similar to: utahvalley.rb meeting Tue Aug 22 at 7PM

It''s that time again. Tuesday at 7PM, in room 120 of the TMCB. (That would be the Talmage Mah and Computer science Building at BYU.) It should be a great chance to hang out and have some fun with Ruby, Rails, and related toys. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

the utahvalley.rb will be hackig tonight starting at 7PM in the Lab in room 2004 of the Talmage Math and Computer Science Building (TMCB) at BYU. Kevin and I are either going to work on coverity identified defects in Ruby, or on writing an RSpec specification for checkr. Additional hackers will be welcome to work on either, or on a Ruby/Rails project you bring yourself. -- thanks, -pate

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

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

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

I've been searching, and I can't find any rpms of dovecot stable for RHEL 4. Does anybody know where I can get one? Ever since we went from IMAP-UW to Dovecot, we've been having frequent problems with mbox corruption, and I've read that 1.0 fixes many of those types of problems. Has anybody else found an rpm for RHEL 4 of any Dovecot greater than 1.0? -- Topher Fischer System

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

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

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

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

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

I've been trying to get Kerberos to work for the last couple of days so that we can use SSO. I can't seem to get past a roadblock and Google doesn't seem to provide any answers. I've got Samba connected to the AD and running. I can wbinfo everything and can login to the machine using PAM with the pam_winbind modules just fine. I can get user tickets just fine. When I try to get ssh

Duncan, Do a quick check here on x86_64-apple-darwin10 with svn llvm and svn dragon-egg against release gcc 4.5.0, the results from the himenoBMTxpa benchmark compiled at -O3 look pretty good. With stock gcc-4.5.0, we get... Grid-size = M mimax = 128 mjmax = 128 mkmax = 256 imax = 127 jmax = 127 kmax =255 Start rehearsal measurement process. Measure the performance in 3 times. MFLOPS:

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"

[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