LinuxSA November 2006 - Ruby On Rails

  Hi all,

  Time for the regular November meeting announcement -- we've got a
  programming talk this month.  Also, don't forget about the special
  November meeting this Monday (details at
  http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/).

  Have fun,
  Geoffrey.

  The usual details:

   When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
           Tuesday, 21st November, 2006
   Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
           of South Australia (SSABSA)
           Boardroom (1st floor)
           60 Greenhill Road
           Wayville SA
   Cost:   FREE
   Who:    Anyone and everyone.
           No pre-registration necessary.

  Presentation:

   Alex Moore will be giving a talk about Ruby On Rails. Alex is a web
   application developer for Valuation Exchange. He also develops
   applications for personal and commercial use in his spare time in
   Ruby On Rails.

   Alex plans to cover the following topics in his talk:

     * Demonstration - Code up a simple application from scratch in
       5-10 minutes, explaining each step
     * Why I switched to Rails (development in PHP etc), MVC
       architecture
     * Overview of key features of Ruby compared to Java/PHP/ASP etc.
     * Go into Rails features:
     * ActiveRecord (ORM Layer), Migrations (database stuff)
     * In built scriptaculous stuff (Pretty cross-browser AJAX stuff)
     * Testing (and how great it is, and how rails would convince you
       to do it)
     * Lollyjar and our experiences, our "best practices" we've adopted
     * How to learn - overview of best books, resources etc.

  Pizza:

   After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
   Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

  For more information:

   Email:        organisers@linuxsa.org.au
   Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
   Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
   IRC:          #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net

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