A two-part screencast series demonstating two different 3D ruby-processing applications. A slide presentation from 2009 created for the Phoenix Ruby Group is also attached as bonus material. Enjoy! Part 1: Starfield Demo of a 3D starfield simulation written in pure Ruby, running on the JRuby runtime as a nicely packaged .app program for Mac OS [...]
Posts Tagged ‘presentation’
How To Prepare For Ignite
June 24th, 2009
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I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Ignite Phoenix 4, and thought I’d share my perspective to those presenting in the future. See, all my life I’ve been in performing musical groups–rock bands, solos with larger concert bands, marching bands etc.–so despite being introverted to a fault, I’m not easily intimidated by anything in [...]
Presenting At Phoenix Ruby Monday, February 9th
February 4th, 2009
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I’ll be giving a technical presentation to the Phoenix Ruby User Group on Monday, February 9th at 6:30pm. The topic will be using logical programming Prolog concepts within the object-oriented Ruby programming language using the ruby_prolog gem. Attendance is free and open!
Book Review: slide:ology
February 3rd, 2009
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I recently received a review copy of slide:ology – The art and science of creating great presentations by Nancy Duarte, published by O’Reilly Media. I’m consciously making an effort to increase my frequency of speaking engagements, so I was thrilled to see a modern text on visual aids from a heavy usability-oriented angle. I’ve read the [...]
Presenting At September 2008 Phoenix Ruby Users Group
September 5th, 2008
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I’ll be presenting at the September 2008 Phoenix Ruby Users Group on Monday, September 8th, covering development of Ruby peer-to-peer applications using OpenRain‘s latest gem release, Journeta. Topics will include Ruby’s threading model, basic networking review, Journeta usage, and live demos. 6:30PM, here. [Location Details] [PRUG Google Group] See you there!
Featured In Rubyology Podcast #48
October 17th, 2007
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The talk I gave at yesterday’s Phoenix Rails meeting will be featured in Rubyology Podcast #48, courtesy of Chris Matthieu. Thanks for the effort and kind words! The Mugr.com demo portion at the end got cut out unfortunately, but the meat of the technical discussion is available for your listening pleasure. Slides: Keynote PDF Listen [...]
Subversion For SCM Slides
September 23rd, 2007
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I gave a presentation to Arizona’s ASULUG/PLUG yesterday on using subversion for software configuration management. Raw slides: Keynote PDF
