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MountainWest RubyConf 2008 is scheduled for March 28 and 29, 2008. It will be in Salt Lake City, at the same great venue we had last year, and it is again our intent to record and make available all the talks under a Creative Commons, Share-Alike license -- you can see last year''s talks here: http://mtnwestrubyconf2007.confreaks.com/ If you''ve been working on a problem

If you live in the Mountain West (Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah), or don''t mind a bit of travel, You should look into the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 16th and 17th. We''ve got a great line up of speakers, including the JRuby team, Ara T Howard, and a keynote by Chad Fowler. Registration is just $50, hotels are affordable, and pre/post

Do you want the best performance from your Lustre implementation? Lustre Administration & Support training will be offered June 5-7 in Boulder, Colorado. Attendance is limited! Click here to register Today! http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=132736 Cluster File Systems offers Lustre? Training programs that provide the all the knowledge required to start building high performance

Announcing RubyConf*MI! The Michigan Ruby Users Group [1] is pleased to announce RubyConf*MI, http://www.rubyconfmi.org - a whole day of Ruby goodness. The conference will be an all day event held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, August 26, 2006. RubyConf*MI [2] will be a single-track conference featuring well-known speakers like David A. Black and Pat Eyler, along with

Hi -- Registration for RubyConf 2006 is now open, at http://www.regonline.com/101503. Please note that we are accepting credit cards *only*. There''s more conference info at http://www.rubyconf.org. Thanks -- David for RubyConf 2006 and Ruby Central, Inc. -- http://www.rubypowerandlight.com => Ruby/Rails training & consultancy ----> SEE SPECIAL DEAL FOR RUBY/RAILS

[Strictly speaking, this isn''t really a "reminder", since I''m fairly sure the original announcement didn''t go to this list. Nonetheless -- here it is!] Hi everyone -- In case you missed it the first time (and rather a lot of you seem to have...) -- You can now submit a RubyConf 2006 presentation proposal, at: http://proposals.rubygarden.org You

The BYU Ruby Users Group will be holding its February meeting on Wednesday the 8th at 7PM. We''re meeting in room 120 of the Talmage Math & Computer Building (TMCB) -- see http://map.byu.edu/Map.html for a map of campus if you need it. Eric Hodel is making a trip in from Seattle to talk about all kinds of deep Ruby things. He is a former presenter at RubyConf (RubyConf 2003

Hi all Sorry folks, I won''t be at RubyConf this year. I burned up the travel budget with a trip to Thailand, a makeup trip to Florida, and I''m headed to Florida again this Christmas. At least this gives me more time to work on Wuby. :) Regards, Dan

Hi all, Is anyone on the list going to RubyConf this year? I don''t know yet if I''m going to go. I''m still thinking about it. Regards, Dan

Hi -- Registration for RubyConf 2006 is still scheduled to open on August 2, in the early evening Pacific (US West Coast) time. Also, there''s more info at http://www.rubycentral.org/conference (e.g., the fact that this year we''re only taking credit cards, etc.). David P.S. Any LA area Rubyists around? I''ll be there this week doing Rails training. --

I might be a bit scarce this weekend -- I managed to score a late ticket to RubyConf! I''ll be in Denver hobnobbing with Matz. :) Roy

Hi -- Here''s the current status of RubyConf registration: I''m tinkering with the form.... We''re using an outside registration service for the first time, so I have to make sure I get it right, and it''s actually pretty complicated (I think). We got our credit card merchant account, so we''re good to go on that score. My current plan, barring

Hi, For those of you that attended RubyConf 2007, what were your impressions? Any more thoughts on JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby or Wuby? Regards, Dan

utahvalley.rb monthly meeting Tuesday, Aug 22 at 7PM in room 120 of the TMCB that''s building 80 on the map at: http://map.byu.edu/Map.html I''ll be presenting my talk on Libraries for developers (consider it a dress rehearsal for RubyConf*MI) Afterwards, we can kick around general Ruby stuff. I hope to see you there. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

Hi everyone -- My .sig has said so for a while, but I thought I would directly announce two Rails training courses from Ruby Power and Light, coming up in Florida in January, both in Fort Lauderdaler Intro to Ruby on Rails, January 12-15 Advancing with Rails, January 19-22 I''m teaching "Intro", and "Advancing" will be co-taught by me and Patrick Ewing. The

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------