Blake Mizerany, creator of Sinatra, coming to SIUE

Jarod Luebbert · 2009-09-02T19:41:47-05:00 (Wednesday)

We need people to come to this event! I just got the chance to see Blake speak at Ruby Hoedown last weekend and he knows his stuff.

So please come out and support CAOS. Having good turn outs at events like this means, well, more events like this.

He created this:
http://www.sinatrarb.com/

now he works for:
http://heroku.com/

Adam C · 2009-09-02T22:46:00-05:00 (Wednesday)

Everyone better be at this! He's coming all the way out here to talk, and ruby talks are somewhat infamous for being entertaining. It would be super embarrassing for us if only ten people showed up!

I can't wait, it should be awesome! Also I've used both heroku and sinatra and would recommend checking out both, very neat ideas.

Tangent Orchard · 2009-09-02T23:01:29-05:00 (Wednesday)

I've never used either (or Ruby for that matter) but I'm free at that day AND time, so I'll definitely be there!

Justin Camerer · 2009-09-03T08:27:21-05:00 (Thursday)

not to mention sinatra is an incredible framework. it is super super simple and allows you to create a website in very little time. ive used it for a few personal project as well as stuff at limewire. im currently using it at work to do prototyping and have nothing but good things to say about it.

Robert Kennedy · 2009-09-03T16:24:40-05:00 (Thursday)

Very nice. I'll be there.

Mark Sands · 2009-09-03T21:08:02-05:00 (Thursday)

This will be the most epic event of September 24th across the world.

Robert Kennedy · 2009-09-04T13:20:06-05:00 (Friday)

This does set the bar pretty high for future LotM's.

Jerry · 2009-09-04T13:56:22-05:00 (Friday)

Please send a message to our friends over in CMIS and AITP know about this.

You can send a message to the chair of CMIS, Dr. Bock.

You can find contact info for AITP here:
http://www.siue.edu/STACTV/AITP/index.shtml

Justin Camerer · 2009-09-08T09:59:53-05:00 (Tuesday)

BTW, it seems no one has sent a message to STL Ruby Users group about this event. I think you could probably find someone interested there if you sent out an email.

Mark Sands · 2009-09-08T10:03:04-05:00 (Tuesday)

yeah, I plan on actually attending the meeting myself to talk about it. It's next monday. Hopefully me and Jarod can go and advertise.

Mark Sands · 2009-09-10T22:56:42-05:00 (Thursday)

Look's like we've been featured on Heroku's blog! This will surely help out with the advertising :)

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/9/10/our_travels_continue/

Spewns · 2009-09-16T21:46:24-05:00 (Wednesday)

This is cool stuff. I should be able to come as well.

(Also hi, this is my first semester at SIUE [transfer student], and my first time posting on these forums.)

raptor · 2009-09-17T13:40:25-05:00 (Thursday)

Welcome.

Mark Sands · 2009-09-24T01:23:37-05:00 (Thursday)

Just a BUMP. Folks, this is TODAY. Blake is in St. Louis enjoying the midwest as we speak, so please make him at home tomorrow, show up, bring a friend, have some free pizza/soda, (you know the drill) and be prepared for some presentation awesomeness.

William Grim · 2009-09-24T07:28:31-05:00 (Thursday)

I don't think bumping forum threads are as effective without them either being on the front page or a link to the top X topics on the existing front page. Currently, I think most people reading the forums will be active members anyway.

Adam C · 2009-09-24T11:53:21-05:00 (Thursday)

I'll be there, you should be too ;-)

raptor · 2009-09-24T12:55:31-05:00 (Thursday)

Grim,

http://caos.siue.edu

William Grim · 2009-09-24T19:37:37-05:00 (Thursday)

Where is the talk about the new courses? Oh yeah, http://caos.siue.edu/forums......

raptor · 2009-09-25T11:16:54-05:00 (Friday)

Concerned about new courses Grim?

:D

William Grim · 2009-09-25T11:20:31-05:00 (Friday)

Yes, totally...

You get my point. You just don't want to admit to it.

Robert Kennedy · 2009-09-25T15:45:44-05:00 (Friday)

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 · 2009-09-26T03:30:33-05:00 (Saturday)

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

Mark Sands · 2009-09-26T12:27:33-05:00 (Saturday)

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!

raptor · 2009-09-26T14:58:06-05:00 (Saturday)

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.

Mark Sands · 2009-09-26T15:42:36-05:00 (Saturday)

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.

William Grim · 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.

Jerry · 2009-09-27T17:54:22-05:00 (Sunday)

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

William Grim · 2009-09-29T07:49:28-05:00 (Tuesday)

Good suggestion. I'll try it, but I usually end up closing my tabs when I'm finished reading them.