ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Marking Up the Web with Graffiti

Regular Expressions are your friend! A regular expression will find that needle in the haystack, where Waldo might be, or the location of Jimmy Hoffa's body. Seriously, regular expressions are powerful, but seldom used by developers. This talk will help change that. By the end of this talk you'll want to use regular expressions for more than just checking an E-Mail or IP address format.

About Our Speaker: Aaron Kalin is a developer at Hashrocket, a Jacksonville Beach based Ruby on Rails consultancy that also has an office in Chicago. He's been developing applications on and off the web since he was 11 and very passionate about solving problems with code. His hair is also Ruby Red.

WindyCityDB is Chicago's NoSQL database conference. Do you have something to say about key value stores, document databases, graph databases, or other NoSQL database technologies? Then we invite you to submit a speaking proposal. Learn more at http://windycitydb.org or on Twitter: @WindyCityDB (http://twitter.com/windycitydb).

After most downtown meetings we head over to Elephant & Castle (185 N. Wabash) for refreshments & fellowship. Join us for a few minutes if you have time.

Please use your real name when you RSVP for downtown ChicagoRuby meetings. Reason: We are required to give a list of all attendees to the security desk prior to the meeting. If the name on your ID doesn't the match the name on the RSVP list, then Aon security (http://www.cuberick.com/2008/12/history-of-security-at-aon-center.html) will not let you in the building. Sorry for the inconvenience, but those are the rules of the Aon Building.