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A full house at Melbourne Ruby Newbie Night

Posted in Home on July 8th, 2007 by mark – Be the first to comment

The Melbourne Ruby User’s Group held it’s first ever Nuby night last week. It was somewhat inspired by the RailsConf 2007 RejectConf that Marcus Crafter and I attended earlier in the year with the idea of many short talks presented by many speakings being preferred over a few ‘experts’ presenting on a wider range of issues. It also acted like a gong show – you had a hard limit of 5 minutes and when the gong went off you could imagine a walking stick wrapped around your neck pulling you off the stage. No pressure… Really…

I spoke about the animals of the Ruby world – monkey patching and duck typing. After researching my talk I realized that I only had a cursory knowledge of both topics but preparing for this talk gave me the reason to learn more. I enjoyed the experience and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to practice their presentation skills.

A big thank you to Pete Yandell for continuing to organize the Melbourne Ruby community and to Marty Andrews for recording and editing the presentations.

You can download my talks

Big props to Justin French also from RedBubble who presented and to Xavier Shay who didn’t present due to time constraints.