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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Ruby Hacking Fest [January]
Pate Eyler is trying to organize another Ruby hacking fest for
people in the Northwestern USA area. The hack fest will be in
Seattle. If you are interested, sign up here([1]).
Ruby docs online
James Britt has taken the initiative to start and maintain a
site dedicated to all Ruby documenatation. This covers things
such as the Ruby API, tutorials, online books, articles.
Bookmark this great resource here([2]).
INTERESTING THREADS
Rubyconf 2002
Rubyconf 2002 happened. I heard it was a great time. I’m sad I
couldn’t get there. Don’t miss next years Rubyconf guys, start
saving now like I am. whytheluckystiff wrote a brief summary of
the talks he got to see. Check them out on his blog.
Ruby article in SD magazine
Software Development magazine has an arcticle assessing Ruby.
Rick Wayne gives it 4 out of a possible 5 stars - “The product
is near the top of its class and probably belongs in your
shop”. Always interesting reading other peoples perceptions of
Ruby. Lookfor the december issue of Software Development([3]),
currently it is still showing november.
Rubyconf covered by O’Reilly
O’Reilly did a short blurb on the Rubyconf. Read it here([4]).
Rubycentral DNS problems
Anyone having problems trying to get to rubycentral.com can get
to it from here([5]). Rubycentral is currently haveing DNS
issues.
Ruby documentation vision
Dave Thomas has shared his vision for a documentation tool to
conquer all documentation tools. Read this post for an
incredible vision.
Matz at LL2
Yohanes Santoso let us know that if anyone is interested in
hearing the talk Matz gave at LL2 they can get it from
here([6]), you will need to be able to play real audio files.
Rubyconf 2002
Rubyconf 2002 happened. I heard it was a great time. I’m sad I
couldn’t get there. Don’t miss next years Rubyconf guys, start
saving now like I am. whytheluckystiff wrote a brief summary of
the talks he got to see. Check them out on his blog.
Link?
Ruby documentation vision
Dave Thomas has shared his vision for a documentation tool to
conquer all documentation tools. Read this post for an
incredible vision.
OK, it’s probably just too early in the morning and the caffeine hasn’t
kicked in yet – but when I click this link I just go to chromatic’s
page at the O’Reilly Network. I don’t see anything mentioning RubyConf
at all.
Rubyconf 2002
Rubyconf 2002 happened. I heard it was a great time. I’m sad I
couldn’t get there. Don’t miss next years Rubyconf guys, start
saving now like I am. whytheluckystiff wrote a brief summary of
the talks he got to see. Check them out on his blog.
Link?
Ruby documentation vision
Dave Thomas has shared his vision for a documentation tool to
conquer all documentation tools. Read this post for an
incredible vision.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lyle Johnson [mailto:lyle@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:46 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News
OK, it’s probably just too early in the morning and the
caffeine hasn’t
kicked in yet – but when I click this link I just go to chromatic’s
page at the O’Reilly Network. I don’t see anything mentioning
RubyConf
at all.
Sorry about that. I am not sure why it did not show up in the email. If you go
to the rubygarden website you will notice that the link to _why’s page is
indeed there and I also have the link as the URL of the intended topic in my
XML file. Dave does the mailing code make an assumption that the url for a
topic has to be to ruby-talk.org? I’m not sure why this didn’t come through
properly on the email.
Lyle,
I apologize for the incorrect URL to the O’reilly site. I must have copied in
the wrong one Rich has provided the correct URL which was
Rubyconf 2002
Rubyconf 2002 happened. I heard it was a great time. I’m sad I
couldn’t get there. Don’t miss next years Rubyconf guys, start
saving now like I am. whytheluckystiff wrote a brief summary of
the talks he got to see. Check them out on his blog.
Link?
Ruby documentation vision
Dave Thomas has shared his vision for a documentation tool to
conquer all documentation tools. Read this post for an
incredible vision.
Rich has provided the correct URL which was