WUG 10/25 Six Emerging Technologies, Ruby

Hi,

  All in the JUG are invited to attend the following WUG meeting at no 
cost..  Ruby has been the topic of a previous JUG talk and much discussion, 
so we anticipate that these talks should appeal to JUG members.

  See you there!

  Don
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Six Emerging Technologies that Matter
John Feller, IBM

RadRails for the Ruby On Rails Web Framework
Marc Baumbach, Kyle Shank, and Matthew Kent, Rochester Institute of 
Technology and IBM

Tues. Oct. 25, 2005
IBM Building 500 Cafeteria
Research Triangle Park, NC

Schedule

5:45 p.m. Gather, Networking
6:05 p.m. Main Presentation  - Six Emerging Technologies That Matter
7:15 p.m. Technical Talk and Demo - RadRails for the Ruby on Rails Web 
Framework
8:15 p.m. Adjournment

Admission is free of charge.  There will be light refreshments.

We will start 15 minutes early, so please try to arrive by about 10 before 
6 if possible.


Main Talk (6:05 p.m.) Six Emerging Technologies that Matter
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John Feller, IBM

Not all new technologies are going to have an impact on you.  Here are six 
that will!  You  need to know about them now, so that you can make plans to 
incorporate them in your development work, or deal with them in one form or 
another.

They are:

(1) Service Oriented Architecture.
(2) Autonomic Computing
(3) Open Source Technology (examples include Linux, Cloudscape, and Gluecode)
(4) Rich Client Technologies (including Laszlo and Ajax)
(5) Social Networking (Community Building and next generation Collaboration)
(6) Radio Frequency Identification

As Development manager of the IBM Web Services ToolKit team, John is 
heavily involved both in assessing the impact of these technologies, and in 
implementing them.  He will help us understan what they are, and how we 
should use them

Technical Talk and Demo (7:15 p.m) RadRails for the Ruby on Rails Web Framework
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Marc Baumbach, Kyle Shank, and Matthew Kent, Rochester Institute of 
Technology and IBM

One example of an emerging technology that matters is Ruby on Rails. Rails 
is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby for writing real-world 
web applications cleanly and simply.

"Beyond Java" author Bruce Tate has  identified Ruby as one of the 
languages and technologies that
may challenge Java's dominance in some development niches. He devotes two 
chapters in the book to the topic.   Even Java partisans need to know about 
this potential competitor to Java.

RadRails is the Ruby on Rails IDE, based on Eclipse.

Our speakers will give some brief background of the RadRails project, and 
then an introduction to Ruby on Rails, followed by a demo - building a 
Rails application with RadRails.

This talk can server as a good short introduction to Ruby on Rails, and how 
to develop in it.

There will be time for questions and hopefully some good dialogue with 
members of the audience.

Speakers
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John Feller is the development manager of the IBM Web Services ToolKit 
team. He manages a creative and energetic team of developers that 
architect, design, and develop Web services solutions. John earned a B.S. 
Computer Science degree at the University of Dayton and a Masters degree in 
Computer and Information Science at Ohio State University. John received an 
MBA degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is a 
certified Project Manager Professional® by the Project Management Institute.

Kyle, Marc and Matt are all fourth-year Software Engineering students at 
the Rochester Institute of Technology. They are currently working as a 
co-ops at IBM in RTP. Kyle is on the Struts tooling team for RAD, working 
on test automation. Marc is on the Rational build team. Matt is on the PVT 
team for RAD/RWD.

Directions to the Meeting
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Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)

 From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, take 
a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis Drive for 
about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 1/2 mile, you 
will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep to the right.

If the rightmost gate is down,  press on the intercom button and tell the 
remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group meeting, and 
give him your name. He will open the gate for you. Go through gate, follow 
the road around past the first Tivoli Building, looking for signs leading 
to Building 500 or "Software Group."  Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman - they 
may ask for his name.

Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, 
looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." It should be 
the third road on the left. It can be a little tricky, so please allow some 
extra time the first time.

It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.

You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to the 
Building 500 lobby.   If that parking lot is not accessible, you would need 
to continue on and park behind the building.

See http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf  for a map for this location.

Pre-Registration
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We have implemented a pre-registration system for meetings. While not 
mandatory for attendance, this will allow us to provide pre-printed 
attendance badges at the door that will get you into the meeting more quickly.

If you would like to pre-register, please send email to 
rsvp-ewWARuSVXz8dnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  with your
-name
-organization (e.g. company or school)
-citizenship
-(only if citizenship is not U.S.) date of birth
-email address

Please note that:
If you are a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and, again, not an 
IBMer) pre-registration is mandatory, since your visit must be 
pre-approved. Please contact rsvp-ewWARuSVXz8dnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for 
details.
If you are NOT a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and, again, not 
an IBMer) pre-registration is NOT mandatory, but it is quicker: we will 
need to log the information above at the door, which might take a few minutes.
IBMers with active badges can enter the building in the usual manner, 
without pre-approval or pre-registration.

If it's getting late, that's no problem at all.  Just show up and we will 
make out a badge at the door.