Posted by Gray Herter
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:48:00 GMT
The August NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, August 27th at the FGM
headquarters from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and soft drinks start at 6:30.
The speaker will be Chris Williams of Iterative Designs.
The meeting is sponsored by EclipseWorld.
An indepth technical discussion about concurrency and why it matters
in modern web and general programming environments. With the upcoming
Ruby 1.9 release and Rails 2.2/3.0 with thread safety, concurrency
should be on the mind of every Ruby programmer. This talk will go into
a discussion of what the different types of threads are, what
precautions or advice you should carry with you as you write
concurrent code, and why you should be looking into other
fundamentally different languages (like erlang or scala) for long
running, complex, and multi faceted requests. Topics will include
Fuzed and why it represents an exciting shift in hosting options and a
telnet chat client, which will be used as a backchannel during the
demonstration. The goal is not to scary you, but to help you see the
forest despite the concurrent trees.
The meeting will be sponsored by EclipseWorld
, who has graciously offered to buy the pizza and provide a free giveaway pass to their fine conference, coming Oct 28-30 to a Reston Hyatt near you! They will have several presentations featuring Ruby, a sure sign of great things to come for our favorite computer language. Check the link out, they have lots of other topics besides a few Rails/Ruby talks, PHP, and lots of Java stuff, for instance (hey, they have to pay the bills).
And we have a Ruby book to give away, too.
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 18:43:00 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 07:42:00 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 04:19:00 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 19:30:00 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 10:37:45 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 20:55:00 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 01:40:00 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 19:32:00 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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Posted by Xandy Johnson
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:31:00 GMT
The August NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, August 22 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Rodney Degracia will be talking about RubyCLR. Lest the platform representation of the evening be one-sided, Evan Light will be talking about RubyOSA and rb-appscript.
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