Archive for September 6th, 2008

Merb – The pocket rocket framework

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Yehuda Katz

jQuery, merb, datamapper

How not to build a service

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

LMR

Who is your customer?

What are you building?

What do you know about your customer?  how do you fit in their lives?  Pricing?  Marketing?

Build a good trial

target audience> trials > customer

Eating your own dogfood…

 

No integrated billing…

mperham@gmail.com

http://mikeperham.com

Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Speaker James McGuffee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

http://faculty.stedwards.edu/jameswm/

jameswm@stedwards.edu

Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and Rails for a Distributed Enterprise Application

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

speaker: Francis Sullivan

 

Spiceworks overview

updating remote installations

performance of ruby

avoiding deadlock

extensions for adding and modifying

scanner tweaks

 

 

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JQuery

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

jQuery: Write Less, Do More.

 

Live examples of jQuery: http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Live_Examples_of_jQuery

A Year of Innovation

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

with Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer

HPricot – good for scraping websites

doc = Hpricot(open(“”)

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hpricot01.html

 

Juggernaut – lets you do server push with rails

http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/

Ambition

create SQL statements

http://errtheblog.com/posts/63-full-of-ambition

http://ambition.rubyforge.org/

 

Prawn

- easy ruby based PDF generation

http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

http://www.rubyinside.com/prawn-ruby-pdf-library-987.html

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs

Capistrano

Ruby VMs

roo – spreadsheets

can open google docs!

http://roo.rubyforge.org/

http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo/

 

dtrace

skynet – map reduce for ruby

 

Data Fabric – easy chart data

http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/7/9/introducing-data_fabric

merb

Mack Framework

Sinatra – easy quick way to build web application

Webby – generate static websites – rake task to

shoes – dsl for generating GUI applications

Hackety Hack – help kids learn programming

 

redmine –

Pool Party

RAD – Ruby Arduino Development – electronics (build robots)

http://rad.rubyforge.org/

 

Adhearsion – builds astrics – Voip

Rack

http://rack.rubyforge.org/

create a web frame work with only interfacing with Rack…

 

passenger

github

Starling – a light weight server for reliable distributed messageing

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/events/ruby-sunday-scaling-twitter-and-other-lessons-from-mr-cook-001221.php

http://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter

http://www.justinball.com/2008/08/18/using-starling-workling-with-ruby-on-rails/

Ruby EventMachine

http://rubyeventmachine.com/

http://rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine

 

Thin – fast, fast server..

Ebb

NeverBlock – really fast web server for Ruby…