For those of you who are living in or around Portland and are not part of the Portland Ruby or Perl groups, you might be interested in a presentation I am giving about Rails. It will be on April 13th, 6:30PM at FreeGeek (http://www.freegeek.org/). This presentation will introduce you to the fundamentals of the framework by creating a simple application from scratch. You will then learn some of the more advanced features of Rails, like how to setup XML-RPC and SOAP API''s for the application and how easy it is to integrate Ajax features in forms. You will also be exposed to some non-trivial Rails code from an existing website (http://webcollaborator.com/) in order to judge how well Rails holds up when implementing non-trivial concepts. I come from a background of almost 8 years of PHP development. I discovered Ruby on Rails for himself 6 months ago and have been gainfully employed developing in Rails ever since. I have also made contributions to the framework. For more information about me, see http://rufy.com/ Hope to see all you north-westerners there. -Lucas Carlson (cardmagic in at IRC)