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| DATE | 2006-06-20 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] TOMORROW! NY Linux Users Group Meeting 6/21: Francis Hwang on Ruby
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Ever wonder what all the fuss is about Ruby and Ruby on Rails?
We're going to begin finding out tomorrow, as we learn about Ruby,
and then next month, Ruby on Rails.
Hope to see you there.
- Ron
REMINDER: This meeting is tomorrow, RSVP closes at 4:00pm TOMORROW
Wednesday June 21st, 2006
6:30pm-7:30pm (stammtisch after 8:15pm)
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency
** RSVP Closes at 4:00pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
You must R.S.V.P. for *EVERY* meeting.
Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.
Francis Hwang
-on-
The Ruby Programming Language
After focusing our attention inward on our volunteer meetings in May,
this month, NYLUG looks back out into the world, and what do we see?
{ puts "Hello, World!" }
Ruby is looking back at us. Like most of us, you've probably heard
the name Ruby more and more over the last few years. More recently,
you've been hearing that Ruby has rails. But what is Ruby? How is it
different from other scripting languages, and why should you use it
instead of something else? Just what are Rails?
"Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language.
It combines syntax inspired by Ada and Perl with Smalltalk-like
object-oriented features, and also shares some features with
Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU. Ruby is a single-pass interpreted
language. Its main implementation is free software distributed
under an open-source license." - Wikipedia
Please join us on Wednesday June 21 at 6:30pm, as Francis Hwang from
nycruby.org shows us what Ruby is all about, and why it calls itself
the Programmer's Best Friend. Francis is eager to explain Ruby, and
answer your Ruby-related questions.
Next month, we will continue our examination of Ruby, as Ajai Khattri
takes the lid off Ruby on Rails for us, on July 19, 2006.
About Francis Hwang
Francis Hwang now lives in New York City, after growing up in
Minneapolis and stints in Seoul, Ithaca, Federal Way WA, and
Barcelona.
He divides his professional time among the pursuits of programming,
art, and writing.
Until recently, he was the Director of Technology at Rhizome.org, the
premier online new-media-arts community, and can be regularly seen at
nycruby meetings.
Swag (Give Away) - After the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be
given away.
Stammtisch
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
Northeast corner.
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
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