Posted by Gray Herter
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:07:00 GMT
The meeting will be held Wednesday, Nov 19th at the FGM headquarters from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided starting at 6:30. The presentation will start at 7 PM.
Topic: Ramaze (http://ramaze.net) is a simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.
Even though Ramaze hasn't been in the spotlight as
much as Merb and Sinatra, it has a lot to offer:
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Like Merb, it lets you select from a variety of ORMs and templating engines
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Ramaze is developed in a BDD fashion with specs written in Bacon.
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The documentation and examples from the site are very good and the code is easy to dig into.
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The community is very friendly and helpful
This talk is an introduction to Ramaze and show why you should consider
it for your next project.
We have some T-shirts to give out (Ramaze and Radrails), and some Radrails books, too.
Speaker: Luc Castera is a curious software engineer, always trying to learn new
technologies and improve his
skills. He is currently the lead-developer behind ShareMeme.com and
has held positions at Verizon,
GE, and Delphi Electronics. He has used many different languages and
platforms such as Java, Tcl/Tk,
C, Ruby, and C#/.NET throughout his career. He discovered Ruby two
years ago and has been a big fan
ever since.
Luc received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of
Virginia before attending
Georgia Tech to obtain his Masters degree in the same field. Born and
raised in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, he now lives in the DC Metropolitan area.
Location:
FGM, Inc.
12021 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190
Ph.: Call 703.728.5012 (Xandy) or 703.727.1307 (Gray) and someone will let you in to the building
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Posted by Gray Herter
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:04:00 GMT
Bring your Ruby Newbie friends to the Sept NovaRUG meeting, where we will hold a Ruby Newbie night to introduce new folks to the Ruby universe.
The meeting will be held Wednesday, Sept 17th at the FGM
headquarters from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided starting at 6:30. The presentations will start at 7 PM.
The meeting will be sponsored by EclipseWorld
, who has graciously offered to let us give out a pass to their upcoming conference (Oct 28-30 at the Hyatt Reston) at our meeting. They also have $200 discounts available to us, just use the code, NOVARUG2 when registering.
The speakers will be a mix of folks who have all offered to provide brief introductions to various Ruby related topics. The speakers include Russ Olsen and Gray Herter of FGM, Keith Bennett of Bennett Business Solutions, and Dave Bock and Arild Shirazi of CodeSherpas (and maybe you, too, if you want to join us with a topic).
The meeting will not be a Ruby class, but rather a brief introduction to several of the main features of the language, along with some demonstrations and testimonials on the usefulness of Ruby. The meeting will be informal with questions and tangents welcomed.
We will start with an introduction to Ruby basics up to the point of creating a class in Ruby given by Russ Olsen. Then Gray Herter will provide an short introduction to container objects in Ruby (arrays and hashes), plus regular expression handling, and ranges. Arild Shirazi will explain Ruby blocks, iterators, procs and lambdas. Dave Bock will demonstrate some dynamic Ruby. And Keith Bennett will wrap it up with an explanation of what he loves about Ruby.
Additional topics are welcomed if you want to propose one. It doesn't have to be strictly about the Ruby language. Any short topic that you think might pique the interest of someone curious about Ruby is fair game. If you want to give a short intro to RSpec or rake, or whatever, just let us know. But remember that each presentation should be limited to what can be covered comfortable in 10 minutes or so (we only have 2 hours!), so think 'lightning talk'. Explaining Rails is out, too big a subject! But maybe showing an example of Rails scaffolding could work (Hey Look, just one command and you get FOUR web pages!). You decide and we will listen.
And don't forget to bring your Ruby Newbie friends.
Here is the address:
FGM, Inc.
12021 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190
Ph.: Call 703.728.5012 (Xandy) or 703.727.1307 (Gray) and someone will
let you in to the building
Directions
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Posted by Tom Copeland
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:43:00 GMT
The June NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, June 18 at the FGM
headquarters from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
FGM, Inc.
12021 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 400
Reston, VA 20190
Ph.: Call 703.728.5012 (Xandy) or 703.727.1307 (Gray) and someone will
let you in to the building
Directions
The meeting will be sponsored by RosettaStone
, who has graciously offered to buy the pizza (They are hiring Ruby
developers right now, BTW).
Also we will give out a door prize of a pass to the RubyNation.
The speakers will be Chris Bucchere of BDG and Arild Shirazi of FGM.
The first speaker will be Chris Bucchere who will speak on "To Portal or
Not To Portal -- How to Build DRY, Truly Modular Mashups in Rails".
Those with a background in portal software know that portals make it
remarkably easy to mashup data/content and applications from various
sources into on composite web site. But do you really need a potentially
expensive and complicated off-the-shelf portal to do this? Or is it
possible to build a composite application using Rails, partials and the
embed_action plugin? Come hear how a portal-industry veteran and
developer of one of the most widely-used enterprise portals built a
social networking site in Rails using a portal product and then, with a
little reorganization of the Ruby code, removed the portal product
altogether. Did chaos ensue or was the finished product even better
without the portal? More than just a compare-and-contrast look at Rails
inside of a portal environment and out, this talk will dive deep into
the Rails view and layout architecture to show how to aggregate content
in a DRY, no-fuss manner.
The second speaker will be Arild Shirazi who will speak on "CSS for the
Developer". Arild will talk from a developer's perspective about the
black art of CSS. Anyone can waste hours trying to get the web page
looking (almost|just) perfect. Hopefully, I will provide some insight
into creating layout and design in an easy and maintainable way. Along
the way we'll discuss alternatives to the dreaded <table> layout, and
guiding principles to help keep your web content (HTML) separate from
the presentation (CSS).
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:42:00 GMT
The May NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, May 21 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Chris Flipse will be presenting on distributed version control systems, particularly git.
Michael Furr will be presenting on a Ruby type system.
RideCharge will be sponsoring the pizza.
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:19:00 GMT
The April NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, April 16 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Paul Barry will be presenting on Merb, a lightweight MVC framework.
Dave Thomas of The Pragmatic Programmers will present on the Ruby Object model and how it facilitates metaprogramming.
RideCharge will be sponsoring the pizza.
Please RSVP, the room only holds 100 people!
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:30:00 GMT
The March NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, March 19 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
David Keener will be presenting on OpenID and Rails. OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet
Leigh Sullivan of RideCharge will present on Watir ("Web Application Testing in Ruby"), a simple open-source library for automating web browsers.
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:45 GMT
I regret that there will be no meeting this month. We hope to return in January.
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:55:00 GMT
The November NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, November 28 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Patrick Joyce will be speaking on Liquid, a templating language which allows dynamic information to be securely exposed to designers. It was extracted from the e-commerce system Shopify where it is used to safely theme 20,000 different online stores. Liquid is also used as the templating language for the Mephisto blogging system and for the Stikipad hosted wiki service. The talk will discuss when using Liquid makes sense, why it is necessary, and how to incorporate Liquid templates into your application.
Keith Forsythe will be presenting "Anatomy of an Agile Iteration: a RideCharge Case Study." RideCharge is a Rails app. developed using Agile practices including two week iterations, with an
iteration planning meeting, assignments, daily scrums, wiki task
updates, bug tracking, and so on.
Patrick Joyce is the co-founder of SandwichBoard, LLC a startup working to make web based marketing accessible to independent restaurants. He blogs at http://pragmati.st
Keith Forsythe is a founder and Director of Product Development at RideCharge, a service that allows business travelers to book, pay, and expense ground transportation through the web and smart phones.
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:40:00 GMT
The October NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, October 17 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30. Pizza will be sponsored by Blue Collar Objects
Ray Daly will be speaking on microformats.
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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:32:00 GMT
The September NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, September 19 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Evan Light will be talking about Behavior Driven Development with RSpec and Dave Bock may be talking about how to use httperf to measure your application performance.
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