June Meetup: Sphinxy and Sassy

[Nick Plante]

Greetings from NH.rb!

We’re straying from the normal schedule again this month, but it’ll be
worth it, I promise. We’ve got two great speakers lined up and lots to
talk about. The meetup will be at the usual place on the fourth
Thursday — June 25th @ 7PM.

The reason for the change? It’s two-fold; first, to accommodate
special guest speaker Pat Allan, who is coming to us all the way from
Australia (okay, he’s in Boston for the entire month, but that sure
sounded good, right?) and also to avoid conflicting with the second
Portsmouth tweetup event, which is being held on the 18th.

Pat will be presenting his popular Thinking Sphinx project, a Sphinx
full-text search engine plugin for Rails. He’ll show us how to use
them to add full-text database searching to your Rails applications.

Our other special guest for the evening is also traveling quite a
distance to be with us — all the way from the frozen white tundra of
Portland Maine. Yes, that’s right, our good friend Casey Rosenthal
will finally be unveiling the awesome power of… SASSIJS (Syntactically
Awesome Style Sheets + In + JavaScript)…

SASS was created to programatically build and organize CSS. Building
on Ted Roche’s CSS presentation, Casey Rosenthal will review SASS
syntax, and then open up the SASSIJS javascript library which renders
*.sass templates client-side.

Leaving us a note in the blog comments or on the meetup group is
strongly encouraged so we can plan to have refreshments enough for
everyone. Hope to see you there!

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