On a Wednesday instead this week, just for kicks, but once again at the Olde Bank of England from 7pm. No agenda as yet, but I want demos! Leave a comment if you’ll be coming so I can get an idea of numbers.
Though the magic of Google Calendar (I’m so Web 20 it hurts) I now have publically available ical and RSS feeds. Once I get home it’ll be on upcoming too (damn corporate firewall tagging it as a dating site…), although unless upcoming starts letting me splice in my Google events soon I’ll probably stop using the service.
Update: I’ve added a simple block on the bottom of this site listing the upcoming London 2.0 events using dwc’s iCal WordPress plugin. There is also a specific category and RSS feed for all London 2.0 meet-up information.
Thanks to everyone who attended London 2.0 RC 4 last night (in rather cramped conditions). The usual suspects were in attendance, as well as Adrian Holovaty who was in for a few days.
Phil Dawes demonstrated both Bicycle Repair Man and the Python testing tool Protest (we need screencasts of both!), and I pointed numerous people towards the impressive DabbleDB screencast. Demo of the night probably had to be Remi Delon showing off Python Hosting. They offer a very slick, one-click install of a variety of different webapp frameworks (everything from TurboGears to Zope to Django) for a very reasonable price. His screencast is out soon – but put it this way, TextDrive’s TextPanel is going to have a lot to live up to, not to mention their forthcoming Rails-dedicated hosting (note: I’m a TextDrive user myself). Despite their name, Python-Hosting do also provide Rails hosting, however it’s not yet integrated with their slick user interface.
Details on next month’s London 2.0 RC5 coming up soon.
Yes, I know what you’re thinking – “So soon after the announcement of the March meeting? Has Sam started getting organised?”. Well, kind of – actually I heard from Harry Pot Simon W that one of the Django devs, Adrian Holovaty, was going to be in town.
Given that it’s so far in advance, I’m sure many of you won’t know if you can make it, but once again it’ll be the same cross-language cross-technology meetup, broadly aligned along Web 2.0 lines – all are welcome, whether or not you think Web 2.0 is great, or just a crock of poo.
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Another Django/Rails/Catalyst/Java/web2.0 love in to be held at The Old Bank of England onFleet Street. Web 2.0 advocates and detractors are welcome, as are any enthusiasts of Lisp, Python, Ruby, Java, Haskell or whatever other dirty commie language you lot use.
Once again I’ll be (badly) organising this with the aid of Simon Brunning, his jury service permitting.
If you’re coming along either leave a comment or register your interest on Upcoming – we have to book a room so it’d be good to get an idea of numbers.
As I assume many of you (including myself) will be attending the The Future of Web Apps, I’m not going to run a specific Web 2.0 RCX meeting this month. To be honest I can only stand to hang around you new-media over-enthusiastic hand-wavers once a month (you know who you are!), and what with the lineup for the summit it looks like I’m going to get about 4 months worth of Web 2.0 hypness. I’m planning to run an unofficial meetup in the evening after the summit proper, venue tbc.
Just a quick note after a long absence (no doubt a flood of posts will now follow, preceding another too long gap). Anyway, London 2.0rc2 is on for this Tuesday. Once again it’ll be combining the Python meetup, and will be open to all Ruby, Django, Rails, Python, RSS, Catalyst, web.py, TurboGears, Java, RDF and Struts enthusiasts, and interested observers. After missing the last two (which is bad form as an organiser) I’ll be making a concerted effort to put in a prolonged apperance.
If you’re coming, you could either signup on Upcoming.org, or leave a comment here. As normal, it’s from 6pm til late at the Old Bank of England.
*We need a snappier name…
As the calendar gets a little crowded in December, myself, Simon and Jez have decided to combine the Java, Django/Rails and Python nights together in one big bash at the Old Bank Of England, on the 12th of December, from 7pm onwards. As normal there is no particular agenda, although people wanting to do demos are more than welcome (just let me know first so we can publicise it).
Oh, and as Jez has had to stick a deposit down for the reserved space, please leave a comment to let us know you’re coming!
At the last meetup, the majority of the people there were ‘thinking’ about using either Rails or Django on a real world project. So by way of some blatant agenda setting for the meetup on the 10th (don’t forget to go and leave a comment if you’re coming) what is stopping you from using either?
Is it concerns about maturity? Scalability? Deployment options? Does the lack of (development) tools put you off? The lack of a workforce, or simply the fact it is in a new language? Is there some killer feature that either one needs to make you use it? Perhaps if enthusiasts of both communities start addressing these concerns and start engaging in some (balanced) advocacy and honest discourse, the adoption of both can be sped up.
Since lambasting someone for a less than fair Django and Rails comparison, I’d planned to do my own. To start with, my comparison is based on several days worth of Rails development and about a weekend’s worth of playing with Django, using the (currently four part) tutorial.
Ive had this reviewed by both Rails and Django developers, but if you think Ive misrepresented anything or left anything out then feel free to leave a comment and Ill make sure to put it right.
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June 19th, 2005
3:53 pm
Ruby
I’m taking a break from my recent series of articles on Ruby (see Parts one, two and three of Ruby for Java (and C#) programmers) to revisit the subject of mocking in Ruby. My recent overview of the currently available mocking tools lead me to discuss a better syntax for the next mocking API.
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