Topic List - Next STLRuby/Rails meeting - This Monday, Jan 12 - 6pm - Recap of RubyConf 2008

[Jeff Barczewski]

If possible I would like to wrap up around 7:00 tonight since I have a meeting to run to for my daughter, so I'll start promptly at 6pm.

Here is a list of the RubyConf 2008 topics that I attended. There were so many good sessions to choose from it was a hard choice. I'll be going back and watching the videos for the ones I missed.

I'll try to give you the punchline from the sessions and we can dive into the details of some of them based on interest.

* Matz - Keynote
* Monkeybars: easy cross platform GUIs - David Koontz
* Using Git in Ruby Applications - Scott Chacon
* Building Distributed Web Applications - Mark Bates
* Recovering from Enterprise: how to embrace Ruby's idioms and say goodbye to bad habits - Jamis Buck
* rush, a shell that will yield to you - Nicholas Schlueter
* IronRuby - John Lam
* Testing Heresies - Francis Hwang
* Resource-Oriented Web Applications With Waves - Dan Yoder
* All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Writing My Own Web Framework - Ben Scofield
* Ramaze: The underrated Web Application Framework - Luc Castera
* Mixing Metaphors or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love JavaScript - Aaron Patterson
* Crate : forming your custom ruby application into a packaged, standalone, easily distributable executable - Jeremy Hinegardner
* Writing Code That Doesn't Suck: Interface Oriented Design - Yehuda Katz
* Components are not a dirty word: modeling your Rails interface with stateful objects - Mike Pence
* Dave Thomas - Keynote
* Advanced DSLs in Ruby - Neal Ford
* Tap--[not] a talk about replacing rake - Simon Chiang
* The Ruby Code Review. A Play in Three Acts - Joe O'Brien, Jim Weirich, Chris Nelson
* Introducing Red Sun-a Ruby to Flash bytecode translator and UI framework - Jonathan Branam
* Dramatis: Actors for Ruby - Steven Parkes

See you tonight at 6pm!

On 1/10/09, Jeff Barczewski <jeff.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:

The next STLRuby/Rails meeting is this Monday, Jan 12th at 6pm.

This month's topic is a recap of the RubyConf 2008 which was in Orlando in November.

http://rubyconf.org/talks

I'll give an overview of the talks that I attended, the buzz at the conference, the interesting developments, and a recap of the conference.

We'll also discuss new developments since the last meeting including the forthcoming merge of merb and rails = rails 3. Should be an interesting discussion.

Group usually heads over to Uno's around 7pm.


Meeting location:
1350 Timberlake Manor Pkwy
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Third floor - training room
http://stlruby.org