Talk Details

A Date with Ruby

Name Premshree Pillai

Organisation Yahoo!

Website http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree/

Scope Technical

Topic Ruby

Type talk

Abstract Ruby is an object-oriented programming language that combines the best parts of Perl and Python.

This talk will cover the basics of the Ruby programming language and then go on to cover some of the advanced (and cool) features of Ruby like blocks and closures, introspection, etc.

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Profile Premshree Pillai is a Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo! Bangalore. He hacks (maintains the Ruby APIs for Yahoo! Web Services, Flickr, etc.), writes ("Ruby Corner", a column for Linux For You) and talks (at various conferences) about Ruby in his free time. He has contributed code to O'Reilly's Python Cookbook, and also to O'Reilly's upcoming Yahoo! Hacks. At other times he drinks beer, listens to Opeth/Floyd, or reads books.