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.
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:
For those that couldn’t make it up to Portland this week for RailsConf, Drew Blas’ blog has been covering it well.
Ruby 1.8.7 is released! From the release announcement…
The new version of Ruby includes many bug fixes, lots of feature enhancements backported from 1.9 and some performance improvements since 1.8.6 while maintaining stability and backward compatibility with the previous release to a high degree. See the bundled documentation for details about compatibility issues.
We had a great turn out at Oakley last night. Thanks to Randall for letting us use their space and the tour as well as the pizza and drinks that were provided. And thanks to Robert for an engaging presentation on Git. I didn’t get an exact head count but I believe we had about 15 or more in attendance.
We will be having our next OC Ruby meeting Thursday, April 24th, at the Oakley Headquarters in Foothill Ranch. We will meet at 6:30pm (instead of the usual 7pm). Topics will be on:
1. Introduction to and advanced strategies for ActiveRecord for mapping your database to Ruby model objects
2. The Git version control system, created by Linus Torvalds and used by the Rails, Merb, and RSpec teams. For a talk given by Linus at Google on Git see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
If you’ve never visited Oakley’s offices before it’s almost reason alone to come visit. Our guest Randall can give a brief tour of the facility as well.
Here’s a Google map to Oakley
http://tinyurl.com/5789ob
Here’s Oakley’s address and driving directions page
http://oakley.com/customer_service/directions
See the event on Upcoming.org and please RSVP so we can get an estimated head count
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/474008/?ps=5
