similar to: last call for the MountainWest Ruby Conf

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

One of the things that I''m most excited to have as part of the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf is the second Alternative Ruby Implementors'' Summit and Panel -- I wrote a bit more about it here: http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2007/01/mountainwest-rubyconf-implementors.html The rest of the speakers and talks are listed here: http://mtnwestruby.org/speakers/ If you''re interested

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

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

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 -------------------------

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 -------------------------

I''m proud to announce the official Mongrel certification program: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/certified.html Move quick, seats are filling fast for the RubyConf courses. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.

> -----Original Message----- > From: win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org > [mailto:win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of > Zach Dennis > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:12 AM > To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects > Subject: [Win32utils-devel] rubygems > > > Dan, > > What are your thoughts on packaging of all the

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

Hi all, At RubyConf this year I talked about win32-mmap with Patrick Hurley and Ara Howard. Ara mentioned that Guy''s version of mmap (for Unix) contains some string-like methods that let you access pieces of the view like a string. Patrick and I came up with this (which requires the latest windows-pr in cvs so that we can use a more flexible version of memcpy, as well as some

Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

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

A concrete example: We''re building a system to organize the information about workshops being held in various conventions. A convention has more than one workshop, and each workshop can be held in more than one convention. Also each workshop has a host, who is specific to a workshop being held in a specific convention. For example, Matz may host an "Introduction to Ruby"

Dear Colegues: I have tried to reach Ray Brownrigg, Ray.Brownrigg at mcs.vuw.ac.nz but my mails have turned back with the following comment did not reach the following recipient(s): Brownrigg at mcs.vuw.ac.nz on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:52:39 +0100 There is no such account in the address =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=

[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

Hello List, My goal is to create a 5 category variable (p1_st_data$ob_mrj_cat), based on the p1_st_data$obt_mrj_p variable, using the following code for 50 States and District of Columbia (N=51). p1_st_data$ob_mrj_cat <- cut (p1_st_data$obt_mrj_p, quantile (p1_st_data$obt_mrj_p, (0:5/5), include.lowest=TRUE)) The issue is that, for Utah, I am getting an <NA> instead of (42,48.7] in