From: James Britt Date: 2006-06-08T22:52:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Trying to determine presentation author Assaph Mehr wrote: > On 6/1/06, James Britt wrote: > >> There's a presentation on ruby-doc.org, in the Why Ruby? section, simply >> titled, "Ruby Language Talk" >> >> The description says, "A presentation to an R&D group of engineers about >> Ruby. Contains several formats: PPT, PNGs, RTF, MHT and plain text." >> >> And the there is a link to a ~2MB zip file with all those formats. >> >> However, what isn't included (as best I can tell) is any attribution; I >> cannot figure out who wrote this presentation. >> >> Does anyone know who the author is? > > > That would be me. It's a presentation I gave to Avaya Labs (Australia) > R&D group around mid 2004. It's based on various slides stolen from > other places, most notably Matz's various talks. I originally uploaded > it to the WhyRuby project (I think it was on RubyForge - but the > project seems to have been deleted?). Thank you! (BTW, all the Why Ruby? material was moved to ruby-doc.org sometime last year: http://www.ruby-doc.org/whyruby) -- James Britt http://www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation http://www.artima.com/rubycs/ - The Journal By & For Rubyists http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys http://www.30secondrule.com - Building Better Tools