Posted by Xandy Johnson Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:30:00 GMT
The March NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, March 19 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
David Keener will be presenting on OpenID and Rails. OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the Internet
Leigh Sullivan of RideCharge will present on Watir ("Web Application Testing in Ruby"), a simple open-source library for automating web browsers.
Posted by Xandy Johnson Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:45 GMT
I regret that there will be no meeting this month. We hope to return in January.Posted by Xandy Johnson Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:55:00 GMT
The November NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, November 28 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Patrick Joyce will be speaking on Liquid, a templating language which allows dynamic information to be securely exposed to designers. It was extracted from the e-commerce system Shopify where it is used to safely theme 20,000 different online stores. Liquid is also used as the templating language for the Mephisto blogging system and for the Stikipad hosted wiki service. The talk will discuss when using Liquid makes sense, why it is necessary, and how to incorporate Liquid templates into your application.
Keith Forsythe will be presenting "Anatomy of an Agile Iteration: a RideCharge Case Study." RideCharge is a Rails app. developed using Agile practices including two week iterations, with an iteration planning meeting, assignments, daily scrums, wiki task updates, bug tracking, and so on.
Patrick Joyce is the co-founder of SandwichBoard, LLC a startup working to make web based marketing accessible to independent restaurants. He blogs at http://pragmati.st
Keith Forsythe is a founder and Director of Product Development at RideCharge, a service that allows business travelers to book, pay, and expense ground transportation through the web and smart phones.
Posted by Xandy Johnson Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:40:00 GMT
The October NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, October 17 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30. Pizza will be sponsored by Blue Collar Objects
Ray Daly will be speaking on microformats.
Posted by Xandy Johnson Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:32:00 GMT
The September NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, September 19 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Evan Light will be talking about Behavior Driven Development with RSpec and Dave Bock may be talking about how to use httperf to measure your application performance.
Posted by Xandy Johnson Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:31:00 GMT
The August NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, August 22 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.
Rodney Degracia will be talking about RubyCLR. Lest the platform representation of the evening be one-sided, Evan Light will be talking about RubyOSA and rb-appscript.
Posted by Xandy Johnson Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:51:00 GMT
The July NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, July 18 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza, sponsored by Viget Labs, and drinks start at 6:30.
Matt Scilipoti will be talking about using Rails with legacy databases. We'll also be having two lightning talks: (1) Devin Mullins on Haml and Sass, and (2) Patrick Reagan on mocking libraries in Ruby.
Posted by Xandy Johnson Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:03:00 GMT
The June NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, June 20 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so (pizza and drinks start at 6:30). We'll be having a panel discussion of Ruby on Rails deployment. Depending on time, we may also have a bullet presentation on Haml and Sass from Devin Mullins.Posted by Xandy Johnson Tue, 22 May 2007 21:57:00 GMT
The May NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, May 23 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so (pizza and drinks start at 6:30). We'll be having an informal RailsConf recap. If you went, please be prepared to share something you learned. If you didn't get to go, we hope this will be the next best thing.Posted by Tom Copeland Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:35:00 GMT
The April NovaRUG meeting will happen Wednesday, April 18 at the FGM headquarters (directions) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so (pizza and drinks start at 6:30). Paul Stadig will be speaking on screen scraping and Ray Daly will be speaking on RSS. Update: Paul's slides are here.