From: James Britt Date: 2009-05-09T03:52:09+09:00 Subject: [ANN] May Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting May Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting When: Monday, May 1, 2009 6:30pm door open. Laptop power and WiFi available. 7:00pm Showtime 8:30pm Migrate to Four Peaks Brewery Topic: Ruby + Processing: Preston Lee of OpenRain will talk about using Processing with Ruby Where: Target Training International offices 17785 N. Pacesetter Way Scottsdale AZ, 85255 http://is.gd/7h7L 101 Freeway to Princess Drive; 2 blocks to Pacesetter North on Pacesetter to TTI at 17785 Drive around to the back to meeting room entrance See http://www.rubyaz.org/images/tti_sat.png Discussion, food, drink: Four Peaks Brewery, Scottsdale Southeast corner of of Frank Lloyd Wright & Hayden (Around the corner from McDonald's, on Hayden) http://is.gd/v0wx Processing is an MIT-developed framework for making little code artifacts, animations, visualizations, and the like, developed originally by Ben Fry and Casey Reas, supported by a small army of open-source contributors. Processing has become a sort of standard for visually-oriented programming, strongly influencing the designs of Nodebox, Shoes, Arduino, and other kindred projects. For more information, take a look at http://processing.org/ The Phoenix Ruby Users Group meets at 6:30pm on the second Monday of each month, barring holidays. Information may be found at www.rubyaz.org. -- James Britt www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff www.neurogami.com - Smart application development