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We had our first ever non-Java topic presentation at the St. Louis JUG today. Mr. Curt "Ten times faster development, indeed!" Hibbs himself braved a severe thunderstorm to talk about Ruby on Rails.

This is the second time I heard Curt talking about Ruby on Rails. Curt did a good job of selling Ruby on Rails. Stopped short of doing a live demo, he did the next best thing—a screencast video of him doing a live demo.

You can find the slides and the screencast video (Windows required) here.

Other tidbits I picked up at the meeting:

Jeff Brown did an informal survey of IDE usage among the attendees, and the scores are: JBuilder 0, NetBeans ~2, IDEA ~5, Eclipse ~25.

Brian Gilstrap mentioned that Apple is using technology similar to Java HotSpot to run a PowerPC binary on an Macintosh using an Intel processor.

Most people still don't know what JSF is. The standard answer to the "What is JSF?" question seems to be "I haven't done any JSF, but I've heard that JSF is ..."

Whoever is in charge of JSF evangelization, quit talking architectures and show us something real. A 30 minutes video showing someone using JSF building a website would do. Just show us, like Curt did today, would you?