Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The next Ruby Tuesday session (4th of November) will be an attempt on Ruby Quiz #65 Splitting the Loot. We plan to try to solve this problem in a variety of languages to compare their various qualities. The first attempt will be in Ruby though. This problem is quite hard so a heuristic rather than [...]
At the last session we finally managed to get the datastore sorted out along with the basic application flow that it should have (not entirely implemented yet). You can look at the code in GitHub so in terms of the report I’ll just mention some of the side conversation. There was a point as to [...]
Want pizza? Well order it yourself. Yes, finally, after two sessions and much struggling with Git we’ve launched our pizza ordering application. This week will be the last time the spammy pizza email goes out.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
I know it’s perverse but next Ruby Tuesday is going to be about learning Python. Simon Brunning is going to running the introduction. Bring a laptop if you want to get Python setup on your machine. In the introduction to Ruby session there was probably more discussion around the problem space for the language than [...]