Ruby
2008 was a pretty good year: I left a job where the path forward was to abandon my .Net skills in favor of learning Java, and returned to Progress Energy to develop and support .Net applications. I was elected President of TriNUG, and given the opportunity to stop whining and start making TriNUG better. I started using Twitter, and really grew my community of peers by dozens. I feel like if I don't put something down for where I want to be at the end of 2009, I will spend much of the year drifting about. So here...
I've started really stepping up my interest / learning in Ruby, and had one of those "this is great!" moments I wanted to share.
At work, we've been pulling some names, etc out of the DB that aren't kept in the correct case, but need to be presented in an eye-pleasing manner to the user. How do we do this?
Since we're talking about strings, a first check of the string class yields ToUpper(), ToLower(), but no CapitalizetheFirstCharacterAndLowercaseTheRestPlzKThx(), so we will have to keep looking.
Capitalization of names is affected by the culture, so this may be found in System.Globalization. ...
I attended the Raleigh.rb meeting last night. My interest was twofold, for while I am getting into Ruby, as the president of TriNUG I was interested in seeing what these guys were doing right in terms of running their meetings, since apparently the group is growing like crazy.
I had a good time, and came away with a few things I liked:
Pizza Doesn't Define the Group
Raleigh.rb meets at 7pm, and food is not provided. This worked for me, as I didn't have to choose between the meeting and having dinner with my family. I got to put my daughter to bed,...
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...