Wednesday, April 30. 2008
Ruby at the Java Users Group
I'll be speaking at the Toronto Java Users Group next Tuesday on "An Introduction to Ruby for Java Programmers"
This talk is based on one I gave at Colorado Software Summit a couple of years ago although it's been updated and expanded.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9900617139
Toronto JUG: http://www.torontojug.org
One of the advantages of learning a new language is being exposed to new idioms and new approaches to solving old problems. In this talk, we will introduce the Ruby language with particular focus on the idioms and concepts that are different from what is found in Java.
We will introduce concepts such as closures, continuations and meta programming. We will also examine powerful techniques that are practically impossible in Java due to its compile time binding of types.
No experience with Ruby is assumed although an understanding of Java would be helpful.
This talk is based on one I gave at Colorado Software Summit a couple of years ago although it's been updated and expanded.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9900617139
Toronto JUG: http://www.torontojug.org
Tuesday, April 8. 2008
TSOT Ruby on Rails Night tonight
I'll be speaking at the TSOT Ruby on Rails Project night tonight. Come on out and join us.
Event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10139329652
Announcement: http://correlations.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/tuesday-april-8th-tsot-ruby-on-rails-project-night/
Event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10139329652
Announcement: http://correlations.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/tuesday-april-8th-tsot-ruby-on-rails-project-night/
Monday, March 10. 2008
Colorado Software Summit - Call for papers
Colorado Software Summit has posted their annual call for papers. This is a phenomenal conference that I can't recommend highly enough. I've spoken there quite a few years and have attended many more.
If you would like to be a speaker at Colorado Software Summit 2008, now is the time to send us your proposals. Don't delay. We will have chosen the majority of the speakers and topics by early April, 2008, and essentially all of them by the end of April, 2008. Although we do hold open a few slots for important late-breaking developments (and we welcome proposals on such developments at any time), in general if we have not received your proposals by the end of April, it will probably be too late for you to be included in the 2008 agenda.
Thursday, February 28. 2008
TSOT Ruby on Rails Night for March
Corina Newby has announced the next TSOT rails night. The last two events have been great so if you're working at all with ruby or rails, come on out and join us.
If you're on facebook, here's the event.
If you're on facebook, here's the event.
TSOT Ruby on Rails Project Night
Tuesday March 11, 2008
Doors and Snacks 5:30pm
Presentations at 6:00pm
This month delivers another unique opportunity to network with fellow Toronto developers and see demos from up and coming Ruby/Rails programmers. Last month we had over 60 people register and, despite a BRUTAL snowstorm, over 30 of you made it out. This month we expect another huge crowd so please reserve your space TODAY by emailing corina.newby@tsotinc.com - this event is free but space is limited! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or presenter at a future event, please contact Corina Newby at 416-908-6082.
Stay tuned for our schedule of speakers, to be released next week!
Tuesday March 11, 2008
Doors and Snacks 5:30pm
Presentations at 6:00pm
This month delivers another unique opportunity to network with fellow Toronto developers and see demos from up and coming Ruby/Rails programmers. Last month we had over 60 people register and, despite a BRUTAL snowstorm, over 30 of you made it out. This month we expect another huge crowd so please reserve your space TODAY by emailing corina.newby@tsotinc.com - this event is free but space is limited! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor or presenter at a future event, please contact Corina Newby at 416-908-6082.
Stay tuned for our schedule of speakers, to be released next week!
Sunday, December 3. 2006
Working with Rails
WorkingWithRails.com is a site to track people using Ruby on Rails. It's interesting in that rather than just listing a bunch of names, they are providing a way for people to indicate "authority" so you can get some idea of how much experience they have with the framework. I've created an entry for myself.
Monday, November 27. 2006
Toronto Rails Pub Night
I just got back from the Toronto Rails Pub Night. Although this is the first one of these I've been to, I believe they've been meeting monthly for a while now. As you might suspect from the name, the conversation centered mostly around Ruby and Rails and was quite enjoyable.
Tuesday, November 14. 2006
Colorado Software Summit 2007
I see that Colorado Software Summit has already announced the dates for next year... October 21-26, 2007. I'll be there. Will you?
Sunday, May 14. 2006
BarCamp Toronto
BarCamp Toronto was held yesterday. I was there to help out with the XP Project Room. The basic idea of this was to have a simulated XP project so that people could try out test driven development, pair programming, unit testing and acceptance testing.
The XP room worked out quite well - we had quite a few people stop by to see what we were doing.
I also wandered by the Java vs Ruby talk that Jen Nolan ran. There weren't many people there who had experience with both Java and Ruby and as a result there were a number of misconceptions on both sides. It was a good discussion overall.
Update: Photos are here.
The XP room worked out quite well - we had quite a few people stop by to see what we were doing.
I also wandered by the Java vs Ruby talk that Jen Nolan ran. There weren't many people there who had experience with both Java and Ruby and as a result there were a number of misconceptions on both sides. It was a good discussion overall.
Update: Photos are here.
Monday, April 24. 2006
Dinner before Smalltalk Solutions
Last night was the Smalltalk dinner. About forty people showed up which was an excellent turnout. Someone mentioned that this is an indication that Smalltalk is becoming more popular as events like this in the past would have been lucky to get ten people out.
It was interesting that this group of Smalltalk people know more about the internal workings of the Java™ Virtual Machine than most Java™ programmers do. Generally, they tend to be very knowledgeable about a wide variety of languages.
Most people didn't have business cards and since I rely on those to remember people's names, I've already lost track of many of the people I met. At my end of the tabler was Blaine Buxton and Hans-Martin Mosner and a group of guys from DabbleDB. Michael Lucas-Smith stopped by for a bit as he did the rounds, taking pictures.
If I met you last night and didn't list your name then please send me your contact information.
It was interesting that this group of Smalltalk people know more about the internal workings of the Java™ Virtual Machine than most Java™ programmers do. Generally, they tend to be very knowledgeable about a wide variety of languages.
Most people didn't have business cards and since I rely on those to remember people's names, I've already lost track of many of the people I met. At my end of the tabler was Blaine Buxton and Hans-Martin Mosner and a group of guys from DabbleDB. Michael Lucas-Smith stopped by for a bit as he did the rounds, taking pictures.
If I met you last night and didn't list your name then please send me your contact information.
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- I'm the founder of Gargoyle Software Inc, a Canadian company focused on improving the software development process. We offer consulting around Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) and technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Java.
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