[Brug-talk] Welcome

[Stijn Mathysen // Weblogik]

Hi all,

I'm Stijn Mathysen, I'm 30 and developer in a two headed company called 
Weblogik, founded early 2002. I'm writing software since I'm 14 years 
old writing applications in GWBasic and Pascal (hey, it was all my 8086 
could run). Afterwards I switched over to Delphi and C/C++. For work I 
use scripting languages like ASP and PHP and had some try-out projects 
in .NET and Java (although nothing in production).

I'm trying to move to Ruby and Rails professionally, but it will be a 
long process learning it (well) and replacing existing applications with 
Ruby/Rails applications since we wrote our own "framework" (who doesn't 
:-]). But I think its worth the pain :-)

I currently write articles for http://www.ridingrails.be and did a few 
introduction presentation on Rails in companies that we work with, just 
to show them where we want to move to over time. We also attended 
RubyEnRails in Holland a few months ago and I'm going to RailsConf 
Europe in september. Is anyone else going there?

I'm looking forward to meet you all!


    Stijn


>     2007/8/6, Calamitas <calamitates at gmail.com
>     <mailto:calamitates at gmail.com>>:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Just wanted to wish you all welcome to brug-talk.
>     >
>     > Besides being an abbreviation of Belgian Ruby User Group, the name
>     > BRUG is intended to reflect our bigger goal: build a bridge between
>     > Ruby and Belgium. (Although maybe not obvious to those who don't
>     speak
>     > Dutch.)
>     >
>     > Currently, we are trying to set a date for the first week of
>     October.
>     > That's still relatively long from now, but it gives us time to
>     > organize things well. We are thinking of starting at 19h-19h30,
>     but we
>     > can vote on that as it largely depends on when people can get here.
>     > Depending on the program, the meeting should last about 2 to 3
>     hours.
>     >
>     > Our main concern now is what that program will be. We welcome any
>     > suggestions. The program can be quite varied, ranging from hour-long
>     > in-depth technical presentations to short introductions to libraries
>     > you have used or have written yourself, but it should certainly
>     not be
>     > limited to that. The program should probably be a good mixture
>     of Ruby
>     > and Rails; the way I see it, Rails is a big part of Ruby, and vice
>     > versa. So, if you think you've got something interesting to tell
>     your
>     > fellow Rubyists, let us know. If you know someone else who can
>     tell us
>     > a few interesting things, let us know! Oh, and if you can get
>     Matz or
>     > DHH to come over, definitely let us know!!! The first meeting
>     probably
>     > shouldn't have the heaviest of programs though; it will be all about
>     > getting to know each other, about socializing, and we don't want
>     > people to just come here, listen to a few presentations, and leave.
>     >
>     > So... let the flow of topics commence!
>     >
>     > With kind regards,
>     > Peter
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