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We had one of those days at the St. Louis JUG yesterday. An hour before the meeting, right around the time when folks would leave work for the JUG meeting, it rained really hard.

Once we arrived, we found the auditorium door locked. The building person told us the day user of the auditorium left all their stuff inside, locked the door, so that they can resume their meeting tomorrow. It took the building person fifteen minutes to track down the organizer and convince him to let us in. Of course we have to promise not to touch any of their stuff.

And then, two minutes before the start of the meeting, the fire alarm was triggered. As we have to wait for the fire department to come and issue the all-clear. They came in three minutes. (The fire department is only a couple of blocks away.)

And then Mark Volkmann gave his JRuby talk. Mark have given this talk several times already. I have heard the talk last at the OCI internal Java lunch. One of the interesting points Mark makes is about the readiness of JRuby for a 1.0 release. In several of the slides, Mark points out things that are clearly wrong in JRuby and made the claim that JRuby is not ready for a 1.0 release at JavaOne 2007. Yesterday, Mark was relieved to report that the JRuby team wisely did not release JRuby 1.0 at JavaOne 2007.

The slides are here. You can also get it from Mark's blog.

I forgot to blog about last month's JUG meeting. We had a well attended meeting last month when Brad Busch and Andrew Prunicki talked about the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). What happend was that I took copious notes during the talk, meaning to blog about it the next day. But I was moving some furnitures around and I misplaced the notes. It was the best notes I have taken in any of the JUG meetings, full of funny quotes and witty one-liners. The world will never see them. Sigh. :(

The only quote I can remember now is "I know I'll never do a Struts project again." But all is not lost, the presentation material can be found in the St. Louis JUG Knowledge Base

Talking about the St. Louis JUG Knowledge Base, it is worth noticing that it is exactly ten years ago, in May 1997 that the St. Louis JUG started its life. Take a moment, if you please, to check out the first presentation, also by Mark Volkmann: Java—What's All the Excitement About.

The excitement continues after ten years. And the St. Louis JUG will continue to bring new and exciting contents to the audience. Next month, Tom Wheeler will be talking about the NetBeans Platform. And in July, your truly will be talking about, get this, JavaFX Script.

Yes, after all the "this is not ready" bashing I did yesterday, I still find the JavaFX Script language fascinating, and I'll do my best to get to the bottom of things and report back to you in two months.