Merby Christmas!

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3/

Bryan Ray - Merb Router - Merbday 2008

My favorite Presentation from rubyconf is now online...

MerbDay Finalized...

Today we finalized our plans for merb day in Atlanta.   Please check out our announcement at http://merbday.atlruby.org

ATLRUG Presentation - Introduction to Merb

Matt Todd gave this presentation on Wednesday October 8th. 

Thin is at version 1.0

To: thin-ruby@googlegroups.com, ruby-t...@ruby-lang.org
Subject: [ANN] Thin 1.0.0 That's What She Said release

Lone Star Ruby Conference Redux

another Gregg Polack production covering the Lone Star Ruby Converence.

railsconf europe 2008 coverage

http://www.railway.at/articles/2008/09/02/railsconf-europe-2008-coverage-day-1

Neverblock for concurrent I/O

NeverBlock is a Ruby library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner. Meaning that you will keep coding in your traditional ways while you get the benefit of non-blocking IO operations.

Logo question

So I have some free time this weekend to make the site look a little more spiffy.  I have a few variations, and am always open to input/new ideas.  Please let me know if you have a preference in any of the following:

a new 'jour meme

Don't fall behind in the meme game!  http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/06/18/what-is-gitjour-gemjour-starjour/

a techcrunch article worth reading

If for no other reason than the link archive, I found this techcrunch article to be a worthy read.... 

A billion page views a month in rails...

Check out this link for a video on what linked in has been doing with bumpersticker...

ruby security issues...

Drew Yao at Apple uncovered a handful of nasty security vulnerabilities affecting all current versions of Ruby. The details are still under wraps because an attacker can DoS you or possibly execute arbitrary code.

maglev talk

This is part one of the maglev talk from railsconf.  very interesting stuff.  I can see why people were so excited about it...

Stuart Halloway (Relevance CEO) "Bad Ruby"

Access Stuart's presentation and files from tonights meeting here.   

railsconf 2008 in 36 minutes

Gregg Pollack (from Orlando RUG and Rails Envy fame) posted a 36 minute (and 56 second) redux of railsconf 2008.  I liked getting the summary since I didn't go, and I thought you might like it as well.

Rolling with Rails 2.1

With 2.1 just around the corner, the rolling with rails tutorial is definitely keeping pace.  Check out the new rolling with Rails 2.1 rails tutorial for beginners.

Free Online Ruby Programming Course

Satish Talim of rubylearning.com is doing a series of free online ruby programming courses.  The only thing it costs is your time, so if you are interested in a tutorial style online ruby class, sign up here.

ATLRUG.org design help requested...

Ok so as you can see, this is a pretty vanilla site.  We must have lots of creative types in the group.  Is anyone willing to help with the style?  Also, would it be helpful to have a special code for users to enter on registration to deter spammers?  Code could be given out at meetings, or retrieved from irc, or another member.  I dont have any anti-spam measures in place yet...