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It confirms it as being Webkit based, but not necessarily that it is running on the web.

This is a follow-up to "What happens when MiniTest runs, or, what I think about testing using classes" - http://interblah.net/how-minitest-works

I'll be covering RSpec in a subsequent article. I think it should be interesting to dissect the underlying differences in philosophy and implementation.

Hope you get your ticket soon - they are selling pretty quickly...

This is orthogonal to the main point of this thread, but since Ruby Manor has been mentioned, and Peter doesn't read my blog (which is fair enough): http://interblah.net/ruby-manor-is-not-an-unconference

Just for completeness sake, there was also a successful RailsConf Europe in London, and a well-received Rails Underground too. I therefore assume that 'full scale' must mean something quite specific. Anyway, as I said, orthogonal.

I'm aware of and not fan of the gravitational well that London influences, and definitely agree that it would be great to have events all over the UK. It's a shame that BritRuby isn't going ahead, whatever the reasons.

If you're interested in getting involved in tiny printers, but £200 is more than you can afford, then you can always make your own: http://gofreerange.com/hello-printer

What did you draw? Let me know and I'll find it and send you a picture :)

You definitely could, and it would be much easier to write the HTTP client code on a Raspberry Pi than it is on the Arduino!

If you look at the Arduino code (https://github.com/freerange/printer/blob/master/printer.ino), all it does is download a stream of bytes, doing some very rudimentary validation (Content-length), and then sending the bytes out on a serial port.

That would be great! Just send us an email and we'll figure out a good time.

Somebody asked for a live stream - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/freerange-printer

Send a message or a picture using the demo apps

http://printer-mail.herokuapp.com/send/freerange

http://printer-paint.herokuapp.com/send/freerange

The actual printer unit I'm using (i.e. not including the Arduino components) is $50/£40 and is increasingly available:

https://www.adafruit.com/products/600 http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10438 http://proto-pic.co.uk/thermal-printer/

See https://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-pr... for more information...

I suspect that BERG have much grander plans for BERG Cloud than this, and of course BERG Cloud will be much more polished and suitable for normal people. But that said, it's a tool that might help explore a similar 'space' of possibilities, yeah.

Instructions to build your own are at https://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-pr... along with a load more information about the distributed architecture of the system. It's very easy to build a content service for yourself, and anyone else with a connected printer!

You can poke around the source on github: http://github.com/freerange/printer

There's also some fairly comprehensive documentation on the github wiki, including an architectural overview, and building your own printer: http://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki

s/thrust/trust/ :)