Hi Folks!

Alexey and I are giving a talk on Facebook application development
using the Facebooker Ruby API at the next CRUSERS meeting, Tuesday
October 21st at the ThoughtWorks Calgary office.

We'll discuss the overall architecture of Facebook applications, show
you what a basic Facebook app looks like, and discuss some specific
API/markup examples.

If you haven't been to the ThoughtWorks office before, it's located at
the corner of 6th Ave and 5th St SW. The building is 600 6th Ave SW,
and the ThoughtWorks office is on the top floor.

See you there!
-steven

Ok, as a result of our last meeting, we have made a couple of changes
to the monthly CRUserS meetings.

1.  Where
Unless/until attendance increases to exceed capacity we will be
meeting at the ThoughtWorks offices.

Suite 1100, 600 - 6th Avenue SW

2.  When
In order to ensure that everyone can get into the building before it
locks down at 6 pm, we have changed the time to 5:30

Third Tuesday, 5:30 pm.

So, the next meeting will be at the ThoughtWorks offices, at 5:30 pm
on Oct 21.

The topic that meeting will be FaceBook applications, by Alex Verkovsky.

In the interests of getting the CRUserS gatherings back to a more
informal mode, we will be having our first meeting of the season at:

The Barley Mill (Eau Claire)

http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&dq=barley+mill+cal\
gary&daddr=201+Barclay+Parade+SW,+Calgary,+AB+T2P+4R3&geocode=711967044168690402\
6,51.053342,-114.069203&ll=51.053342,-114.069203&iwstate1=dir:to&iwloc=A&f=d

We will stick to the usual time of 6 pm, on Tuesday, September 16.

This will mostly be a meet and greet, new and older members welcome,
and hopefully we can discuss some more creative gathering ideas for
our upcoming sessions.

Hope to see you all there!

Regards, Lori Olson

http://www.rubyinside.com/beginning-ruby-10-dollar-sale-925.html

Direct:
http://apress.com/info/dailydeal

Regards, Lori

This is a reminder that CRUserS takes a break from monthly meetings in
the summer.  We have no meetings scheduled from Jun-Aug.  The next
meeting will be in September.

I know Alex and others meet weekly on Wed for some group hacking, so
if you just can't stand a summer without Ruby, post to the list and
ask for details ;-)

Regards, Lori

The metaprogramming talk was very interesting.  If anyone missed it,
or wants more in-depth info, Dave Thomas has started a screencast series:

http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-dtrubyom/the-ruby-object-model-and-metaprogram\
ming

I haven't seen it yet, but last month I attended the PragProg Advanced
Rails course, and there were enough metaprogramming nuggets dropped by
Dave et all to make me believe that Dave's series will be worth every
penny.

Regards, Lori

Thanks, Farooq.  And double thanks to Steven for stepping up.  I hate
last minute cancellations.  Last minute substitutions are much better!

I'll keep an eye out for Steven.

Regards, Lori

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, Farooq Ali <fali@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As it turns out, I won't be able to make it to the meeting today.
However,
> I managed to get a fellow ThoughtWorker, Steven Baker (of Rspec
fame), to
> give the talk instead. It's going to be his first time to the
library, so
> if you see a bald, bearded dude in black glasses peek into the meeting
> room with a puzzled face, be sure to pull him in ;)
>
> Enjoy the talk,
> Farooq Ali
>
>
>
>
> "Alexey Verkhovsky" <alex@...>
> Sent by: crusers@yahoogroups.com
> 08/05/08 11:55
> Please respond to
> crusers@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> To
> crusers@yahoogroups.com
> cc
>
> Subject
> [crusers] CRUserS May meeting: Metaprogramming with Ruby
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> We've got a new kid in town, and he agreed to do most of the talking
> for CRUserS May meeting :)
>
> So, the speaker is Farooq Ali (fellow ThoughtWorker who recently moved
> to Calgary from UK), and the subject is "Metaprogramming with Ruby".
>
> Here is Farooq's summary of the talk:
>
> ---
> I plan on talking about "Metaprogramming with Ruby". It was a talk I
> gave at the Nov '07 ThoughtWorks UK Away Day to explore some new ways
> of molding our objects using:
>
> - Object introspection (instance_variable_get, etc.)
> - Dynamic methods (define_method, etc.)
> - Object lifecycle hooks (method_added, etc.)
> - Evaluation techniques (instance_eval, etc)
> - Open classes
>
> Most of them will be viewed in the light of examples, design patterns,
> and intentional programming. We'll also brush up on Ruby's object
> model for those of you who aren't very familiar with it.
>
> I'd also like us to share some common practices we've adopted to
> prevent the abuse of metaprogramming and make such code more readable
> and accessible to teams.
> ---
>
> Usual place, usual time. I.e., the third Tuesday of May (May 20th),
> Calgary Central Library meeting room, 6 pm.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Alex Verkhovsky
>

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Alexey Verkhovsky" <alex@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are been banning spammers from crusers quite regularly, but clearly
> that doesn't stop them.
>
> So, I have set up the group to moderate new members. As described in
> [1], this means that anyone who joins the group will have their email
> moderated until a moderator manually changes their status.
>
> Let's see if this will work.
>
> --
> Alex
>
> [1]
>
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/ownmod/email/email-03.html
>

Thanks, Alex.  I was getting tired of banning all those spammers ;-)

Lori

Hi all,

We are been banning spammers from crusers quite regularly, but clearly
that doesn't stop them.

So, I have set up the group to moderate new members. As described in
[1], this means that anyone who joins the group will have their email
moderated until a moderator manually changes their status.

Let's see if this will work.

--
Alex

[1]
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/ownmod/email/email-03.html

Excellent point, I agree.

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> Subject: Re: [crusers] Talkgraphic.com is your gateway to sites on the
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> Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008, 8:09 AM
> Can the moderators pleaae stop the spam?
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> Thanks,
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Dear all,

We've got a new kid in town, and he agreed to do most of the talking
for CRUserS May meeting :)

So, the speaker is Farooq Ali (fellow ThoughtWorker who recently moved
to Calgary from UK), and the subject is "Metaprogramming with Ruby".

Here is Farooq's summary of the talk:

---
I plan on talking about "Metaprogramming with Ruby". It was a talk I
gave at the Nov '07 ThoughtWorks UK Away Day to explore some new ways
of molding our objects using:

   - Object introspection (instance_variable_get, etc.)
   - Dynamic methods (define_method, etc.)
   - Object lifecycle hooks (method_added, etc.)
   - Evaluation techniques (instance_eval, etc)
   - Open classes

Most of them will be viewed in the light of examples, design patterns,
and intentional programming. We'll also brush up on Ruby's object
model for those of you who aren't very familiar with it.

I'd also like us to share some common practices we've adopted to
prevent the abuse of metaprogramming and make such code more readable
and accessible to teams.
---

Usual place, usual time. I.e., the third Tuesday of May (May 20th),
Calgary Central Library meeting room, 6 pm.

--
Best regards,
Alex Verkhovsky

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> The April meeting of CRUserS will feature a panel discussion of Rails
> alternatives.  These alternatives will include Ruby and non-Ruby
options.
>
> We can still add one more panel member, if another community member
> would like to participate.   Contact me (Lori Olson) or Alex
> (Verkhovsky) if you want to be on the panel.
>
> Hope to see you all there on Tuesday, April 15th.  Usual time and
> place - Downtown Library, 6:00 pm.
>
> Regards, Lori
>

I would like to thank our panel members - Alex and Jay (Guidos) for
leading an interesting discussion, and helping to create such a great
interactive session.

As a reference for some of the topics under discussion see:

http://jquery.com/

http://merbivore.com/

http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/

http://groovy.codehaus.org/

http://grails.codehaus.org/

I'm still waiting to hear about a session topic for next month, but we
will post the topic as soon as we get it.

Regards, Lori

This is your reminder of the Rails Alternatives Panel at CRUserS
tomorrow.  Hope to see you there!

Regards, Lori

--- In crusers@yahoogroups.com, "Lori Olson" <loriolson@...> wrote:
>
> The April meeting of CRUserS will feature a panel discussion of Rails
> alternatives.  These alternatives will include Ruby and non-Ruby
options.
>
> We can still add one more panel member, if another community member
> would like to participate.   Contact me (Lori Olson) or Alex
> (Verkhovsky) if you want to be on the panel.
>
> Hope to see you all there on Tuesday, April 15th.  Usual time and
> place - Downtown Library, 6:00 pm.
>
> Regards, Lori
>

The April meeting of CRUserS will feature a panel discussion of Rails
alternatives.  These alternatives will include Ruby and non-Ruby options.

We can still add one more panel member, if another community member
would like to participate.   Contact me (Lori Olson) or Alex
(Verkhovsky) if you want to be on the panel.

Hope to see you all there on Tuesday, April 15th.  Usual time and
place - Downtown Library, 6:00 pm.

Regards, Lori

Not getting enough feedback on the Poll to have a meeting about it
yet, like we were hoping.

Alex and I have started organizing a panel discussion/demo on "Rails
Alternatives" for next month.  Hope to see more of you then!