October 2008
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5th meetup
The group met at the yellowpages.com offices this Thursday for what turned out to be a pretty full lineup of talks. Doug McInnes talked about Craken, a Rails plugin to manage and deploy cron jobs. Pete Elmore gave a spirited demonstration of LiveConsole, filled with argument, rejoicing, insult and insight. Cory O’Daniel showed off WarningShot, a framework for cataloging, checking and fixing...
September 2008
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Next Meetup: 9/18/08
The next meetup is tomorrow night at the LA Times. Nate Murray will talk about something he’s just finished - the first version of a Ruby/C library for the Apriori algorithm for finding association rules between items that are frequently purchased together. Jacob Dunphy and Giles Bowkett will give lightning talks.
August 2008
2 posts
3rd Meetup
Last night was the third meetup. Alf Mikula showed off Keyword Prospector, a really excellent library which builds precomputed Aho-Corasick state machines to find arbitrary keywords within arbitrary text. Alf showed us a detailed graph explaining the algorithm and demonstrated its usefulness first by having it outperform a regex search by orders of magnitude, and then having it easily and quickly...
Next Meeting: Aug. 21st, Pasadena
The next meeting of the LA Ruby user group will be in Pasadena on Thursday, August 21st.
CPO Commerce, Inc.
120 W. Bellevue Drive, Suite 300
Pasadena, CA 91105
http://cpooutlets.com/
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The space at CPO comes via Nate Murray. Thanks to Nate and CPO for hosting!
As with last month, the meetup is at 7pm, and there will be a swank poolside afterparty in Glendale around 9pm....