[LUNI] Fwd: Websphere User' Group Meeting - An Introduction to Ruby on Rails and IBM's experience

[Roberto Serrano]

Samir and I attended one of their meetings a while back, and it was pretty
good.

Roberto

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: bernie Leung <bernie at mesatech.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2007 11:48 AM
Subject: FW: User' Group Meeting - An Introduction to Ruby on Rails and
IBM's experience

 Hello, I just wanted to pass this information along. I am leading one of
the Websphere User's Group in Chicago and  there is a meeting coming up next
week.



I would like to invite you to attend. Could you also please pass this along
to the other business partners? Thanks!



Bernie Leung



*From:* Chicago North-West Suburb WebSphere User Group [mailto:
support at websphere.org]
*Sent:* Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:42 AM
*To:* bernie Leung
*Subject:* User' Group Meeting - An Introduction to Ruby on Rails and IBM's
experience



We have an exciting User's Group meeting for July 24 (Tuesday) 2007.

** Title **
"An Introduction to Ruby on Rails and IBM's experience"

** Agenda **
5:00pm - 6:30pm Pizza and Networking
6:30pm - 6:45pm Membership Meeting (future topics you want to see)
6:45pm - 8:00pm Presentation
8:00pm - 8:30pm Discussions

** Presentation Topic **
- What is Ruby (with a perspective for Java Developers)
- What is Rails?
- Why Rails?
- Demo some of our Rails projects
- Talk about deployment/scaling (Rails caching),
- Talk about JRuby, show an example Rails app and how to deploy it to
Websphere

** Presenters **
"Blaine Dolph is the Lead Architect for the Chicago Innovation Center and
Rails Community Leader for IBM."

"David Zayas is an Application Architect for the Chicago Innovation Center.
After 8 years leading Java EE based projects, David has been Java-free for
the last year and half, leading the charge on the most recent Ruby on Rails
projects for the Center, Transition to Teaching and SME Toolkit."

"Tom Sokalski is an application developer at the IBM Center for Solution
Innovation in Chicago. He switched to Ruby on Rails around a year ago and is
planning on sticking around for a while. You can contact Tom at
tmsokals at us.ibm.com."

** Registration **
Please pass this along to others who are interested in the software
development community. But make sure everyone registers - the security on
1st floor needs to have your name.

Click here to register:
http://www.websphere.org/websphere/Site?page=ugdetail&groupId=16
or http://www.opensourceR.us