22nd May – Just geeks in the pub (again)
No talks this month, just some geeks in the pub. Feel free to bring a laptop and anything ruby or just turn up and have a beer and a chat.
Details →Events
24th June – Synthesis, Connecting the Dots
Currently we believe that developers are writing unnecessary dependency wired tests to cover uncertainty about the validity of simulated interactions in their dependency neutral tests. In other words, we cannot be certain that all our simulated interaction based tests ‘join up’. If it were possible to correlate the simulated interactions in our tests, then we should be able to do away with the need to write large numbers of complex, slow and brittle wired tests (apart from those which interact with the boundaries of the SUT).
Details →17th April – Just geeks in the pub
No talks this month, just some geeks in the pub. Feel free to bring a laptop and anything ruby or just turn up and have a beer and a chat.
Details →20th March – The Life of a Rails Freelancer
A lot of people inspired by Ruby on Rails have thought about setting up on their own either as a freelancer, a contractor or maybe creating a business started with an idea that Rails put within their grasp. Paul Robinson started out with a load of business ideas, started freelancing and even contemplated contracting, and is now seeking investment for a new business all over again.
Details →29th January – Building Brightbox
The NWRUG has a new web host and you would not be reading this right now without the services kindly donated by Brightbox. This month Jeremy Jarvis and John Leach from Brightbox are going to be telling us all about building the service and the business from the ground up, covering all aspects of the process.
Details →20th November – The Effects of Gravity on Software
This month we are lucky enough to have Kevin Rutherford speaking on “The Effects of Gravity on Software”, very much a discussion based session taking a fresh look at ways to design software that might not be that traditional fully tiered model that we are all so used to. We also have Dave Verwer giving us a very brief look at IronRuby and the new Microsoft MVC framework.
Details →26th June – The NWRUG Way
This month we have something a little less formal, but hopefully just as interesting. Submit some code (see the discussion on the mailing list for how to do this) and we will have an evening of code reviews and our own little version of The Rails Way, NWRUG style.
Details →22nd May – Unobtrusive JavaScript and Mystery Ruby
This month we have Dave Verwer talking about how to tame JavaScript into behaving in your Rails applications with “Unobtrusive JavaScript with Rails” and Paul Robinson doing a “Mystery Ruby” session.
Details →22nd March – Unobtrusive JavaScript and Mystery Ruby
This month we have Dave Verwer talking about how to tame JavaScript into behaving in your Rails applications with “Unobtrusive JavaScript with Rails” and Paul Robinson doing a “Mystery Ruby” session.
Details →21st February – REST & Women in Engineering
We are lucky to have two speakers to entertain us this month! First up is Rob Lee speaking on “Take a REST with Rails”, followed by Gemma Cameron speaking about “Women in Engineering”.
Details →NWRUG is officially recognised as an O'Reilly group program member, which entitles its members to 35% discount on all books ordered from their online bookstore.