Two Easy Pieces
- December 13, 2005 · 6:30 PM
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DIRECTIONS: see details below.
TOPICS: two short 30 minute presentations - one for beginners and the other for practitioners.
Starting at 6:30 pm, the beginner's topic is "Getting Started with Ruby on Rails on the Macintosh: Tools, Hints, and Resources". A handout CD-ROM will be available to everyone who RSVP'ed. But you'll have to stay until the end. :-)
Then at 7:10 pm, the practitioner's topic is "File Transformation Domain Specific Language". Will Sobel[1] is presenting a DSL[2] he created in Ruby for a Financial Risk Management firm. It has some interesting concepts that were facilitated by Ruby's dynamic nature. This is not a general purpose product, but does solve a large number of Extract, Transform, Load (ETL[3][4]) issues found with many packaged products. This system is currently in production and is fairly large (for Ruby), and has been performing very reliably for nearly four years.
[1] http://ruby.meetup.co...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.o...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.o...
[4] http://tinyurl.com/8s...
DIRECTIONS:
Venue will be the Mary Louise Strong conference room at the San Francisco public library main branch (100 Larkin).
It's on the 1st floor behind the Information Desk. If you enter the library via the Grove St/Hyde St entrance, that's the 1st floor. The Information Desk is on your left. Walk around and behind it and you will see the Mary Louise Strong room. If you enter the library via Larkin, you're entering on the 2nd floor and will have to descend to the 1st floor.
The San Francisco Public Library is convenient to the BART, MUNI, and about 5 or 6 bus lines. There is a BART/MUNI entrance right next to the Grove St/Hyde St library entrance.
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Bosco So
Will Sobel's presentation was thought provoking and provided fodder for future topics.
December 14, 2005
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A former member
I think a part of the event dedicated to questions and answers would be a great addition. I really liked the get together afterwards.
December 14, 2005
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A former member
Excellent Meetup, Bosco! Very well organized and great people. Thanks for taking the lead on getting the group together. I can't wait for the next meetup.
December 13, 2005
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A former member
I enjoyed the open discussion during the meeting; I thought the group was just the right size to allow discussion and also have a breadth of perspectives.
December 13, 2005
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Jason Dusek
everybody used macs! this was unexpected. the first presentation was pretty much mac specific, and i worry that other meetups will repeat this pattern.
December 13, 2005
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Rich Morin
Assistant Organizer
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Ray Baxter
Master.rb or something like that
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