From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-04-14T16:04:40+09:00
Subject: PDX.rb meeting report: biggest crowd ever

Lucas did a great job of presenting Rails to a mixed crowd of Rubyists (including many who were 
curious about Ruby who came to check it out) and Perl Mongers.  Someone counted ~50 people there 
tonight.  Definately a good sized crowd.  

Rails is certainly packing them in.

Oh, and Lucas even has a Physics thesis due on Friday.

Phil


In article <d3h68j011u@enews4.newsguy.com>,
Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
>If you're in or near the Portland Oregon metro area tomorrow night we're 
>having a combined meeting of PDX.rb and the Portland Perl Mongers. 
>
>Details:
>
>April Meeting
>April 13th, 2005 6:30pm at Free Geek, 1741 SE 10th Ave
>
>Ruby on Rails by Lucas Carlson
>
>Ruby on Rails (http://rubyonrails.org/) is a 9 month old web framework
>that provides shortcuts to many aspects of web development. Many of you
>have already heard of Ruby on Rails since a lot of people have been
>proclaiming 10x increases in productivity recently. This presentation 
>will
>introduce you to the fundamentals of the framework by creating a simple
>application from scratch. You will then learn some of the more advanced
>features of Rails, like how to setup XML-RPC and SOAP API's for the
>application and how easy it is to integrate Ajax features in forms. You
>will also be exposed to some non-trivial Rails code from an existing
>website (http://webcollaborator.com/) in order to judge how well Rails
>holds up when implementing non-trivial concepts.
>
>Knowledge of Ruby is optional, there will be a short crash course at the
>beginning of the talk.
>
>Lucas Carlson comes from a background of almost 8 years of PHP
>development. He discovered Ruby on Rails for himself 6 months ago and has
>been gainfully employed developing in Rails ever since. He has also made
>contributions to the framework. For more information about Lucas, see
>http://rufy.com/
>
>