http://www.novarug.org/articles/2008/08/24/how-i-learned-to-love-the-stache en-us 40 Northern Virginia Ruby User's Group <p> 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. </p> <p> The speaker will be Chris Williams of Iterative Designs. The meeting is sponsored by <a href="http://www.eclipseworld.net/">EclipseWorld</a>. </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> The meeting will be sponsored by <a href="http://www.eclipseworld.net/">EclipseWorld</a> , 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. </p> <p> FGM, Inc. <br> 12021 Sunset Hills Road <br> Suite 400 <br> Reston, VA 20190 <br> Ph.: Call 703.728.5012 (Xandy) or 703.727.1307 (Gray) and someone will let you in to the building <p> <a href="http://www.fgm.com/about/locations.cfm">Directions</a> </p> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:48:00 -0400 urn:uuid:36e88af0-e893-4ab1-8266-103a5bf91aa8 Gray Herter http://www.novarug.org/articles/2008/08/24/how-i-learned-to-love-the-stache There will be a extensive discussion and evaluation of "concurrency" at Champps in Reston, <a href="http://bit.ly/3uvFp7" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/3uvFp7</a> post meeting as well. Be sure to bring your thinking caps tomorrow! Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:15:07 -0400 urn:uuid:95852dfe-0255-486e-be4d-c0e7cf0616ea http://www.novarug.org/articles/2008/08/24/how-i-learned-to-love-the-stache#comment-66