From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-11-11T18:07:34+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 11/11/2002

   A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
   this week by Holden Glova.

   ANNOUNCEMENTS
   =============

   Ruby Hacking Fest [January]
          Pate Eyler is trying to organize another Ruby hacking fest for
          people in the Northwestern USA area. The hack fest will be in
          Seattle. If you are interested, sign up here([1]).

   Ruby docs online
          James Britt has taken the initiative to start and maintain a
          site dedicated to all Ruby documenatation. This covers things
          such as the Ruby API, tutorials, online books, articles.
          Bookmark this great resource here([2]).

   INTERESTING THREADS
   ===================

   Rubyconf 2002
          Rubyconf 2002 happened. I heard it was a great time. I'm sad I
          couldn't get there. Don't miss next years Rubyconf guys, start
          saving now like I am. whytheluckystiff wrote a brief summary of
          the talks he got to see. Check them out on his blog.

   Ruby article in SD magazine
          Software Development magazine has an arcticle assessing Ruby.
          Rick Wayne gives it 4 out of a possible 5 stars - "The product
          is near the top of its class and probably belongs in your
          shop". Always interesting reading other peoples perceptions of
          Ruby. Lookfor the december issue of Software Development([3]),
          currently it is still showing november.

   Rubyconf covered by O'Reilly
          O'Reilly did a short blurb on the Rubyconf. Read it here([4]).

   Rubycentral DNS problems
          Anyone having problems trying to get to rubycentral.com can get
          to it from here([5]). Rubycentral is currently haveing DNS
          issues.

   Ruby documentation vision
          Dave Thomas has shared his vision for a documentation tool to
          conquer all documentation tools. Read this post for an
          incredible vision.

   Matz at LL2
          Yohanes Santoso let us know that if anyone is interested in
          hearing the talk Matz gave at LL2 they can get it from
          here([6]), you will need to be able to play real audio files.

References

   1. mailto:janhackfest-subscribe@kohalabs.com
   2. http://www.ruby-doc.org/
   3. http://www.sdmagazine.com/
   4. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/176
   5. http://165.193.123.250/
   6. http://ai33.bpa.arizona.edu/~ysantoso/ruby/ll2-ruby.rm