Posted by dave
So I finally got around to finishing off the video from the NWRUG in February, this video is of Rob Lee (http://kodefoo.com, http://monkeyhelper.com) talking about REST in Rails.
I have to say I am still not convinced about REST as a general design principle (although I must say this is not because of Rob’s presentation!) and I just cant see many benefits over how I already write Rails applications, maybe this makes me a Rails luddite and if so, i don’t really care ;)
Now, if I was implementing a specific API I would be all over doing it with REST and I am more than happy to consume other peoples API’s with REST and ActiveResource.
We have Graham Pengelly (http://goingspare.wordpress.com/, http://www.mainlineconsultants.com/) to thank for the fabulous intro/ident that starts the video… it really makes us look way more professional than we are ;)
Finally, just a quick plug for next weeks NWRUG meeting (on the 22nd March), anyone unlucky enough to be going will have to watch me talk about Unobtrusive JavaScript but all is not lost because after that, Paul Robinson will be doing a “Mystery Ruby” session.
Anyway, on with the video from February! Enjoy.
Posted by dave
So a couple of days ago Ian Forrester spoke at a special GeekUp event and I filmed the talk and so after many tedious hours of importing it into iMovie, here is the footage from it…
It came up in the pub afterwards that it might be a good idea to just do the GeekUp events in the pub like Ian’s Geek Dinners and as I noticed a lot of new faces at this event I think it is worth mentioning that we usually DO do this just in the pub! This was a bit of a special case because Ian was in town with a more substantial talk than we usually have at GeekUp but the regular event is mostly just in the B-lounge pub on Piccadilly in Manchester (more details on the GeekUp site) so if you fancy a night in the pub with some fellow geeks then I will see you there on Tuesday ;)
Like I said, there were a lot of new faces at this event so I am going to take this chance to do a completely blatant plug in case any of you are interested in other free events like this, check out the North West Ruby User Group or the Manchester .NET User Group who both meet at the same venue.
See you Tuesday…
Posted by dave
So I am just about to leave for the BBC Backstage, New Media is Dead talk at the MDDA in Manchester.
I will be filming it and so that and the NWRUG video of Rob Lee should be up very soon… I have Rob’s talk all imported into iMovie, I just need to put an intro on it.
Not a great first blog post on daveverwer.com, hopefully some will be slightly less inane than this one though :D
