As I’ve mentioned before a few of us from DigiMedia have started up the North Texas Ruby Users Group (ntrb) and plan to have meetings on the first Thursday of each month. Well this Thursday marks our first meeting. Nothing major is planned and no talk is really set as this is the first and we are gauging the turn out. We will be meeting December 4th from 6:30pm to 8pm at the Wichita Falls Public Library in the Library Conference Room. You can find more info on the official site ntrb.org (with a full site coming very soon). So, if your a Ruby or Rails developer or are thinking about jumping into Ruby then you should check out the meeting.
Next weekend I will be attending the Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin, Texas. My work, DigiMedia, is sending 5 of us down there from Thursday to Saturday night. I am glad to have the chance to go and hear some panels on Ruby, Merb, and Rails. I am still new to Ruby and Rails but have been learning a lot of getting ready to write my first Rails app soon. I haven’t looked at merb yet but need to start as the next big project at work will use merb. I still have a lot to learn on Ruby but am looking forward to learning it and attending more conferences in the area.
This will be my first conference on any subject so I’m looking forward to it that much more. The other guys all know Ruby and have been using it for a little while now so I’m the newb of the bunch, but that is alright with me as I love learning and get excited over it. I remember when I first touched css and then when I first started messing around with php several years ago. I will of course be shooting video, in fact we are buying a Flip cam in a few days, so I plan to take it to try it out. It will actually be for my 5 year old son, but I’ll do some testing on it first.
If your going to the conference, here are the panels I’m planning to attend (note; these are just the panels where there are two at the same time): Friday, September 5
Javascript frameworks with Ruby
Care and Feeding of Ruby Developers
Creating Desktop Applications With Ruby on Mac OS X
Ruby in the Cloud
Saturday, September 6
Using jQuery with Ruby Web Frameworks
Resource-Driven Web Development With Waves
How Not To Build A Service or Ruby Anvil (still debating)
Merb: The Pocket Rocket Framework
