http://austinonrails.org/articles/2007/10/07/meeting-tuesday-october-16th-7pm en-us 40 Austin's official Ruby on Rails User Group Howdy Folks <p/><p/> This month we're going to have a product demonstration of ActionItem, a social tasking application developed by a local Rails startup. Mark Roberts and Guy Howe will be delivering the presentation. <p/><p/> Mr. Roberts, president of ActCentric Corporation, is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of progressive management, sales, and technical experience in information technology, with a special focus on open systems enterprise storage. Guy Howe is a primary developer on ActionItem, which is implemented in Ruby on Rails. <p/><p/> <a href="http://actionitem.com/">ActionItem.com</a> is a new web service under development that is designed for agile group collaboration. ActionItem.com is intended to replace using email and spreadsheets for managing tasks, while having a much lower barrier to adoption than formal project management tools. The service can support any type of project that involves 2 or more people for 2 or more days. Their primary focus is the area of 'ad-hoc collaboration' in which teams quickly form and collaborate on tasks such as planning, events, document writing and review, and other tasks relevant to high-value knowledge workers. <p/><p/> We're also excited to have <a href="http://mikeperham.com/">Mike Perham</a> from FiveRuns give us a demo of JRuby and Glassfish. <p/><p/> Mike is a Software Engineer at FiveRuns. He's also a member of the Apache project and has been developing open source software since 1995. He loves racing motorcycles and learning new technologies, especially anything that makes building web-based applications easier. <p/><p/> JRuby/Glassfish provides an alternative to Mongrel and Nginx, and allows you to mix Ruby and Java like peanut butter and chocolate. <p/><p/> Our meeting will be held at Frog Design at 8th and Congress. <p/><p/> Beverages and socialization practice to follow the meeting at Hickory Street. <p/><p/> Looking forward to seeing everyone out there! Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:37:00 -0700 urn:uuid:b693d640-bb72-43cc-ba83-dd93396dbfed Damon Clinkscales http://austinonrails.org/articles/2007/10/07/meeting-tuesday-october-16th-7pm Meeting Ruby Rails jruby glassfish actionitem social tasking