[wplug] Fwd: [rubypgh] Re: It's not too late!!! Come on out to tonight's Pittsburgh Ruby User Group Mtg - Two great topics, Two great speakers!

Greg Akins angrygreg at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 14:30:37 EDT 2007


> The next Pittsburgh Ruby User Group meeting is tonight, and it's not too late to come on out and
> join us! Whether you're a beginner, an experienced Rubyist or just curious, come and see what
> Ruby's all about.
>
> We're meeting from 6 to 8pm in the 2nd floor training room of the Pittsburgh Technology Council
> building, and we're being sponsored tonight by medSage Technologies, LLC.
>
> Here's tonight's agenda:
>
> 6:00 - 6:45pm - Ruby 101: Back by popular request, Christian Kebekus, CTO of medSage
> Technologies, returns to present an introduction to frameworks, with a hands-on demonstration of
> the Rails framework for Ruby. Christian will also touch on the importance of selecting the right
> framework for your project and provide a brief overview of the Ruby framework landscape. So
> bring your laptop with Ruby, Rails and MySQL installed, and see how easy it is to create your
> first Rails application!
>
> 6:45 ~ 7:00pm - Refreshments and Networking: Ruby is hot and so is the Pizza! If you're working
> on a Ruby project you can show us, let us know and maybe do a little show-and-tell with the
> group.
>
> 7:00 ~ 7:45pm - Ruby Tech: Cameron McBride brings us this month's topic, "Heavy lifting with
> Ruby: Using Ruby-in-science and interfacing Ruby with C"
> Dynamic languages like Ruby have many advantages to both simplify and speed up  the development
> cycle.  Sometimes, however, these languages make it difficult to address the problem correctly.
> Perhaps the problem of numerical processing makes the speed penalty repugnant, or one simply
> needs to utilize a pre-written library in another language.  Luckily these are both issues that
> Ruby can handle elegantly so we can have our cake and eat it too!!! Cameron, a doctoral
> candidate in Astrophysics at the University of Pittsburgh, will present some simple cases of
> extending Ruby with C, and discuss how this has helped him use Ruby for scientific analysis.
>
> PLEASE RSVP if you can so that we can get an accurate count for refreshments! If you're not
> sure, send us a 'maybe' :-)
> If you're a member of the Pittsburgh Ruby GoogleGroup, you can email your confirmation to the
> group at mailto:rubypgh at googlegroups.com, or else email me personally at
> mailto:schofield.da... at verizon.net
>
> Location Details:
> The meeting will be held in the 2nd Floor Training Room of the Pittsburgh Technology Council,
> 2000 Technology Drive, PGH. Free wireless is available in the training room.
> (The council building is near the foot of Bates (that's the Parkway's Oakland exit) by the Mon
> river, along the road that ThermoFisher(Cellomics) and Union Switch and Signal are on. See it athttp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2000+Technology+Drive,+pittsb...
> =16&ll=40.434209,-79.96871&spn=0.012233,0.026994&iwloc=addr)
>
> -ds/ga


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