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Hi again,<br>
<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Maybe a good idea would be to create a webapplication where everybody
could post questions and answers on rails (somewhat Forum-like)?<br>
<br>
<br>
Ciao,<br>
<br>
Stijn<br>
<br>
<br>
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Nick Boucart wrote:
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cite="mid8d9aaa2b0708072324r4d56a0aflc5343bcd910c181a@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi group,<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Looking forward to see how this brug evolves.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Nick.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog">www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog</a><br>
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