Jul 202008
| What: | FOSCON is a free, fun gathering of Ruby fans held during an evening of O’Reilly’s OSCON conference with cool presentations, food, discussions, and a live coding competition. |
| Who: | Anyone interested in Ruby, whether you’re just curious or a seasoned pro. |
| Where: | CubeSpace, Portland, Oregon near the Oregon Convention Center (directions). |
| When: | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 from 6pm-9pm. |
| Why: | The Portland Ruby Brigade user group wants to share the joy of Ruby with you. |
I’ll be there, talking about my second-favorite programming language *and* my favorite operating system! But don’t just come to hear me talk (or sing, if they let me). We have:
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IronRuby: John Lam
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Selectricity and RubyVote: Benjamin Mako Hill
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Ruby performance: Brian Ford
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Musical glasses: Gregory Borenstein
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Ruby++! ?: Markus Roberts on defining custom operators
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Five minutes with Selenium: Ian Dees, author of “Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby”
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Ruby culture: Audrey Eschright, Reid Beels and Igal Koshevoy of Calagator
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Ruby server automation: Igal Koshevoy on AutomateIt
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Ruby on Rails profiling: M. Edward Borasky on applying Linux OProfile
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Ruby web development: John Labovitz on Gossamer, a microframework to spin websites out of distributed, lightweight, ephemeral resources
But wait! There’s more! (I know, I said you would never hear me say that, but hey, this is typing.) 
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Live coding competition: Ruby on Rails, PHP Symfony, PHP Drupal, and GemStone/S Smalltalk Seaside
That’s right — you’ll actually get to watch web applications built while you wait!
Did I mention that it was free?
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“A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” –
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erd?s
