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Oct
20
6:30 PM
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58 attended (est.) –
4.0016
6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike
This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract...
This is an introduction to behavioral driven development in Rails using Cucumber, RSpec, Webrat, and factory_girl. Bio
Shannon -jj Behrens is a language lawyer with a particular knack for scripting languages--especiall y ones that start with P. He lives in Concord, California with five kids and one extremely patient wife. He blogs prolifically at http://jjinux.blogspot.com. See the East Bay Ruby Meetup site for more details
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Wozniak Lounge
Berkeley,
CA, 94701
37.871799,-122.271797
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57 Yes
13 Maybe
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Sep
15
6:30 PM
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38 attended (est.) –
4.505
6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike
This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract
Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications for all major smartphone devices. These applications work with synchronized local data and also take advantage of native device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts, camera, and SMS. Yet you write the majority of your interface with high productivity in HTML and Ruby. Rhodes allows you to write an app once and it will then run on all iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian and Android smartphones. During this session we'll build a sample app for all mobile devices, from scratch, in minutes. Bio
Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile, the open mobile framework company. He is a longtime founder/CTO/VP of Engineering of several successful startups in the web services and mobile spaces (Commerce One, Systinet, Good, Mobio). He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and advisor to several other software companies. He is a frequent speaker on Ruby at venues such as eRubyCon2009, FutureRuby, and RubyNation.
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Wozniak Lounge
Berkeley,
CA, 94701
37.871799,-122.271797
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38 Yes
9 Maybe
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Aug
18
6:30 PM
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50 attended (est.) –
3.508
6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Wanted Open Mike
This is your opportunity to ask questions, get help fixing problems, show your code to the group to get feedback. We've got lots of experience in the room, so this is the place to get real answers. Presentation Abstract
The internet is becoming an increasingly bigger place, and more and more web apps are having to deal with the problem of scale. This situation is no more acute than in the social app space which combines high interactivity with high traffic. Matt will talk about some of the problems faced and the real-world lessons learned building a high-traffic social app capable of serving hundreds of thousands of users and millions of page views per day. Then, we will discuss in depth how to migrate large tables on a live app without affecting availability using some applied knowledge of the workings of MySQL. Bio
Matt Freels is an avid Rubyist and has been working with Ruby and Rails for the last three years. He is currently a Software Engineer at Serious Business, creators of such fine social games as Friends for Sale and Rock Legends on the Facebook platform.
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Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup
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50 Yes
7 Maybe
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Jul
21
6:30 PM
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33 attended (est.) –
5.0010
6:30 - 7:00 - Open Mike 7:00 - 8:15 - Featured presentation 8:15 - 8:30 - Jobs Offered/Desired Presentation Abstract:
One of my first surprises when I discovered Rails in 2006 was that there was no built-in way to update or create models with child associations in one go. Either the controller code got messy, or the forms got split across multiple screens or the database schema got mangled to conform to a better user experience. There was no graceful stock solution. Until Rails 2.3. The new "accepts_nested_attributes_for" feature is a powerful answer to this problem. It lets you assign attributes to an entire hierarchy of model associations through a single line of code in the controller. We'll introduce the feature, examples, common use cases and some gotchas to watch out for. And we'll briefly talk about object identity and the hot-off-the press addition of the :inverse_of association parameter, in the 2.3.4 release, and it how it can help with presence validations when using nested attribute updates. Bio:
Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D. is co-founder of RubyFocus, a Ruby-on-Rails consulting and recruiting firm and has been working on consumer web applications in Ruby-on-Rails since 2006. He learned the ropes while working on www.divinecaroline.com at Pivotal Labs and RGM. Recent consulting engagements have included www.edufire.com, www.fansnap.com, www.mightyverse.com. He specializes in Rails scalability, best practices, user tracking, and using the latest industry, open-source and 3rd party tools. Wolfram is based in San Francisco.
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Wozniak Lounge
Berkeley,
CA, 94701
37.871799,-122.271797
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31 Yes
5 Maybe
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Jun
16
6:30 PM
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20 attended (est.) –
4.004
6:30 - 7:00pm -- Open Mic 7:00 - 8:15pm -- The Main Feature If you missed RailsConf 2009 or the Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2009, then this is the place to be to see what you missed and learn from folks who attended. Ed Allen attended RailsConf and several members of the East Bay Ruby Meetup attended GoGaRuCo. I know from GoGaRuCo that there were some outstanding presentations and I'm sure that will be the case for RailsConf as well. 8:15 - 8:30pm -- Announcements If you need help or you're looking for something interesting to work on, we'll give you a minute to stand up and make yourself known. 8:30 - 9:00pm -- Open Discussion
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Wozniak Lounge
Berkeley,
CA, 94701
37.871799,-122.271797
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19 Yes
2 Maybe
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May
19
6:30 PM
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41 attended (est.) –
4.004
6:30 - 7:00pm -- Open Mic 7:00 - 8:15pm -- The Main Feature If you missed RubyConf 2009 or the Golden Gate Ruby Conference 2009, then this is the place to be to see what you missed and learn from folks who attended. Ed Allen will be attending RubyConf and several members of the East Bay Ruby Meetup attended GoGaRuCo. I know from GoGaRuCo that there were some outstanding presentations and I'm sure that will be the case for RubyConf as well. 8:15 - 8:30pm -- Announcements If you need help or you're looking for something interesting to work on, we'll give you a minute to stand up and make yourself known. 8:30 - 9:00pm -- Open Discussion
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Soda Hall - Room 306
Berkeley,
CA, 94709
37.875294,-122.258278
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41 Yes
6 Maybe
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Apr
18
8:00 AM
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9 attended (est.) –
No rating yet
Hey folks, It's about time San Francisco had its own Ruby Conference, so we're putting one on! April 17-18, at the Swedish American Hall in the Castro. We've got space for up to 200, tickets are $199, and we've
got a bunch of great speakers lined up. The high point of the program is going to be the Ruby Application Frameworks panel, with authors and contributors from six major frameworks: Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Adhearsion, RAD, and Shoes. We'll be choosing more speakers/talks soon. We're setting up a site to collect talk proposals and to allow registered attendees to vote on which talks they want to see. (We want the community to be involved
in the conference from the very start.) Registration is now open. Head on over to http://gogaruco.com for information and to register! Also, we're still accepting sponsors, advertisers and exhibitors. Info is on the site. --
Josh Susser
http://blog.hasmanythrough.com
Golden Gate Ruby Conf :: April 17-18 :: http://gogaruco.com
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Swedish American Hall
San Francisco,
CA, 94114
37.766513,-122.430394
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9 Yes
1 Maybe
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Apr
17
8:00 AM
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3 attended (est.) –
No rating yet
Hey folks, It's about time San Francisco had its own Ruby Conference, so we're putting one on! April 17-18, at the Swedish American Hall in the Castro. We've got space for up to 200, tickets are $199, and we've
got a bunch of great speakers lined up. The high point of the program is going to be the Ruby Application Frameworks panel, with authors and contributors from six major frameworks: Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Adhearsion, RAD, and Shoes. We'll be choosing more speakers/talks soon. We're setting up a site to collect talk proposals and to allow registered attendees to vote on which talks they want to see. (We want the community to be involved
in the conference from the very start.) Registration is now open. Head on over to http://gogaruco.com for information and to register! Also, we're still accepting sponsors, advertisers and exhibitors. Info is on the site. --
Josh Susser
http://blog.hasmanythrough.com
Golden Gate Ruby Conf :: April 17-18 :: http://gogaruco.com
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Swedish American Hall
San Francisco,
CA, 94114
37.766513,-122.430394
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3 Yes
0 Maybe
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Mar
17
6:30 PM
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71 attended (est.) –
3.507
6:30 - 7:00pm -- Open Mic 7:00 - 8:15pm -- The Main Feature Olio is an incubator project created as a collaboration between the UC Berkeley RADLab and Sun Microsystems. The goal of Olio is to create a toolkit where we can compare different web frameworks, cloud providers, and storage solutions. We'll be discussing how we developed the Olio application in each framework and how they compare to each other using EC2 as the common hosting platform. We'll talk about the complexity of developing a common application in multiple frameworks and how we made the decisions we made for features and functionality. Both implementation provide comparable functionality, but are not identical. Akara will discuss the load testing tool Faban he created and why using a workload generator that provides both read-write operations and markov based workflow provide important benefits when comparing components. He'll also discuss the decisions they made when they developed the PHP version of the Web 2.0 application. William Sobel will be presenting results from a research project conducted by UC Berkeley RADLab and Sun Microsystems. We wrote a "Web 2.0" application in both PHP and Ruby/Rails to compare how the platforms scaled and how much more it would cost to host a number of users in each platform. Akara Sucharitakul will be speaking on the Faban framework and the PHP version of the application. He is a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems and responsible for the Faban toolkit. The Olio Apache incubator project has been kicked off to provide these tools and software to the community. These tools can be found at Apache Olio, please check it out! William Sobel was the original founder of the EB Ruby Meetup and has been working as a Visiting Lecturer at UC Berkeley teaching RoR to undergrads. He is also starting a few companies in his spare time. 8:15 - 8:30pm -- Announcements If you need help or you're looking for something interesting to work on, we'll give you a minute to stand up and make yourself known. 8:30 - 9:00pm -- Open Discussion
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Soda Hall - Room 306
Berkeley,
CA, 94709
37.875294,-122.258278
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56 Yes
16 Maybe
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Feb
17
6:30 PM
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42 attended (est.) –
4.504
6:30 - 7:00pm -- Code Blitz: Bring your tired, hungry code yearning to breathe free, throw it up on the screen , and get help from our members. 7:00 - 8:15pm -- The Featured Presentation: In the world of Web applications, forms bridge the gap between people, their information, and your product or service. From registration forms that welcome new customers to checkout forms that finalize e-commerce transactions, Web forms frequently broker crucial online interactions. In this session, Luke will walk you through the considerations and best practices of Web form design culled from international usability testing, eye-tracking studies, and over ten years of designing Web applications. He’ll outline how the interaction and visual design of Web forms can make the difference between acquiring a customer and completing a transaction or not. Bio:
Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 500 million people. He is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and Founder of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy. Luke applies design methodologies, skills, and principles to create and refine the strategy and user experience of new or existing products. Luke also publishes "Functioning Form" the leading online publication for interaction designers. He authored a book on Web interface design principles titled "Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability". Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at various conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products and internal tools and processes. Luke also taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.
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Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup
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42 Yes
11 Maybe
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