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Four of my colleagues at PLANET ARGON and I just returned from the first PDX.rb meeting of 2006. The meeting consisted of a series of lightning talks, all of which came off (or so I’m told) very well. We had the opportunity to hear about

• Bumpr – a Rails application by Darrin Eden that uses Google maps to plot trips you record with your GPS device
• Multi – A library by Topher Cyll that provides pattern matching and multiple dispatch to Ruby, a la Haskell
• Globalize – I gave a presentation about how to use Globalize to internationalize your Rails applications
• Phil Thomson presented Ruby metaprogramming tips and tricks, and I got an irb session in my email via the PDX.rb mailing list shortly afterwards :)

Not bad for the first meeting of the year. Keep reading for more about PDX.rb and some impending news about PLANET ARGON in 2006!