[GNHLUG] CentraLUG, Monday 3 December 2007: David Berube and Introduction to Ruby on Rails

[Ted Roche]

The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter,
happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical
Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on
December 3rd at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at
http://www.centralug.org Open to the public. Free admission. Tell your
friends.

At this meeting, David Berube will be presenting an Introduction to Ruby
on Rails.

About the presentation
----------------------

David Berube, author of "Practical Ruby Gems" and the "Practical
Reporting with Ruby and Rails", will discuss the basics of Ruby and Ruby
on Rails.

Rails - often call Ruby on Rails - helps you create web applications.
It's a scalable web database framework; it uses ActiveRecord as its data
source, so it's able to use a number of different database backends,
such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. (ActiveRecord was originally part of
Rails. You can find out more about ActiveRecord in the ActiveRecord gem
recipe.)

In fact, Ruby on Rails is arguable more than just a web framework - it's
a phenomenon. It won a Jolt Software Development Productivity award in
2006, and a remarkable number of technology startups are either
switching to Ruby on Rails or are starting with Ruby on Rails software
as a cornerstone of their business plan.

About David
--------------

David Berube is a software developer, consultant, speaker, and writer.
He is constantly researching, perfecting, and practicing his trade. He
is a prolific writer, appearing in places such as Dr Dobbs Journal,
Linux Magazine, Software Daily, Sales Success Magazine, Consulting
Mentor, and many others. He speaks frequently, notably including his
seminar series, "Making Money Using Open Source Software". He
co-authored the book "Visual Basic Source Code Library."

He is also active in the Open Source community, having been the
coordinator of the Central New Hampshire Linux user group, CentraLUG,
and Fearless Leader of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group. He
was involved with the AmphetaDesk project, developing much of its Win32
GUI code.

Future Meetings
---------------

January 2008: Bruce Dawson on low-power Linux computers

As always, meetings are subject to change. You are encouraged to join
the low-traffic announcement list at
http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce to get
announcement and cancellation information.

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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