FYI... -- Patrick
Begin forwarded message: > From: Alf Mikula <[email protected]> > Date: December 5, 2010 10:07:51 pm PST > To: [email protected] > Subject: [la-ruby] New Meetup: LARuby November Meetup > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Announcing a new Meetup for The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group! > > What: LARuby November Meetup > > When: Thursday, December 9, 2010 7:00 PM > > Where: AT&T Interactive / YELLOWPAGES.COM > 611 N. Brand Blvd 5th Floor > Glendale, CA 91203 > 626.354-0679 > > Join us at AT&T Interactive this Thursday, December 9th, for the December LA > Ruby meetup. > > We're having three speakers this month, and hopefully we can wrap up a little > early and head over to Tavern on Brand just a couple of blocks South for > drinks and socializing. > > PARKING INSTRUCTIONS There are parking entrances for 611 N. Brand on Brand, > Doran, and Sanchez. We will validate your parking ticket when you leave the > meetup. > > Approximate Schedule: > > 7:00-7:15 Open / Networking > 7:15-7:30 Introductions / Announcements > 7:30-9:00 Presentations (25 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A) > 9:00-10:00 Open / Networking / Drinks at a nearby bar > > > Here are the speakers for this month: > > Giles Bowkett on Easy Node.js Apps With Lisp > > Lisp is a programming language which allows you to manipulate its abstract > syntax tree directly. The popular quote about every other language being a > partial implementation of Lisp is not just snark; all programming languages > use an abstract syntax tree, so Lisp is literally and mathematically either > equal to, or a superset of, every other programming language. However, if > you've wanted to build anything actually useful with Lisp, you've > historically been in the position of having no vibrant, powerful open source > community to draw on. Not many people enjoyed this tradeoff, but fortunately, > it is no longer the case. Sibilant is a Lisp written on top of Node.js, a new > server-side JavaScript library for writing servers. Node has an active open > source community, and it runs on the lightning-fast V8 JavaScript interpreter > (written and supported by Google). Thanks to V8, Node, and Sibilant, it is > now trivially easy to write web servers, command-line utilities, and > applications (server-side, client-side, or both) in a fast, well-supported > Lisp. This talk will show you how. There may be slides. There will definitely > be GitHubs. > > Giles Bowkett is an actor, hacker, affiliate marketer, mad scientist, video > maker, artist, musician, conference speaker, seducer of womens, and internet > blowhard. > > > Shane Becker, TBA HTML/CSS presentation > > > Third speaker TBA > > RSVP to this Meetup: > http://www.meetup.com/laruby/calendar/15653905/ > > > > > > -- > Please Note: If you hit "REPLY", your message will be sent to everyone on > this mailing list ([email protected]) > This message was sent by Alf Mikula ([email protected]) from The Los Angeles > Ruby/Rails Meetup Group. > To learn more about Alf Mikula, visit his/her member profile > > > Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 | [email protected] -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
