What’s Planned
August 9 (Second Monday of the month): The R Language
Ray Niemeir will tell us about the R programming language
September 13 (Second Monday of the month): JQuery
Yes, it’s not Ruby (again), but if you’re doing Web development (Ruby or otherwise) you will want to know about JQuery.
October 11 (Second Monday of the month): Git!
Git usage, tools, and workflow.
Our Mission
The Phoenix Ruby User Group aims to grow and support a unified valley-wide community of Rubyists with community education, technological innovation, and outreach.
Details
The group meets at the offices of Target Training International, 17785 N. Pacesetter Way, Scottsdale AZ, 85255
The meeting room is the conference room at the front of the building.
Please look at this sophisticated spy satellite image. (Please, if you have not been to the meeting before, LOOK AT THAT PICTURE.)
Meetings are the second Monday of each month, excepting major holidays (e.g. New Years day/eve, Christmas day/eve).
- 6:30pm: Doors open, general socializing.
- 7:00pm: Meeting starts
- 8:30pm: More fine discussion at Four Peaks Brewery
General organizing is done by: James Britt – james@neurogami.com
There is a Google Groups mailing list set up for this group for general announcements, Ruby discussions, and other related matter:
http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-ruby
Past Topics
July 12, 2010: Planning and wishing
The assembled discussed what topics and presentations they would like to hear, and what that could and would be willing to present.
June 14, 2010: (J)Ruby + Android
Jay McGavren gave a seriously kick-ass talk about Ruboto/Ruby + Android.
May 10, 2010: No topic
We just shot the breeze.
April 12, 2010: Lightning Talks
James Britt and Jay McGavren showed off some of their projects.
March 8, 2010: Teleku
Chris Matthieu will tell us about his new application and start-up, Teleku.
Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound calls, interact with Web applications, and send/receive SMS text messages! Using simple XML or JSON responses in your HTTP Web pages, you can deliver sophisticated interactive voice response (IVR) telephony applications in minutes!
February 8, 2010: Pivotal Slacker
James Britt of local Ruby and Rails consulting company Neurogami showed some code for working with the Pivotal Tracker Web API .
Chad Wooley of Pivotal Labs was on hand to answer questions as well.
January 11, 2010: HTML5 Graphics
John Taber of Tiger Nassau told us about InkScape, SVG, HTML5 Canvas, and how Ruby can play a role with each.