All - I'm forwarding this to you on behalf of Mel Riffe, Rubyist in the Richmond area. Please respond to him directly at mriffe at gmail.com. This is not...
Hello, everyone. Registration is now open for Ruby DCamp, the first Open Spaces-style Ruby conference in the D.C. area, and possibly the world. Open Spaces...
My bad, I was supposed to organize it. Anyone who is interested in presenting a 'short' newbie topic, please email me about it. Just send me an email at gray...
For just the language, here are some of the highlites, looking at this web site, http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/tutorial.html Basics (First Program,...
... Also, any other topics besides the Ruby Language, Rake, RSpec, even Rails or ActiveRecord, etc. If you want to do 10 minutes or so on it, let me know....
Gray - Thanks...sure, I'd like to speak for a few minutes. I'd like to speak about What I Love About Ruby. It wouldn't be a lesson, but rather some things I...
Recently bdg <http://www.thebdgway.com> announced a partnership <http://blog.thebdgway.com/2008/09/sxsw-to-use-social-collective-for-sxs\ w.html> with SXSW...
I think giving an overview of Ruby the language is doable in the time we have. Russ just did that here for a lunchtime seminar in one hour. Obviously, we can...
Dave Bock is laying claim to this: "I have an example that shows a little manipulation of self, and ties together a couple of other concepts (like why you...
** * About merb.intro merb.intro is an introduction to the Merb MVC framework. This presentation is targeted towards developers familiar with Rails and will...
I need to add explanatory text to a text_field that is cleared on focus and replaced if the field is still empty when focus is lost. Basically I need what is...
Hi, all. Don't forget that today is the day for the Ruby Newbie Night at the FGM offices (see http://novarug.org/ for details). After the meetings, some of us...
** * Concurrency or "How I learned to love the 'stache" An indepth technical discussion about concurrency and why it matters in modern web and general...
World-renowned Egyptologist Dr. Mark Lehner will speak at OOPSLA 2008 The OOPSLA conference attracts software technologists from around the world. Here they...
Just showing there is some interest - a colleague of mine forwarded this thread to me. I'll be attending with 2 others who are interested in learning Ruby....
Sorry we didn't get to this message to approve it for the group for so long... We do need to filter messages to keep the spam out, but sometime we filterers...
Hello, everyone. It's less than two weeks until Ruby DCamp! We've added Beginning Ruby as a suggested area of focus. As an Open Spaces conference, the content...
Do we have topics set for October yet? I might like to throw my hat in the ring for a bit of a talk about Cucumber, which will be the replacement for the...
I had offered to do the talk I am going to do at rubyconf (http://rubyconf.org/talks/31). I haven't heard back yet but I would be happy to fill the other...
Hello, all. I'm posting this on behalf of Andrea Wright of Chariot Solutions, who is a sponsor of Ruby DCamp. She wants to let us know about a 1-day...
I would be happy to be there to open the room up. However, because of a conflict we can't have it on Oct 15th. If you two guys are available another night,...
October 16th is fine for me. I'll draft up a description over the weekend for you. ... -- // anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of //...
I am fine on the 16th. Here is the ouline of my talk. rush (http://rush.heroku.com/) as defined by the website is: a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh,...
Hi all, Comcast opened an office in the Herndon, VA around a year ago and currently has an opening for a Senior Developer. The team that is hiring is focused...
Howdy, In the vein of Sister Group Collaboration, I'd like to extend an open invitation to the members of NovaRUG to attend and, if so inclined, present at the...