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NYC LOCAL: Thursday 29 November 2007 UNIGROUP: Heow Eide-Goodman on Ruby


From: secretary
Subject: NYC LOCAL: Thursday 29 November 2007 UNIGROUP: Heow Eide-Goodman on Ruby on Rails
Date: 27 Nov 2007 10:53:26 -0500

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  what="official UNIGROUP announcement">

 From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist@unigroup.org>
 Subject: UNIGROUP Meeting 29-NOV-2007 (Thu): Ruby and Rails


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 UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - NOVEMBER 2007 ANNOUNCEMENTS
 =====================================================================

    -----------------------------------------------------
 1. UNIGROUP'S NOVEMBER 2007 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
    -----------------------------------------------------

       When:  THURSDAY, November 29, 2007    (**SPECIAL LAST Thursday**)

      Where:  Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
              Downtown Center
              104 Washington Street
              South West Corner of Wall Street Area
              Downtown, New York City
              ** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **

       Time:  6:15 PM - 6:25 PM  Registration
              6:25 PM - 6:45 PM  Ask the Wizard, Questions,
                                 Answers and Current Events
              6:45 PM - 7:00 PM  Unigroup Business and Announcements
              7:00 PM - 9:30 PM  Main Presentation

              -------------------------------------------
      Topic:  Creating Great Software With RUBY and RAILS
              -------------------------------------------

    Speaker:  Heow Eide-Goodman


    INTRODUCTION:
    -------------

    Unigroup's November 2007 meeting will be on RUBY and RAILS on a
    special LAST Thursday of the month meeting, at our normal Downtown
    NYC meeting location.

    The Wikipedia says the following about Ruby:  Ruby is a reflective,
    dynamic object-oriented programming language... which has a syntax
    inspired by Perl, and has some features found in Smalltalk,
    Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU.  Ruby is a single-pass interpreted
    language, and is free software written in 'C'.  Ruby's first public
    release was in 1995.

    ** Unigroup Board of Director Elections: Unigroup will be holding
    our annual elections for our Board of Directors shortly.  If you
    are interested in running/volunteering for the Unigroup Board,
    please contact us immediately!

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
    ---------------------

    To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
    Registration Page:
          http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

    This will allow us to automate the registration process.
    (Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
    Please avoid emailed RSVPs.

    Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
    for any last minute updates concerning this meeting.  If you
    registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last
    minute announcements as the meeting approaches.  Also make sure
    any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
    If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from our
    mailing list.

    Please try to RSVP as soon as possible.

    Note: RSVP is not mandatory for this location, but it does help
          us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
          seating, etc.).

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    MAIN PRESENTATION
    -----------------

    Creating Great Software With RUBY and RAILS
    -------------------------------------------

    Heow Eide-Goodman's presentation discusses the many facets of Ruby,
    how it fits into development methodologies, and how best to leverage
    the language to solve your problems.

    This presentation is designed for a technically-inclined audience
    and is appropriate for developers, administrators and IT managers.

    The topics of discussion include:

      - What is Ruby?
      - Why do developers/admins/managers love it?
      - Is Ruby more than just a prototyping language?
      - What problems Ruby in uniquely suited to.
      - Ruby on Rails
      - Ruby in the corporate environment

    This also comes complete with real-world examples and hands-on
    demonstrations.


    Web Resources:
    --------------

    Ruby
      http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

    Ruby on Rails
      http://www.rubyonrails.org/

    Online Book: Programming Ruby
      http://www.rubycentral.com/pickaxe/

    Wikipedia on Ruby
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)

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    Speaker Biography:
    ------------------

    Heow Eide-Goodman had been professionally writing software for
    well over a decade when he realized that life is too short to be
    spent on relatively low level languages like C.  The search for
    something better started 5 years ago.

    Since then, he has authored "Beginning PHP5" (2004 Wiley) and
    "Professional PHP5" (2005 Wiley), was featured in 2004 electronic
    voting machine documentary "Votergate", is the author of the
    "Lisp Resource Kit" for teaching lisp-based technology, is a
    founding member of XP-NYC and LispNYC, is serving on the
    Association of Lisp Users Board of Directors, and has secured
    $95,000 worth of grants from Google's Summer of Code program and
    other sources.

    Heow semi-regularly presents to technical groups in New York
    City and consults in the teaching of GoF design patterns,
    Agile software development, Fowler refactoring and UML.

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    Company Biography:
    ------------------

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    Giveaways:
    ----------

    O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
    books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
    meetings.

    Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
    enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
    continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.

    Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
    provided by their User Group programs.

    Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
    our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
    (ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!

    ** Thanks to our friends at Sun Microsystems, Unigroup also has
       a box of Solaris 10 DVDs to hand out (or raffle off, if there
       are not enough).

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    Fee Schedule:
        Yearly Membership (includes all meetings):      $ 50.00
        Non-Member Single Meeting:                      $ 20.00
        Student Yearly Membership:                      $ 20.00
        Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID):    $  5.00
        Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.  This includes
    "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
    vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
    pasta, etc), cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------

    Directions:

      Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
      Downtown Center
      104 Washington Street
      Wall Street Area
      Downtown, New York City

    This building is located on the West side of the street, the
    second building north of Rector Street.  Cross Streets:
    Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.

    Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
    North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
    East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street.  Walking West
    on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
    Washington Streets.

    There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
    Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
    and extending North for a number of blocks.

    Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
    Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).

    -----

    Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
    Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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 2. LOCAL NYC EVENTS
    ----------------

    NYCBUG-NYPHP Holiday Party 2007
    -------------------------------

    :  Subject: [announce] 2007 Holiday Party
    :
    :  This year's NYCBUG-NYPHP Holiday Party picks up where the 2004 bash
    :  left off.
    :
    :  We'll have a two hour open bar and hors d'oeuvres at Suspenders...
    :  which will be closed just for us.
    :
    :  The date is Thursday, December 13th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.
    :
    :  It's vital that everyone registers ASAP online at
    :  http://orgcom.info/Holiday/RSVP since we may have to limit the
    :  attendees at some point.
    :
    :  Of course, we have a number of sponsors aboard to fund the event.
    :
    :  If anyone is interested in joining the list of sponsors, please
    :  contact george at nycbug dot org offlist.

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    -----------------
 3. UPCOMING MEETINGS
    -----------------

    We have a series of meetings in the works:

    - RUBY and RAILS - November 2007
    - Planning: IPsec and IPv6 and VPNs  (possibly 3 meetings) - 2008
    - Planning: Unix/Linux/BSD Distribution Round Table Discussion
    - Planning: Asterix / Bayonne / OpenPBX-CallWeaver / VoIP
    - NO SPAM!
    - Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
    - The latest on *BSD (NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD)
    - Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, etc.)
    - Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
    - Are there too many Linux Distributions?
    - Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
    - Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
    - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
    - LAMP Part 2 - PHP
    - Field Trip to HP - Invited
    - Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
    - Samba
    - DNS
    - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
    - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
    - GNU Development Environments
    - iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies

    ** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
    Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
    interested in.  Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
    technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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 4. PRIOR MEETINGS
    --------------

    ** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
       in an upcoming announcement.

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    --------------------
 5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
    --------------------

    Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
    the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.  Unigroup
    is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer
    organization.  Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings
    throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix
    User Community.  Unigroup is/was also the Greater NYC Regional Area
    Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.

    Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
    THURSDAY of Odd Months.  We generally try to hold Field Trip or
    Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
    ability to hold monthly meetings at our new downtown meeting location.

    Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
      11/29/2007, 1/17/2008, 3/20/2008, 5/15/2008...
    Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC
    as well as "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and
    software vendors.

    =========================================================================
    = For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
    = visit our World Wide Web Home Page:                                   =
    =       http://www.unigroup.org                                         =
    =========================================================================

    For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
    List send an EMail message to:
         unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org

    To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
         uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org

    If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
    Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
    corrections to our lists.

    Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
    meeting topics and speakers.  Unigroup welcomes contributions and
    content suggestions for our newsletter.  Unigroup is a volunteer
    organization and we need your assistance!  Please let us know if you
    can help!

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 I hope to see you all at our next meeting!

 -Rob Weiner
  Unigroup Executive Director
  unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
  http://www.unigroup.org
  
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