FiveRuns is sponsoring Bruce Williams to come visit us from Austin, TX. He’ll be giving his talk, ‘The Next Ruby’.
Ruby 1.9, currently in development, has already introduced a wide range of syntax and language feature changes to the Ruby language (some of which have been backported into 1.8.7). We’ll focus on 1.9’s changes and emphasize concrete steps needed to update existing Ruby 1.8 applications. The talk will address specific points of difference between the two versions; the new object literals, enumerators, text processing changes (encodings and oniguruma regular expressions), new scoping rules, and Fibers.
Not only will Bruce be hanging out with us again but FiveRuns is bringing pizza and beer. It should be a fun time so I hope to see you all out here.