[ANN] Malaysia.rb March 2008 Meetup

[Kamal Fariz]

Hi all,

This month's meetup will be held on the last Thursday of March due to
a public holiday tomorrow.

We have two presentations lined up for the night:

1. Gavin will provide a survey of different methods of handling
missing references in various programming languages with emphasis on
Scala. This stuff has been popping up a lot on Reddit. For a good
backgrounder (in Ruby), see http://blog.thoughtfolder.com/2008-03-16-navigating-nil-method-chaining-in-ruby.html

2. Aizat will live build a Jabber bot that integrates with Twitter,
provides system monitoring and makes coffee in the morning. Expect
lots of BDD love with Autotest and RSpec.

Also, I have one last FREE PeepCode Episode Coupons to give away!

When:
Thursday, March 27th 2008, 8:00PM

Agenda:
7:30 - 8:00pm Socializing
8:00 - 8:15pm Opening by the Organizer
8:15 - 8:45pm "Survey of different methods of handling missing
references" by Gavin Bong
8:45 - 9:15pm "Developing a Jabber bot ... LIVE!" by Aizat Faiz
9:15 - 9:30pm PeepCode Episode Coupon Lucky Draw and Close

Cost:
Free. No registration required, just come right in, have a seat, and
join the crowd. Invite your friends.

Contact:
kamal...@gmail.com
+60123099143

Where: TBA (Somewhere accessible via LRT most probably)

Regards,
Kamal

[Kamal Fariz]

> Where: TBA (Somewhere accessible via LRT most probably)

Good news! We have a sweet location:

OUM Angkasa Raya
Open University Malaysia
Floor Tingkat 3, Bangunan Angkasa Raya,
Jalan Ampang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
TEL: 60-3-2148 8400

Located near Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC)
15 minute walk from the KLCC LRT station.
Praying facilities are available on the campus.

Wikimapia: http://wikimapia.org/
#lat=3.158604&lon=101.709881&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?
f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3°9'30%22N+101°42'35%22E&ie=UTF8&z=17&om=0

Regards,
Kamal

[Gavin Bong]

Kamal,

Do they have wifi inside the presentation hall ?

I'll need use of a laptop for my presentation. The slides are in PDF
format.
I'm currently on ubuntu and it displays fine in presentation mode.
I'll email you the PDF on thursday; so you can test it out beforehand.
OK ?

Regards,

Gavin

[Kamal Fariz]

> Do they have wifi inside the presentation hall ?

Aizat, do they have wifi?

> I'll need use of a laptop for my presentation. The slides are in PDF
> format.
> I'm currently on ubuntu and it displays fine in presentation mode.
> I'll email you the PDF on thursday; so you can test it out beforehand.
> OK ?

No problem.

Regards,
Kamal

[Kamal Fariz]

Hi all,

Friendly reminder that the Malaysia.rb March 2008 Meetup is happening
tonight at Open University KL.

A sneak peek: I've previewed Gavin's slides for tonight and all I can
say is that this dude really knows his stuff! There'll be some serious
schoolin' tonight.

kamal

[Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz]

Hi guys,

Thanks for coming to the meetup.

I've uploaded the slides to the google groups page
* http://groups.google.com/group/malaysia-rb/web/nullhell-xmp.pdf
* http://groups.google.com/group/malaysia-rb/web/xmpp.pdf

I'll upload my code later.

Regards,
Aizat

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aizatto - sleep, to the power of z -_-;;^zzz