Well, I am here in sunny Brussels at FOSDEM 2004 going to evangelize the wonders of Ruby to our European brethren. I conducted on interview last month about Ruby and that can be found here. I will start with a tutorial on Ruby at 1400 today (Saturday) and then tomorrow at 1600 give a talk on Ruby. It seems like its going to be a nice size group, and look forward to interacting with the other speakers this evening. As things go, I will post my tutorial source and presentation here on this blog, but since these things are still evolving, they will have to wait a bit ;-)
Nice talk on Ruby! Immediately after I got home, I emerged the sources, searched for the online Ruby-book, and I'm ready to set off!
Well, I hope Ruby's indeed going to be more elegant than Perl and somewhat more subtle than Python... (I'm normally a Python man...) Nice twist of fate to have your lecture after the rather academic SmartEiffel and messy Perl ;)
Posted by: Joris Vankerschaver | Sunday, February 22, 2004 at 03:41 PM
It was indeed a very shiny talk about Ruby. Time to steal some ideas for Perl ;-)
Posted by: Leon Brocard | Monday, February 23, 2004 at 06:44 AM
I just wanted to say thanks, I attended the tutorial and the speech about ruby, and was definetly impressed, and got all excited about ruby :-)
Posted by: Jan Sabbe | Thursday, February 26, 2004 at 01:26 PM
Thank you for taking the time to represent the Ruby community at FOSDEM. Your presentations were easy to follow and were beneficial to beginner and advanced Ruby programmers alike.
Oh and you definetly had the slickest looking presentation, bar none. I'd like to know what you used to create it (especially the spinning ruby). ;)
Posted by: Emiel van de Laar | Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 01:39 PM
Thanks for the comments regarding the talk. Its easy to present on something you dig, and I dig Ruby! I want to thank all the attendees...there were a lot. Hope some folks were motivated to go download, install and give Ruby a whirl.
The presentation was done using Apple's Keynote presentation tool which you can find out about here.
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