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Many thanks to Jonathan Boutelle, CTO of SlideShare, we now have a venue for this Meetup.

PRESENTATIONS

FiveRuns - Patterns in Distributed Processing

FiveRuns will be visiting us this month and hence this Meetup's title. Mike Perham will be speaking: Server-side data processing can be difficult to get right with requirements like fault tolerance, consistency or real time response. We'll look at some generic characteristics of all distributed processing problems, examine open source tools which you can use to solve distributed computing problems and review a few Ruby examples to see their strengths and weaknesses.

Also, If there is anybody that might want FiveRuns to stop by their office or shop that needs some one-on-one or would like FiveRuns to demo or provide support, please contact Theo Kambouris at http://ruby.meetup.co...

About Mike Perham
Mike is a Ruby developer at FiveRuns. He spent a decade working on various J2EE systems and has a Masters in CS from Cornell. Like his hero Scotty, he reads technical journals for fun.

Activity Streams in Rails

"What are you doing now?" This question appears to be all the rage within the fast-paced, social-oriented web. Examples include Twitter, Friendfeed, Plaxo Pulse, Action Streams from MovableType, and the DISO/Wordpress open source implementations.

Rama McIntosh from Matson Systems will present a new plugin for the Rails Community, "Activity Streams" that provides a customizable framework for cataloging and publishing user activity and social objects. We currently aim to provide support for microformats in HTML, Atom feeds, and compatibility with the open source DISO social networking implementation for activity discovery and consumption.

Matson Systems builds community-oriented web-based systems focused on peer-to-peer data sharing and informatics. Our current focus is building LegalTorrents.com, a digital media community discover and distribute high quality open-license digital media and art.

Plug-in details: http://matsonsystems....

Reg

Caleb Clausen will be updating us on the latest developments in Reg. Reg (Ruby Extended Grammar) is a pattern-matching language for Ruby data structures. Ruby already has Regexp for matching patterns in Strings. Reg complements that capability by providing pattern matching for other types of data, such as Arrays (with backtracking), Hashes, and Objects. Together with a great deal of syntactic sugar, these various pattern matchers make up powerful and concise declarative language for describing queries on Ruby objects.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Ian Smith-Heisters will summarize what he learned about best practice regarding storing and formatting contact information.

Stand up and talk about your project, we're always open to more Lightning Talks. Email me or add your topic to this event's comment.