Meeting Details

Come on out this month to Datran Media at 7th and Brazos (just inside the doors, there is a bank of elevators; head to the 8th floor). As we tend to do, we will be meeting on the fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss Ruby and Rails for a couple of hours. Afterwards we will adjourn to the local pub to continue the conversations. Make sure you arrive a bit early to get a good spot!

Mike will demonstrate the SproutCore framework for building web clients that talk to Rails applications in a true client-server fashion. SproutCore makes heavy use of Ruby, and provides an elegant, Rails-like way of constructing a web app that is radically different than current web 2.0 techniques. Then we'll take things to the whiteboard for a behind-the-scenes in-depth look at cloud computing architectures, and how OtherInbox is using cloud computing to scale Rails.

Mike Subelsky is co-founder and lead developer of OtherInbox.com, a web application he built using Rails and SproutCore. Prior to becoming a full-time Rails hacker, he served as a U.S. Navy information warfare officer with overseas assignments around the world for seven years. He is the author of random-data, an open-source Ruby gem used for prototyping new Ruby applications, and two of his recipes are featured in the book Advanced Rails Recipes. He holds Bachelor and Master of Information Systems Management degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. He blogs about Ruby on Rails at subelsky.com.

Tacos Con Web (NEW!)

If you work with the web and you're in the downtown area on the 25th, please come over to El Chilito on Congress from 9:30-10:30am to talk web technology and grab some tacos. If you have friends who work in the web space (doesn't have to be Rails), please invite them to this new get together on Fourth Tuesdays. Thanks!

Last Month's Goodies

Mike Perham

Mike Perham at Austin on Rails on 10/28/08 (mp3)

Open Mic

Open Mic at Austin on Rails on 10/28/08 (mp3)

Our thanks to Mark Young for recording the presentations.

Connections

You can connect with Austin On Rails members on a few different networks:
Twitter
LinkedIn
Working With Rails

The weather has turned cool. Finally! Or has it? It's Fall in Austin...Psyche! I think it was like 90 degrees at Maker Faire today. By the way, here's a picture of me with R2-D2. Just so you know that we are not only bringing together Ruby and Rails developers, but that we are now reaching out to robots as well. Exciting times.

Meeting Details

Come on out this month to Datran Media at 7th and Brazos (just inside the doors, there is a bank of elevators; head to the 8th floor). As we tend to do, we will be meeting on the fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss Ruby and Rails for a couple of hours. Afterwards we will adjourn to the local pub to continue the conversations. Make sure you arrive a bit early to get a good spot!

Patterns in Distributed Processing

RubyConf Talk Preview - Live In Austin!

Server-side data processing can be difficult to get right with requirements like fault tolerance, consistency or real time response. We'll look at some generic characteristics of all distributed processing problems, examine open source tools which you can use to solve distributed computing problems and review a few Ruby examples to see their strengths and weaknesses.

Mike Perham is a Ruby developer at FiveRuns. He spent a decade working on various J2EE systems and has a Masters in CS from Cornell. Like his hero Scotty, he reads technical journals for fun.

GIVEAWAY / BREAK

Open Mic Night

Just like at your favorite comedy club, we will open the floor to you to share what you've been working on...a cool tip, a technique, a resource...please bring something to share with us!

Hot Links

I've been quite remiss with my posting of some very valuable links from last month (now if you are already following us on Twitter, then you've seen these), so I am going to provide maximum linkage right now in the October meeting announcement!

Here we go:

Otherinbox Overview

OtherInbox Slide Deck
TechCrunch 50 pitch (video)
Josh Baer at Austin on Rails on 9/23/08 (mp3)

Building an App With Facebooker

Jake Varghese at Austin on Rails on 9/23/08 (mp3)

XMPP in Ruby

XMPP in Ruby code on Github
XMPP in Ruby Slide Deck
Brian Dainton at Austin on Rails on 9/23/08 (mp3)

Our thanks to Mark Young for recording the presentations.

Connections

You can connect with Austin On Rails members on a few different networks:
Twitter
LinkedIn
Working With Rails