Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread Bashar Abdul
I am no expert on Ruby or rails by any means, but personally I would never switch to ruby/rails unless its a absolute requirement, not because I think Ruby is inferior to Java , but because (and I hope Ruby people correct me if im wrong here) I don't believe in a solution that makes me throw aw

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Hicks
At 02:55 PM 2/13/2008, you wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 10:29 AM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also would love to hear stuff on Python/Ruby as well, they are > welcome to join us, present, whatever. > I'd like to hear a little of this but, for several reasons, I would > be much more i

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread Chad Woolley
On Feb 13, 2008 10:29 AM, Thomas Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also would love to hear stuff on Python/Ruby as well, they are > welcome to join us, present, whatever. > I'd like to hear a little of this but, for several reasons, I would > be much more interested in hearing about things wh

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread Warner Onstine
On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote: At 08:31 AM 2/13/2008, Warner wrote: Pecha Kucha and Lightning Talks sound interesting (kind of like the code review stuff I proposed a while ago where everybody brought in stuff they wanted feedback on). I think that this would work rather wel

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread Thomas Hicks
At 08:31 AM 2/13/2008, Warner wrote: Pecha Kucha and Lightning Talks sound interesting (kind of like the code review stuff I proposed a while ago where everybody brought in stuff they wanted feedback on). I think that this would work rather well if we have enough people to give talks, I'll volunt

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread Warner Onstine
Pecha Kucha and Lightning Talks sound interesting (kind of like the code review stuff I proposed a while ago where everybody brought in stuff they wanted feedback on). I think that this would work rather well if we have enough people to give talks, I'll volunteer (lots of Groovy stuff I've

Re: [jug-discussion] Great Meeting

2008-02-13 Thread William H. Mitchell
Yes, thanks for that presentation last night, Warner. I'm looking forward to hearing about Laszlo, too. Thanks also to VMS for hosting. I like Chad's suggestion of Pecha Kucha. I'd never heard of it but it sounds like an interesting discipline. Re a Ruby/Python/agile language group, I'd s