I did a short talk on Ferret, the Ruby “Information Retreival Library”, at the North West Ruby Users Group last Thursday. We had a bit of a theme too, with Will Jessop speaking about Sphinx and Asa Calow speaking about Solr.
I got to have a bit of a nosey around the Manchester BBC building too – though I was worried I’d open the wrong door and end up on TV. Didn’t fancy having to apologise to Jeremy Paxman.
Brightbox also sponsored some pizza, and gave away t-shirts and stickers like candy (there was no candy though).
My slides are available here, and contain a little example file system indexer. I made my slides with webby and S6 if you’re interested.
I’m speaking next Tuesday (15th April 2008) at the Manchester Free Software about my geeky web comic, 
I’m talking about Ruby on Rails at the West Yorkshire Linux User Group on Monday 11th June 2007. I’ll be covering what Rail is, how it works, and how you use it. Starts at 1900hrs at the E.C Stoner (snigger) Building at the University of Leeds. There follows a talk about Sun’s ZFS file system by Tom Hall, then we retire to The Victoria Hotel pub for some real ale and whatnot.
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.