[Brug-talk] SPAM ALERT Re: Welcome

[Stijn Mathysen // Weblogik]

Hi again,


I think this is a great idea. I talked to Miles K. Forrest (from 
coderpath.com) a few weeks ago. He is member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade 
(along with Geoffrey Grosenbach) and he said that in the beginning they 
were focusing to much on presentations (in fact I think they gave 
everybody a topic to work out and present it). Once they dropped this 
"required" assignment the memberlist doubled. Instead they have small 
groups of people sitting together to talk about problems and work 
together on some stuff, and occasionally a presentation on an 
interesting topic.

Maybe a good idea would be to create a webapplication where everybody 
could post questions and answers on rails (somewhat Forum-like)?


Ciao,

    Stijn



Nick Boucart wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I am Nick Boucart, 33 years old. I have a strong background in 
> python/jython and java. I started looking at rails approx. a year ago.
>
> I am an avid extreme programmer and as such an advocate of pair 
> programming. The belgian XP user group used to hold pair-programming 
> parties, in which they euhm, pair program on a common project. Maybe 
> that is an idea for one of the brug meetings, to define a small web 
> 2.0-ish project, and work on it during our meetings. This way, not 
> only people will see different aspects of programming in ruby and 
> rails, but also will expose ways of people working with it. If I see 
> on screencasts how people fly with textmate on the mac, or if I work 
> together with senior eclipse users in java, I almost always learn as 
> much about coding and OO as I learn about using ide´s, small utilities 
> that make live easier, good practises, etc... Since I´m doing my rails 
> progamming mostly on my one (frankly, at the moment I´m only playing, 
> I have 1 small datacenter monitoring webapp live at my previous 
> company, but it is not a giant web project) I miss the interaction of 
> working with others, learning and sharing knowledge.
>
> Looking forward to see how this brug evolves.
>
> Regards,
> Nick.
>
> www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog <http://www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog>
>
>
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