http://www.luisdelarosa.com Cocoa, Eclipse, and Rails Programming on Mac OS X Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:03:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NSCoderNight Washington DC is meeting again tonight, July 8, 2008 at 7pm - 10pm. We meet every week on Tuesday nights. Tonight we're discussing Chapter 5 of Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX Third Edition by Aaron Hillegass. We meet at La Madeleine Bethesda, MD. And more info: 7607 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda 20814 Old ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/07/08/nscodernight-washington-dc-tonight/ Our new language study group, Northern Virginia Languages aka novalanguages is having its first meeting tonight. It'll be at 8pm in Reston, VA. We're going to go through Chapter 2 of Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong. If you're interested in Erlang, click over to the group link for more ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/06/16/nova-languages-group-first-meeting-tonight-focusing-on-erlang/ I don't know what it is about Northern Virginia and programming languages, but we just can't seem to get enough of them! A new group "novalanguages" has just formed. Here's a brief description of the group: Thoughts on the makeup of the group include obtaining (however you want) a book, ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/06/04/new-programming-language-group-forming-in-northern-virginia/ I've been going to the past few NSCoderNights here in Northern Virginia. We've met up at Panera in Tysons before (look for the Apple logos.) But tonight we're trying a different venue: Camille's Sidewalk Cafe near the Courthouse Metro in Clarendon, VA. More details in Jose's blog ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/06/03/nscodernight-tonight-in-northern-virginia/ East Coast Rubyists - you can now register for the Washington DC area Ruby conference RubyNation. It costs $175 and seats are limited. We also have a new speaker, Glenn Vanderburg. He's the Chief Scientist at Relevance, who I've done some work for. He recently created the Frozen ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/05/28/registration-for-rubynation-is-now-open/ I'm proud to say that we are going to have our very own Ruby conference here in the Washington, DC area! It is called RubyNation and it will be happening on August 1 - 2, 2008 at the Center of Innovative Technology in Herndon, VA. That's probably one ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/05/27/rubynation-a-ruby-conference-in-the-washington-dc-area/ Many of us call the opening keynote of WWDC by Steve Jobs the Stevenote. Well I'm dubbing the closing keynote of MountainWest RubyConf the Jimnote in honor of Jim Weirich. But... maybe I'm too late. It was sort of like watching a Mike Tyson fight (back when he ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/03/29/the-closing-jimnote-at-mountainwest-rubyconf/ Well we're 3/4ths of the way through MountainWest RubyConf. It has been a pretty interesting conference so far. Yesterday was jam-packed from 9AM-9PM (with breaks for lunch and dinner - we are human after all.) Today we are doing the same and the afternoon sessions are about ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/03/29/mountainwest-rubyconf-day-1/ Apple has a new series about Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X Leopard. Its a nice article to help get you going. One thing I'd like to reiterate is that it is good to lock down your RubyGems paths. This way you will always that ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/03/01/what-to-do-before-you-do-ruby-on-rails-development-on-mac-os-x-leopard/ I just booked my flight, hotel and conference tickets to MountainWest RubyConf 2008. It should be pretty interesting - they've got a good lineup of speakers. I think its a single track and probably won't be too crowded so should be a good chance to meet up with ... http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2008/02/21/going-to-mountainwest-rubyconf-2008/