I promised Patrick that in 2011 I will find more free time to make it to the meetings and to prepare some SD Ruby presentations :) The question is what topics do you guys want to hear about?
What I do at work is off limit, but otherwise I should be able to cover almost any Ruby topics, here are some that I can think of right and which could be interesting: * Ruby's Garbage Collector, what is it, how does it work, why should I care? * Concurrency with Ruby, what's the real situation and what are the work arounds? * Stop hurting Ruby, or a list of things you do that make Ruby slow * Writing a C extension for Ruby * Ruby's internals * How to benchmark and profile code * Architectural design and what should I care if I want a flexible yet powerful app * Do you know Lisp? Get over the parenthesis stigma and see the awesomeness! * AI in Ruby, or let's solve some game problems using Ruby * Group discussion about some Ruby snippets and their pros/cons Obviously I won't be able to present all of these talks so I'd like to hear what you are interested to hear about. Personally I would love to hear talks about the following topics: * rvm and how to deploy apps with rvm * Intro to Ruby for Java developers * Intro to Ruby for Python developers * intro to Ruby for <the community you come from> * What can we learn from the Python language and its community * What can we learn from Java/.Net/PHP * Passenger 3 * People showing real problems (big or small) and how they solved them (with real code examples) * Stuff you are working on * Ruby for something else than the web - Matt On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, > > I use Google's geocoding service and the acts_as_mappable Rails plugin > in one of my apps. I'd be happy to give a talk in January or February > on geocoding. > > > Here are some topics I'd like to talk about next year: > > > > GEOCODING 101 > > - What's geocoding? > > - What are good options for geocoding on Rails? > > - How do you map geocoded data? > > - How do you search within a given bounds? > > Cheers, > > Chris > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
