Here's the lineup for Thursday's meeting! VISUALIZE TWITTER #HASHTAGS IN REAL TIME Etienne de Bruin demonstrates how to visualize Twitter retweets in real time using tweetstream gem, arbor.js, Redis, and Resque.
THE GLOBAL INTERPETER LOCK IN RUBY, PYTHON, AND JAVASCRIPT Have you heard of the infamous Global Interpreter Lock that prevents Ruby from being webscale? Are you so scared you might switch to Node.js? Well, before you do, learn more about what the GIL is, what it does, and why it isn't being removed. Matt Aimonetti explains. RAFFLE We'll be giving away a shiny new Peepcode, books, software licenses, tons of Heroku credits, and some t-shirts! AFTERPARTY When the meeting's over, we'll head over to Rock Bottom Brewery for a round or two of beer. .... DIRECTIONS Meetings are held on the UCSD campus, at 7:30pm, on the first Thursday of the month. If you plan to drive, follow the directions below and make sure to get a parking pass. Map to UCSD => http://tinyurl.com/2f486e SPEAK AT THE NEXT MEETING Wanna talk at our next meeting? Shout out on the mailing list. -- Patrick -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
