Wednesday at 6pm: Why You Should Love Regular Expressions

[Michael Prendergast]

Hey all,

Wednesday at 6pm (not 6:30pm), Rachel Hartviksen will be giving us a talk on Why You Should Love Regular Expressions (talk description below).

1. Important Note: Venue and Time Change

Shopify will be providing the venue for this month’s meetup, located at 150 Elgin Street.

(Please watch the meetup event page for access details, as it's not quite the same this time as with other events that you may have attended at Shopify)

Please also note that the start time for this month has moved to 6pm.

2. Agenda

From 6pm to 6:30pm, there will be mingling over food and drinks, so try to be there for 6pm. :)

Rachel’s talk starts at 6:30pm. 

3. Food and drinks sponsored by Fullscript 

Big thank you to Fullscript, who will be providing the food and drinks for the evening. 

Oh, and Fullscript is hiring for various positions! Check out their openings on their Careers page. 

4. Space sponsored by Shopify

Another big thank you goes out to Shopify for providing the venue to host the meetup.

Shopify is hiring various positions as well, check out their openings here, on their Careers page.

5. Plan on attending? 

Please RSVP here to let us know so we can plan things out. 

6. Call for speakers

We're looking for speakers/topics for upcoming months. If you're up for giving a talk, please feel free to submit your talk proposal via the Ottawa Ruby Talk Proposal form.

We hope to see you all there!

Thanks,

The Ottawa Ruby Team

P.S. Here are some details on Rachel’s talk:

Talk Details:

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Rachel Hartviksen will be giving us a talk on Why You Should Love Regular Expressions. 

Here's the abstract:

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Is regex one of your critical development tools?

Is reformatting your code to meet style guides both fun and quick?

Do you get a little excited when someone mentions regex?

If you answered "no" to any of the above questions, this talk is for you!

Rachel will go over the basic premise of regex (regular expressions), how you can use them in your day-to-day work, and why they are just so freaking awesome.  

Here are some of the topics that will be covered:

  - What is regex?

  - Review of common metacharacters, 

  - Capture Groups

  - A few regex examples

  - A note on greedy/lazy quantifiers

  - Applications of regular expressions 

Want to attend this talk on Wednesday? RSVP here:

 

  --> https://www.meetup.com/OttawaRuby/events/241926329/