NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 19 July 2006 NYLUG: Ajai Khattri on Ruby on Rails

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 From: Ron Guerin <info@nylug.org>
 To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce@nylug.org>
 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:33:19 -0400 (EDT)
 Subject: [nylug-announce] TODAY! NY Linux Users Group Meeting 7/19: Ajai
        Khattri on Ruby on Rails

 REMINDER: This meeting is TODAY, RSVP closes at 4:15pm TODAY

 Wednesday July 19th, 2006
 6:30pm-7:30pm (stammtisch after 8:15pm)
 IBM Headquarters Building
 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
 12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency

 ** RSVP Closes at 4:15pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
 You must R.S.V.P. for *EVERY* meeting.
 Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
 Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.


                            Ajai  Khattri
                                -on-
                            Ruby on Rails

   Last month, we got a look at the Ruby  scripting language, as Francis
   Hwang began showing us what makes Ruby different from other languages,
   and why it is his language of choice.  Now that we've got an idea of
   what Ruby  is, we're going to learn about Ruby on Rails.  Why does it
   bill itself as Web development that doesn't hurt?

   From the RoR site:

      Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized
      for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.  It lets
      you write beautiful code by favoring convention over
      configuration.

      Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed
      web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
      From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the
      controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails
      gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all
      you need to add is a database and a web server.

   Those who attended last month's meeting learned a focus of Ruby is on
   the developer.  It comes as no surprise then that Ruby on Rails is
   also focused on the needs of developers.

   Our next meeting will be on August 30, 2006 at 6:30pm at IBM.
   Topic to be announced. 

 About Ajai Khattri
   Ajai Khattri was born in the United Kingdom, and after obtaining a
   degree in computer science in London, came to the US in 1994 and lives
   in Manhattan.  He has come a long way since tinkering with his Sinclair
   ZX80 at age 8, and now works as a web developer and sysadmin for local
   ISP, bway.net after having previously been a developer, test engineer,
   systems administrator, helpdesk technician and IT consultant.

   When Ajai isn't banging out code, he enjoys reading and photography.
   He can be seen regularly at nycruby meetings.

 Swag (Give Away) - After the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be
   given away.

 Stammtisch
   After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
   located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
   Northeast corner.

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 version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
 stuff.
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