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Blake Mizerany, creator of Sinatra, coming to SIUE

Started by Jarod Luebbert, 2009-09-02T19:41:47-05:00 (Wednesday)

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raptor

President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

William Grim

William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

raptor

President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

William Grim

Yes, totally...

You get my point.  You just don't want to admit to it.
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

Robert Kennedy

The presentation was a bit over my head since I've never even looked at Ruby code before.  I understood what he was doing...but there's no way I could just reproduce what he did without a decent amount of time at my disposal.  It at least made me interested enough in Ruby to familiarize myself whenever I get a bit more time to do so. 

On another note, I've heard lots of people talk about how Vim is the only IDE you need but I always felt that they were just sadists.  I was truly amazed with how fast Blake could operate given Vim and a terminal. 

Jarod Luebbert

Glad to hear it got people interested in ruby. If you missed the talk here are a few things it went over.

Sinatra - a lightweight web framework for creating applications with ruby. All of the documentation is available on this site and it is really helpful. Also, they have links to a couple of pragmatic screencasts which I would recommend if you are really interested in it.
http://www.sinatrarb.com/

Heroku - the easiest way to deploy your app in the fastest amount of time. Their documentation is also extremely helpful.
http://heroku.com/

This is probably the best way to learn ruby if you want to. Here are a few things that might be helpful if you haven't messed with ruby:
quick overview of the language
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
all about ruby gems
http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/1#page22

Oh! and here's a great talk about ruby:
http://caos.cs.siue.edu/?page_id=3

Hopefully that helps for those who are interested. Sorry if that was flustered, it's way too late..

edit: also, http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
Jarod Luebbert
Computer Science Major

Mark Sands

I hope to have the video online soon. Compression and encoding is somewhat of an overnight process so it might be a couple days, but it will be up!
Mark Sands
Computer Science Major

raptor

Grim,

I do get your point, but you don't get mine.  We want to place emphasis on events that are happening on campus with students.  The important information regarding these events gets drowned out by other news.  Those interested in other conversations have only to click one link and they are there.
President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

Mark Sands

that--and caos is only a club/organization/affiliation/union/etc, it isn't really every CS major's responsibility to come here to check out what new electives are being offered for isntance, though it is strongly recommended for students to check up on non-caos related news in the forums.

that said, I'll work on getting a forum feed in the sidebar of some sort on the main page that could possibly only display "News and Commentary" since those seem to be the important topics non-caos related anyway.
Mark Sands
Computer Science Major

William Grim

You have your opinions, and I have mine.  I do say putting this site under a subfolder has decreased my daily reading of it.  I can't speak for others.
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

Jerry

Quote from: William Grim on 2009-09-27T01:31:54-05:00 (Sunday)
You have your opinions, and I have mine.  I do say putting this site under a subfolder has decreased my daily reading of it.  I can't speak for others.

Well, you could do what I do, I have one of my home tabs open directly to the forums:
http://caos.cs.siue.edu/forums/index.php


"Make a Little Bird House in Your Soul" - TMBG...

William Grim

Good suggestion.  I'll try it, but I usually end up closing my tabs when I'm finished reading them.
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley