Tulsa Ruby Workshop

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The official website for the workshop is at www.tulsarubyworkshop.com.
We request all attendees register so we can make sure we have the correct amount of lunches available.

April 26, 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hardesty Library | Registration at 10:00 a.m.

Tulsa Ruby Workshop is a day devoted entirely to people who have used other dynamic (and even not-so-dynamic) languages and want to know more about the language that is getting so much buzz these days: Ruby. Come find out what all the noise is about.

We will start the day off giving you a feel for the language itself, even providing tracks directly from other languages like Java, .NET, and PHP.

We will of course talk about the famous web development framework Ruby on Rails, and have a walk-through and hands-on time building an application using Rails.

Sponsored By

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Contents

[edit] Cost

Nothing! The Tulsa Ruby Workshop is being offered by the Tulsa Ruby User Group, with help from the sponsors listed below. We love you!

[edit] Food

Food will be provided free of charge. (And not pizza!)

[edit] Sponsors

[edit] Prizes

O'Reilly Books will be given randomly to attendees.

T-shirts!

[edit] Speakers

(in no particular order)

[edit] James Edward Gray II

James is attracted to shinny red objects, so his language tour ended in 2004 when Ruby caught his eye. While entranced by the red glow, he has tried to contribute to the community. James created and ran the popular Ruby Quiz site for over three years, wrote a few open source libraries including FasterCSV and HighLine, contributed documentation for some standard Ruby libraries including ERb and PStore, contributed to the redesign and maintenance of http://ruby-lang.org/, and wrote two books for the Pragmatic Programmers: Best of Ruby Quiz and TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac (he still snuck a lot of Ruby into that one too). Matz and company have now trusted James with the keys to the kingdom, dubbing him the maintainer of a few standard libraries. He tries not to screw up his commits too bad, because he hates it when they yell at him. James supports the above addictions by writing Ruby on Rails applications for Highgroove Studios during the day.

[edit] John Hornbeck

John has been involved with open source since 1999. He is a contributing member of Rubinius and was a Google Summer of Code Mentor for Ruby Central in 2007. He was a founding member of the Ubuntu Documentation Team in 2004 and helped with the launch of Ubuntu. In 2005 he formed his company 42squared, LLC which focused on building Rails applications. He joined Engine Yard in November of 2007.

[edit] Brad Vernon

Brad started building websites in 1996 and has been doing so since. In 1999 he picked up a PHP4 book and started to create database driven websites. When Ruby on Rails came into the picture he actively sought a local user group to be a part of and found the Tulsa Ruby Group. Since joining the group Brad has consistently promoted his eccentricities to anyone who will listen. But don't let that fool you, his knowledge is vast in the dark arts of website building. Currently he is a PHP5 Certified/jQuery programmer by day and a Ruby/Merb programmer by night.

[edit] Robin Curry

Robin has worked in the software industry for the past 10 years, primarily in the enterprise space, where he used (gasp!) static languages such as C# and Visual Basic to deliver solutions for Fortune 500 companies. In late 2006 he fell in love with Ruby and Rails, and, like lovers do, he spent his nights, weekends, and every fleeting moment entranced by Ruby's warm seductive embrace. In 2008, his flirtation with Ruby became more than just a casual affair when he launched Sermondrop.com, a podcasting service for churches built entirely with Ruby and Rails.

If he could trim his google reader feed list, he'd probably have time to enjoy his favorite hobbies - reading to his 15 month old daughter, tennis, basketball, and trying to figure out how Lost will end.

[edit] Tim Morgan

Tim works for a Tulsa-based nonprofit community services agency and spends most of his time dreaming up new projects and programming in dynamic languages like Ruby and Python. Tim founded the Tulsa Ruby User Group in 2006 with a desire to meet other like-minded individuals and promote the use of the Ruby language in the Tulsa area. He also works to make technology useful for Christian Spirituality and Community in his local church, partly by utilizing, improving and creating open source software such as OneBody, a web-based directory and social networking application, built with Ruby on Rails. Tim and his wife Jennie are also avid square dancers.

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[edit] Schedule

[edit] 10:30 a.m. - Introduction to Ruby

James Gray

[edit] 11:30 a.m. - Moving to Ruby

Focusing on moving from other languages to Ruby

  • From PHP/Perl to Ruby - Brad Vernon
  • From .NET (C#) to Ruby - Robin Curry
  • From Java to Ruby - James Gray

[edit] 12:30 p.m. - Lunch & Mingle

Catered, free of charge to those who arrive at or before 10:30.

[edit] 1:30 p.m. - Ruby on Rails

Tim Morgan

[edit] 2:00 p.m. - Rails App Walk-through and Hands On

  • Build an application - step by step
  • We will have helpers going around to assist people in trouble.

[edit] 3:00 p.m. - Deploying Rails Apps

John Hornbeck

  • Easiest way to deploy a Rails application to a server you control.

[edit] Promote

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