Orange County Ruby Users Group

Hi Folks:

Location: SmartSoft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda:

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: MongoDB – Tommy Chheng
7:30: LA Ruby recap – Scott Smith

After that: free for all

Forrest

Hi Folks:

We’re on. Dave has the place open

SmartSoft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda:

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: 10 things Java programmers should know about Ruby

After that: free for all

Forrest

So we’re on for the meeting this thurs @ smart soft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda

6:30: Doors open, socialize, meet each other
7:00: RubyConf review

After that: Anything goes!

Forrest

So we’re on for the meeting this thurs @ smart soft http://www.smart- soft.com/ misc/Location. html

Agenda

6:30: Doors open, socialize
7:00: Organizational matters

• introductions
• “committees”
• Vote on
  • times
  • location
• Discussion on additional activities
  • code dojos
  • hackfest
  • twitter/facebook
  • special events (joint RUG stuff, speakers, etc)
  • etc.
• Get a feel of what people want to talk about

7:45: Presentation: Intro to Cucumber, by Pat Maddox http://www.patmaddo x.com/http://archive. patmaddox. com/blog/

After that: Anything goes!

Forrest

Our next meeting will be Thursday, March 26th, at 6:30pm. We will be meeting at our new venue, Smartsoft in Irvine. You can get directions here.

http://www.smart-soft.com/misc/Location.html

We will be providing an introduction to ActiveRecord and going over some more advanced topics as well. Feel free to bring up any other topics or projects you’d like to share with us as well.

Check out LA Ruby Conf, April 4th, right here in Orange County (Tustin). For more info visit their site.

http://www.larubyconf.com/

We will be having our next OC Ruby meeting at Robert Half in Irvine this Thursday, 6:30pm. We don’t have any firm speakers so if anybody has anything they want to present or share please feel free to bring along your laptop and share.

Agenda
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6:30 – 7:00 – announcements, networking
7:00 – 9:00 – presentation, topical discussions

Address
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Robert Half International
18200 Von Karman Ave
Suite 800
Irvine, CA 92612

For free parking make sure you park at the Wells Fargo across the street. There is an outdoor parking lot that you can park in for free. The attendant there leaves at 7pm. Otherwise, if you park in the parking garages you will have to pay through an automated payment machine.

This month we’ll be crashing LARuby’s meeting here in our backyard at UCI. Here’s the details:

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Title: LARuby Meetup #8

Date: Thursday January 15, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: UC Irvine Campus – Information/Computer Science Building, Room CS432
Notes: I’m excited to host the first meeting of 2009 at UC Irvine.
It will be held in the Information and Computer Science building, room
CS432.

**IMPORTANT – PARKING**

Regrettably we couldn’t work it out so parking would be free so you
will have to pay for part time parking at one of the kiosks at the
entrance to any of the parking structures. To park near the meeting:
First, make a right turn onto East Peltason rd. from Campus dr. and
follow that until you see the second parking structure on your right
side, not lot. Park on any floor the attendant recommends and ask him
for directions to the Information and Computer Science building, not
the new Donald Bren Hall.

There will be snacks and drinks graciously provided by the ACM of UCI;
hope to see you there!

-Warren
wapples@gmail.com

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There’s a map here.

http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_08_map_campus_core.pdf

The CS building is building #302 on the map, on the south side of campus.

Our next OC Ruby meeting will be at Robert Half in Irvine. The meeting will be on Thursday, November 20th, from 6:30 – 9:00pm. Their address is

18200 Von Karman Ave Suite 800
Irvine, CA 92612
(877) 290-1698

PARKING TIP: Make sure you park at the Wells Fargo parking lot across the street and not in the parking garage. The Wells Fargo lot is free parking after 7pm, while the parking garage is automated and not free.

Rails 2.1 was just released! Read about it here. Some highlights:

The new major features are:

• Time zones
• Dirty tracking
• Gem Dependencies
• Named scope
• UTC-based migrations
• Better caching