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JRuby Presentation Rescheduled

2008-03-04T14:47:00Z

Event Details

Karlin Fox from Atomic Object will be presenting on Java JRuby integration. This will be a special joint meeting between the local GR-JUG.

After the presentation the meeting will be open for coding, questions, answers and discussions. Note that the building and room has changed from last year’s meetings, but it is the same as last month’s. Please RSVP here if you haven’t already.

Location: Calvin College, North Hall Building Room SB382
Date: March, 20th 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Food Available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

February 2008 Meeting

2008-01-19T15:21:00Z

Event Details

Karlin Fox from Atomic Object will be presenting on Java JRuby integration. After the presentation the meeting will be open for coding, questions, answers and discussions. Note that the building and room has changed from last year’s meetings, but it is the same as last month’s. Please RSVP here if you haven’t already.

Location: Calvin College, North Hall Building Room NH261
Date: February, 12th 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Last Meeting Recap

There was no presentation at the last meeting, but a lot of great discussion and coding.

Schedule

6:00pm – 7:00pm: Presentation on Java JRuby integration by Karlin Fox and Matt Fletcher
7:00pm – 8:00pm: open coding and discussions

Food Available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

January 2008 Meeting

2007-12-20T02:54:00Z

Event Details

There is no planned presentation or speaker. This meeting will be open for coding, questions, answers and discussions. Note that the build and room has changed. Please RSVP here if you haven’t already.

Location: Calvin College, North Hall Building Room NH251
Date: January, 8th 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Last Meeting Recap

Dr. Frens spoke in December on continuations in ruby. His slides can be found here. He also has some great technical thoughts and writings over at http://jdfrens.blogspot.com/ .

Schedule

6:00pm – 8:00pm: open coding and discussions

Food Available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

December 2007 Meeting

2007-11-13T14:31:00Z

Event Details

Dr. Frens is going to present on continuations. Please note that the meetings have changed from a Saturday venue to a Tuesday evening venue.

Location: Calvin College, Science Building Room SB382
Date: December, 4th 2007 (Tuesday)
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Schedule

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Networking / Lunch
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Dr. Frens
7:30pm – 8:0pm: RubyConf 2007 recap

Food Available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

Update

Last Meeting Recap

Dr. Frens’s slides can be found here. He also has some great technical thoughts and writings over at http://jdfrens.blogspot.com/ .

September 8th Meeting

2007-08-14T04:34:00Z

Event Details

A recap of the Agile 2007 Conference that was held in Washington, D.C. in August. A recap of the Rails Edge Conference that was held in Chicago, IL in August.

Location: Calvin College, Science Building Room SB382
Date: September, 8th 2007 (Saturday)
Time: 12:00pm – 2:30pm

Schedule

12:00pm – 12:30pm: Networking / Lunch
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Agile 2007 Conference recap
1:30pm – 2:30pm: Rails Edge Conference recap
2:30pm – ?: Talk shop

Lunch is available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

August Meeting

2007-07-19T03:02:00Z

Event Details

Zach Dennis is going to present on Model Conductor Controller (MCC), which is a Rails pattern to decouple controllers and models and creating a clean line of responsibility and behavior.

Similar ideas have been put into play with patterns like the Rails Presenter pattern by Jay Fields, but MCC pushes the envelope a bit farther in terms of good design, reusability, testability and single responsibility.

Location: Calvin College, Science Building Room SB382
Date: August 4th, 2007
Time: 12:00pm – 2:30pm

Schedule

12:00pm – 12:30pm: Networking
12:30pm – 1:15/30pm: MCC Presentation
1:15/30pm – 2:30pm: Talk shop (optional)

About the Speakers

Zach Dennis

Zach Dennis is a developer at Atomic Object, LLC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He’s developed Java-based solutions for Fortune 50 companies for the past six years and Rails-based projects for Fortune 50 and smaller companies for the past two years.

What is MCC?

As described above MCC is a Rails pattern to decouple controllers and models and creating a clean line of responsibility and behavior. MCC was originally prototyped by Drew Colthrop, Patrick Bacon, Zach Dennis and Mark VanHolstyn in attempts to achieve more in object decomposition, decoupling and single responsibility. The principles put in place are largely taken from the Presenter First pattern created by Atomic Object. Drew Colthorp is developing MCC.

Who should come

Anyone interested in Ruby, Rails, Design Patterns, Testing, Agile Practices or anything else that somehow pertains to ruby and/or software development.

This especially pertains to Rails developers or general web developers who are interested in writing code that is: easier to test, easier to understand and easier to manage.

Lunch is available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

May 5th Meeting

2007-04-25T14:15:00Z

Event Details

Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer will be doing a presentation on JQuery in light of their upcoming release of their new book Learning JQuery from Packt Publishing

Location: Calvin College, Science Building Room SB382
Date: May 5th, 2007
Time: 12:00pm – 2:30pm

Schedule

12:00pm – 12:30pm: Networking
12:30pm – 1:15/30pm: JQuery Presentation
1:15/30pm – 2:30pm: Talk shop (optional)

About the Speakers

Karl Swedberg

Karl Swedberg is a web developer at Structure Interactive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he spends much of his time implementing design with a focus on “web standards”—semantic HTML, well-mannered CSS, and unobtrusive JavaScript.

Before his current love affair with web development, Karl worked as a copy editor, a high-school English teacher, and a coffee house owner. His fascination with technology began in the early 1990s when he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and it has continued unabated ever Karl’s other obsessions include photography, karate, English grammar, and fatherhood. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Sara, and his two children, Benjamin and Lucia.

Jonathan Chaffer

Jonathan Chaffer is the Chief Technology Officer of Structure Interactive, an interactive agency located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There he oversees web development projects using a wide range of technologies, and continues to collaborate on day-to-day programming tasks as well.

In the open-source community, Jonathan has been very active in the Drupal CMS project, which has adopted jQuery as its JavaScript framework of choice. He is the creator of the Content Construction Kit, a popular module for managing structured content on Drupal sites. He is responsible for major overhauls of Drupal’s menu system and developer API reference.

Jonathan lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, Jennifer.

http://jquery.com – official site of the jQuery JavaScript library.
http://docs.learningjquery.com – official jQuery documentation wiki.
http://www.learningjquery.com – our jQuery blog offering tutorials and announcements about the jQuery library

What is JQuery?

In the words of jQuery’s principal developer, John Resig, “jQuery is a simple JavaScript library that helps you to write the code that you want to write and really simplifies the interaction between JavaScript and HTML.”

Who should come

Anyone interested in Ruby, Rails, Design Patterns, Testing, Agile Practices or anything else that somehow pertains to ruby and/or software development.

Lunch is available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees. Donations are welcome.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

April 14th Meeting

2007-03-19T21:57:00Z

The fourth meeting of 2007 will be at noon on Saturday, April 14th in Science Building room 382 at Calvin College.

Who’s Saying What?

Michael Mol for the Rosetta Code project is going to be speaking about the Rosetta Code project and what it’s about.

Outside of that it will be open discussion. The March meeting had interesting conversations about the Presenter First pattern, testing and ActiveRecord.

What is the Rosetta Code project?

Rosetta Code is a repository for code examples that go beyond the traditional “Hello World!” example. Check it out at rosettacode.org

Who Should Come?

Anyone interested in Ruby, Rails, Design Patterns, Testing, Agile Practices or anything else that somehow pertains to ruby and/or software development.

Lunch Is Available

Pizza, pop and water will be available free of charge to attendees.

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

March 3rd Meeting Rescheduled

2007-03-03T16:04:00Z

The March 3rd meeting is rescheduled to March 10th due to weather.

The meeting time and location is the same as before (Calvin College, SB382).

Please join the mailing list if any questions.

February Meeting Rescheduled

2007-02-03T14:41:00Z

The February 3rd meeting has been canceld due to a Blizzard warning in the West Michigan area.

The meeting is rescheduled for Saturday, February 10. Same place and time as before.

February Meeting

2007-01-18T02:01:00Z

The second meeting of 2007 will be at noon on Saturday, February 3rd in Science Building room 382 at Calvin College.

Who’s Saying What?

Michael Mol for the Rosetta Code project is going to be speaking about the Rosetta Code project and what it’s about.

Mark Van Holstyn is speaking on the LWT Authentication plugin for Rails.

What is the Rosetta Code project?

Rosetta Code is a repository for code examples that go beyond the traditional “Hello World!” example. Check it out at rosettacode.org

What is the LWT Authentication plugin?

It is authentication made simple for Rails applications.

What’s Rails?

One of the best (if not the best, it’s debatable) web application frameworks around. If you don’t know or haven’t looked into it, please go to … http://www.rubyonrails.org

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

January Meeting

2006-12-11T13:35:00Z

The first meeting of 2007 will be at noon on Saturday, January 6th in Science Building room 382 at Calvin College.

Who’s Saying What?

Brandon Keepers will be speaking on RSpec on Rails.

What is RSpec?

In words coined from the RSpec homepage .... RSpec is a framework for practicing Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) in Ruby.

What’s Rails?

One of the best (if not the best, it’s debatable) web application frameworks around. If you don’t know or haven’t looked into it, please go to … http://www.rubyonrails.org

What’s RSpec on Rails?

Again, words coined from the RSpec homepage .... A Rails plugin that brings RSpec to Rails. For more information on RSpec on Rails please see http://rspec.rubyforge.org/tools/rails.html

What’s BDD?

In more words coined from the rspec homepage ... The aim of BDD is to address this shortcoming and, by using terminology focused on the behavioural aspects of the system rather than testing, attempt to help direct developers towards a focus on the real value to be found in TDD at its most successful, or BDD as we call it.

For more information on BDD you can refer to:

Meeting Location Information

Map – http://www.calvin.edu/map/
Science Building Information – http://www.calvin.edu/map/science/
Driving Directions – http://www.calvin.edu/map/directions.htm

December 2 Meeting

2006-12-03T01:21:00Z

This months meeting boasted some enthralling ad-hoc discussions around RSpec, object-oriented design, polymorphic associations in Rails, and a brief overview of resources in Rails 1.2.

Following the meeting, several of us got together to begin planning the 2nd annual Michigan ruby conference. Join the mailing list if you are interested in helping organize the conference.

For our next meeting on January 6, Brandon Keepers will be presenting on RSpec on Rails. Look forward to seeing you there!

Chad Fowler Is In Town!

2006-11-22T18:09:00Z

Noted author, rubyist, and rails guru Chad Fowler will be in town next Tuesday speaking at the XP West Michigan. Chad is also the author of the Rails Recipes

Details for Chad speaking at the XP West Michigan meeting can be found at XP West Michigan’s site

Chad’s personal web site can be found here

Here’s a link to the Google Map view of the meeting location.

There is no cost to attend. This should be pretty awesome. Hope to see you there!

September 9th Meetup

2006-09-09T20:14:00Z

David Chelimsky of Object Mentor presented on Behavior-Driven Development using rSpec and led a hands-on coding session/tutorial.

David started with an introduction on Behavior-Driven Development. As the maintainer of rSpec, David Chelimsky was able to hilight the philosohpy behind rSpec’s syntax and features. It was especially interesting to hear the reasons behind the syntax changes between various releases. We also spent the last part of the meeting working through the Master Mind tutorial that David Astels developed for Ruby and rSpec in pairs.

The presentation slides and “Master Mind” tutorial are available for download below.

There were 8 people present at the September meetup.

Michigan Ruby Users Group - Home

JRuby Presentation Rescheduled

Event Details

Food Available

Meeting Location Information

February 2008 Meeting

Event Details

Last Meeting Recap

Schedule

Food Available

Meeting Location Information

January 2008 Meeting

Event Details

Last Meeting Recap

Schedule

Food Available

Meeting Location Information

December 2007 Meeting

Event Details

Schedule

Food Available

Meeting Location Information

Update

Last Meeting Recap

September 8th Meeting

Event Details

Schedule

Lunch is available

Meeting Location Information

August Meeting

Event Details

Schedule

About the Speakers

Zach Dennis

What is MCC?

Who should come

Lunch is available

Meeting Location Information

May 5th Meeting

Event Details

Schedule

About the Speakers

Karl Swedberg

Jonathan Chaffer

What is JQuery?

Who should come

Lunch is available

Meeting Location Information

April 14th Meeting

Who’s Saying What?

What is the Rosetta Code project?

Who Should Come?

Lunch Is Available

Meeting Location Information

March 3rd Meeting Rescheduled

February Meeting Rescheduled

The February 3rd meeting has been canceld due to a Blizzard warning in the West Michigan area.

The meeting is rescheduled for Saturday, February 10. Same place and time as before.

February Meeting

Who’s Saying What?

What is the Rosetta Code project?

What is the LWT Authentication plugin?

What’s Rails?

Meeting Location Information

January Meeting

Who’s Saying What?

What is RSpec?

What’s Rails?

What’s RSpec on Rails?

What’s BDD?

Meeting Location Information

December 2 Meeting

Chad Fowler Is In Town!

September 9th Meetup

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