Last night's NHRuby.org meeting in Portsmouth turned out great, with a total of 9 people in attendance. If you haven't been to the new Portsmouth Public Library (it opened about a month ago), it's a beautiful place.
We started with introductions and had a few new folks show up. Most people are still very early on in their Ruby/Rails experimentation, so we're going to keep that in mind for upcoming meeting topics. After settling in, we watched a PeepCode screencast about RJS Templates. The screencast was a bit fast-paced, and the LCD projector I had a somewhat dim bulb in it, but I think everyone got to see some impressive AJAX calls and dynamic HTML effects that you can do with RJS, and not have to write a line of Javascript. Everyone at the meeting got a coupon code to download one free PeepCode screencast, so they can follow the RJS sceencast at their own pace, or download a different screencast topic (these screencasts normally cost $9 and I find are well worth it as learning resources). I also handed out some schwag from O'Reilly. After the screencast, the discussion turned to various things, including upcoming conferences, people's development environments, and some of the virtual machine implementations of Ruby. For our March meeting, Brian DeLacey has graciously agreed to give a talk about using crypto libraries with Ruby. I've heard people rave about Brian's presentation skills, so this is one talk you won't want to miss. Keep an eye on our wiki site for updates: http://wiki.nhruby.org/index.php/Upcoming_meetings Cheers, Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at iname dot com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
