7:30 p.m. Lightning talks and announcements
As always, anybody is encouraged to get up and do impromptu announcements and/or talks on tiny little subjects. We enforce a strict five-minute time limit, both to keep things moving and to encourage anybody and everybody to stand up and talk.
7:40 p.m. Creating Gems with Hoe
Jacob Harris
On using the library Hoe to make it easier to publish your library as a gem.
8:30 p.m. Raffle
We’ll be holding a free raffle for two publications:
1. A copy of Ruby for Rails by our friend and occasional-NYC.rb attendee David Black, given to us by the good folks at Manning Publications.
2. One free PeepCode screencast, made possible by Topfunky.
8:35 p.m. Dissecting a Rails website
Kirill Sheynkman
Kirill will walk through http://www.housemath.us, a Rails site he wrote recently, touching on subjects such as XML, Scruffy, YUI, and others.