I had a great time talking with everyone about Rails last night at Omaha’s Dynamic Language Users Group. A big “Thank You!” to everyone who showed up! We had a record ~25 people there.
Thanks to Matt Payne for anticipating the crowd, and getting us a sweet room at UNO. The room had built-in cameras which allowed us to videotaped the whole thing. I must say it was kindof strange to be mic’d and videotaped… a new experience for me. Than you to Bob the A/V guy at UNO for making that all happen!
I have not had a chance to look at the tape yet, but I am hoping that one of my lucky-bastard friends with a Mac might be able to do a little post-production work on it and then I will push the video out on the site… or to be more Web 2.0-is YouTube.
But meanwhile, here are the slides, available in the following formats: HTML, PDF, and OpenOffice (ODP).
The HTML and ODP formats have the notes, where the PDF is just the slides.
Also, thank you to Harish over at BusinessWorks/IdeoLogicLLC for the kind words! He has also posted a few links that should be of interest if you want to persue Rails further.
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Bryan Thompson, Lincoln, NE | 07-Jun-06 at 9:40 am | Permalink
I wish I could’ve been there! I’ve been doing rails for several months now, and totally love it. If you guys decide to do more Rails talks, I would love to get involved. We are preparing to launch our app with a network of radio stations here in the state, and I could give a little demo of what we are doing with Rails and Distributed Ruby.
John Christopher | 07-Jun-06 at 8:59 pm | Permalink
Convention over configuration…
Matt Secoske gave a great introduction to rails talk last night for the local Dynamic Language User’s Group.
Rails is an excellent framework for writing web-based applications. Simply follow its conventions and it will save you a lot of time. But…