Archive for the ‘ruby’ tag.
Geek Night @ Thoughtworks: IronPython, Ruby in C#, Distr. VCS – 4 April
What: Geek Night at Thoughtworks. Three discussion – 1) IronPython 2) Writing Ruby like code in C# and 3) Distributed Version Control Systems When: Saturday, 4th April, 2pm onwards Where: Thoughtworks, GF-01 & MZ-01, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park, Yerwada Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. Register here Details: The [...]
Seminar: Strengths and weaknesses of various programming languages – 28th March
What: A presentation on the strengths and weaknesses of various programming languages, and how to choose one for your application, by Dhananjay Nene When: Saturday, March 28th, 4pm Where: SICSR – Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research – Map Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. No registration required. Details: Confused about [...]
Improve your web based software development and maintenance ROI with dynamic programming languages
After we carried a few quick articles on why you should learn more about Ruby and Ruby on Rails (take 1, take 2) last month, we decided that we wanted to give people a much deeper article on why these new languages (Ruby, Python, PHP) and frameworks (Rails, Django) are setting the web world on [...]
Why Ruby is cool – take 2
Image via Wikipedia Earlier today, we had an article by Nick Adams on why you need to learn Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails. That post attracted a detailed comment by Ravindra Jaju which elaborated on some of the themes touched upon in the original article. Since it brings out nicely the power of Ruby, we decided to [...]
Why you need to learn Ruby and Rails
Image via Wikipedia With increasing visibility for the Ruby programming language, and the passion that people show for Ruby-on-Rails for web development, we felt that we would like to delve a little into what makes Ruby so cool and Rails so hot. Especially, in light of the fact that Ruby Fun Day is happening in [...]
Ruby Fun Day: A barcamp for Ruby developers – 21 Feb
What: Ruby Fun Day, an unconference style get-together for all those interested in Ruby When: Saturday, 21st Feb, 10:30am-4:30pm Where: Thoughtworks, GF-01, Tower C, Panchshil Tech Park, Yerwada, Pune Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. Register here. Details: If you don’t know what Ruby is and why it is cool, see today’s [...]
Pune’s Satish Talim wins “Ruby’s Top Teacher in 2008″ award
Satish Talim, whose RubyLearning onine classes have enrolment of more than 5000 students from over 100 countries, has been named the “Top Ruby Teacher in 2008” by RubyInside (the #1 Ruby news site in the world). An excerpt from the article: How (and when) did you find your way into Ruby? After being with Java [...]
Java Meet, PLUG meeting, and startup chat – 5 July
Image via Wikipedia What: Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG) meeting followed by a Talk on “Contrasting Java and Dynamic Languages” by Dhananjay Nene (as part of the Java meet by IndicThreads.) Also, check out the proto.in online startup chat event at 3pm. When: Saturday, 5th July. PLUG meeting 4pm to 6pm. Dhananjay’s talk from 6pm [...]
User groups in Pune & meetings this weekend: Java, Linux, Flex, Ruby
I just added information about four user groups in Pune to the Groups and Organizations page in the PuneTech wiki: PuneRuby, PuneJava, Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG), and Pune Flex Users Group (PuneFUG). Please take a look at their pages to get an idea of their activities. PLUG and PuneJava have regular meetings. PuneRuby and [...]