[Lilug Planning] May LILUG Topic

[odinson]

Hey Ben

 	I guess you are right about being more general than sysadmin/dev. 
I think we should still do it.  We don't need to fill every moment of 
LILUGs time.

 	If you are still cool with it I think most would find it 
interesting.

Matt


On Mon, 4 May 2009, Benjamin Kudria wrote:

> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 15:19, odinson <odinson at warcloud.net> wrote:
>>        Are you still on to do the talk next lilug meeting?  Sorry if I
>> haven't bugged you earlier.  Ruby in a vm right?
>>
>>        Thanks again.  It seems to me like a good into to dev topic with some
>> admin mojo thrown in.
>
>
> Hey, Matt,
>
> I don't think I can put together a hour-long talk for this - perhaps
> 20-30 minutes. JRuby is basically just Ruby, but running on the JVM -
> it's not really *that* spectacular.
>
> It's not a Dev topic if I don't stray into Ruby itself, and if I do, I
> don't think it would be of general interest to the LILUG audience -
> DEVSIG, maybe, but not LILUG.
>
> Not sure what you mean by admin mojo, either - to use JRuby, you
> literally just substitute the command: ruby myscrpt.rb => jruby
> myscript.rb (or, of course, you change your #! line).  It's just not
> that impressive.  I could talk a little about how JRuby works, and a
> little of the Java integration, but really, it's not general interest.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Ben Kudria
> -- 
> http://ben.kudria.net | Jabber: ben at kudria.net
>


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Matthew Newhall, M.A.Newhall at warcloud.net
A.S. in Computer Science, SUNY Farmingdale
President of LILUG;  president at lilug.org, http://www.lilug.org
Author; "Thicker Than Blood" http://www.thickerthanbloodthebook.com
Husband of Giselle, father of Sebastian. http://www.warcloud.net/~odinson/us/

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