Presentation: "Introduction to Ruby"

Time: Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Auditorium 3, 2. floor

Abstract: Are you a complete Ruby newbie willing to learn the language, or just someone who wants to know what Ruby is all about and how it's relevant to you? In this presentation, Peter Cooper will not only introduce the Ruby programming language itself, but the entire Ruby ecosystem, including some of the hottest Ruby applications, libraries, community members, and resources. Even if you're new to Ruby, once you've seen this presentation, you'll be up to speed to deal with the rest of the conference.
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Peter Cooper, Ruby Inside

 Peter  Cooper

Peter Cooper is an independent consultant and author.

As well as being the author of Apress' "Beginning Ruby", Cooper has also worked as a Ruby trainer and recently sold two Ruby-powered businesses, FeedDigest.com, an RSS feed processing service, and Code Snippets, a popular tagged source code repository.

He is also the editor of Ruby Inside (http://www.rubyinside.com/), the most popular Ruby and Rails news weblog. His official homepage is at http://www.petercooper.co.uk/