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What are you building?
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Build a good trial
target audience> trials > customer
Eating your own dogfood…
No integrated billing…
Category Archives: programming
Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom
Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and Rails for a Distributed Enterprise Application
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
A Year of Innovation
with Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer
HPricot – good for scraping websites
doc = Hpricot(open(“”)
code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/
redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hpricot01.html
Juggernaut – lets you do server push with rails
Ambition
create SQL statements
errtheblog.com/posts/63-full-of-ambition
Prawn
– easy ruby based PDF generation
prawn.majesticseacreature.com/
www.rubyinside.com/prawn-ruby-pdf-library-987.html
wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs
Capistrano
Ruby VMs
roo – spreadsheets
can open google docs!
dtrace
skynet – map reduce for ruby
Data Fabric – easy chart data
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)
Adhearsion – builds astrics – Voip
Rack
create a web frame work with only interfacing with Rack…
passenger
github
Starling – a light weight server for reliable distributed messageing
www.cmswire.com/cms/events/ruby-sunday-scaling-twitter-and-other-lessons-from-mr-cook-001221.php
www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter
www.justinball.com/2008/08/18/using-starling-workling-with-ruby-on-rails/
Ruby EventMachine
rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine
Thin – fast, fast server..
Ebb
NeverBlock – really fast web server for Ruby…
Ruby: Past, Present, and Future
Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto
(creator of Ruby)
4,000 years ago we had one language (Babel)
That one language was “Fortran” 🙂
Hired by NaCl – open source integrated
1999 – First book published
It should be “Rails on Ruby” since Rails is a DSL for the web built with Ruby…
Sometimes Smart People: Just don’t understand the nature of ordinary brains..
Flexibility <–>Understandability
Ruby became “Enterprisy”
“There are under one million professional Ruby developer now and were projecting there will be four million plus by 2013”
Mark Driver, an analyst at Gartner (eweek.com)
Ruby focuses on programmers NOT computers.
Primary goal is to enjoy programming…
Matz: “I love meters”
Question from the audience: “Do you think you are learning how humans related to world by creating a language?”
Double-click to wow
Evan Phoenix – keynote…
Works for EngineYard – Rubinus lead developer (rubini.us/)
meme – an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation
alias_method_chain is AOP…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
Zed Shaw
PickAxe book online
in the ruby community, ideas spread quickly.. Things change quickly…
Who doesn’t like it? The Enterprise… They consider it dangerous… (could he be talking about EA?)
Ruby in the Cloud
Mike Subelsky
cofounder of “OtherInBox.com“
Rush = Ruby Shell
god.rb
Rufus::Scheduler
managing virtual servers using Pool Party..
Building and Maintaining a Ruby Infrastructure
Speakers: jeremey Hinegardner and Fernand Galiana
Work for: Collect Intellect
copiousfreetime
gems: amalgalite rabal htauth heel launchy …
mole – tells you about your rails application and it being used…
www.rubyinside.com/the-mole-spying-inside-your-rails-applications-457.html
liquidrail.com/2007/4/15/mole-plugin-inspect-the-rails/
ZiYa – charting the rails
World 1 – the grab bag world..
World 2 – the plugins world
World 3 – Gems – the one true path:
Primordial Gem – developer tools. – new project generation -bones, consistent project layout, common tasks, base classes, etc..
Schema Management
Cruise Control – continuous integration’
~> (twiddle wakka)
~> 1.1 <=> 1.1.*
“~>” in dependency spec for Ruby Gems will ignore the “3rd” part of the version…
Should have a Internal Gem Server
Stickler – manage an internal gem server (work in progress)