This past weekend I got a chance to present on IronRuby at the Philly Code Camp.  I had a really great time preparing and giving this talk, despite more then a few hiccups along the way (keynote trouble and computer crash!).  After getting to talk to a few people afterwards it seems it was well received despite my stumblings.

My primary goal for the presentation was to encourage those in the audience who don't know Ruby to learn it.  I think Ruby is a great programming language that has a ton of really compelling use cases.  Additionally, I think the process of learning Ruby is extremely beneficial and can change the way you think about and write software.

I'm very excited about where the IronRuby project is, and even more so about where it's headed.  The team is making great strides and getting really close to a couple milestones that will be very exciting.  We really need to get as many individuals within the .NET community involved in the IronRuby project as possible so we can have a kick ass implementation of Ruby that runs on the CLR!

I've attached my slides to this post, but be forewarned that they're not all that useful standalone.  I've also attached my sample code/demos.  I had the most fun putting together my "shoes" sample which I'm going to write a follow up post on shortly I've written about in my Creating Cross platform GUI's with IronRuby post.

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Sample Code