Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
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Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#2We had a similar situation at our local PHP user group for a while. Someone would present something and it would always lead in to some sort of related by unrelated demo by one of the event organizers.
I remember fondly a guy from Viacom talking about his CDN and how hard it is to maintain internal consistency and how they deploy and everyone was really engaged (it was an amazing presentation, even though he did it with just bash and firefox) and it devolved into this event organizer talking about his Solr install and the conversation basically ceased.
It can be really frustrating when someone is constantly 'that guy.'
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
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Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#4A bit more context wouldn't hurt.
You don't want attendees, who don't know any better, to adopt really bad practices. For example, what if this was the context:
sql = "select * from users where id = #{params[:id]}"
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#5A bit more context wouldn't hurt. You don't want attendees, who don't know any better, to adopt really bad practices. For example, what if this was the context: sql = "select * from users where id = #{params[:id]}" Although even here there's a right and a wrong way to approach this.
This is pretty important context. I probably would have called the presenter out too.
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#6A bit more context wouldn't hurt. You don't want attendees, who don't know any better, to adopt really bad practices. For example, what if this was the context: sql = "select * from users where id = #{params[:id]}" Although even here there's a right and a wrong way to approach this.
This is pretty important context. I probably would have called the presenter out too.
Hmm. I believe that that was just an example, not the actual context.
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#7Yehuda Katz may not always have the most tact but he's rarely wrong. As another comment pointed out this is not only wrong but dangerously wrong.
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#8Wow. A post about etiquette that calls someone out by name, with an insulting headline?
Face-to-face is the right channel for this sort of pointed criticism. Failing that, email might work. To pass the lesson along to the larger community, leave the specific names out of it - talk about "a big name in the community" who behaved badly. People who were there will know who you're talking about, but it doesn't become part of the internet paper trail.
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#9Dear Ruby "community", no-one cares about your internal bickering. Much as I hate to admit it, Zed Shaw was right.
Re: Why you shouldn't invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting
#10This is basically to well-actually an entire presentation.