Polyglot Programmers Meetings

Introduction to Ruby and
Desktop Application Development
with Glimmer

Andy Maleh

Tuesday April 8th 2008 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

Ruby is a dynamically-typed object-oriented language that provides great productivity gains due to its powerful expressive syntax and dynamic nature as demonstrated by the Rails web development framework.

Glimmer is a new framework that facilitates building platform-independent native-looking desktop applications with JRuby, an implementation of Ruby that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.

In this presentation, Andy Maleh will give an introduction to the Ruby language, and then explain the concepts and patterns necessary for building desktop applications with Glimmer.

Since the presentation will contain some hands-on exercises, it is recommended that attendees bring a laptop with them (preferrably loaded with JRuby 1.0.2)

Bio

Andy is a Senior Conultant at Obtiva who lives in Lombard, founder of the Glimmer project, and frequent conference speaker at Eclipse conferences.

Getting to the meeting

The next Polyglot Programmers meeting (co-sponsored by UniForum Chicago) will be at: 

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.

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