Next STLRuby/Rails meeting is this Monday, Dec 14th 6pm at the West County location - RubyConf 2009 + JRubyConf 2009 Trip recap

[Jeff Barczewski]

Next STLRuby/Rails meeting is this Monday, Dec 14th 6pm at the West County location - RubyConf 2009 + JRubyConf 2009 Trip recap

Next Meeting: Monday, Dec 14th, 2009 @ 6:00 - 7:30pm

Location:
  1350 Timberlake Manor Pkwy
  Chesterfield, MO 63017
  Third floor - training room

Topics/Speakers:

• RubyConf 2009 & JRubyConf 2009 Trip Recap - Jeff Barczewski
  

If anyone else happened to attend either of the conferences, we'd love to have you share as well.

List of talks from RubyConf 2009

Here are the RubyConf talks from the list that I attended and can share some thoughts and notes about:

- Welcome + Matz Keynote
- BERT and Ernie: Scaling your Ruby site with Erlang (Tom Preston-Werner)
- Bits, Bytes, and Blobs (Brian Mitchell)
- DSLs, Code Generation, and New Domains for Ruby (Joel VanderWerf)
- Embracing Collaboration with JRuby and JavaScript (Jon Crosby)
- FFI – creating cross engine gems (Jeremy Hinegardner)
- Getting Non-Relational with MongoDB (Michael Dirolf)
- How TDD/BDD Miss the Point: Introducing EDD (Nathaniel Talbott)
- Lightning Talks
- NoSQL: Death to Relational Databases(?) (Ben Scofield)
- Polishing Rubygems (Yehuda Katz)
- Gemcutter: the next step in gem hosting (Nick Quaranto)
- JRuby Everywhere! (Charles Nutter & Thomas Enebo)
- Scaling on App Engine with Ruby and Duby (John Woodell & Ryan Brown)
- SOLID Ruby (Jim Weirich)
- Rippin’ off Python (Chris Wanstrath)
- Making Music with Ruby: Patterns, Context, Fun (Noah Thorp)
- Matz Question + Answer
- Clojure for Ruby Programmers (Stuart Halloway)
- Mobile Applications with Ruby (Sarah Allen)
- There is Such a Thing as Too Much Testing (Jake Scruggs)
- Why “Enterprise Tools” Are Bad for the Enterprise (Glenn Vanderburg)
- Worst. Ideas. Ever. (Aaron Patterson & Ryan Davis)


JRubyConf 2009 List of talks

JRuby talks that I attended:

- JRubyConf State of the Union (Charles Nutter and Tom Enebo)
- JRuby on Rails (Nick Sieger)
- Business on JRuby (Michael Mullany, Joe O'Brien, Justin Gehtland, Chad Wathington and Michael Bryzek)

 

If you've got a short topic you'd like to talk about, feel free to suggest it, or just come prepared to talk about it.

After the meeting, several of us usually head to a local restaurant for food and post-meeting socializing.