator that makes doctype fly.
No sponsorship this month, but never fear, the BBC bar is fairly cheap and the Odder bar across the road serves nice pizzas.
Schedule
Please note we’re back on our old start time of 6:30pm
6:30pm :: Welcome & Pre-session bar visit.
7:00pm :: Everything you ever wanted to know about Varnish by David Smalley of Litmus
7:30pm :: Drinks at the BBC bar
8:00pm :: Off to Odder across the road. Odder serves food until 8:30.
If you want more information email nwrug@willj.net, call Will on 07939 547 962 or tweet @will_j.
Sign Up
If you would like to attend this event please sign up here. as the BBC need a list of attendees before the event. There’s an Upcoming event page but please use the form above.
Location
This meeting is being held at one 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.
This month Sam Phillips and Lee Hambley of Setfire Media will be taking us through Capistrano from just starting out to advanced usage.
Sponsorship is kindly provided this month by Setfire Media, so free pizza will once again be available.
Please note we’re back on our old start time of 6:30pm
If you want more information email nwrug@willj.net, call Will on 07939 547 962 or tweet @will_j.
If you would like to attend this event please sign up here.. as the BBC need a list of attendees before the event and I really need to know the numbers so I can order the right amount of food and drink. There’s an Upcoming event page but please use the form above. This month I shall be publicly covering people with brussel sprouts who arrive without signing up. You have been warned.
This meeting is being held at one 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.
This month Tekin Suleyman and Ashley Moran will be helping us get started with, and comparing, the Git and Darcs SCM systems.
Sponsorship is kindly provided this month by Liquidbronze, so free pizza will once again be available.
If you want more information email nwrug@willj.net, call Will on 07939 547 962 or tweet @will_j.
If you would like to attend this event please sign up here.. as the BBC need a list of attendees before the event and I really need to know the numbers so I can order the right amount of food and drink. There’s an Upcoming event page but please use the form above. This month I shall be publicly coating people with squeezy cheesy peas who turn up without signing up. You have been warned.
This meeting is being held at one 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.
the June NWRUG is tonight. There will be a code surgery and introduction to Zsh. Plus free pizza!
Email me or leave a comment to sign up.
The March meeting went really well, nearly 20 people turned up and much pizza was consumed. People seemed to enjoy the talks and the new BBC venue was great too, so success all round!
I have the slides up from my talk on sphinx and John has the slides from his Ferret talk up too. I will put Asa’s slides up when he sends sends me them/a link!
The next meeting is on the on the 16th April and is titled “BDD, you know you should be doing it”:
So, you’re testing your code right? Of course you are! But are you testing your code as well as it can be tested? This month Ashley Moran, Testing Maven, will be giving a talk and practical session on Behavior Driven Development and how it should be done right.
Hope to see you there!
So, you’re testing your code right? Of course you are! But are you testing your code as well as it can be tested? This month Ashley Moran, Testing Maven, will be giving a talk and practical session on Behavior Driven Development and how it should be done right.
We’re starting 30 minutes earlier this month due to the practical nature of the session.
This month we have sponsorship from Engine Yard so there will be free Pizza (and maybe Beer and soft drinks, depending on the numbers) during the talks.
• 6:00pm :: Welcome & Pre-session bar visit
• 6:30pm :: BDD, why you should be doing it and how. Pizzas provided by Engine Yard will be served during the session
• 8:30pm :: Drinks at the BBC bar afterwards, then somewhere else nearby after that closes at about 21:00.
If you want more information email nwrug at willj.net or call Will on 07939 547 962
If you would like to attend this event please email me (nwrug at willj.net) as the BBC need a list of attendees before the event and I really need to know the numbers so I can order the right amount of food and drink. This month I shall be publicly coating people with blancmange who turn up without emailing me. You have been warned.
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.
You can find the exact same information on the NWRUG site in a more bookmark-able form.
The next NWRUG is tomorrow evening, 18:30 at the BBC in Manchester. Email me if you want to attend (details on the NWRUG page).
For the first time in quite a while we had a talk at NWRUG, it seemed to go well and the free Pizzas and Beer provided by Engine Yard were very popular. About 12 people turned up. I was the only speaker and did a 45 minute talk on Nanite with a brief introduction to cloud-computing as that’s the environment I see Nanite being most useful.
Thanks to everyone who turned up and Engine Yard for the sponsorship. I promised a blog post with links to some of the resources from the talk, and here it is!
Nanite (of course)
Kestrel (a starling replacement)
Warren (A wrapper around AMQP from brightbox)
As I mentioned in the talk you can probably get away with using third-party APIs and calling it ‘cloud-computing’, this set of slides is really interesting:
Web Hooks and the Programmable World of Tomorrow
Lastly the slides on SlideShare, though they don’t make as much sense as they do with the talk & my notes.
Pastie: control rabbitMQ using Nanite, controlling god using Nanite.
More talks! Asa Calow has agreed to do a talk on Solr and I rather foolishley agreed to do another talk on Sphinx.
