http://www.novarug.org/articles/2007/11/05/november-meeting en-us 40 Northern Virginia Ruby User's Group <p>The November NovaRUG meeting will be Wednesday, November 28 at the FGM headquarters (<a href="http://www.fgm.com/about/locations.cfm">directions</a>) from 7 PM to 9 PM or so. Pizza and drinks start at 6:30.</p> <p>Patrick Joyce will be speaking on <a href="http://www.liquidmarkup.org/">Liquid</a>, a templating language which allows dynamic information to be securely exposed to designers. It was extracted from the e-commerce system <a href="http://www.shopify.info/">Shopify</a> where it is used to safely theme 20,000 different online stores. Liquid is also used as the templating language for the <a href="http://mephistoblog.com/">Mephisto</a> blogging system and for the <a href="http://stikipad.com/">Stikipad</a> 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.</p> <p>Keith Forsythe will be presenting "Anatomy of an Agile Iteration: a <a href="http://www.ridecharge.com/">RideCharge</a> Case Study." <a href="http://www.ridecharge.com/">RideCharge</a> 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.</p> <p>Patrick Joyce is the co-founder of <a href="http://getsandwichboard.com/">SandwichBoard, LLC</a> a startup working to make web based marketing accessible to independent restaurants. He blogs at <a href="http://pragmati.st/">http://pragmati.st</a></p> <p>Keith Forsythe is a founder and Director of Product Development at <a href="http://www.ridecharge.com/">RideCharge</a>, a service that allows business travelers to book, pay, and expense ground transportation through the web and smart phones.</p> Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:55:00 -0600 urn:uuid:f33a3630-fe3c-4006-ba80-c9590ed6d735 Xandy Johnson http://www.novarug.org/articles/2007/11/05/november-meeting Meetings