Wotcha! Round up #2
The Guvner’s been back on the mailing list:
Wotcha!
Time for round-up #2 of all the bish-bosh on the mailing list. I’m going to try and give everyone a birds-eye view of how we’re doing building this ‘ere schedule, and call out some things that need a bit more eyeballing from you lot.
It’s great to see some of you getting stuck in, but it still feels like we have a lot of silent partners here, particularly those of you that already have a ticket. This is the week where you - yes, YOU - send an email. I insist.
Got it? Right you are then.
Proposals
Tom Lea - Rack::Cache Tom wants to tell us about using Rack::Cache, caching fundamentals, the problems with Rails’ own mechanisms and how to win in general. For a pretty detailed proposal, I’m gobsmacked that he’s had no responses. Anyone? Anyone at all?
James Adam - Gem That James is offering to talk about lightweight and unobtrusive ways to turn your project into a gem. Thanks to a bit of argy-bargy from you lot, he now knows to cover the pitfalls of specific alternative gem-making solutions (jeweler seems to be top-dog), as well as a bit of rabbit-rabbit-rabbit-rabbit about his own solution, ‘gem this’. He’s also offered to talk about building ‘gem’ commands, although that didn’t seem to stir anyone’s porridge.
Paul Battley - Secrets of the Standard Library Paul has offered to cover some of the often-ignored standard library classes, such as Forwardable, Set, Array#assoc, and pp. This proposal got some good feedback, but perhaps there’s a specific library you’d like him to cover?
Jason Cale - The Joy of Painting with Ruby Ever wanted to use Ruby to visualise data in pleasing (and perhaps slightly trippy) ways? Jason is offering to give us an insight into using Processing from Ruby, with a promise to avoid anything too ravey and focus on practical examples.
Jason Cale - Building cross-platform mobile applications with Rhodes Jason also offer to talk about this, but there’s been a conspicuous silence on his thread. Do we take it that the community has other preferences?
Thomas Koll - 3 things Thomas has offered to talk about three things: teaching newbies, ‘hyper’ authentication, and multi-domain whitelabelled websites. This has some positive feedback, but Thomas, you really need to break these out into individual threads so we can help you refine and clarify what each of these might mean. Get to it!
James Adam - Rip James wants to introduce everyone to ‘Rip’, which is not a replacement for Rubygems, but instead a different approach to solving library dependencies. It looks like we got a bit distracted by mentions of Bundler, but there is some interest in hearing about this. However, we need more feedback to take this proposal forward.
David Salgado - Crunching log data with Hive David can tell us about using Hive to sift through logfiles, and a sysadmin has expressed and interest, but David confesses that it has nothing to do with Ruby. If you’re interested in this, you need to speak up.
Matthew O’Riordan - Heroku and other Ruby hosting solutions Want to know about how awesome Heroku is, and why alternative suck? Matthew wants to tell us, but nobody has responded yet.
Julian Burgess - Symbol vs. String Ever wondered what the difference was, or when you should use one other the other? Julian has done some research and is offering to share his findings with a short talk. Again, no responses here yet…
Ben Griffiths - Ad Hoc Ruby Scripts (or: Forget Frameworks) Ben is offering to take us back to a simpler time, when Ruby was recognised as a powerful glue language for plugging other libraries together. There’s quite a bit of positive feedback for this one, but we’ve asked Ben to provide a little more detail if he can.
Almost Proposals
Matt Wescott - Generator Off the back of Paul’s suggestion, Matt offered to do a short one on ‘Generator’, along with a project he’s using it in called ‘Midibeep’. I would suggest that Matt breaks his suggestion out into a seperate thread, so that it can get a bit more attention. Alternatively, perhaps Paul can cover ‘Generator’?
James Darling - Archaeopteryx Harking a call for more non-web-based content, James has offered to explore Sr. Bowkett’s music generator on our behalf. James, if you’re still up for this, pop up a new thread. Everyone else - if you’re interested and James is willing, you know what to do.
Jason Cale - Rack Jason Cale has offered to give us another shot of Rack know-how, but I think he’s going to need some feedback to really develop this. What about Rack would you want to learn?
James Mead - Ruby GUI with RubyCocoa/MacRuby There’s been a cry for some content around this, and James Mead has suggested that he might be willing to answer that call. James mentioned some specific topics that his own experience could cover, but he needs feedback about what you might find interesting; only one person has responded to his offer.
Suggestions
http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-manor/browse_thread/thread/bc92f59aab58c2ee Some folks would like advice about how to organise their projects - where to layout files, whether or not to require rubygems and so on.
http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-manor/browse_thread/thread/e72a3de2a76f96cb What we can learn from Django/Seaside/other web frameworks - quite a bit of interest (if you sift through the conflated venue/ticket conversation, but nobody has stepped up and taken responsibility yet. Are you prepared to take this on? If so, start a new thread and explore how you might approach it with the community’s help.
Originally posted on the mailing list
Sounds like lots of you have been keeping shtum. Time to pull your fingers out and get posting feedback…
