The second edition of OGRE (Ottawa Group of Ruby Enthusiats) was held last night at TheCodeFactory. You might be thinking to yourself … wasn’t last night Thursday. Yes, it was and due to some cross firing of brain cells and mild bouts of dyslexia the event was held on Thursday instead of Tuesday.

In any event moving forward OGRE will be meeting on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 7pm to 9pm at TheCodeFactory.
We hear three lightening talks last night from Chris Schmidt, Don Kelly (coding dojo ninja) and Edward Ocampo-Gooding. Chris gave an overview and lead an interesting discussion on Team Camp another event of potential interest to Ruby Enthusiasts. Everyone seemed quite engaged and interested with some good discussion. Don Kelly presented next on debugging in Ruby (feel free to jump in Don if I am off base) which was well beyond my humble capabilities, however, sparked some good questions from others in the group. Edward gave an animated presentation (I believe there may actually have been a dancing cartoon character on one of the slides) related to Ruby blocks. This actually looked familiar to me and seemed very similar to nested procedural calls and fired a few synapses in the back of my brain from when I had done some programming. The meeting adjourned and we went to the Cock and Lion on Sparks Street to sample a few beverages and listen to would be karaoke crooners.

All in all a good night. Future Ruby Tuesday events will in fact be on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Check theCodeFactory Calendar for details.

Back to the “Forces of Change” on Monday.

Have a great weekend,
Ian Graham

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