October 2007 Entries
John Lam, the creator of RubyCLR, and one of the driving forces behind IronRuby is coming to Charlotte, and will be presenting to the Enterprise Developers Guild on Thursday, November 1st. The meeting should kick off around 6pm, with an intro to Ruby and some demonstrations, followed by John arriving /presenting closer to 7pm.
I strongly urge folks with any interest to attend. John is a very smart guy, with a lot of knowledge about the CLR and Ruby, and his presentations are very engaging.
Some links for folks on the fence:
John Lam's Blog
Silverlight video of John Lam's presentation at PADNUG
Registration link...
Yesterday was the Charlotte CodeCamp, put on by the fine folks at the Enterprise Developers Guild, along with CPCC and Microsoft.
It was a great day, with lots of great content, and lots of devs arriving from all over. There was a lot of TriNUG representation - Rob Zelt, Josh Carlisle, Chris Love, and Sue Googe all came down to Charlotte to present. I think I may have been one of the only devs from Raleigh that didn't present - I guess I missed the memo.
Speaking of presentations, I caught a good one from Chris Eargle on Continuous Integration. CI is...
"I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS."
The title and above quote come courtesy of the most amazing game to cross my path this year, pOrtal.
pOrtal first wowed me from the first trailer I ever saw. The concept was amazing, and while the idea was utilized to some degree in Prey, it was presented in pOrtal as a much purer concept. This game isn't about using your native american heritage to defeat aliens, with some portals thrown in - this game is about bending the fabric of space-time, and doing all the ridiculously cool things that come possible as a result.
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