Speaking at FRUUG Tonight

11.30.06


I'll be speaking at FRUUG tonight about WalkingBoss and Ruby on Rails. The meeting info is posted here if you're interested. The first half will be about my experience creating the site. In the second half I'll give an overview of what Ruby on Rails is and how it facilitates creating nice web applications in a short amount of time. If you're already using Rails at your job or at school, the second half may not be that interesting. But if you're new to it, or you're wondering what it's all about, then this talk will probably have some useful information for you. Hope to see you there!

Incidentally, I found that somehow my talk was also posted as a colloqium on the CU computer science page. I had to look that word up in the dictionary to get an idea of what I was supposed to be doing!

UPDATE: I want to thank Steve Gaede and everyone at FRUUG last night for being such great hosts. There was a very good showing, despite the snowy weather, and I was really impressed with the level of interest and discussion at this group--people seemed more interested in Rails and Ruby at FRUUG than they have at some of the Ruby groups I've spoken at!

I also wanted to point out some local groups to FRUUGers who may be interested in learning more about Ruby or Rails. For those of you in Boulder, there's the Boulder-Denver Ruby Group, which meets on Pearl Street. For those of you closer to Denver, there's the DeRailed Ruby/Rails User Group which meets at the Tattered Cover in LoDo.

I've posted my slides from the talk as a PDF if you're interested. Thanks again FRUUG!

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